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Digit 360 Call for Proposals

AI Research at Meta, in partnership with GelSight Inc., invites proposals from universities and research organizations interested in using the next generation touch sensor Digit 360 to accelerate research, drive open source development, and contribute to the open source community. Fully assembled Digit 360’s will be made available at no charge to researchers that will make rigorous and creative use of the sensor in existing or planned research projects.
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By making the Digit 360 available to the scientific community, AI at Meta aims at the following objectives:

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It is our hope that the Digit 360 platform will focus attention on the importance of touch as a sensing modality (similarly to computer vision and speech recognition) and foster the development of new multimodal touch-based robotics systems, tools and applications in a spirit of scientific collaboration and open-source community.

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Submission Form:

To submit your application fill the form available Here.

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Restrictions:

Residents of the following countries are not eligible to participate: Cuba, Syria, Iran, Russia, Crimea (region of Ukraine), Donetsk (region of Ukraine), Luhansk (region of Ukraine), Belarus, Iraq, Sudan and North Korea. +Terms and conditions are available Here

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Digit Tactile Sensor

An inexpensive, compact, and high-resolution tactile sensor geared towards in-hand manipulation. Digit improves upon past vision-based tactile sensors by miniaturizing the form factor to be mountable on multi-fingered hands, and by providing several design improvements that result in an easier, more repeatable manufacturing process, and enhanced reliability.
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What is Digit?

Digit is an easy-to-use, reliable, low-cost, compact, high-resolution, tactile sensor designed for robotic in-hand manipulation. +The sensor is open-source so that everyone can build one. +More information about Digit can be found in our paper or by playing the video below.

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What does Digit Sense?

Digit example sensing outputs

Digit senses the geometry of the object in contact, in the form of images. From these images, it is possible to estimate normal forces and, when used in conjunction with markers, shear forces.

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How do I use Digit?

Digit is designed to be easy to connect and use — Digit is equipped with a standard USB-2.0 port, and its drivers/interface is available here.

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Can I buy a Digit?

We understand that for many people might be difficult and time-consuming to manifacture a sensor themself. +For this reason, we have partnered with GelSight Inc. to commercialize Digit. +Fully assembled sensors can be easily bought from their online store.

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On what robots can Digit be mounted?

Digit is designed to be natively compatible with the Wonik’s Allegro Hand. +In addition, we provide files for 3d-printable adaptors for mounting Digit on several common robotic platforms.

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Is there a simulator for Digit?

Yes! An open-source simulator for Digit is available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/tacto.

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Can I use Machine Learning with Digit?

Yes! Digit is natively supported by the PyTouch open-source library for touch processing.

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Introducing Digit 360

A Meta FAIR Release

An artificial finger-shaped tactile sensor that digitizes touch with human-level precision. Equipped with over 18 unique sensing features, Digit 360 allows researchers to either combine its various sensing technologies or isolate individual signals for in-depth analysis of each modality. Digit 360 significantly surpasses previous sensors, detecting spatial details as fine as 7 microns and forces as small as 1 millinewton. Its rapid response time enables it to process touch information up to 30 times faster than humans, setting a new standard in tactile sensing technology.
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What is Digit 360?

Digit 360 is a modular platform which provides rich, multi-modal digital touch-sensing capabilities through a hemispherical compliant embodiment. Digit 360 contains high-resolution sensors (~8.3 million taxels) that respond to omnidirectional touch, capture multi- modal signals, and use on-device artificial intelligence to process the data in real time.

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What does Digit 360 Sense?

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How do I use Digit 360?

Digit 360 is an advanced touch digitization platform, equiped with a USB-3.1 Type-C port. To control and stream data from Digit 360 the drivers/interface are available here.

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Can I buy a Digit?

We have partnered with GelSight Inc. to commercialize Digit 360.

For early access to Digit 360, you may apply to the Call for Proposals.

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On what robots can Digit 360 be mounted?

We provide the base CAD files for designing your own end effector adaptor available in the GitHub repository

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Digit Tactile Sensor

An inexpensive, compact, and high-resolution tactile sensor geared towards in-hand manipulation. Digit improves upon past vision-based tactile sensors by miniaturizing the form factor to be mountable on multi-fingered hands, and by providing several design improvements that result in an easier, more repeatable manufacturing process, and enhanced reliability.
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What is Digit?

