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TacVLA: Contact-Aware Tactile Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
Kaidi Zhang, Heng Zhang, Zhengtong Xu +7
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant advantages in robotic manipulation. However, their reliance on vision and language often leads to suboptimal perfo…
CONTACT: CONtact-aware TACTile Learning for Robotic Disassembly
Yosuke Saka, Jyun-Chi Hu, Adeesh Desai +6
Robotic disassembly involves contact-rich interactions in which successful manipulation depends not only on geometric alignment but also on force-dependent state transitions. While…
EquiBim: Learning Symmetry-Equivariant Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
Zhiyuan Zhang, Aditya Mohan, Seungho Han +3
Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from demonstrations. However, many existing robot learning methods do not expl…
ChicGrasp: Imitation-Learning based Customized Dual-Jaw Gripper Control for Delicate, Irregular Bio-products Manipulation
Amirreza Davar, Zhengtong Xu, Siavash Mahmoudi +6
Automated poultry processing lines still rely on humans to lift slippery, easily bruised carcasses onto a shackle conveyor. Deformability, anatomical variance, and strict hygiene r…
SeeBelow: Sub-dermal 3D Reconstruction of Tumors with Surgical Robotic Palpation and Tactile Exploration
Raghava Uppuluri, Abhinaba Bhattacharjee, Sohel Anwar +1
Surgical scene understanding in Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS) is highly reliant on visual cues and lacks tactile perception. Force-modulated surgical palpation w…
UniT: Data Efficient Tactile Representation with Generalization to Unseen Objects
Zhengtong Xu, Raghava Uppuluri, Xinwei Zhang +5
UniT is an approach to tactile representation learning, using VQGAN to learn a compact latent space and serve as the tactile representation. It uses tactile images obtained from a…
Robot Tape Manipulation for 3D Printing
Nahid Tushar, Rencheng Wu, Yu She +2
3D printing has enabled various applications using different forms of materials, such as filaments, sheets, and inks. Typically, during 3D printing, feedstocks are transformed into…