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Oct 8, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

TouchScale: 500-Hour Unified Vision-Tactile Dataset Shows Scaling Benefits Transfer to Robot Control

Researchers from 15 institutions introduce TouchScale, a 500-hour human vision-tactile dataset collected with a single wearable system, demonstrating that scaling tactile data under consistent hardware and procedures yields cross-sensor generalization gains and lifts real-robot manipulation success from 22.5% to 57.5% across four contact-rich tasks without using human action labels.