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Being-H0.5: Scaling Human-Centric Robot Learning for Cross-Embodiment Generalization

Robotics 2026-01-21 v1

Abstract

We introduce Being-H0.5, a foundational Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model designed for robust cross-embodiment generalization across diverse robotic platforms. While existing VLAs often struggle with morphological heterogeneity and data scarcity, we propose a human-centric learning paradigm that treats human interaction traces as a universal "mother tongue" for physical interaction. To support this, we present UniHand-2.0, the largest embodied pre-training recipe to date, comprising over 35,000 hours of multimodal data across 30 distinct robotic embodiments. Our approach introduces a Unified Action Space that maps heterogeneous robot controls into semantically aligned slots, enabling low-resource robots to bootstrap skills from human data and high-resource platforms. Built upon this human-centric foundation, we design a unified sequential modeling and multi-task pre-training paradigm to bridge human demonstrations and robotic execution. Architecturally, Being-H0.5 utilizes a Mixture-of-Transformers design featuring a novel Mixture-of-Flow (MoF) framework to decouple shared motor primitives from specialized embodiment-specific experts. Finally, to make cross-embodiment policies stable in the real world, we introduce Manifold-Preserving Gating for robustness under sensory shift and Universal Async Chunking to universalize chunked control across embodiments with different latency and control profiles. We empirically demonstrate that Being-H0.5 achieves state-of-the-art results on simulated benchmarks, such as LIBERO (98.9%) and RoboCasa (53.9%), while also exhibiting strong cross-embodiment capabilities on five robotic platforms.

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@article{arxiv.2601.12993,
  title  = {Being-H0.5: Scaling Human-Centric Robot Learning for Cross-Embodiment Generalization},
  author = {Hao Luo and Ye Wang and Wanpeng Zhang and Sipeng Zheng and Ziheng Xi and Chaoyi Xu and Haiweng Xu and Haoqi Yuan and Chi Zhang and Yiqing Wang and Yicheng Feng and Zongqing Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12993},
  year   = {2026}
}

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44 pages

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