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Humanoid robots hold great promise in assisting humans in diverse environments and tasks, due to their flexibility and adaptability leveraging human-like morphology. However, research in humanoid robots is often bottlenecked by the costly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Carmelo Sferrazza , Dun-Ming Huang , Xingyu Lin , Youngwoon Lee , Pieter Abbeel

Learning-based whole-body controllers have become a key driver for humanoid robots, yet most existing approaches require robot-specific training. In this paper, we study the problem of cross-embodiment humanoid control and show that a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yufei Xue , YunFeng Lin , Wentao Dong , Yang Tang , Jingbo Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Ming Zhou , Minghuan Liu , Weinan Zhang

Humanoid robots are machines built with an anthropomorphic shape. Despite decades of research into the subject, it is still challenging to tackle the robot locomotion problem from an algorithmic point of view. For example, these machines…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Stefano Dafarra

Humans achieve complex manipulation through coordinated whole-body control, whereas most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models treat robot body parts largely independently, making high-DoF humanoid control challenging and often unstable. We…

Human image animation involves generating videos from a character photo, allowing user control and unlocking the potential for video and movie production. While recent approaches yield impressive results using high-quality training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhenzhi Wang , Yixuan Li , Yanhong Zeng , Youqing Fang , Yuwei Guo , Wenran Liu , Jing Tan , Kai Chen , Tianfan Xue , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

This work focuses on generating realistic, physically-based human behaviors from multi-modal inputs, which may only partially specify the desired motion. For example, the input may come from a VR controller providing arm motion and body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aayam Shrestha , Pan Liu , German Ros , Kai Yuan , Alan Fern

Humanoid robots hold great potential to perform various human-level skills, involving unified locomotion and manipulation in real-world settings. Driven by advances in machine learning and the strength of existing model-based approaches,…

Human videos offer a scalable way to train robot manipulation policies, but lack the action labels needed by standard imitation learning algorithms. Existing cross-embodiment approaches try to map human motion to robot actions, but often…

Balancing and push-recovery are essential capabilities enabling humanoid robots to solve complex locomotion tasks. In this context, classical control systems tend to be based on simplified physical models and hard-coded strategies. Although…

A major challenge in humanoid robotics is designing a unified interface for commanding diverse whole-body behaviors, from precise footstep sequences to partial-body mimicry and joystick teleoperation. We introduce the Masked Humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Pranay Dugar , Aayam Shrestha , Fangzhou Yu , Bart van Marum , Alan Fern

Enabling robust whole-body humanoid-object interaction (HOI) remains challenging due to motion data scarcity and the contact-rich nature. We present HDMI (HumanoiD iMitation for Interaction), a simple and general framework that learns…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoyang Weng , Yitang Li , Nikhil Sobanbabu , Zihan Wang , Zhengyi Luo , Tairan He , Deva Ramanan , Guanya Shi

Humanoid robots, with their human-like form, are uniquely suited for interacting in environments built for people. However, enabling humanoids to reason, plan, and act in complex open-world settings remains a challenge. World models, models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Muhammad Qasim Ali , Aditya Sridhar , Shahbuland Matiana , Alex Wong , Mohammad Al-Sharman

A motion-based control interface promises flexible robot operations in dangerous environments by combining user intuitions with the robot's motor capabilities. However, designing a motion interface for non-humanoid robots, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Sunwoo Kim , Maks Sorokin , Jehee Lee , Sehoon Ha

Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios requiring strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Junjia Liu , Zhuo Li , Minghao Yu , Zhipeng Dong , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Achieving versatile and naturalistic whole-body control for humanoid robot scene-interaction remains a significant challenge. While some recent works have demonstrated autonomous humanoid interactive control, they are constrained to rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haoran Yang , Jiacheng Bao , Yucheng Xin , Haoming Song , Yuyang Tian , Bin Zhao , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li

Contact-rich manipulation has become increasingly important in robot learning. However, previous studies on robot learning datasets have focused on rigid objects and underrepresented the diversity of pressure conditions for real-world…

The human body demonstrates exceptional motor capabilities-such as standing steadily on one foot or performing a high kick with the leg raised over 1.5 meters-both requiring precise balance control. While recent research on humanoid control…

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

Humanoid robots that can autonomously operate in diverse environments have the potential to help address labour shortages in factories, assist elderly at homes, and colonize new planets. While classical controllers for humanoid robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ilija Radosavovic , Tete Xiao , Bike Zhang , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Koushil Sreenath

Humanoid robots promise general-purpose assistance, yet real-world humanoid loco-manipulation remains challenging because it requires whole-body stability, end-effector dexterity, and contact-aware interaction under frequent contact…