GelSight Extends Life and Durability of GelSight Mini with New Gels

New, durable gel fulfills customer requests for longer life in robotics applications

Waltham, Mass. – January 6, 2025 – GelSight, a pioneer in tactile intelligence technology, today announced the availability of updated gel for its GelSight Mini tactile sensor. The new gel offers up to 40 percent increased durability based on internal testing, with the same look and feel of the existing gels.

GelSight Mini is the only compact form factor, human-scale resolution tactile sensor with digital 2D and 3D mapping available to roboticists and broadens sensor capabilities compared to other similar products on the market. GelSight Mini also provides the fastest artificial intelligence tactile experience on the market, taking just five minutes to deliver sharable results out of the box for robotics applications. The new gels will offer the same optimized images of material surfaces that are useful across a broad set of industries, now with a longer life.

“Since its launch, GelSight Mini has been able to reduce the barrier of entry into robotics and touch-based scanning for professionals and hobbyists alike, and now the updated gel process allows customers to get to work within five minutes of taking the device out of the box, and continue to use it for much longer,” said Milan Kocic, Vice President of Product at GelSight. “The new gel is more durable, but still enables the sensitive, superhuman-scale sensor capabilities that GelSight is known for, and we are excited to see what our customers can achieve with longer product life.”

GelSight’s tactile intelligence technology digitizes touch with human-like sensitivity and high-resolution. Data captured by GelSight’s elastomeric tactile sensing platform leverages ROS, PyTouch, and Python allowing users to create detailed, accurate surface characterizations directly compatible with familiar industry standard software environments. Together with this technology, the GelSight Mini improves processes across robotics, industrial prototyping, AI and touch research, and more, enabling more rapid, well-documented surface measurement and imaging in high-resolution.

The GelSight Mini and the updated gels are available to purchase at https://www.gelsight.com/online-store/. All GelSight Mini orders placed on or after January 3, 2025 will include new gels. To learn more about product demos or purchasing the GelSight Mini, please email mini@gelsight.com or visit https://www.gelsight.com/gelsightmini/.

About GelSight
GelSight is a pioneer in digital, imaging-based tactile intelligence. The proprietary technology that was invented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides extremely detailed and rapid surface characterization, enabling several surface measurement applications and robotic sensing capabilities. Its elastomeric 3D imaging systems are currently in use in aerospace, automotive, forensics and in many robotic research labs throughout the world. GelSight is Digital Touch and Feel. For more information, please visit https://gelsight.com/.

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