collaborators

12 papers

cs.RO2026

VT-WAM: Visual-Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Shuai Tian, Yupeng Zheng, Yuhang Zheng +7

Contact-rich manipulation requires policies to react to local deformation, pressure, slip, and friction, yet these cues are temporally sparse and often invisible in visual observat…

cs.RO2026

TacForeSight: Force-Guided Tactile World Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Yujie Zang, Yuhang Zheng, Xian Nie +7

Contact-rich manipulation requires robots to continuously perceive and regulate evolving physical interactions under dynamic contact transitions or complex surface geometries. Rece…

cs.RO2026

-WM: A Unified Video-Action World Model for Robotic Manipulation

Pengfei Zhou, Shengcong Chen, Di Chen +17

Robotic manipulation requires models that generate executable actions while anticipating and evaluating their future consequences before physical execution. We present -World…

cs.RO2026

PokeVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance

Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +12

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have opened new avenues for robot manipulation, yet existing methods exhibit limited efficiency and a lack of high-level know…

cs.RO2026

VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis

Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Weize Li +6

Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to…

cs.RO2026

OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

Yuhang Zheng, Songen Gu, Weize Li +11

Contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as wiping and assembly, require accurate perception of contact forces, friction changes, and state transitions that cannot be reliably inferre…