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cs.RO2026
CRAFT: Adapting VLA Models to Contact-rich Manipulation via Force-aware Curriculum Fine-tuning
Yike Zhang, Yaonan Wang, Xinxin Sun +6
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown a strong capability in enabling robots to execute general instructions, yet they struggle with contact-rich manipulation tasks, where…
cs.RO2026
TRACER: Texture-Robust Affordance Chain-of-Thought for Deformable-Object Refinement
Wanjun Jia, Kang Li, Fan Yang +7
The central challenge in robotic manipulation of deformable objects lies in aligning high-level semantic instructions with physical interaction points under complex appearance and…