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Dreaming the Sound of Contact: Leveraging Video and Audio Generation for Zero-Shot Force-Aware Manipulation and Data Generation

arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · article · Sep 16, 2026 · UTC

Video generation models have advanced rapidly and can now synthesize plausible videos of robot manipulation from image and text prompts. Recent work extracts robot actions directly from such generated videos, but the result is purely kinematic and lacks force information, causing failures in contact-rich tasks where appropriate contact forces are essential for success. We present a pipeline that jointly leverages generated video and audio to derive motion trajectories and desired-force profiles. The force profile is shaped by the loudness of the generated contact sound, and we execute the resu

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