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:2608.29601v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present $N_0$-Foundation, a paradigm for tactile-enabled embodied manipulation, which integrates tactile sensing hardware, large-scale mul...
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:2606. 31451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have shown great promise in integrating understanding and generation across diverse modalities.
arXiv:2606. 11637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Touch is a key modality for embodied agents to understand the physical world.
VT-MUSE is a multimodal unified sequential representation learning framework for visuotactile manipulation. It uses a two‑stage approach: first, modality‑specific encoders are jointly adapted with cross‑modal temporal alignment and masked‑view consistency; second, a conditional variational latent model processes masked visual sequences and full tactile histories, with auxiliary decoders reconstructing recent visual observations and predicting tactile depth changes. The resulting representation is fed into a lightweight Transformer policy via gated cross‑attention, achieving an 11‑percentage‑point improvement over the strongest baseline in simulation and significant gains in real‑world experiments.
Agile-WAM is a tactile World Action Model that jointly predicts future visual and tactile states and robot actions for contact‑rich manipulation. It encodes visual and tactile observations into a shared latent space and uses a vision‑tactile‑to‑action flow‑matching process to generate action chunks and future latents. The model introduces multi‑horizon multimodal prediction, leveraging the different timescales of vision and touch, and achieves a 29.4 % improvement in real‑world success rates with 11.9 ms inference latency across nine simulated and five real‑world tasks.
DexTouch-WM is an action‑conditioned world model that learns from scalable human touch to predict future RGB observations and bilateral tactile dynamics for dexterous robot manipulation. By using compatible piezoresistive arrays on both human and robot hands and retargeting human motion into the robot action space, the model can be supervised with human interaction data while keeping a fixed amount of real‑robot supervision. Experiments show that adding up to 100 hours of human interaction improves robot‑domain visual, geometric, and contact prediction, and the model can serve as a surrogate environment for policy evaluation and synthetic trajectory generation.
BIDETA is a gradient‑free framework that adapts pretrained tactile models to new sensors using only a few labeled target contacts. It preserves pretrained representations while repairing sensor‑dependent feature neighborhoods through rapid support memory, support‑conditioned spectral graphs, and reliability‑gated recurrence. Experiments on multiple datasets show that BIDETA dramatically improves accuracy and speeds up adaptation compared to prior methods.
arXiv:2609.24976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dexterous manipulation depends on contact dynamics that are often only partially observable from vision. Recent World-Action Models (WAMs) couple pre...
arXiv:2609.21449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models bring the predictive capabilities of video models into robot action generation, providing a rich foundation for modeling future vis...
arXiv:2609.14783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots need touch to manipulate objects safely and reliably, as many properties, such as softness, texture, and contact stability, are hard to infer...