Ange Bao

Dr. Ange Bao


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1Year (2026-Present)

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23 August 2026 in Applied Sciences
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XSXiaohang Shi
Xiaohang Shi
ABAnge Bao
Ange Bao
HZHaoran Zheng
Haoran Zheng
PZPei Zhao
Pei Zhao
Recent advances in robotics have highlighted the importance of multimodal perception for dexterous manipulation in contact-rich environments. Here we present BiTAT, a bimanual tactile-augmented teleoperation system for collecting multimodal human demonstrations and learning manipulation policies. The system integrates custom capacitive tactile sensors into parallel grippers and displays the resulting contact-deformation images to the operator. We evaluated the system in four controlled laboratory tasks: USB removal/insertion, bottle cap unscrewing, cucumber peeling, and toothpaste squeezing. In a pilot repeated-measures study with eight laboratory participants, visual tactile feedback was associated with success-rate increases of 12.5–32.5 percentage points and shorter completion times among successful trials. We further propose a multimodal Diffusion Policy that fuses visual, tactile, and proprioceptive features through a Transformer encoder. In two fixed-layout autonomous tasks, the complete model achieved higher observed success rates than the vision-only baseline, including a 45-percentage-point difference in the 50-demonstration toothpaste-squeezing setting. Together, these results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed hardware–policy pipeline and suggest that tactile augmentation benefits both human teleoperation and learned manipulation policies in contact-rich tasks.