Current prices and lead times

GelSight’s store lists the Mini System at $510. The package includes the sensor, a Standard Gel, a focus tool and a USB Micro-B-to-C cable, and the page estimates a four-week lead time after an order.

The company’s DIGIT store page lists that sensor at $355 with an estimated lead time of four to six weeks. These retail prices should not be confused with the $15 component-cost estimate in the original DIGIT paper: the paper explicitly bases that figure on manufacturing 1,000 units.

GelSight Mini: current product-sheet details

GelSight’s April 2024 product sheet specifies an 8-megapixel camera running at 25 frames per second. It gives the field of view as 18.6 by 14.3 mm.

The same sheet documents a cartridge that users can replace without tools. For software, it says Mini output works with ROS, ROS 2 and PyTouch. Its interface supports Linux, Windows and macOS for viewing video and saving images.

The current store page adds that the Mini package uses a Standard Gel and describes the gel change as fast and tool-free. GelSight says orders placed since January 3, 2025 ship with a reformulated Standard Gel.

DIGIT: separate the current listing from the 2020 design

GelSight’s current DIGIT listing provides the retail price and lead time, but the detailed mechanical and imaging figures we could verify come from the research team’s 2020 paper.

That paper describes a sensor measuring 20 by 27 by 18 mm and weighing about 20 g. Its comparison table lists a 640-by-480 image at 60 frames per second. The design uses press-fit camera and gel mounts, and the paper says the elastomer can be replaced by removing one screw.

The paper also says the team open-sourced the DIGIT design. Meta’s design repository provides manufacturing and assembly documentation plus fabrication files, under a non-commercial Creative Commons license.

Those figures identify the published 2020 design; they are not presented here as a current retail-unit datasheet. That distinction matters because the current store page does not publish the same technical fields.

What this comparison supports

For Mini, GelSight currently publishes a retail package, lead time, product sheet and named software support. For DIGIT, the current retail page establishes price and lead time, while the original paper documents the compact design and imaging setup.

Both primary sources describe replaceable gels. The Mini sheet specifies a tool-free cartridge; the DIGIT paper describes a single-screw elastomer replacement. We found no primary support for treating DIGIT’s gel as factory-service-only.

A buyer who needs ROS 2 support can verify it directly in Mini’s product sheet. A buyer considering DIGIT should confirm current production specifications with GelSight instead of assuming every 2020 research-design figure carries over unchanged.

Sources

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