Annotated research paper shelf covering tactile gloves, wearable sensing rigs, datasets, and human-to-robot dexterous transfer.
arXiv:2607.09190 [cs.RO]2026 · 16 pages
TactiDex: A Real-World Tactile-Guided Benchmark for Human-Like Dexterous Manipulation
Suting Ni et al. · ShanghaiTech University
A benchmark that pushes human-to-robot dexterous transfer past kinematic mimicry: whole-hand tactile signals aligned with hand-object interaction data.
#benchmark#dataset
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arXiv:2606.23685 [cs.RO]2026 · 24 pages
LaST-HD: Learning Latent Physical Reasoning from Scalable Human Data for Robot Manipulation
Jiaming Liu et al. · Peking University
Instead of retargeting human demos geometrically, LaST-HD trains an action-conditioned world model on unpaired human and robot trajectories.
#method#VLA
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arXiv:2606.16370 [cs.RO]2026 · 17 pages
ART-Glove: Articulated Tactile Glove for Contact-Grounded Dexterous Interaction Capture
Changyi Lin, Ding Zhao · Carnegie Mellon University
A glove built from 16 rigid functional surfaces capturing 22-DoF surface motion and 2048 taxels of tactile contact.
#hardware#tactile glove
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arXiv:2603.26403 [cs.RO]2026 · 12 pages
T-800: An 800 Hz Data Glove for Precise Hand Gesture Tracking
Haoyang Luo et al.
Eighteen IMUs and mechanical stress isolation give full-hand tracking at 800 Hz to capture real motion energy above 100 Hz.
#hardware#mocap
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arXiv:2509.04441 [cs.RO]2025 · 22 pages
DEXOP: A Device for Robotic Transfer of Dexterous Human Manipulation
Hao-Shu Fang et al. · MIT & UC Berkeley
A passive perioperation exoskeleton with whole-hand tactile sensing for contact-rich, long-horizon bimanual demonstrations.
#hardware#data collection
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arXiv:2504.10414 [cs.CV]2025 · 19 pages
HUMOTO: A 4D Dataset of Mocap Human Object Interactions
Jiaxin Lu et al. · UT Austin & Adobe Research
Mocap human-object interaction sequences with detailed hands manipulating objects paired with natural-language scripts.
#dataset#mocap
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arXiv:2502.07730 [cs.RO]2025 · 13 pages
DOGlove: Dexterous Manipulation with a Low-Cost Open-Source Haptic Force Feedback Glove
Han Zhang et al. · Tsinghua University
Open-source glove with 21-DoF motion capture and 5-DoF haptic force feedback for blind dexterous teleoperation.
#hardware#teleoperation
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RSS 20242024 · 20 pages
DexCap: Scalable and Portable Mocap Data Collection System for Dexterous Manipulation
Chen Wang et al. · Stanford University
Portable hand-mocap rig paired with DexIL to retarget wild human manipulation data to robot embodiments.
#hardware#imitation learning
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NeurIPS 2022 D&B2022 · 14 pages
ActionSense: A Multimodal Dataset and Recording Framework for Human Activities
Joseph DelPreto et al. · MIT CSAIL
Full wearable sensor suite capturing eye tracking, forearm EMG, 17-IMU tracking, and tactile gloves for daily kitchen tasks.
#dataset#wearable sensing
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SIGGRAPH 20192019 · 15 pages
Interactive Hand Pose Estimation using a Stretch-Sensing Soft Glove
Oliver Glauser et al. · ETH Zurich & NYU
Capacitive stretch-sensor array soft glove with deep neural network reconstruction of hand pose.