Post by Takayuki Y.

Beyond Dexterity: The Next Leap May Be Contact Intelligence 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gYA8j8PC This IEEE Spectrum article highlights an important idea in robotics: dexterity alone is not enough. A robot hand does not only need to move its fingers accurately. It also needs to understand what happens after it touches something. AGILINK’s balloon dog demonstration is a great example. A balloon is light, slippery, deformable, and easy to pop. Every twist changes its shape, pressure, and contact points. For humans, we adjust almost without thinking. For robots, that is incredibly hard. The key concept here is contact intelligence: the ability to establish, maintain, and adapt physical contact as force, friction, shape, and stability keep changing. AGILINK’s OmniHand 3 Ultra-M points in that direction, combining a human-scale dexterous hand, direct-drive actuation, and dense tactile sensing across the fingertips and palm. In simple terms, this is a step from robot hands that “grip” toward robot hands that can feel, adjust, and keep interacting safely with the messy physical world. That matters for much more than balloon animals: cable insertion, garment handling, flexible packaging, delicate assembly, tool use, and household tasks all depend on contact. === 『触れた後の力や滑りを読み、接触を安定させ続ける器用なロボットハンド』 🎥 https://lnkd.in/g7CxY9Bd #dexterous #RobotHand #manipulation #TactileSensing #PhysicalAI #EmbodiedAI #AGILINK

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