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…
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…