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Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them
Carlota Parés-Morlans, Nils Kuhn, Isabel Liu +2
We address the problem of understanding when and why Vision-Language-Action models struggle with contact-rich manipulation tasks that require precise physical interaction. Prior wo…
Sim-to-Real Gentle Manipulation of Deformable and Fragile Objects with Stress-Guided Reinforcement Learning
Kei Ikemura, Yifei Dong, David Blanco-Mulero +3
Robotic manipulation of deformable and fragile objects presents significant challenges, as excessive stress can lead to irreversible damage to the object. While existing solutions…
FLAME: A Federated Learning Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation
Santiago Bou Betran, Alberta Longhini, Miguel Vasco +2
Recent progress in robotic manipulation has been fueled by large-scale datasets collected across diverse environments. Training robotic manipulation policies on these datasets is t…
The First WARA Robotics Mobile Manipulation Challenge -- Lessons Learned
David Cáceres DomÃnguez, Marco Iannotta, Abhishek Kashyap +21
The first WARA Robotics Mobile Manipulation Challenge, held in December 2024 at ABB Corporate Research in VästerÃ¥s, Sweden, addressed the automation of task-intensive and repetit…
AdaFold: Adapting Folding Trajectories of Cloths via Feedback-loop Manipulation
Alberta Longhini, Michael C. Welle, Zackory Erickson +1
We present AdaFold, a model-based feedback-loop framework for optimizing folding trajectories. AdaFold extracts a particle-based representation of cloth from RGB-D images and feeds…