PHANES AI Writes Touch Into Robot Foundation Models: TouchWorld Tactile Model Enables Dexterous Manipulation

PHANES AI Writes Touch Into Robot Foundation Models: TouchWorld Tactile Model Enables Dexterous Manipulation

PHANES AI, founded by Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen professor Yang Shuo, has published TouchWorld, a predictive and reactive tactile foundation model for dexterous manipulation. The work addresses a critical blind spot in current VLA vision-language-action models: they can see whether a robot finger is touching a button, but cannot feel whether the button has actually been pressed.TouchWorld gives tactile sensing a dual role in robot c…