The six-person development team comprises Chandani Doshi, Grace Li, Jialin Shi, Bonnie Wang, Charlene Xia, and Tania Yu, all undergraduate students at MIT at the time of Tactile's conception.[3] A joint collaboration in materials science, mechanical and electrical engineering, and computer science, Tactile received popular media attention[4] for its rapid pace of development, as well as its inventors all being women in STEM fields with disproportionally low female representation.[5]