arxivcs.RO2026-07-16
Representation-Aligned Tactile Grounding for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Ruilin Chen, Jingkai Jia, Tong Yang, Xinyu Zhou, Qiao Sun, Jiangwei Zhong, et al.
Tactile-enhanced vision-language-action (VLA) policies have been introduced for contact-rich manipulation, where critical interaction states are often hidden from vision. Future tactile prediction is a promising way to use touch because it turns tactile outcomes into supervision…