This is the official website for "ViTac 2026: Learning to See and Feel: Vision-Tactile Synergy for Embodied AI".
| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 09:00-09:10 | From Organisers | Welcome |
| Session 1: From fingertip sensors to large area skins: hardware intelligence |
| 09:10-09:30 | Lorenzo Jamone | Robotic hands, dexterity, and the sense of touch |
| 09:30-09:50 | Katherine J. Kuchenbecker | Haptic intelligence |
| 09:50-10:10 | Tess Hellebrekers | Hybrid Soft Sensing in Robotic Systems |
| 10:10-10:30 | Poster Presenters | Lightning poster presentations (2mins each) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee break, posters, and demos |
| Session 2: Advances in tactile simulation and sim-to-real transfer |
| 10:50-11:10 | Rui Chen | Online Domain Adaptation for Sim2Real Transfer of High-Precision Manipulation with Visuotactile Sensing |
| 11:10-11:30 | Ireti Akinola | A library for visuotactile sensor simulation and learning |
| 11:30-11:50 | Michelle Lu | AI-Powered Robotics Simulation |
| 11:50-12:10 | Maria Bauza | Learning to interact with the world: when generality meets precision |
| 12:10-12:30 | ManiSkill-ViTac Challenge | Invited talk from challenge winners |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break, posters, and demos |
| Session 3: Robot dexterity with visuo-tactile fusion: visual-tactile foundation models |
| 14:00-14:20 | Harold Soh | Building Bridges towards Embodied Generative AI |
| 14:20-14:40 | Alberto Rodruguez | The Role of Manipulation Primitives in Building Dexterous Robotic Systems |
| 14:40-15:00 | Jeremy Fishel | Using touch to create human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots |
| 15:00-15:20 | Poster Presenters | Lightning poster presentations (2mins each) |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee break, posters, and demos |
| Session 4: From seeing to feeling: what tactile sensing contributes beyond vision in robot manipulation |
| 15:50-16:10 | Danica Kragic | Challenges in multimodal grasping |
| 16:10-16:30 | Matei Ciorcarli | Mechanisms, Sensors & Policies for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation |
| 16:30-17:10 | All Speakers | Panel Discussion |
| 17:10 | Finish |
