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In future, robots will be present in everyday life. The development of these supporting robots is a challenge. A fundamental task for assistance robots is to pick up and hand over objects to humans. By interacting with users, soft factors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Robin Rasch , Sven Wachsmuth , Matthias König

Embodied AI requires agents that perceive, act, and anticipate how actions reshape future world states. World models serve as internal simulators that capture environment dynamics, enabling forward and counterfactual rollouts to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xinqing Li , Xin He , Le Zhang , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Yun Liu

One of the key arguments for building robots that have similar form factors to human beings is that we can leverage the massive human data for training. Yet, doing so has remained challenging in practice due to the complexities in humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zipeng Fu , Qingqing Zhao , Qi Wu , Gordon Wetzstein , Chelsea Finn

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz

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

Whole-body control for humanoids is challenging due to the high-dimensional nature of the problem, coupled with the inherent instability of a bipedal morphology. Learning from visual observations further exacerbates this difficulty. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Nicklas Hansen , Jyothir S , Vlad Sobal , Yann LeCun , Xiaolong Wang , Hao Su

Humanoid robots show promise for complex whole-body tasks in unstructured environments. Although Human-Object Interaction (HOI) has advanced, most methods focus on fully actuated objects rigidly coupled to the robot, ignoring underactuated…

Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) have shown strong promise for video prediction and decision-making. However, existing benchmarks are largely restricted to egocentric navigation or narrow, task-specific robotics datasets, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haotian Xue , Yipu Chen , Liqian Ma , Zelin Zhao , Lama Moukheiber , Yuchen Zhu , Yongxin Chen

World models promise a paradigm shift in robotics, where an agent learns the underlying physics of its environment once to enable efficient planning and behavior learning. However, current world models are often hardware-locked specialists:…

From loco-motion to dextrous manipulation, humanoid robots have made remarkable strides in demonstrating complex full-body capabilities. However, the majority of current robot learning datasets and benchmarks mainly focus on stationary…

Previous humanoid robot research works treat the robot as a bipedal mobile manipulation platform, where only the feet and hands contact the environment. However, we humans use all body parts to interact with the world, e.g., we sit in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ziwen Zhuang , Hang Zhao

Despite remarkable progress in driving world models, their potential for autonomous systems remains largely untapped: the world models are mostly learned for world simulation and decoupled from trajectory planning. While recent efforts aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhida Zhao , Talas Fu , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

The Driving World Model (DWM), which focuses on predicting scene evolution during the driving process, has emerged as a promising paradigm in the pursuit of autonomous driving (AD). DWMs enable AD systems to better perceive, understand, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sifan Tu , Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Xingyu Jiang , Yumeng Zhang , Xiaofan Li , Xiang Bai

Humanoid robots are increasingly demanded to operate in interactive and human-surrounded environments while achieving sophisticated locomotion and manipulation tasks. To accomplish these tasks, roboticists unremittingly seek for advanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Ye Zhao

Human demonstrations offer rich environmental diversity and scale naturally, making them an appealing alternative to robot teleoperation. While this paradigm has advanced robot-arm manipulation, its potential for the more challenging,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Modi Shi , Shijia Peng , Jin Chen , Haoran Jiang , Yinghui Li , Di Huang , Ping Luo , Hongyang Li , Li Chen

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

Humans develop an understanding of intuitive physics through active interaction with the world. This approach is in stark contrast to current video models, such as Sora, which rely on passive observation and therefore struggle with grasping…

Generalist robot policies can now perform a wide range of manipulation skills, but evaluating and improving their ability with unfamiliar objects and instructions remains a significant challenge. Rigorous evaluation requires a large number…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yanjiang Guo , Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Jianyu Chen , Chelsea Finn

Humanoid robots, with their human-like embodiment, have the potential to integrate seamlessly into human environments. Critical to their coexistence and cooperation with humans is the ability to understand natural language communications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zhenyu Jiang , Yuqi Xie , Jinhan Li , Ye Yuan , Yifeng Zhu , Yuke Zhu

World models enable model-based planning through learned latent dynamics, but imagined rollouts become unstable as the planning horizon grows or the dynamics distribution shifts. We argue that this instability reflects two missing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Haoyun Tang , Haodong Cui , Keyao Xu , Kun Wang , Zhandong Mei