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.
By Zohar Rimon, Elisei Shafer, Tal Tepper, Daniel Kozin, Alon Malka, Roy Holland, Aviv Tamar
arXiv:2603. 13869v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dexterous manipulation enables complex tasks but suffers from self-occlusion, severe depth noise, and depth information loss when manipulating transparent objects.
By Fengguan Li, Yifan Ma, Chen Qian, Wentao Rao, Weiwei Shang
Predicting object dynamics (i. e.
arXiv:2606. 11767v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Blind grasping with a dexterous hand is a crucial manipulation capability.
By Shengcheng Luo, Xiyan Huang, Zhe Xu, Wanlin Li, Ziyuan Jiao, Chenxi Xiao
arXiv:2606. 24712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans effortlessly locate and identify objects by touch alone, even without vision.
By Shivani Kamtikar, Chung Hee Kim, Camilla Tabasso, Tye Brady, Joshua Migdal, Taskin Padir
Humanoid motion imitation requires not only accurate perception of human kinematics but also faithful reproduction of physical interactions with the environment. However, existing pipelines rely primarily on vision-based motion capture and kinematic imitation, largely ignoring contact dynamics, leading to artifacts such as foot sliding, floor penetration, and unstable behaviors.
arXiv:2606. 24450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perceiving physical contact is fundamental to dexterous manipulation.
By Soham Patil, Avirup Das, Sourabh Bhosale, Spandan Roy
arXiv:2606. 31451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have shown great promise in integrating understanding and generation across diverse modalities.
By Jiahang Tu, Fengyu Yang, Chenyang Ma, Xihang Yu, Ziyao Zeng, Shaokai Wu, Hanbin Zhao, Zhi Tao, Chao Zhang, Hui Qian, Alex Wong
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.
By Charlotte Morissette, Amin Abyaneh, Wei-Di Chang, Anas Houssaini, David Meger, Hsiu-Chin Lin, Jonathan Tremblay, Gregory Dudek
arXiv:2606. 15015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physics-grounded video generation requires controllable 3D object dynamics that remain physically consistent under contact, deformation, and external forcing.
By Qizhen Ying, Guangming Wang, Yangchen Pan, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Yixiong Jing
arXiv:2607. 03723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual policies learned from human videos, teleoperation, and robot demonstrations offer scalable motion priors, but often fail in contact-rich manipulation, where success significantly depends on local force and contact geometry.
By Kelin Yu, Haode Zhang, Harish Ravichandar, Yunhai Han, Ruohan Gao
arXiv:2607. 00033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dexterous robot manipulation can benefit from the abundance of human demonstrations, but transferring such demonstrations to robot policies remains challenging.
By Xinghao Zhu, Zixi Liu, Shalin Jain, Chenran Li, Milad Noori, Huihua Zhao, John Welsh, Michael Andres Lin, Wei Liu, Tingwu Wang, Xingye Da, Zhengyi Luo, Vishal Kulkarni, Naema Bhatti, Yuke Zhu, Linxi Fan, Bowen Wen, Danfei Xu, Soha Pouya, Yan Chang