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Functional Force-Aware Retargeting from Virtual Human Demos to Soft Robot Policies
Description
We introduce SoftAct, a framework for teaching soft robot hands to perform human-like manipulation skills by explicitly reasoning about contact forces. Leveraging immersive virtual reality, our system captures rich human demonstrations, including hand kinematics, object motion, dense contact patches, and detailed contact force information. Unlike conventional approaches that retarget human joint trajectories, SoftAct employs a two-stage, force-aware retargeting algorithm. The first stage attribu