N0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

NeoteAI / Fudan TEAI

Research official 2 src. ~1 min

Presents the first large-scale tactile-native world-action model, pretrained with joint visuo-tactile learning over demonstrations spanning six robot embodiments and 450 tasks, using a unified force-based tactile representation (NeoForce) to condition action generation for contact-rich manipulation.

Why it matters

Extends world-action model scaling beyond vision into touch, a modality largely missing from prior large robotics foundation models; received 48 upvotes on HuggingFace Daily Papers (2026-08-03).

Importance: 3/5

First large-scale tactile-native world-action model, extending world-action modeling into a new modality.

robotics world-models tactile manipulation embodied-ai

Sources

official N0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

official N0-TWAM code repository