4 papers
LightTact: A Visual-Tactile Fingertip Sensor for Deformation-Independent Contact Sensing
Changyi Lin, Boda Huo, Mingyang Yu +4
Contact often occurs without macroscopic surface deformation, such as during interaction with liquids, semi-liquids, or ultra-soft materials. However, most existing tactile sensors…
Rethinking Visual-Language-Action Model Scaling: Alignment, Mixture, and Regularization
Ye Wang, Sipeng Zheng, Hao Luo +9
While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show strong promise for generalist robot control, it remains unclear whether -- and under what conditions -- the standard "scale data" rec…
LocoTouch: Learning Dynamic Quadrupedal Transport with Tactile Sensing
Changyi Lin, Yuxin Ray Song, Boda Huo +9
Quadrupedal robots have demonstrated remarkable agility and robustness in traversing complex terrains. However, they struggle with dynamic object interactions, where contact must b…
Human2LocoMan: Learning Versatile Quadrupedal Manipulation with Human Pretraining
Yaru Niu, Yunzhe Zhang, Mingyang Yu +11
Quadrupedal robots have demonstrated impressive locomotion capabilities in complex environments, but equipping them with autonomous versatile manipulation skills in a scalable way…