# MAIA: Anticipating Interaction Anomalies in Contact-Rich Manipulation with Multimodal World Models

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-19T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/s870iuu3am0c86h259p1tg6m4
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21686

## Summary

MAIA is a multimodal framework for anticipating anomalies in contact-rich manipulation. Its vision-action-force world model learns normal interaction dynamics and predicts the visual and force responses of planned actions, while a lightweight anomaly head predicts impending interaction anomalies.