3 papers
cs.RO2026
SoftVTBench: A Safety-Aware Visuo-Tactile Benchmark for Physically Constrained Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects (Early Version)
Bowen Jing, Mingxin Wang, Ruiyang Hao +15
Deformable object manipulation poses challenges beyond task completion: successful execution must also maintain safe physical interaction, holding the object stably without slip or…
cs.RO2026
IntentNav: Learning Spatial-Visual Object Navigation from Human Demonstrations
Yuxin Cai, Zongtai Li, Maonan Wang +9
Object navigation requires a robot to search for an unobserved target in an unknown environment by deciding where to explore next under partial observability. Effective search rese…
cs.RO2026
GaussianDream: A Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian World Model for Robotic Manipulation
Zijian Zhang, Yuqing Jiang, Qian Cheng +6
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies have advanced language-conditioned robotic manipulation by transferring semantic priors from pretrained vision-language models to action gener…