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Humanoid Whole-Body Controllers trained with reinforcement learning (RL) have recently achieved remarkable performance, yet many target a single robot embodiment. Variations in dynamics, degrees of freedom (DoFs), and kinematic topology…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Quanquan Peng , Yunfeng Lin , Yufei Xue , Jiangmiao Pang , Weinan Zhang

The ability to track general whole-body motions in the real world is a useful way to build general-purpose humanoid robots. However, achieving this can be challenging due to the temporal and kinematic diversity of the motions, the policy's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zixuan Chen , Mazeyu Ji , Xuxin Cheng , Xuanbin Peng , Xue Bin Peng , Xiaolong Wang

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 drawing significant attention as versatile platforms for complex motor control, human-robot interaction, and general-purpose physical intelligence. However, achieving efficient whole-body control (WBC) in humanoids…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mingqi Yuan , Tao Yu , Wenqi Ge , Xiuyong Yao , Huijiang Wang , Jiayu Chen , Bo Li , Wei Zhang , Wenjun Zeng , Hua Chen , Xin Jin

High-fidelity motion tracking serves as the ultimate litmus test for generalizable, human-level motor skills. However, current policies often hit a "generality barrier": as motion libraries scale in diversity, tracking fidelity inevitably…

Learning versatile whole-body skills by tracking various human motions is a fundamental step toward general-purpose humanoid robots. This task is particularly challenging because a single policy must master a broad repertoire of motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinrui Han , Weiji Xie , Jiakun Zheng , Jiyuan Shi , Weinan Zhang , Ting Xiao , Chenjia Bai

Whole-body control (WBC) of humanoid robots has witnessed remarkable progress in skill versatility, enabling a wide range of applications such as locomotion, teleoperation, and motion tracking. Despite these achievements, existing WBC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Weishuai Zeng , Shunlin Lu , Kangning Yin , Xiaojie Niu , Minyue Dai , Jingbo Wang , Jiangmiao Pang

Learning a general whole-body controller for humanoid robots remains challenging due to the diversity of motion distributions, the difficulty of fast adaptation, and the need for robust balance in high-dynamic scenarios. Existing approaches…

Despite recent advances in control, reinforcement learning, and imitation learning, developing a unified framework that can achieve agile, precise, and robust whole-body behaviors, particularly in long-horizon tasks, remains challenging.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Donghoon Baek , Sang-Hun Kim , Sehoon Ha

Humanoid robots are promising to acquire various skills by imitating human behaviors. However, existing algorithms are only capable of tracking smooth, low-speed human motions, even with delicate reward and curriculum design. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Weiji Xie , Jinrui Han , Jiakun Zheng , Huanyu Li , Xinzhe Liu , Jiyuan Shi , Weinan Zhang , Chenjia Bai , Xuelong Li

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

Soft robotics has advanced rapidly, yet its control methods remain fragmented: different morphologies and actuation schemes still require task-specific controllers, hindering theoretical integration and large-scale deployment. A generic…

The creation of human-like humanoid robots is hindered by a fundamental fragmentation: data processing and learning algorithms are rarely universal across different robot morphologies. This paper introduces the Generalized Behavior Cloning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yifei Yao , Chengyuan Luo , Jiaheng Du , Wentao He , Jun-Guo Lu

Physical intelligence holds immense promise for advancing embodied intelligence, enabling robots to acquire complex behaviors from demonstrations. However, achieving generalization and transfer across diverse robotic platforms and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yu Zhao , Huxian Liu , Xiang Chen , Jiankai Sun , Jiahuan Yan , Luhui Hu

Humanoid robots require diverse motor skills to integrate into complex environments, but bridging the kinematic and dynamic embodiment gap from human data remains a major bottleneck. We demonstrate through Hessian analysis that traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Qingrui Zhao , Kaiyue Yang , Xiyu Wang , Shiqi Zhao , Yi Lu , Xinfang Zhang , Qiu Shen , Xiao-Xiao Long , Xun Cao

Locomotion is a fundamental skill for humanoid robots. However, most existing works make locomotion a single, tedious, unextendable, and unconstrained movement. This limits the kinematic capabilities of humanoid robots. In contrast, humans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yufei Xue , Wentao Dong , Minghuan Liu , Weinan Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang

Humanoid robots have demonstrated impressive motor skills in a wide range of tasks, yet whole-body control for humanlike long-time, dynamic fighting remains particularly challenging due to the stringent requirements on agility and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yucheng Xin , Jiacheng Bao , Yubo Dong , Xueqian Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li , Junbo Tan , Dong Wang

Behavioral cloning is a simple yet effective technique for learning sequential decision-making from demonstrations. Recently, it has gained prominence as the core of foundation models for the physical world, where achieving generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ev Zisselman , Mirco Mutti , Shelly Francis-Meretzki , Elisei Shafer , Aviv Tamar

Motion imitation is a pivotal and effective approach for humanoid robots to achieve a more diverse range of complex and expressive movements, making their performances more human-like. However, the significant differences in kinematics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zhenghan Chen , Haodong Zhang , Dongqi Wang , Jiyu Yu , Haocheng Xu , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

General-purpose humanoid robots are expected to interact intuitively with humans, enabling seamless integration into daily life. Natural language provides the most accessible medium for this purpose. However, translating language into…

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