Force-Torque Data in Manipulation Tasks: When and Why You Need It

Vision models are great at telling a robot where to go, but terrible at telling it how hard to push. For tasks like peg-in-hole insertion, wiping surfaces, or delicate grasping, Force-Torque (F/T) sensing is indispensable.

By augmenting human demonstration data with precise 6-axis F/T telemetry, policies learn contact dynamics faster and avoid catastrophic failures in edge cases.