3 papers
cs.RO2026
Imagining the Sense of Touch: Touch-Informed Manipulation via Imagined Tactile Representations
Zhiyuan Zhang, Adeesh Desai, Jyun-Chi Hu +7
Tactile sensing can substantially improve contact-rich robotic manipulation, yet its practical deployment remains limited by the fragility, calibration requirements, and maintenanc…
cs.RO2026
ContactWorld: What Matters in Vision-Tactile World Models for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Zhiyuan Zhang, Pokuang Zhou, Kaidi Zhang +6
Contact-rich manipulation requires world models to reason over complex contact dynamics from multimodal sensory observations. However, it remains unclear which representation prope…
eess.SY2026
Redefining End-of-Life: Intelligent Automation for Electronics Remanufacturing Systems
Sibo Tian, Xiao Liang, Sara Behdad +1
Remanufacturing is fundamentally more challenging than traditional manufacturing due to the significant uncertainty, variability, and incompleteness inherent in end-of-life (EoL) p…