3 papers
cs.RO2026
PHR-VLA: Planning Horizon Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Davood Soleymanzadeh, Kaidi Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang +4
Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have shown strong promise for general-purpose robotic manipulation by mapping language instructions and vision observations directly to actions…
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.RO2025
DeGrip: A Compact Cable-driven Robotic Gripper for Desktop Disassembly
Bihao Zhang, Davood Soleymanzadeh, Xiao Liang +1
Intelligent robotic disassembly of end-of-life (EOL) products has been a long-standing challenge in robotics. While machine learning techniques have shown promise, the lack of spec…