arXiv AI

TouchThinker: Scaling Tactile Commonsense Reasoning to the Open World with Large-scale Data and Action-aware Representation

arXiv:2606. 11637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Touch is a key modality for embodied agents to understand the physical world.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

TacReasoner: A Dynamic Tactile-Language Framework for Interactive Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios

arXiv:2607. 05131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Among the five primary human senses, tactile is arguably the most fundamental to survival, as it enables the perception of physical contact and interaction in real-world environments.

By Kailin Lyu, Di Wu, Long Xiao, Jianning Zeng, Jianwei He, Chang Lin, Lianyu Hu, Lin Shu, Jie Hao, Ce Hao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 6

TacReasoner: A Dynamic Tactile-Language Framework for Interactive Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios

Among the five primary human senses, tactile is arguably the most fundamental to survival, as it enables the perception of physical contact and interaction in real-world environments. In this paper, we explore two key challenges of integrating tactile sensing into intelligent systems for multimodal reasoning: (i) insufficient modeling of dynamic tactile signals, which restricts reasoning over temporally evolving properties, and (ii) hallucination in tactile foundation models caused by the absence of explicit reasoning mechanisms, leading to unstable real-world inference.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

ControlTac: Scaling Tactile Data with Physically Controlled Tactile Image Generation

ControlTac is a two‑stage framework that generates realistic tactile images conditioned on a single reference image, contact force, and contact pose. By incorporating these physical priors, it produces realistic samples across different sensors and captures task‑relevant variations. Experiments in object insertion, imitation learning, and object weighting show that datasets augmented with ControlTac consistently improve performance in dynamic real‑world settings.

By Dongyu Luo, Kelin Yu, Amir-Hossein Shahidzadeh, Cornelia Ferm\"uller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Ruohan Gao