We present OmniVIC: a universal variable impedance controller (VIC) enhanced by a vision language model (VLM), which improves safety and adaptation in any contact-rich robotic manipulation task to enhance safe physical interaction. The system integrates a VLM with a VIC to enable safe and adaptive manipulation in contact-rich tasks. The VLM processes multimodal inputs, including visual observations, natural language instructions, and real-time force/torque feedback, to generate context-aware impedance parameters (stiffness and damping) for the VIC.
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