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Large-scale data has driven breakthroughs in robotics, from language models to vision-language-action models in bimanual manipulation. However, humanoid robotics lacks equally effective data collection frameworks. Existing humanoid…

Humans possess delicate dynamic balance mechanisms that enable them to maintain stability across diverse terrains and under extreme conditions. However, despite significant advances recently, existing locomotion algorithms for humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Weiji Xie , Chenjia Bai , Jiyuan Shi , Junkai Yang , Yunfei Ge , Weinan Zhang , Xuelong Li

This paper tackles the challenge of enabling real-world humanoid robots to perform expressive and dynamic whole-body motions while maintaining overall stability and robustness. We propose Advanced Expressive Whole-Body Control (Exbody2), a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Mazeyu Ji , Xuanbin Peng , Fangchen Liu , Jialong Li , Ge Yang , Xuxin Cheng , Xiaolong Wang

Egocentric videos capture how humans manipulate objects and tools, providing diverse motion cues for learning object manipulation. Unlike the costly, expert-driven manual teleoperation commonly used in training Vision-Language-Action models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tomoya Yoshida , Shuhei Kurita , Taichi Nishimura , Shinsuke Mori

Stabilizing unsecured payloads against the inherent oscillations of dynamic bipedal locomotion remains a critical engineering bottleneck for humanoids in unstructured environments. To solve this, we introduce ReST-RL, a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Anlun Huang , Zhenyu Wu , Soofiyan Atar , Yuheng Zhi , Michael Yip

Amphibious legged robots inspired by salamanders are promising in applications in complex amphibious environments. However, despite the significant success of training controllers that achieve diverse locomotion behaviors in conventional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mengze Tian , Qiyuan Fu , Chuanfang Ning , Javier Jia Jie Pey , Auke Ijspeert

We tackle the problem of developing humanoid loco-manipulation skills with deep imitation learning. The difficulty of collecting task demonstrations and training policies for humanoids with a high degree of freedom presents substantial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mingyo Seo , Steve Han , Kyutae Sim , Seung Hyeon Bang , Carlos Gonzalez , Luis Sentis , Yuke Zhu

Imitation learning has been actively studied in recent years. In particular, skill acquisition by a robot with a fixed body, whose root link position and posture and camera angle of view do not change, has been realized in many cases. On…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yutaro Matsuura , Kento Kawaharazuka , Naoki Hiraoka , Kunio Kojima , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

Recent advances in imitation learning have shown great promise for developing robust robot manipulation policies from demonstrations. However, this promise is contingent on the availability of diverse, high-quality datasets, which are not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Omar Rayyan , John Abanes , Mahmoud Hafez , Anthony Tzes , Fares Abu-Dakka

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

While leveraging abundant human videos and simulated robot data poses a scalable solution to the scarcity of real-world robot data, the generalization capability of existing vision-language-action models (VLAs) remains limited by mismatches…

We tackle the challenges of synthesizing versatile, physically simulated human motions for full-body object manipulation. Unlike prior methods that are focused on detailed motion tracking, trajectory following, or teleoperation, our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chen Tessler , Yifeng Jiang , Erwin Coumans , Zhengyi Luo , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

Training manipulation policies for humanoid robots with diverse data enhances their robustness and generalization across tasks and platforms. However, learning solely from robot demonstrations is labor-intensive, requiring expensive…

Guidance robots that can guide people and avoid various obstacles, could potentially be owned by more visually impaired people at a fairly low cost. Most of the previous guidance robots for the visually impaired ignored the human response…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yanbo Chen , Zhengzhe Xu , Zhuozhu Jian , Gengpan Tang , Yunong Yangli , Anxing Xiao , Xueqian Wang , Bin Liang

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

In the domain of humanoid robot control, the fusion of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) with whole-body control is essential for semantically guided execution of real-world tasks. However, existing methods encounter challenges in terms of low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Weikai Qin , Sichen Wu , Ci Chen , Mengfan Liu , Linxi Feng , Xinru Cui , Haoqi Han , Hesheng Wang

Vision-language-action (VLA) models perform well on training-seen robotic tasks but struggle to generalize to unseen scenes and objects. A key limitation lies in their implicit visual representations, which entangle object appearance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hanyu Zhou , Chuanhao Ma , Gim Hee Lee

Humanoid loco-manipulation in unstructured environments demands tight integration of egocentric perception and whole-body control. However, existing approaches either depend on external motion capture systems or fail to generalize across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shaofeng Yin , Yanjie Ze , Hong-Xing Yu , C. Karen Liu , Jiajun Wu

Recently, robotics has advanced significantly through the integration of larger models and large-scale datasets. However, challenges remain in applying these models to 3D spatial interactions and managing data collection costs. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Feng Yan , Fanfan Liu , Liming Zheng , Yufeng Zhong , Yiyang Huang , Zechao Guan , Chengjian Feng , Lin Ma

Wheel-legged robots with integrated manipulators hold great promise for mobile manipulation in logistics, industrial automation, and human-robot collaboration. However, unified control of such systems remains challenging due to the…

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