School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

In this talk, I will introduce the development of a high-resolution tactile sensor GelSight, and how it could help robots understand and interact with the physical world.

Building intelligent systems for robots to interact with the world is a challenging problem. In this talk, I will present our efforts ranging from learning primitive skills to learning manipulation concepts for robots to interact with the world. Grasping and hanging are primitive manipulation skills. Choosing the right robot action representation is of great importance for mastering these skills.