arxivcs.RO2026-07-02
Imagining the Sense of Touch: Touch-Informed Manipulation via Imagined Tactile Representations
Zhiyuan Zhang, Adeesh Desai, Jyun-Chi Hu, Yosuke Saka, Quan Khanh Luu, Jiuzhou Lei, et al.
Tactile sensing can substantially improve contact-rich robotic manipulation, yet its practical deployment remains limited by the fragility, calibration requirements, and maintenance burden of tactile hardware. This raises a fundamental question: can robots benefit from tactile kn…