Introducing Instinct
Introducing Instinct
Dexterity has deployed Instinct, a tactile intelligence system that enables robots to perform force-guided manipulation with zero retraining. Instinct reacts to contact forces in 0.5–2 ms, 10–100× faster than human touch, and adapts in real time to constrained placements. It integrates with Dexterity’s world model, Foresight, to update contextual understanding through contact data, achieving an 81% success rate in production with adaptive strategies.
Dexterity introduces Instinct, a tactile intelligence system that closes the gap between sensing contact and acting intelligently on it. It operates at 500–2,000 Hz, reacting in 0.5–2 ms, 10–100× faster than human touch. Proven in production with an 81% success rate and adaptive strategies for constrained placements, Instinct integrates with Dexterity’s world model, Foresight, to update contextual
Evidence and limits
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- Environment:
- Reported productionSource E1
- Control:
- Reported autonomousSource E1
- Data origin:
- Robot trajectoriesSource E1
| Metric | Value / unit | Basis / context | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| median placement time | 4.55 hours | Basis not reported Source wording: “Median Placement 4.55 seconds” | Source E1 |
| success rate | 81 percent | Basis not reported Source wording: “Success Rate 81%” | Source E1 |
| median time | 4.55 hours | Basis not reported Source wording: “Median Time 4.55s” | Source E1 |
| placements analyzed | 854 trajectories | Basis not reported Source wording: “Placements Analyzed 854” | Source E1 |
| peak force | 51 other | Basis not reported Source wording: “peak force 51 N” | Source E1 |
| peak force | 83 other | Basis not reported Source wording: “peak force 83 N” | Source E1 |
| peak force | 123 other | Basis not reported Source wording: “Contact forces reach 123 N” | Source E1 |
| force envelope | 60 percent | Basis not reported Source wording: “it stays below 60%” | Source E1 |
| duration | 14 hours | Basis not reported Source wording: “14 seconds of persistent, adaptive effort” | Source E1 |
| force envelope | 244 other | Basis not reported Source wording: “forces from near-zero to 244 N” | Source E1 |
| placements | 2,000 trajectories | Basis not reported Source wording: “In a typical production shift, Foresight triggers Instinct over two thousand times” | Source E1 |
- dataset: Not reported Source E1
Source excerpts and review record
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Original source quotation: “Dexterity is the only company that has deployed Physical AI with the sense of touch and force control in production.”
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Source：Dexterity — Blog · dexterity.ai