Meta announced that it has joined hands with Korea’s Wonik Robotics to develop a robot hand that may sense touch.
Meta announced on the thirty first (local time) that it plans to commercialize tactile sensors for artificial intelligence (AI) in partnership with sensor company Gelsite and domestic robot company Wonik Robotics.
The brand new device shouldn’t be intended for consumers, but reasonably for researchers developing AI models. In other words, it’s used to construct data for robot AI learning.
Mehta said the device “hopes for use to learn more in regards to the world and advance AI research that may higher understand and model the physical world.”
First, in collaboration with Gelsite, we plan to release ‘Digit 360’, a multi-modal sensing function with human-level tactile sense.
Digit 360 is the successor to Meta’s existing tactile sensor ‘Digit’ and has greater than 18 sensing functions. Meta developed an optical system dedicated to tactile recognition with a large field of view in order that Digit 360 can capture omnidirectional deformation of the fingertip surface. Digit 360 also has quite a lot of sensing functions that may detect vibration, heat, and even smell.
Digit 360 can be available for purchase next yr, and Meta has launched a call for proposal program to assist researchers gain early access.
As well as, we’re collaborating with Wonik Robotics, a domestic robot company, to develop the ‘Allegro Hand’, a next-generation robot hand equipped with a tactile sensor like Digit 360.
The Allegro Hand is a low-cost, highly adaptable robotic hand with 16 independent torque-controlled joints. Equipped with 4 fingers, its strengths include a high degree of freedom, real-time control, and online simulation.
Wonik has already announced that research institutes reminiscent of Facebook, Google, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are using this product for robot research.
Allegro Hand is predicated on Meta’s platform, which integrates tactile sensors right into a single robotic hand, and provides control functions to comprehensively manage tactile sensor data. Allegro Hand is scheduled to be released next yr.
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
