hands with tactile feedback for HAPTIX

[Matej Hoffmann]

Hello! 

We should keep an eye on this one: http://gazebosim.org/haptix
Nice hands with tactile and proprioceptive sensors.
So far only proprietary, for the DARPA Haptix challenge, but maybe they will make it available one day. Does anyone have more information about the likelihood (and time) that this may be happening?

All the best,

Matej

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[Joe Romano]

Agreed. I think they have plans to make it available eventually. I'll ask.

What do you think would be the benefit of having a simulator like this?
Simulating the contact physics of these sensors is REALLY hard. I'm interested to see how well that part of it works - but if anyone can make it useful it is the Gazebo folks.

-Joe

[Nate Koenig]

Joe is correct. There are plans to make this available. You can install and run everything right now, with the caveat that you'll have to install from source.

Here are the dependencies:

    a. https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo (default branch)

    b. https://bitbucket.org/osrf/handsim (default branch, plus the open pull requests)

    c. https://bitbucket.org/osrf/haptix-comm (default branch)

    d. https://bitbucket.org/ignitionrobotics/ign-transport (default branch)

Tutorials:

http://gazebosim.org/haptix/tutorials

Debians should be generated mid to late next week.

Enjoy, and feedback is most welcome.

-nate