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MAIA: Anticipating Interaction Anomalies in Contact-Rich Manipulation via Multimodal World Models
Robot arms that insert, wipe or press usually notice a jam only after it happens. This Shanghai Jiao Tong University preprint predicts the force a planned motion will produce and warns about 25 to 28 control steps early; used to pick between candidate motions, it lifted a frozen pi0.5 policy from 52.6% to 61.5% task success on a real Franka arm.