Current as Touch: Proprioceptive Contact Feedback for Compliant Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2607.03529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compliance is essential for dexterous manipulation, yet existing solutions often rely on external tactile or force sensors that are costly, fragile, and difficult to deploy on low-cost robot hands. We propose a proprioception-driven framework that learns contact-aware compliance cues from motor current and joint states. Since motor current is closely related to actuator torque, it provides an intrinsic signal for perceiving contact force, object re...