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MessyNav: Zero-Shot Navigation via Manipulation in Messy Environments
Kenneth Llontop, Cherie Ho, Dylan Zhou +4
Real-world environments are messy, with paths often blocked by everyday objects like chairs and toys, requiring robots to perform interactive navigation by manipulating obstacles t…
cs.RO2026
Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them
Carlota Parés-Morlans, Nils Kuhn, Y. Isabel Liu +3
We address the problem of understanding when and why Vision-Language-Action models struggle with contact-rich manipulation tasks that require precise physical interaction. Prior wo…