Low Fidelity Visuo-Tactile Pretraining Improves Vision-Only Manipulation Performance

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Main Authors:	Gano, Selam, George, Abraham, Farimani, Amir Barati
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Robotics
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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