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[Submitted on 29 Sep 2026] Title:PneuTac: Tactile Manipulation with Soft Pneumatic Robots via Unified MPM-Gaussian Splatting Simulation View a PDF of the paper titled PneuTac: Tactile Manipulation with Soft Pneumatic Robots via Unified MPM-Gaussian Splatting Simulation, by Shaohong Zhong and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Soft robots and tactile sensors have demonstrated great potential in delicate manipulation tasks. Soft pneumatic robots enable safe contact through compliance, and vision-based tactile sensors offer high-resolution touch perception. However, learning tactile manipulation with compliant robots has been challenging, bottlenecked by the lack of efficient simulation. Existing simulators typically model them in isolation, and exhibit large calibration gaps that are difficult to overcome efficiently. We present PneuTac, a unified framework for tactile-feedback manipulation with soft pneumatic robots. We leverage the material point method (MPM) for modelling the dynamics of the soft robot and the deformable tactile membrane, and 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) for rendering. Real-to-sim modelling is done with a simple vision-based method, to then train action and perception networks for efficient simulation with surrogate models. We use the framework to drive a tactile-guided pipeline to collect demonstrations in simulation. Through experiments on a custom-designed pneumatic soft finger with a tactile sensing tip, together with additional cross-device evaluations, we show that PneuTac is capable of accurately modelling soft robots with tactile sensors, and that policies trained with simulation-augmented demonstrations outperform baselines trained on the same real data on three real-world contact-rich compliant manipulation tasks, making it a practical framework for tactile manipulation on compliant hardware. Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO) Cite as: arXiv:2609.38418 [cs.RO] (or arXiv:2609.38418v1 [cs.RO] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.38418 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Shaohong Zhong [view email] [v1] Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:12:12 UTC (10,691 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled PneuTac: Tactile Manipulation with Soft Pneumatic Robots via Unified MPM-Gaussian Splatting Simulation, by Shaohong Zhong and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.RO new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)