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.
Timeline
- 2020. Company founded.
Inventors
Roberto Calandra, Frederik David Ebert, Sergey Vladimir Levine, Akhil Amar Padmanabha, Stephen Tian