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Tactile-First Manipulation with Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2501.03318

M. Torres, A. Singh, E. Berg

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High-resolution touch integrated into vision-language-action models unlocks contact-rich assembly that pure vision policies fumble.

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We integrate high-resolution tactile sensing into vision-language-action models, enabling contact-rich assembly tasks that pure vision policies fail, with strong sim-to-real transfer on multi-fingered hands.