Brief Description
OmniTact was founded to commercialize a robotic manipulation sensor designed by researchers at UC Berkeley. The sensor uses micro-cameras to detect multi-directional deformations of a gel-based skin. It is designed to be used as a fingertip for robotic manipulation with robotic hands, and uses multiple micro-cameras to detect multi-directional deformations. This provides a rich signal from which a variety of different contact state variables can be inferred using modern image processing and computer vision methods.
Inventors
Roberto Calandra, Frederik David Ebert, Sergey Vladimir Levine, Akhil Amar Padmanabha, Stephen Tian
Timeline
- 2020. Company founded.