Robotics & World Models Reading Club 17: Soft Tactile-Centric Multimodal Intelligence Toward Safe and Dexterous Manipulation. SF 07/11

Robotics & World Models Reading Club 17: Soft Tactile-Centric Multimodal Intelligence Toward Safe and Dexterous Manipulation — San Francisco A high-signal reading group for AI researchers & builders pushing the frontiers of robotic world models, WAMs, and embodied intelligence . In our previous sessions, we brought together researchers and engineers from Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Dyna, Physical Intelligence, Tesla, Generalist, Rhoda AI, and leading Bay Area robotics startups. Hosted by Junfan Zhu & Aurora Feng . Supported by Neural Motion , a universal cross-embodiment data representation layer for embodied AI. ​​​​Reading Club 17's Core Theme Soft Tactile-Centric Multimodal Intelligence Toward Safe and Dexterous Manipulation Quan Luu, Postdoc at Purdue University, and incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ( https://quan-luu.github.io/ ) As robots transition from structured industrial settings to unstructured environments, they are required to interact with humans and objects in a safe and effective manner. However,…