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Humanoid robots can benefit from their similarity to the human shape by learning from humans. When humans teach other humans how to perform actions, they often demonstrate the actions, and the learning human imitates the demonstration to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

We aim to build complex humanoid agents that integrate perception, motor control, and memory. In this work, we partly factor this problem into low-level motor control from proprioception and high-level coordination of the low-level skills…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Josh Merel , Arun Ahuja , Vu Pham , Saran Tunyasuvunakool , Siqi Liu , Dhruva Tirumala , Nicolas Heess , Greg Wayne

The remarkable recent advances in object-centric generative world models raise a few questions. First, while many of the recent achievements are indispensable for making a general and versatile world model, it is quite unclear how these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhixuan Lin , Yi-Fu Wu , Skand Peri , Bofeng Fu , Jindong Jiang , Sungjin Ahn

Visual-Language-Action models (VLAs) have advanced generalist robot control by mapping multimodal observations and language instructions directly to actions, but sparse action supervision often encourages shortcut mappings rather than…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hao Luo , Wanpeng Zhang , Yicheng Feng , Sipeng Zheng , Haiweng Xu , Chaoyi Xu , Ziheng Xi , Yuhui Fu , Zongqing Lu

Application of humanoid robots has been common in the field of healthcare and education. It has been recurrently used to improve social behavior and mollify distress level among children with autism, cancer and cerebral palsy. This article…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Avishek Choudhury , Huiyang Li , Christopher Greene , Sunanda Perumalla

We present a large language model (LLM) based system to empower quadrupedal robots with problem-solving abilities for long-horizon tasks beyond short-term motions. Long-horizon tasks for quadrupeds are challenging since they require both a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yutao Ouyang , Jinhan Li , Yunfei Li , Zhongyu Li , Chao Yu , Koushil Sreenath , Yi Wu

Data scaling has long remained a critical bottleneck in robot learning. For humanoid robots, human videos and motion data are abundant and widely available, offering a free and large-scale data source. Besides, the semantics related to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuxi Wei , Zirui Wang , Kangning Yin , Yue Hu , Jingbo Wang , Siheng Chen

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…

With the proliferation of the Large Language Model (LLM), the concept of World Models (WM) has recently attracted a great deal of attention in the AI research community, especially in the context of AI agents. It is arguably evolving into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zifan Zeng , Chongzhe Zhang , Feng Liu , Joseph Sifakis , Qunli Zhang , Shiming Liu , Peng Wang

World models (WMs) are intended to serve as internal simulators of the real world that enable agents to understand, anticipate, and act upon complex environments. Existing WM benchmarks remain narrowly focused on next-state prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 PAN Team , Qiyue Gao , Kun Zhou , Jiannan Xiang , Zihan Liu , Dequan Yang , Junrong Chen , Arif Ahmad , Cong Zeng , Ganesh Bannur , Xinqi Huang , Zheqi Liu , Yi Gu , Yichi Yang , Guangyi Liu , Zhiting Hu , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric Xing

Imitation learning is a promising approach for training humanoid robots to both walk and manipulate, but it requires a large number of demonstrations, which are time-intensive and difficult to collect via teleoperation. Existing…

Action-conditioned robot world models generate future video frames of the manipulated scene given a robot action sequence, offering a promising alternative for simulating tasks that are difficult to model with traditional physics engines.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jai Bardhan , Patrik Drozdik , Josef Sivic , Vladimir Petrik

Humanoid robots could be versatile and intuitive human avatars that operate remotely in inaccessible places: the robot could reproduce in the remote location the movements of an operator equipped with a wearable motion capture device while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Luigi Penco , Jean-Baptiste Mouret , Serena Ivaldi

This paper uses the capabilities of latent diffusion models (LDMs) to generate realistic RGB human-object interaction scenes to guide humanoid loco-manipulation planning. To do so, we extract from the generated images both the contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ilyass Taouil , Haizhou Zhao , Angela Dai , Majid Khadiv

We introduce Berkeley Humanoid, a reliable and low-cost mid-scale humanoid research platform for learning-based control. Our lightweight, in-house-built robot is designed specifically for learning algorithms with low simulation complexity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Qiayuan Liao , Bike Zhang , Xuanyu Huang , Xiaoyu Huang , Zhongyu Li , Koushil Sreenath

The ability to grasp objects in-the-wild from open-ended language instructions constitutes a fundamental challenge in robotics. An open-world grasping system should be able to combine high-level contextual with low-level physical-geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

The true promise of humanoid robotics lies beyond single-agent autonomy: two or more humanoids must engage in physically grounded, socially meaningful whole-body interactions that echo the richness of human social interaction. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zuhong Liu , Junhao Ge , Minhao Xiong , Jiahao Gu , Bowei Tang , Wei Jing , Siheng Chen

We propose Heterogeneous Masked Autoregression (HMA) for modeling action-video dynamics to generate high-quality data and evaluation in scaling robot learning. Building interactive video world models and policies for robotics is difficult…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Lirui Wang , Kevin Zhao , Chaoqi Liu , Xinlei Chen

Loco-manipulation is a fundamental challenge for humanoid robots to achieve versatile interactions in human environments. Although recent studies have made significant progress in humanoid whole-body control, loco-manipulation remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuhui Fu , Feiyang Xie , Chaoyi Xu , Jing Xiong , Haoqi Yuan , Zongqing Lu

As the application of Embodied AI Agents in avatars, wearable devices, and robotic systems continues to deepen, their core research challenges have gradually shifted from physical environment interaction to the accurate understanding of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Biyuan Liu , Daigang Xu , Lei Jiang , Wenjun Guo , Ping Chen