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Let Robots Feel Your Touch: Visuo-Tactile Cortical Alignment for Embodied Mirror Resonance

Anan Li, Guyue Zhou, Jiasi Gao, Ning An, Qingming Luo, Rui Wang, Tianfang Zhu

Mirror Touch Net aligns visual and tactile representations so robots can predict detailed touch sensations from RGB images.

arxiv:2605.14571 v1 · 2026-05-14 · cs.RO · cs.LG

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Mirror Touch Net imposes semantic, distributional and geometric alignment between visual and tactile representations through multi-level constraints, enabling prediction of millimetre-scale tactile signals across 1,140 taxels on a robotic hand from RGB images.

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That the imposed multi-level alignment constraints successfully instantiate the structural correspondence between visual and somatosensory cortices and that this produces genuine mirror resonance rather than a superficial mapping.

C3one line summary

Mirror Touch Net aligns visual and tactile data manifolds to predict millimetre-scale touch signals across 1,140 taxels from images, extending to human hand observations for reflexive robotic responses.

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arxiv: 2605.14571 · arxiv_version: 2605.14571v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14571 · pith_short_12: RMFFWE7MLGWO · pith_short_16: RMFFWE7MLGWODXOI · pith_short_8: RMFFWE7M
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