CoRL 2026 spotlight paper explains why VLAs fail at contact-rich tasks and how to fix them
StanfordAILab · x · 2026-11-09
A spotlight paper at CoRL 2026, "Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them," investigates why Vision-Language-Action models still struggle with contact-rich manipulation and proposes fixes. The authors present a talk on Tue 11/10 at 2 PM and poster #166 from 5–6:30 PM the same day.
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