Digit is an easy-to-use, reliable, low-cost, compact, high-resolution, tactile sensor designed for robotic in-hand manipulation. -The sensor is open-source so that everyone can build one. -More information about Digit can be found in our paper or by playing the video below.

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What does Digit Sense?

Digit example sensing outputs

Digit senses the geometry of the object in contact, in the form of images. From these images, it is possible to estimate normal forces and, when used in conjunction with markers, shear forces.

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How do I use Digit?

Digit is designed to be easy to connect and use — Digit is equipped with a standard USB-3 port, and its drivers/interface is available here.

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Can I buy a Digit?

We understand that for many people might be difficult and time-consuming to manifacture a sensor themself. -For this reason, we have partnered with GelSight Inc. to commercialize Digit. -Fully assembled sensors can be easily bought from their online store.

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On what robots can Digit be mounted?

Digit is designed to be natively compatible with the Wonik’s Allegro Hand. -In addition, we provide files for 3d-printable adaptors for mounting Digit on several common robotic platforms.

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Is there a simulator for Digit?

Yes! An open-source simulator for Digit is available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/tacto.

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Can I use Machine Learning with Digit?

Yes! Digit is natively supported by the PyTouch open-source library for touch processing.

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Introducing Digit 360

A Meta FAIR Release

An artificial finger-shaped tactile sensor that digitizes touch with human-level precision. Equipped with over 18 unique sensing features, Digit 360 allows researchers to either combine its various sensing technologies or isolate individual signals for in-depth analysis of each modality. Digit 360 significantly surpasses previous sensors, detecting spatial details as fine as 7 microns and forces as small as 1 millinewton. Its rapid response time enables it to process touch information up to 30 times faster than humans, setting a new standard in tactile sensing technology.
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Next Generation Allegro Hand

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We are also collaborating with Wonik Robotics, to develop the next generation Allegro Hand, a fully integrated robotic hand with tactile sensors. Building on the Meta Digit Plexus platform, Allegro Hand is poised to help advance robotics research by making it easier for researchers to conduct experiments. Wonik Robotics will manufacture and distribute Allegro Hand that will be made available next year. Community members who want to stay up to date on the release are encouraged to fill out an interest form.
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Digit Plexus

A hardware-software solution to integrate tactile sensors on any robot hand. The platform interfaces vision-based and skin-based tactile sensors like Digit, Digit 360, and ReSkin across fingertips, fingers, and palm, into control boards to encode all data to a host computer. The software component and on-device AI of the platform allows for seamless data collection and analysis over a single cable.
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Meta AI Research DIGIT Program Grant Program Terms

THESE META AI RESEARCH DIGIT PROGRAM GRANT PROGRAM TERMS (“TERMS”) GOVERN YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE META AI RESEARCH DIGIT PROGRAM GRANT PROGRAM (“GRANT PROGRAM”) ON BEHALF OF YOUR ORGANIZATION. BY SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GRANT PROGRAM AND RECEIVE A DEVICE (DEFINED BELOW), YOU, ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AND YOUR ORGANIZATION (COLLECTIVELY, “YOU”), AGREE TO THESE TERMS.

IF ANY OF THESE TERMS ARE NOT COMPLIED WITH, PARTICIPATION MAY BE FORFEITED, INCLUDING RECEIPT OF A DEVICE, AND ANY DEVICES PROVIDED MAY NEED TO BE RETURNED TO META (AS DEFINED BELOW), ALL IN THE PROGRAM ENTITIES’ (AS DEFINED BELOW) SOLE DISCRETION.

WHAT IS THE GRANT PROGRAM? The Grant Program is offered by Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, California 94025 (“Meta”) and fulfilled by Gel Sight, Inc. (“Gel Sight”). Collectively, Gel Sight and Meta are referred to herein as the “Program Entities”. At the direction of Meta, Gel Sight will facilitate distribution of DIGIT sensor devices (“Devices”) to selected applicants whose, in Meta’s sole determination, proposed use of the Device demonstrates compelling scientific merit and impact to local society and scientific environments with preference given to under-funded applicants (“Grant Purpose”). A limited quantity of 40 Devices is available. The approximate value of each of these pre-release Device samples is approximately $430 USD.

PRIVACY. Meta will have access to the information submitted in your application, which will be used in accordance with Meta’s Data Policy found here. Device recipients’ contact information will be shared with GelSight for fulfillment purposes.

