arXivYankai Fu, Ning Chen, Junkai Zhao, Heng Zhang, Guocai Yao, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Shanghang ZhangTue, Sep 8, 2026, 10:47 AM PDT

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New AI model gives robots a sense of touch for delicate tasks

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

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