3 papers
cs.RO2026
TACTIC: Understanding Tactile Encoders and Conditioning for Contact-rich Robot Manipulation Policies
Seongjin Bien, Débora Oliveira Makowski, Carlo Kneissl +6
Tactile information is essential for contact-rich manipulation tasks in robotics. Vision-based tactile sensors make it particularly easy to design end-to-end manipulation policies…
cs.RO2026
Norm2Tex: Augmenting Visuo-Tactile Simulations with Texture
Seongjin Bien, Débora Oliveira Makowski, Roberto Calandra +2
Large-scale datasets are essential for training generalist robot control policies. Collecting real-world tactile data is costly and time-consuming, motivating the use of tactile si…
cs.RO2026
What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behavior
Débora Oliveira Makowski, Samiran Gode, Abhijeet Nayak +4
Modern Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) models rely mostly on pre-trained large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to predict navigation actions. While this fusion of language instructi…