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  1. UniDex-ViTac: Learning Unified Visuo-Tactile Dexterous Manipulation Policy from Human Video Data

    Sep 15, 2026Hyesung Lee, Si-Hwan Heo, Sungwook YangRL for RoboticsVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Center for Humanoid Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea · Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02455, Republic of Korea

  2. Touch2Trace: Tactile-Driven Imitation Learning for Dexterous Cable Tracing

    Sep 14, 2026Matteo Grimaldi, David Klee, Ziling Chen +5Dexterous ManipulationDeformable Object Manipulation

    Dexterous AI Group, Analog Devices, Inc.

  3. SlipSense: Multimodal Tactile Learning for Low-Latency and Generalized Slip Detection

    Sep 14, 2026Tong Jian, Aditya Thurvas Senthil Kumar, Xinyi Li +7Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Dexterous AI Group, Analog Devices, Inc.

  4. Bench2Dex: Benchmarking Visuo-Tactile Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation Across Dexterous Hands

    Sep 14, 2026Zhenjie Yang, Yideng Zhang, Dongjie Zhang +21Dexterous ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    The University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Fudan University +4

  5. Visible Touch: Rendering Contact for Visuomotor Policies

    Sep 12, 2026Metin Alp Dogan, Edward Sun, Feng Xu +4Visuomotor Policy LearningTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    University of California, Los Angeles

  6. DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination

    Sep 8, 2026Yankai Fu, Ning Chen, Junkai Zhao +5Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationVisuo-Tactile Representation Learning

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

  7. N0N_0-Foundation: Towards the Age of Tactile Intelligence

    Aug 30, 2026NeoteAI Team, Fudan TEAI TeamRobotic Data CollectionVisuo-Tactile Representation Learning

    NeoteAI Team · Fudan TEAI Team

  8. TacForcing: Streaming Action Generation with Execution-Time Tactile Feedback

    Aug 26, 2026Jianbo Zhou, Boyuan Zhao, Yuzheng Zhang +9Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science, SJTU · SCUT · ECUST +5

  9. VT-MUSE: Multimodal Unified Sequential Visuotactile Representation Learning for Manipulation

    Aug 21, 2026Congsheng Xu, Qiaochu Yang, Fangyuan Shi +9Visuo-Tactile Representation LearningVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Xense Robotics

  10. Detection and Ranging of Transient Extrinsic Contacts Based on 6D Dynamic Tactile Sensing

    Aug 7, 2026Haowen Zheng, Yinghao Wu, Fuyuan Liu +2Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518055, China

  11. A Haptic Robot Finger Designed for Guqin Instrument Playing

    Aug 7, 2026Tianwei Zhang, Hanming Yan, Yang Yang. Ziya WangTactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    The Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, Shenzhen, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China · School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China +1

  12. Near-sensor Computing for Rapid Visuotactile Perception

    Aug 6, 2026Zhengying Zhu, Ruilin Zhang, Runze Hu +1Vision-Based Tactile Sensing3D Reconstruction

    School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China

  13. ReTouch: Empowering Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation with Online-Refined Tactile Prediction

    Aug 3, 2026Shiqi Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yedong Shen +9Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    University of Science and Technology of China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · iFLYTEK

  14. Disentangling Visuo-Tactile Foresight: Oracle-Guided Interface Discovery for World Action Models

    Aug 1, 2026Zihang Yao, Chaoyue Ding, Yingying YuWorld Models for RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Brigham Young University · Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA · Beijing Academy of Science and Technology +1

  15. TacPrint: A Wearable Fingertip Tactile Sensor for Human-to-Robot Contact Reproduction

    Jul 31, 2026Yongxi Liu, Chaofan Zhang, Xingyu Zhang +4Robotic GraspingTactile Sensing

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Imprintx Robotics · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

  16. FasTac: A Curved Multispectral Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for High-Speed High-Precision 3D Shape and Force Perception

    Jul 30, 2026Xiaofan Lu, Kaiji Huang, Jiahui Chen +3Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · National Innovation Institute of Digital Design and Manufacturing, Wuhan 430206, China

