Thread 01 / Data
Touch is the data physical AI needs.
Manipulation models fail at contact because their training data never contained it. Operators who can feel demonstrate correctly, and capture the contact dynamics no camera can see.
Haptic interfaces / physical AI
The Last Millimeter Problem.
You can’t have physical AI without touch.
The highest-resolution haptic feedback actuators in the world, for robot teleoperation, contact-rich demonstration data, and the people who collect it.
01 The stakes
The most valuable work in the world is done by hand.
$50T
of global economic activity flows through human hands every year
$15T
flows through navigation: the trillions chased by autonomy
Manipulation is a 3× bigger market than mobility, funded at a fraction of it. Source: Cortical Ventures
02 The shift
Robots are taught, not programmed.
Three years ago, you programmed waypoints. Today, robots learn by watching people work. Every major AI lab has converged on teaching by human example.
But there’s a problem.
03 The problem
Teaching breaks at the last millimeter.
A teleoperator without touch demonstrates numb, like plugging in a USB‑C cable wearing oven mitts. Demonstrations without touch produce data without touch.
Teleoperation without haptic feedback is…
Slow.
Unnatural.
Unsuccessful.
04 The argument
Vision is not enough.
You can move a robot the first 999 millimeters with vision. The last millimeter — plugging in a USB‑C cable, threading a screw, feeling a part click home — is the domain of touch.
Feel what robots feel.
05 The demo
The highest-resolution haptic feedback actuators in the world.
A gloved operator, a robot hand, and an actuator array rendering every contact, live, side by side.
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06 The instrument
Feel the contact.
Feel the pressure.
One hundred times smaller than pneumatics, micro-hydraulic electroosmotic actuators are silent and small enough to put variable pressure haptic feedback under every fingertip.
6 mm ⌀
Actuator diameter
15 ms
Response time
128 lvl
Pressure levels
07 The path
Thread 02 / Deployment
Autonomy has to be earned.
Tesla and Waymo climbed the autonomy ladder for a decade: driver in the loop, then supervised, now hands off but still calling back to a human command center. Manipulation is now climbing the same ladder, and haptics allow people to steer.
1:1 1:5 1:30
One operator, more robots every year. The future of robots needs command centers.
We build the touch inside them.
08 Start building
Lansing Dev Kit
Electroosmotic haptic actuators you can integrate into hardware you already own. Fingertip-scale, solid-state, silent.
For robotics labs · teleoperation teams · manipulation researchers · haptic interface builders
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09 Choose your door
Door 01
Start building
The Lansing Dev Kit puts variable pressure haptic feedback in your hands. Everything needed to get started fast: actuators, controller, Python SDK, and docs.
Door 02
Work with us
We work with leading robotics companies and researchers on custom haptic and teleoperation systems.
Door 03
Get in contact
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