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CRAFT: Adapting VLA Models to Contact-rich Manipulation via Force-aware Curriculum Fine-tuning

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Main Authors:	Zhang, Yike, Wang, Yaonan, Sun, Xinxin, Huang, Kaizhen, Xu, Zhiyuan, Ji, Junjie, Che, Zhengping, Tang, Jian, Sun, Jingtao
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Robotics
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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