2 papers
cs.RO2026
ReTouch: Empowering Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation with Online-Refined Tactile Prediction
Shiqi Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yedong Shen +9
Fusing tactile signals has proven effective for contact-rich manipulation, enabling robots to perceive contact states and adapt to rapidly changing physical interactions. Yet effec…
cs.RO2026
GEAR-VLA: Learning Geometry-Aware Action Representations for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Yuan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen +11
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong benchmark performance but still struggle in real-world deployment with unseen objects, background shifts, and different robot emb…