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Tactile sensing

Sensor technology that measures contact forces and object properties through mechanical pressure. Every Robotics Weekly story on tactile sensing, newest first. 3 stories since October 2026.

  • A playable world model runs at 50+ FPS on one RTX 5090

    Jimmy Wang put his 3D World Simulator online, and Chris Paxton says the cracks in it are a data problem, not a model problem.

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  • Eka raises $150M for a force-feeling robot model

    The MIT professor's manipulation startup is betting that touch, not language, is the missing input.

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  • Sound like you were at the demo

    One email a day. Under three minutes. The demos, the deployments and the part the press release left out.

  • NYU's eFlesh is a $5 tactile sensor you 3D print yourself

    Four parts, a hobbyist printer and under five dollars of magnets, with all design files and trained models released openly.

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