rct-robotic-contact-tactile--6dca951e·1 events·first seen Aliases: RCT (Robotic Contact Tactile)
Researchers introduce RCT (Robotic Contact Tactile), an open-source dataset of 29,279 tactile frames collected from robot presses on 122 industrial materials, paired with vision and language annotations via three DIGIT sensors. The paper exposes a critical data leakage problem in existing tactile benchmarks: frame-random splits allow near-duplicate observations across train/test, inflating performance by up to 17.7 Recall@1 points. Proper held-out-material evaluation reveals sharp performance drops (Recall@1 of 25.1%), framing novel-material generalization as a central unsolved challenge for robotic tactile perception. The dataset and evaluation protocol are publicly released.