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Tactile Sensing & Dexterous Manipulation Shelf

Annotated research paper shelf covering tactile gloves, wearable sensing rigs, datasets, and human-to-robot dexterous transfer.

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Tactile Sensing & Dexterous Manipulation Shelf

Gloves, wearable sensing rigs and datasets that capture how human hands touch and move : and how that data transfers to robot hands.

arXiv:2607.09190 [cs.RO]202616 pages

TactiDex: A Real-World Tactile-Guided Benchmark for Human-Like Dexterous Manipulation

Suting Ni et al. · ShanghaiTech University

A benchmark that pushes human-to-robot dexterous transfer past kinematic mimicry: whole-hand tactile signals aligned with hand-object interaction data.

benchmarkdataset
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arXiv:2606.23685 [cs.RO]202624 pages

LaST-HD: Learning Latent Physical Reasoning from Scalable Human Data for Robot Manipulation

Jiaming Liu et al. · Peking University

Instead of retargeting human demos geometrically, LaST-HD trains an action-conditioned world model on unpaired human and robot trajectories.

methodVLA
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arXiv:2606.16370 [cs.RO]202617 pages

ART-Glove: Articulated Tactile Glove for Contact-Grounded Dexterous Interaction Capture

Changyi Lin, Ding Zhao · Carnegie Mellon University

A glove built from 16 rigid functional surfaces capturing 22-DoF surface motion and 2048 taxels of tactile contact.

hardwaretactile glove
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arXiv:2603.26403 [cs.RO]202612 pages

T-800: An 800 Hz Data Glove for Precise Hand Gesture Tracking

Haoyang Luo et al.

Eighteen IMUs and mechanical stress isolation give full-hand tracking at 800 Hz to capture real motion energy above 100 Hz.

hardwaremocap
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arXiv:2509.04441 [cs.RO]202522 pages

DEXOP: A Device for Robotic Transfer of Dexterous Human Manipulation

Hao-Shu Fang et al. · MIT & UC Berkeley

A passive perioperation exoskeleton with whole-hand tactile sensing for contact-rich, long-horizon bimanual demonstrations.

hardwaredata collection
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arXiv:2504.10414 [cs.CV]202519 pages

HUMOTO: A 4D Dataset of Mocap Human Object Interactions

Jiaxin Lu et al. · UT Austin & Adobe Research

Mocap human-object interaction sequences with detailed hands manipulating objects paired with natural-language scripts.

datasetmocap
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arXiv:2502.07730 [cs.RO]202513 pages

DOGlove: Dexterous Manipulation with a Low-Cost Open-Source Haptic Force Feedback Glove

Han Zhang et al. · Tsinghua University

Open-source glove with 21-DoF motion capture and 5-DoF haptic force feedback for blind dexterous teleoperation.

hardwareteleoperation
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RSS 2024202420 pages

DexCap: Scalable and Portable Mocap Data Collection System for Dexterous Manipulation

Chen Wang et al. · Stanford University

Portable hand-mocap rig paired with DexIL to retarget wild human manipulation data to robot embodiments.

hardwareimitation learning
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NeurIPS 2022 D&B202214 pages

ActionSense: A Multimodal Dataset and Recording Framework for Human Activities

Joseph DelPreto et al. · MIT CSAIL

Full wearable sensor suite capturing eye tracking, forearm EMG, 17-IMU tracking, and tactile gloves for daily kitchen tasks.

datasetwearable sensing
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SIGGRAPH 2019201915 pages

Interactive Hand Pose Estimation using a Stretch-Sensing Soft Glove

Oliver Glauser et al. · ETH Zurich & NYU

Capacitive stretch-sensor array soft glove with deep neural network reconstruction of hand pose.

hardwarehand pose
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