PanTact: Teaching Whole-Body Dexterity with a Wearable Contact Interface

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arXiv:2610.12558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have many degrees of freedom and contact surfaces, yet most loco-manipulation research restricts manipulation to the hands and avoids other body contacts with the environment. Contact locations and timing specify the interactions needed to accomplish a task, while the robot chooses how to coordinate its body to realize them within its own physical constraints. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them.