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Jun 27, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

FTP-1: First Generalist Tactile Foundation Model Unifying 21 Sensors for Diverse Robots

FTP-1, a new generalist tactile foundation policy trained on the 3,000‑hour FTP‑1‑Dataset covering 21 heterogeneous sensors from 26 sources, introduces a morphology‑aware token space and an independent tactile transformer expert, achieving up to 31.6‑percentage‑point gains on unseen sensors and consistently outperforming prior VLA baselines across 14 real‑world manipulation tasks.