arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Agile-WAM: An Agile Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Control

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.

By Hanchu Zhou, Brendan Lynch, Raman Goyal, Dechen Gao, Begum Kasap, Boqi Zhao, Junshan Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

DexTouch-WM: Learning Action-Conditioned Tactile World Models from Human Touch for Dexterous Robot Manipulation

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.

By Yan Qin, Yue Chen, Wenwei Lin, Shujia Liu, Chuqiao Lyu, Kailun Su, Chenze Yu, Ping Luo, Wenbo Ding, Tianxing Chen, Renjing Xu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 8

DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination

DeCAL is a vision‑language‑action model designed for dexterous manipulation that incorporates tactile sensing through adaptive visuo‑tactile fusion and latent co‑imagination. It uses a Mixture‑of‑Transformers architecture with specialized experts for understanding, imagination, and action, enabling efficient information flow and dynamic regulation of tactile inputs. Experiments show DeCAL achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance, with a 71% average success rate and 83.4% progress success rate, and generalizes well to unseen scenarios.