Robots Can Think. Now They Can Feel

AI can write, code, and generate video — but it still can't reliably pick up a cable, seat a connector, or handle a soft or variable object. Tacta Systems is building the layer that closes that gap. In this talk, Tacta Co-Founder and Chairman Andreas Bibl and Co-Founder and CEO Vik Pavate lay out the case for Dextrous Intelligence — the combination of tactile sensing, adaptive control, and spatial awareness that functions as a "smart nervous system" for robots, letting them manipulate the physical world with human-like precision and speed.

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Video Transcript

So we were looking at a lot of technologies around reshoring of manufacturing and how to bring back some of the jobs and some of the capabilities and skill sets that were offshored and lost a few decades ago.

We had come to the conclusion that in order to do that you'd need robots.

And then we decided that in order to really accomplish the tasks, you needed something that was more tactile in nature, not just pure vision based.

AI has become really good at coding. It’s very good at writing and at language. But it cannot solve today's problems of performing dextrous tasks.

And that is because robots today cannot touch and feel the real world like human beings can. 

We're developing a dextrous AI technology. basically the nervous system for robotics.

So you have to create sensor technology that enables in a very similar function as humans.

It has tactile sensors in the front, motion capture sensors in the back. 

We deploy this on the expert factory workers. These workers then demonstrate how these dextrous assembly tasks are performed. We then ingest that into our pre-trained model, then generate AI policies and algorithms which we then deploy on our dextrous hands. So this ability to ingest real world data at very high scale is what we refer to as Dexterous Intelligence which is what we're enabling at Tacta.

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