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Facet-0: A Robotic Foundation Model for Contact-Rich Precise Manipulation

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TL;DR - Facet-0 is a robotic foundation model for contact-rich, sub-millimeter assembly that jointly predicts actions and their expected force/torque consequences. It achieves 82% mean success across five computer-assembly tasks, versus 15% for the strongest baseline.

  • Aligns vision-language semantics and robot kinematics with causal wrist-wrench histories.
  • Uses flow matching to jointly generate action chunks and predicted future wrist-wrench profiles.
  • Applies deployment-based RL with an Action-Wrench Critic, phase-aware rewards, and contact-selective credit assignment.
  • Trained on the 1,000-hour, force-synchronized ManuFacet-1K dataset; reaches 0.5 mm placement accuracy at 50 ms command latency.

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Facet-0: A Robotic Foundation Model for Contact-Rich Precise Manipulation

arXiv cs.RO Haoyuan Deng, Haichao Liu, Wenkai Guo, Yuan Ling, Zaijia Yang, Yuanjiang Xue, Haosheng Sun, Liangzi Wang, Ziwei Wang 2026-09-01 arXiv:2609.01596
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TL;DR - Facet-0 is a robotic foundation model for contact-rich, sub-millimeter assembly that jointly predicts actions and their expected force/torque consequences. It achieves 82% mean success across five computer-assembly tasks, versus 15% for the strongest baseline.

  • Aligns vision-language semantics and robot kinematics with causal wrist-wrench histories.
  • Uses flow matching to jointly generate action chunks and predicted future wrist-wrench profiles.
  • Applies deployment-based RL with an Action-Wrench Critic, phase-aware rewards, and contact-selective credit assignment.
  • Trained on the 1,000-hour, force-synchronized ManuFacet-1K dataset; reaches 0.5 mm placement accuracy at 50 ms command latency.
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