3 papers
cs.RO2026
MVP-Tac: A Miniaturized Dual-Modal Vision and Photoelastic Tactile Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
Md Rakibul Islam Prince, Jaeeun Kim, Yuhao Zhou +9
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) offers major benefits over open and conventional laparoscopic procedures, yet it still lacks tactile feedback for palpation while o…
cs.RO2026
TacVLA: Contact-Aware Tactile Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
Kaidi Zhang, Heng Zhang, Zhengtong Xu +7
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant advantages in robotic manipulation. However, their reliance on vision and language often leads to suboptimal perfo…
cs.RO2026
CONTACT: CONtact-aware TACTile Learning for Robotic Disassembly
Yosuke Saka, Jyun-Chi Hu, Adeesh Desai +6
Robotic disassembly involves contact-rich interactions in which successful manipulation depends not only on geometric alignment but also on force-dependent state transitions. While…