Robbyant Releases Open Source LingBot-Touch Model for Robot Touch

Nov 11, 2026
Robbyant released LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model trained on nearly 5,000 hours of physical contact data. It supports magnetic, visual and piezoresistive tactile sensors.

Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, released the open source LingBot-Touch tactile foundation model on November 10, according to Shattered. The model was trained on nearly 5,000 hours of real world tactile data.

LingBot-Touch supports magnetic tactile, visual tactile and piezoresistive sensors. It converts signals from these sensor types into a unified tactile representation that different robot action models can process.

The model uses a joint embedding predictive architecture with a shared Transformer. Robbyant released two variants, LingBot-Touch-Tiny and LingBot-Touch-Small, along with code, model resources and a technical report on GitHub and Hugging Face.

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