In partnership with Facebook AI Research, GelSight is manufacturing DIGIT, an easy-to-build, reliable, low-cost, compact, high-resolution, tactile sensor designed for robotic in-hand manipulation.

GelSight’s technology offers the most scalable digital tactile solution on the market, making it ideal for use in a miniature sensor like DIGIT. It is imaging-based so that machine learning and AI techniques can be applied immediately to GelSight’s sensor output. DIGIT is a low-cost product with image quality tailored to computer vision training tasks. For higher resolution and images more pleasing to the human eye, please see the GelSight Mini.