{
  "id": 6382922,
  "title": "DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/decal-towards-physically-grounded-dexterous-vision-language-action",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-08T17:47:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09119v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Dexterous manipulation involves contact-rich and fine-grained interactions with the physical world, posing significant challenges for existing vision-language-action (VLA) models due to severe visual occlusions and complex contact dynamics. While recent works have incorporated tactile sensing into robotic manipulation, most approaches still rely on homogeneous multimodal fusion, lacking adaptive…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}