concept study
dieHaut
Open source robotics has no touch at scale.
We build it.
A tactile skin for the open hardware you already print. One magnetised band, one chip, one finger, and a learned decoder from magnetic field to force and place.
drag to orbit · the skin is live on step 02
01 · the problem
Robots that grasp cannot feel.
Every LeRobot dataset on the Hub records the same four things.
observation.images.*3 camerasobservation.state6 jointsaction6 targetsobservation.contactnothing
Contact only exists at the moment of manipulation. No open dataset records it. Policies infer contact from pixels, and miss in the last two millimetres.
For AI builders and robotics labs working on open hardware.
02 · the idea
One band. One chip. One finger. One model.
A magnetised band cast into a soft skin, one 3-axis magnetometer underneath. Press the skin, the band moves, the field changes.
Upper finger only. Press the pad, drag to shear.
1 magnetometer · ΔB (µT, arb.)
- force
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- contact at
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Three numbers, from one chip. The whole raw signal. A trained model turns it into force and place.
03 · what this could become
The socket everyone plugs into.
- v0One finger. Printable jaw, cast-it-yourself pad, weights on the Hub.
- v1In the format.
observation.contactmerged into LeRobot. - v2The socket. One mount, one tensor spec, any skin.
- v3The corpus. The first open datasets with contact recorded.
Open hardware, open weights, and a format the community can own.
Concept study by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mark Schutera · no hardware yet · gripper geometry MuJoCo Menagerie trs_so_arm100 (Apache-2.0)