ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics

In three linesManiSoft is a benchmark for vision-language manipulation with soft robotic arms. It includes a simulator coupling realistic soft-body dynamics with contact-rich interactions, 4 deformable control tasks, and 6,300 scenes with expert trajectories. Testing 3 policy models shows promising results in clean scenes but substantial performance drop under randomization.

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