  17. TacWAM: Anchor-Guided World Action Model with Mechanics-Aware Tactile Prediction

    Jul 30, 2026Lei Jin, Yiding Ma, Xin Zhang +3World Models for RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    1Tsinghua University · 2Manifold AI

  18. τ: Learning Touch-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Models from Future Visual Supervision

    Jul 27, 2026Ning Cheng, Jinan Xu, Wanlin Li +5Visuo-Tactile Representation LearningVision-Language-Action Models

    Beijing Jiaotong University · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence

  19. N0N_0-VTLA: Scaling Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Latent Tactile Tokens

    Jul 26, 2026NeoteAI Team, Fudan TEAI TeamLong-Horizon Robotic ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    NeoteAI Team · Fudan TEAI Team

  20. ViTacWorld: Scaling Visuo-Tactile World Models for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation

    Jul 24, 2026Yunao Huang, Shiyu Sang, Suting Ni +6World Models for RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    ShanghaiTech University · InstAdapt

  21. FELT: Generating Tactile Signals from Vision for Visuo-Tactile Manipulation

    Jul 22, 2026Zinan Li, Yiyang Ling, Yuming Gu +8Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationVisuo-Tactile Representation Learning

    Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California · Columbia University · Starpilot

  22. A Model-Based Decoupling Strategy for Proprioception and Contact Sensing in an Architected Soft Manipulator

    Jul 17, 2026Francesco Stella, Annan Zhang, Cosimo Della Santina +2Tactile Sensing for Robotic ManipulationSoft Robotics

    Embodied AI SA, Lausanne, Switzerland · CREATE Lab, STI, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA +2

  23. KineFuse: Kinematic-Aware Haptic Fusion for In-Hand Occluded-Object Pose Tracking

    Jul 16, 2026Chanyoung Ahn, Jaesung Lee, Sungwoo Park +1Object Pose EstimationRobotic Manipulation

    Center for Humanoid Research, KIST, Seoul, 02792 South Korea · Korea University, Seoul, 02841 South Korea

  24. Representation-Aligned Tactile Grounding for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 16, 2026Ruilin Chen, Jingkai Jia, Tong Yang +8Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationVisuo-Tactile Representation Learning

    Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University · College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University · TeleAl, China Telecom +2

  25. MIDAS Hand: Modular low-Impedance Direct-drive Anthropomorphic Sensing Hand

    Jul 16, 2026Alvin Zhu, Mingzhang Zhu, Beom Jun Kim +3Robotic Hand DesignDexterous Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

  26. TAC-LOCO: Unified Whole-Body Control for Quadrupedal TACtile-Informed LOCO-Manipulation

    Jul 11, 2026Muqun Hu, Yuhao Zhou, Kabir Ray Malik +4Legged RoboticsRL for Robotics

    1Purdue University · University of Florida

  27. TactiDex: A Real-World Tactile-Guided Benchmark for Human-Like Dexterous Manipulation

    Jul 10, 2026Suting Ni, Hanbing Zhang, Zhenyu Wei +4Dexterous ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Shanghaitech University · InstAdapt

  28. TouchWorld: A Predictive and Reactive Tactile Foundation Model for Dexterous Manipulation

    Jul 8, 2026Jianyi Zhou, Feiyang Hong, Yunhao Li +9Dexterous ManipulationLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · PHANES AI

  29. OmniTacTune: Policy-Agnostic Real-World RL for Tactile Residual Adaptation of Visual Policies

    Jul 4, 2026Kelin Yu, Haode Zhang, Harish Ravichandar +2Robot Policy AdaptationRobot Skill Learning

    University of Maryland, College Park · Georgia Institute of Technology

  30. Feeling the Unexpected: ResTacVLA for Contact-Rich Manipulation via Residual Tactile Representation

    Jul 3, 2026Pengwei Zhang, Bin Xie, Ce Hao +5Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationVisuo-Tactile Representation Learning

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing 100094, China · Dexmal, Beijing 100096, China