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:2606. 11637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Touch is a key modality for embodied agents to understand the physical world.
By Kailin Lyu, Di Wu, Pengwei Zhang, Yuhang Zheng, Yingxin Lai, Long Xiao, Kangyi Wu, Pengna Li, Chen Gao, Lianyu Hu, Xiaobin Hu, Jie Hao, Ce Hao, Weihao Yuan, Shuicheng Yan
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
Building capable embodied agents requires not only multimodal perception and understanding, but also agentic capabilities for reasoning about actions, adapting to evolving situations, and interacting with the physical world. In this report, we introduce Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.
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
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