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We study a human-robot collaborative transportation task in presence of obstacles. The task for each agent is to carry a rigid object to a common target position, while safely avoiding obstacles and satisfying the compliance and actuation…

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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…

A significant bottleneck in humanoid policy learning is the acquisition of large-scale, diverse datasets, as collecting reliable real-world data remains both difficult and cost-prohibitive. To address this limitation, we introduce…

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In this paper, we discuss a framework for teaching bimanual manipulation tasks by imitation. To this end, we present a system and algorithms for learning compliant and contact-rich robot behavior from human demonstrations. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Simon Stepputtis , Maryam Bandari , Stefan Schaal , Heni Ben Amor

Whole-body humanoid locomotion is challenging due to high-dimensional control, morphological instability, and the need for real-time adaptation to various terrains using onboard perception. Directly applying reinforcement learning (RL) with…

There are several challenges in developing a model for multi-tasking humanoid control. Reinforcement learning and imitation learning approaches are quite popular in this domain. However, there is a trade-off between the two. Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Siddharth Padmanabhan , Kazuki Miyazawa , Takato Horii , Takayuki Nagai

Recent years in robotics and imitation learning have shown remarkable progress in training large-scale foundation models by leveraging data across a multitude of embodiments. The success of such policies might lead us to wonder: just how…

Learning motion tracking from rich human motion data is a foundational task for achieving general control in humanoid robots, enabling them to perform diverse behaviors. However, discrepancies in morphology and dynamics between humans and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yuhan Li , Peiyuan Zhi , Yunshen Wang , Tengyu Liu , Sixu Yan , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang , Baoxiong Jia , Siyuan Huang

Egocentric human experience data presents a vast resource for scaling up end-to-end imitation learning for robotic manipulation. However, significant domain gaps in visual appearance, sensor modalities, and kinematics between human and…

Teaching robots to autonomously complete everyday tasks remains a challenge. Imitation Learning (IL) is a powerful approach that imbues robots with skills via demonstrations, but is limited by the labor-intensive process of collecting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Juntao Ren , Priya Sundaresan , Dorsa Sadigh , Sanjiban Choudhury , Jeannette Bohg

Existing human Motion Capture (MoCap) methods mostly focus on the visual similarity while neglecting the physical plausibility. As a result, downstream tasks such as driving virtual human in 3D scene or humanoid robots in real world suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shenghao Ren , Yi Lu , Jiayi Huang , Jiayi Zhao , He Zhang , Tao Yu , Qiu Shen , Xun Cao

Accurate prediction of human movements is required to enhance the efficiency of physical human-robot interaction. Behavioral differences across various users are crucial factors that limit the prediction of human motion. Although recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hee-Seung Moon , Jiwon Seo

Synthetic data offers a compelling path to scalable pretraining when real-world data is scarce, but models pretrained on synthetic data often fail to transfer reliably to deployment settings. We study this problem in full-body human motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Firas Darwish , George Nicholson , Aiden Doherty , Hang Yuan

With the rapid development of embodied intelligence, leveraging large-scale human data for high-level imitation learning on humanoid robots has become a focal point of interest in both academia and industry. However, applying humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yongxu Wang , Weiyun Yi , Xinhao Kong , Wanting Li

As the embodiment gap between a robot and a human narrows, new opportunities arise to leverage datasets of humans interacting with their surroundings for robot learning. We propose a novel technique for training sensorimotor policies with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Himanshu Gaurav Singh , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik , Antonio Loquercio

Leveraging human motion data to impart robots with versatile manipulation skills has emerged as a promising paradigm in robotic manipulation. Nevertheless, translating multi-source human hand motions into feasible robot behaviors remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhecheng Yuan , Tianming Wei , Langzhe Gu , Pu Hua , Tianhai Liang , Yuanpei Chen , Huazhe Xu

Though the advancement of pre-trained large language models unfolds, the exploration of building a unified model for language and other multi-modal data, such as motion, remains challenging and untouched so far. Fortunately, human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Biao Jiang , Xin Chen , Wen Liu , Jingyi Yu , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

Robots are expected to replace menial tasks such as housework. Some of these tasks include nonprehensile manipulation performed without grasping objects. Nonprehensile manipulation is very difficult because it requires considering the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yuki Saigusa , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Human teams can be exceptionally efficient at adapting and collaborating during manipulation tasks using shared mental models. However, the same shared mental models that can be used by humans to perform robust low-level force and motion…

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