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Humanoid robots have shown success in locomotion and manipulation. Despite these basic abilities, humanoids are still required to quickly understand human instructions and react based on human interaction signals to become valuable…

This study presents a control framework leveraging vision language models (VLMs) for multiple tasks and robots. Notably, existing control methods using VLMs have achieved high performance in various tasks and robots in the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Kazuki Shibata , Hideki Deguchi , Shun Taguchi

Enabling humanoid robots to perform agile and adaptive interactive tasks has long been a core challenge in robotics. Current approaches are bottlenecked by either the scarcity of realistic interaction data or the need for meticulous,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yinhuai Wang , Qihan Zhao , Yuen Fui Lau , Runyi Yu , Hok Wai Tsui , Qifeng Chen , Jingbo Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Ping Tan

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) plays an important role in assembly tasks by enabling robots to plan and adjust their motions based on interactive, real-time human instructions. However, such instructions are often linguistically ambiguous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Taichi Kato , Takuya Kiyokawa , Namiko Saito , Kensuke Harada

Aligning model representations to humans has been found to improve robustness and generalization. However, such methods often focus on standard observational data. Synthetic data is proliferating and powering many advances in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Katherine M. Collins , Umang Bhatt , Weiyang Liu , Vihari Piratla , Ilia Sucholutsky , Bradley Love , Adrian Weller

Training long-horizon robotic policies in complex physical environments is essential for many applications, such as robotic manipulation. However, learning a policy that can generalize to unseen tasks is challenging. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Stone Tao , Xiaochen Li , Tongzhou Mu , Zhiao Huang , Yuzhe Qin , Hao Su

Humanoid robots could benefit from using their upper bodies for support contacts, enhancing their workspace, stability, and ability to perform contact-rich and pushing tasks. In this paper, we propose a unified approach that combines an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Quentin Rouxel , Andrea Ferrari , Serena Ivaldi , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Humanoid robotics has strong potential to transform daily service and caregiving applications. Although recent advances in general motion tracking within physics engines (GMT) have enabled virtual characters and humanoid robots to reproduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuto Shibata , Kashu Yamazaki , Lalit Jayanti , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Mariko Isogawa , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Leveraging human motion data to impart robots with versatile manipulation skills has emerged as a promising paradigm in robotic manipulation. Nevertheless, translating multi-source human hand motions into feasible robot behaviors remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhecheng Yuan , Tianming Wei , Langzhe Gu , Pu Hua , Tianhai Liang , Yuanpei Chen , Huazhe Xu

Humanoid robots have seen remarkable advances in dexterity, balance, and locomotion, yet their role in expressive domains such as music performance remains largely unexplored. Musical tasks, like drumming, present unique challenges,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Asad Ali Shahid , Francesco Braghin , Loris Roveda

Imitation learning from human-provided demonstrations is a strong approach for learning policies for robot manipulation. While the ideal dataset for imitation learning is homogenous and low-variance -- reflecting a single, optimal method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Kanishk Gandhi , Siddharth Karamcheti , Madeline Liao , Dorsa Sadigh

The advancement of embodied AI has unlocked significant potential for intelligent humanoid robots. However, progress in both Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and world models is severely hampered by the scarcity of large-scale, diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Pei Yang , Hai Ci , Yiren Song , Mike Zheng Shou

Human motion prediction is non-trivial in modern industrial settings. Accurate prediction of human motion can not only improve efficiency in human robot collaboration, but also enhance human safety in close proximity to robots. Among…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Weiye Zhao , Liting Sun , Changliu Liu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

In this paper, we present a novel framework designed to reconstruct long-sequence 3D human motion in the world coordinates from in-the-wild videos with multiple shot transitions. Such long-sequence in-the-wild motions are highly valuable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuhong Zhang , Guanlin Wu , Ling-Hao Chen , Zhuokai Zhao , Jing Lin , Xiaoke Jiang , Jiamin Wu , Zhuoheng Li , Hao Frank Yang , Haoqian Wang , Lei Zhang

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) offers a promising paradigm for robot skill acquisition. Recent approaches attempt to extract manipulation commands directly from video demonstrations, yet face two critical challenges: (1) general video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Thanh-Tuan Tran , Haolan Zhang , Ziyan Gao , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

Humanoid robots have demonstrated robust locomotion capabilities using Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches. Further, to obtain human-like behaviors, existing methods integrate human motion-tracking or motion prior in the RL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Dewei Wang , Xinmiao Wang , Xinzhe Liu , Jiyuan Shi , Yingnan Zhao , Chenjia Bai , Xuelong Li

Imitating human demonstrations is a promising approach to endow robots with various manipulation capabilities. While recent advances have been made in imitation learning and batch (offline) reinforcement learning, a lack of open-source…

In real-world industrial environments, modern robots often rely on human operators for crucial decision-making and mission synthesis from individual tasks. Effective and safe collaboration between humans and robots requires systems that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Mike Allenspach , Michael Pantic , Rik Girod , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart

Shared autonomy methods, where a human operator and a robot arm work together, have enabled robots to complete a range of complex and highly variable tasks. Existing work primarily focuses on one human sharing autonomy with a single robot.…

Imitation Learning from monocular video demonstrations provides a scalable approach for teaching complex skills to humanoid robots. However, translating human motion to humanoids requires overcoming significant morphological mismatches.…