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OpenViTac addresses a critical gap in embodied AI by establishing the first unified benchmark for evaluating visuo-tactile policies across both simulation and physical robot environments. The study systematically analyzes how different tactile representations impact pretrained Vision-Language-Action models, ultimately proposing OpenVTLA as an optimized framework for contact-rich manipulation tasks. This work advances the field of robotic learning by providing standardized tools to assess cross-domain policy transfer and improve real-world interaction reliability.
OpenViTac: Learning and Benchmarking Visuo-Tactile Policies in a Unified Sim-and-Real Framework
arXiv:2610.10384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile feedback provides embodied agents with physical information beyond visual observations, enabling more reliable interaction with the real world. However, despite the rapid progress of vision-tactile-language-action (VTLA) policies, there remains a lack of unified benchmarks for evaluating tactile-enabled robot manipulation across simulation and the real world. To address this gap, we introduce OpenViTac, a visuo-tactile manipulation benchmark for evaluating robot policies across simulation and the real world. OpenViTac organizes contact-rich manipulation into four tactile-relevant capability dimensions and provides paired simulation-real-world settings for consistent evaluation of VLA, WAM, and VTLA policies. Building upon this benchmark, we investigate how different tactile representations and integration strategies affect the performance of pretrained VLA models. Correspondingly, we introduce OpenVTLA, a tactile augmentation framework that combines the best-performing representation and integration strategy. Furthermore, we leverage the paired benchmark setting to study sim-real co-training and analyze factors affecting cross-domain policy learning. Together, OpenViTac provides a unified platform for evaluating and advancing visuo-tactile robot manipulation.
Abstract:Tactile feedback provides embodied agents with physical information beyond visual observations, enabling more reliable interaction with the real world. However, despite the rapid progress of vision-tactile-language-action (VTLA) policies, there remains a lack of unified benchmarks for evaluating tactile-enabled robot manipulation across simulation and the real world. To address this gap, we introduce OpenViTac, a visuo-tactile manipulation benchmark for evaluating robot policies across simulation and the real world. OpenViTac organizes contact-rich manipulation into four tactile-relevant capability dimensions and provides paired simulation-real-world settings for consistent evaluation of VLA, WAM, and VTLA policies. Building upon this benchmark, we investigate how different tactile representations and integration strategies affect the performance of pretrained VLA models. Correspondingly, we introduce OpenVTLA, a tactile augmentation framework that combines the best-performing representation and integration strategy. Furthermore, we leverage the paired benchmark setting to study sim-real co-training and analyze factors affecting cross-domain policy learning. Together, OpenViTac provides a unified platform for evaluating and advancing visuo-tactile robot manipulation.
Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2610.10384 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2610.10384v1 [cs.RO] for this version)
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