Stanford Seminar - Perceiving, Understanding, and Interacting through Touch

Explore the emerging field of touch processing in robotics through this Stanford seminar featuring Roberto Calandra from Meta AI. Delve into the importance of tactile sensing in both humans and robots, and discover recent advancements in tactile sensing hardware. Learn about the challenges and opportunities in creating a new computational field dedicated to touch processing, similar to computer vision. Gain insights into an open-source ecosystem for touch sensing research and examine practical applications of touch in robotics. Understand the potential future applications of this technology and its implications for artificial intelligence and human-robot interaction. Presented by a research scientist with extensive experience in decision-making, robotics, and machine learning, this talk offers a comprehensive look at the intersection of touch sensing and artificial intelligence.