Touch-aware world models improve contact-rich dexterous robot manipulation

DexTacWAM jointly predicts visual and fingertip tactile dynamics, substantially outperforming vision-centric and tactile-conditioned baselines across six manipulation tasks.

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Haoran Yuan · Zekai Wang · Boning Shao · Haoran Lu · Trevor Darrell · Ismini Lourentzou · +1 more
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The authors built DexTacWAM, a world-action model that jointly predicts future sensory states and generates robot actions.

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Independent · Part of World Model Planning for Agents, now 19 papers

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Pretrained video world models can be efficiently extended to multi-finger tactile dynamics using fingertip encoding and continual vision-to-touch learning, achieving a 70.6 average score on six dexterous tasks.

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