arxivcs.RO2026-07-08
TouchWorld: A Predictive and Reactive Tactile Foundation Model for Dexterous Manipulation
Jianyi Zhou, Feiyang Hong, Yunhao Li, Yicheng Zhao, Yongjue Cen, Zirui Liu, et al.
Dexterous manipulation in everyday environments requires both anticipation and reaction: a robot must predict how contact should evolve while rapidly correcting local errors caused by slip, misalignment, unstable grasping, or force mismatch. Vision and language provide semantic a…