arXiv:2606. 31694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For robots manipulating open-world objects, tactile representations must generalize to unseen materials.
arXiv:2606. 31451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have shown great promise in integrating understanding and generation across diverse modalities.
The paper introduces BIFTA, a Brain‑Inspired Few‑Shot Tactile Adaptation framework that enables a frozen encoder to adapt quickly to an unknown tactile sensor using only a small labeled support set. It preserves pretrained representations via dual‑view statistical memory, builds support‑conditioned spectral graphs to correct sensor‑dependent feature neighborhoods, and employs uncertainty‑gated recurrent propagation to reinforce reliable cross‑query evidence. Benchmarks on three tactile datasets demonstrate that BIFTA dramatically improves adaptation performance, achieving an 87.09% mean Sparsh accuracy on SITR with just 10% labeled data—an increase of 47.22 percentage points over the best prior method.
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.
arXiv:2606. 11637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Touch is a key modality for embodied agents to understand the physical world.
arXiv:2606. 24712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans effortlessly locate and identify objects by touch alone, even without vision.
arXiv:2608.29601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present $\mathcal{N}_0$-Foundation, a paradigm for tactile-enabled embodied manipulation, which integrates tactile sensing hardware, large-scale m...
arXiv:2606. 14344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile imaging seeks to reconstruct the internal structure of soft objects through touch sensing, with applications in medical diagnosis and robotic manipulation.
arXiv:2603. 14604v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose TacFiLM, a lightweight modality-fusion approach that integrates visual-tactile signals into vision-language-action (VLA) models.
arXiv:2608. 04043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Resistive pressure arrays are the cheapest and most widely shipped tactile sensors, yet tactile representation learning has concentrated on optical sensors that image a deforming gel.
arXiv:2606. 14981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time steering adapts pre-trained generative robot policies during deployment by verifying candidate actions before execution.
arXiv:2609.15910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Slip detection is fundamental to dexterous manipulation, yet existing systems often lack precise characterization of detection latency and cross-plat...