2 papers
cs.AI2026
TouchThinker: Scaling Tactile Commonsense Reasoning to the Open World with Large-scale Data and Action-aware Representation
Kailin Lyu, Di Wu, Pengwei Zhang +12
Touch is a key modality for embodied agents to understand the physical world. Although recent work has incorporated tactile signals into language systems for tactile commonsense re…
cs.RO2026
Feeling the Unexpected: ResTacVLA for Contact-Rich Manipulation via Residual Tactile Representation
Pengwei Zhang, Bin Xie, Ce Hao +5
Tactile perception is indispensable for contact-rich manipulation, yet integrating it into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often induces modality collapse, where high-bandwidth…