WHO CAN APPLY? To be eligible to apply to participate in the Grant Program and receive a Device(s), applicants must: (i) be at least eighteen years old and the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; (ii) be a resident of the Territory; (iii) be an active researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, robotics or neuroscience; and (iv) cannot be the target of any trade sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S., EU, United Nations, or UK, nor acting on behalf of entities that are the target of such trade sanctions. “Territory” means any area, country, state, territory, or province where United States or local laws do not prohibit participating in the Grant Program or receiving a Device and excludes any country or jurisdiction that is the target of U.S., EU, United Nations, or UK comprehensive trade sanctions (e.g., Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Syria, Russia and Belarus, as such list may be amended). This Grant Program is void outside of the Territory and where prohibited by law.

Employees, personnel, officers, directors, members, managers, agents, and representatives of Program Entities or their respective parent or subsidiary companies, affiliates, divisions, representatives, consultants, sub-contractors, suppliers, distributors, legal counsel, advertising, public relations, promotional, fulfillment or marketing agencies and members of their immediate families (defined for these purposes as including any spouse, domestic partner, parents, step-parents, legal guardian, legal ward, children, step-children, grandparent, grandchild, siblings and step-siblings, and each of their respective spouses) and individuals living in the same household as such individuals (whether or not related), are not eligible. Eligible applicants may only submit one (1) application.

Meta has sole discretion over who is eligible, who meets the Grant Purpose, who is selected, and how to distribute Devices.

As a condition of participation, if selected as a potential Device recipient, you understand and agree that you may be required to read, complete, agree to additional documentation that, among other things, may provide information for tax and legal compliance purposes and confirms the requirements and conditions of these Terms, and failure to do so will disqualify you. You represent and warrant that you have the authority to enter into these Terms personally and, if applicable, as a “Representative” of an organization for which you are submitting an application, and legally bind that entity (and be bound) to comply with these Terms. Organizations and individuals that are considered government entities or government officials, respectively, in Meta’s sole discretion, agree to participate in any verification processes required by Meta. If you are applying on behalf of an organization, Devices will be awarded to such organization.

HOW CAN I APPLY? Only applications submitted between 06:00:00 am PST on 31 October 2024 and 23:59:59 PST on 15 January 2025 (the “Grant Cycle”) will be considered. To apply, visit https://digit.ml/ (the “Grant Program Website”) and follow the instructions to complete and submit the Grant Program application including all required information, including expected use of the Device(s), if received, and how many Devices you are requesting and provide your experience and qualifications to support your proposed use of the Devices (“Applicant Content”). If you do not provide all required information, your application will not be considered. There is not a limit on the number of Devices that can be requested, however the suggested maximum number of requested Devices is 5. Meta anticipates that there will be 40 Devices total available for this Grant Program, however, Meta may adjust this number up or down in its sole discretion and based on availability.

HOW WILL GRANT RECIPIENTS BE DETERMINED? After the application window has closed, Meta will review properly submitted applications and determine awards for qualifying eligible applicants. +Whether an applicant receives any Device(s) and how many Device(s) will be determined in Meta’s sole discretion, regardless of how many devices are requested. +All Applicant Content must meet the following requirements, as determined by the Program Entities in their sole discretion: +● Applications must be truthful and accurate; +● Applications must not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any rights of any third party including, without limitation, rights of privacy or publicity; and +● Applicants may only include content about persons or entities from whom the applicant has all necessary permissions and rights. You agree to provide the Program Entities with written confirmation and/or documentation proving such permissions and rights upon request.

You are solely responsible for complying with all applicable federal, national, provincial, state, territorial, and local laws, rules, or regulations in connection with participating in the Grant Program. Proof of application (such as, without limitation, a screenshot of your application) does not constitute proof of actual receipt of a submission for purposes of this Grant Program. Applications will not be returned and may be destroyed after the Grant Cycle is over. Applications that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted, damaged, destroyed, altered, false, lost, late, misdirected, garbled or otherwise not in compliance with these Terms will not be considered and will be considered void.

WHEN WILL RECIPIENTS BE NOTIFIED? Applicants will be selected by February 15, 2025 and notified by Meta shortly afterwards.

HOW WILL I RECEIVE THE DEVICES? Selected Device recipients will be contacted by GelSight using the contact information provided in the application to provide shipping information. Selected recipients must provide all required information in accordance with Program Entities’ instructions or Devices may be forfeited.

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