Touch + vision fusion
Combines tactile streams with vision for true contact awareness.
Tactyl · GripSim
Tactyl
Tactile-and-vision contact world model that predicts grasp outcomes.
Overview
What Tactyl does
A multimodal world model that fuses touch and vision to predict contact outcomes — hold, slip, crush — a few steps ahead, enabling closed-loop, contact-reactive control.
- Touch + vision fusion
- Predicts before commit
- Closed-loop control
- Sensor-agnostic SDK
Key features
Inside Tactyl
Built to be GPU-essential, NVIDIA-aligned, and production-ready.
Predicts before commit
Forecasts slip and force a few steps ahead of the grasp.
Closed-loop control
Feeds Dextra's policy so the robot reacts mid-grasp.
Sensor-agnostic SDK
Ingests common tactile sensors through one interface.
Sim-trained
Bootstrapped on synthetic contact-rich data from Simdex.
Slip reduction
Cuts dropped and crushed picks versus vision-only baselines.
Specs
Technical specifications
| Model type | Multimodal contact world model |
|---|---|
| Inputs | Tactile + vision streams |
| Edge | Jetson Thor / IGX + Holoscan |
| Training | NVIDIA DGX / HGX |
| Output | Contact outcome + force prediction |
| Integration | Feeds Dextra closed loop |
Gallery
Tactyl in action
Use cases
Where Tactyl fits
- Grasping deformable and fragile items
- Occluded-object picking
- In-hand reorientation
- Medical and food handling
Pricing
Ways to deploy Tactyl
Start free. Scale to a fleet. Pricing shown is indicative, pre-launch.
Pilot
Project
- Scoped pilot
- Engineer support
- Benchmark report
Scale
Usage
- Production license
- Fleet updates
- Priority support
Enterprise
Custom
- Custom SLAs
- On-site support
- Roadmap input
FAQ
Tactyl questions
Does it require NVIDIA hardware?
Yes — Tactyl is GPU-essential; see the specs above for the exact stack.
Can I use it standalone?
Yes, Tactyl works on its own and integrates with the rest of the GripSim stack.
How do I get started?
Talk to our team for a scoped pilot tailored to your robot and task.
Related
Explore the rest of the stack
Dextra
Cross-embodiment VLA manipulation foundation model + fine-tuning toolkit.
Explore Dextra →
Reflex
On-robot edge runtime for low-latency closed-loop manipulation.
Explore Reflex →
Simdex
Domain-randomized manipulation simulation + data-generation engine.
Explore Simdex →Why GripSim
Built for production robotics
The manipulation layer teams ship with, not a research demo.
Cross-embodiment by design
One policy runs across many grippers and hands — no per-robot rewrite.
Closed-loop with touch
Tactyl predicts slip and force so grasps react before they fail.
Runs on the robot
Reflex executes on Jetson at control-loop latency, with safety limits.
A moat that compounds
Every deployment feeds the shared model through the data flywheel.
Stay in the loop
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Put Tactyl to work
Tell us your robot and task — we'll scope a pilot.