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Imitation learning is a popular approach for teaching motor skills to robots. However, most approaches focus on extracting policy parameters from execution traces alone (i.e., motion trajectories and perceptual data). No adequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Mariano Phielipp , Stefan Lee , Chitta Baral , Heni Ben Amor

Enabling humanoid robots to follow free-form natural language commands is a critical step toward seamless human-robot interaction and general-purpose embodied AI. However, existing methods remain limited, often constrained to simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhirui Liu , Kaiyang Ji , Ke Yang , Yahao Fan , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

Analysing and modelling interactive behaviour is an important topic in human-computer interaction (HCI) and a key requirement for the development of intelligent interactive systems. Interactive behaviour has a sequential (actions happen one…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Guanhua Zhang , Matteo Bortoletto , Zhiming Hu , Lei Shi , Mihai Bâce , Andreas Bulling

Crafting a single, versatile physics-based controller that can breathe life into interactive characters across a wide spectrum of scenarios represents an exciting frontier in character animation. An ideal controller should support diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Chen Tessler , Yunrong Guo , Ofir Nabati , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

"Natural Language," whether spoken and attended to by humans, or processed and generated by computers, requires networked structures that reflect creative processes in semantic, syntactic, phonetic, linguistic, social, emotional, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Joseph Corneli , Miriam Corneli

We aim to control a robot to physically behave in the real world following any high-level language command like "cartwheel" or "kick". Although human motion datasets exist, this task remains particularly challenging since generative models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shusheng Xu , Huaijie Wang , Jiaxuan Gao , Yutao Ouyang , Chao Yu , Yi Wu

Over the course of the last several years there was a strong interest in application of modern optimal control techniques to the field of character animation. This interest was fueled by introduction of efficient learning based algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Joe Booth , Vladimir Ivanov

Natural language is one of the most intuitive ways to express human intent. However, translating instructions and commands towards robotic motion generation and deployment in the real world is far from being an easy task. The challenge of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Arthur Bucker , Luis Figueredo , Sami Haddadin , Ashish Kapoor , Shuang Ma , Sai Vemprala , Rogerio Bonatti

We present a novel approach for enhancing human-robot collaboration using physical interactions for real-time error correction of large language model (LLM) powered robots. Unlike other methods that rely on verbal or text commands, the…

Generating animation of physics-based characters with intuitive control has long been a desirable task with numerous applications. However, generating physically simulated animations that reflect high-level human instructions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiawei Ren , Mingyuan Zhang , Cunjun Yu , Xiao Ma , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to perform high-level planning. Yet, it remains a challenge for LLMs to comprehend low-level commands, such as joint angle targets or motor torques. This paper proposes an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yujin Tang , Wenhao Yu , Jie Tan , Heiga Zen , Aleksandra Faust , Tatsuya Harada

Full integration of robots into real-life applications necessitates their ability to interpret and execute natural language directives from untrained users. Given the inherent variability in human language, equivalent directives may be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Eran Beeri Bamani , Eden Nissinman , Rotem Atari , Nevo Heimann Saadon , Avishai Sintov

Although large language models (LLMs) have recently become effective tools for language-conditioned control in embodied systems, instability, slow convergence, and hallucinated actions continue to limit their direct application to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Momina Liaqat Ali , Muhammad Abid , Muhammad Saqlain , Jose M. Merigo

Text-guided human body animation has advanced rapidly, yet facial animation lags due to the scarcity of well-annotated, text-paired facial corpora. To close this gap, we leverage foundation generative models to synthesize a large, balanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luchuan Song , Pinxin Liu , Haiyang Liu , Zhenchao Jin , Yolo Yunlong Tang , Zichong Xu , Susan Liang , Jing Bi , Jason J Corso , Chenliang Xu

The effective communication of procedural knowledge remains a significant challenge in natural language processing (NLP), as purely textual instructions often fail to convey complex physical actions and spatial relationships. We address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jing Bi , Pinxin Liu , Ali Vosoughi , Jiarui Wu , Jinxi He , Chenliang Xu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit remarkable common-sense and semantic reasoning capabilities. However, they lack a grounded understanding of physical dynamics. This limitation arises from training VLMs on static internet-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Haowen Liu , Shaoxiong Yao , Haonan Chen , Jiawei Gao , Jiayuan Mao , Jia-Bin Huang , Yilun Du

The ability to edit 3D assets from natural language presents a compelling paradigm to aid in the democratization of 3D content creation. However, while natural language is often effective at communicating general intent, it is poorly suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Aditya Ganeshan , Ryan Y. Huang , Xianghao Xu , R. Kenny Jones , Daniel Ritchie

Generative AI models provide a wide range of tools capable of performing complex tasks in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Among these, Large Language Models (LLMs) stand out for their ability to generate diverse texts, from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Baldomero R. Árbol , Dan Casas

Virtual character animation control is a problem for which Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a viable approach. While current work have applied RL effectively to portray physics-based skills, social behaviours are challenging to design reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Vihanga Gamage , Cathy Ennis , Robert Ross

Navigation guided by natural language instructions presents a challenging reasoning problem for instruction followers. Natural language instructions typically identify only a few high-level decisions and landmarks rather than complete…

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