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WorldContact: A Contact-Centric World Model for Scalable Robot Learning

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Adapting robots to new objects and tasks requires interaction experience that can be costly to obtain. We present WorldContact, a contact-centric world model for deformable-object manipulation, constructed from a limited set of high-quality trajectories to generate additional training data efficiently. It predicts object dynamics using larger time steps than the source numerical simulator, which requires small integration steps to resolve rapid motion and prevent interpenetration. We evaluate WorldContact across 16 shopping-bag manipulation tasks. State-rollout measurements on a single H100 GP

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