3 papers
cs.RO2026
Semantic Haptic Feedback Enhances Dexterous Robotic Teleoperation
Bingjian Huang, Sahar Aseeri, Jonas Schmidtler +9
In robot teleoperation, haptic feedback can be used to help human operators accomplish dexterous manipulation tasks. However, existing haptic feedback methods try to replicate high…
cs.RO2026
Contact-Grounded Policy: Dexterous Visuotactile Policy with Generative Contact Grounding
Zhengtong Xu, Yeping Wang, Ben Abbatematteo +4
Contact-rich dexterous manipulation with multi-finger hands remains an open challenge in robotics because task success depends on multi-point contacts that continuously evolve and…
cs.RO2026
Functional Force-Aware Retargeting from Virtual Human Demos to Soft Robot Policies
Uksang Yoo, Mengjia Zhu, Evan Pezent +8
We introduce SoftAct, a framework for teaching soft robot hands to perform human-like manipulation skills by explicitly reasoning about contact forces. Leveraging immersive virtual…