Meta Digit 360 Call for Proposals
AI Research at Meta, in partnership with GelSight Inc., invites proposals from universities and research organizations interested in using the next generation touch sensor Digit 360 to accelerate research, drive open source development, and contribute to the open source community. Fully assembled Digit 360’s will be made available at no charge to researchers that will make rigorous and creative use of the sensor in existing or planned research projects.
By making the Digit 360 available to the scientific community, AI at Meta aims at the following objectives:
- Enable scientific breakthroughs in real-world applications (e.g., robotics)
- Explore and develop new techniques for processing touch across many modalities
- Encourage research in touch as a sensing modality, and tactile sensors
- Develop reusable components and tools
Proposals will be evaluated based on their scientific merit and potential impact.
It is our hope that the Digit 360 platform will focus attention on the importance of touch as a sensing modality (similarly to computer vision and speech recognition) and foster the development of new multimodal touch-based robotics systems, tools and applications in a spirit of scientific collaboration and open-source community.
Important Dates:
- Proposals due: 15 January 2025
- Acceptance notification: 15 February 2025
- Delivery of Digit 360: To be confirmed upon acceptance
Submission Form:
To submit your application fill the form available Here.
Restrictions:
Residents of the following countries are not eligible to participate: Cuba, Syria, Iran, Russia, Crimea (region of Ukraine), Donetsk (region of Ukraine), Luhansk (region of Ukraine), Belarus, Iraq, Sudan and North Korea. Terms and conditions are available Here
