Ant open-sources LingBot-Touch to give robot hands a universal sense of touch
Ant Group just open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model that translates signals from diverse sensors into universal tactile tokens. Pre-trained on nearly 5,000 hours of real touch data, its tiny 5.3M-parameter version boosts robotic manipulation success rates by up to 24 percentage points without retraining across hardware.