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We present a universal motion representation that encompasses a comprehensive range of motor skills for physics-based humanoid control. Due to the high dimensionality of humanoids and the inherent difficulties in reinforcement learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhengyi Luo , Jinkun Cao , Josh Merel , Alexander Winkler , Jing Huang , Kris Kitani , Weipeng Xu

The prevailing paradigm of perceptive humanoid locomotion relies heavily on active depth sensors. However, this depth-centric approach fundamentally discards the rich semantic and dense appearance cues of the visual world, severing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yufei Liu , Xieyuanli Chen , Hainan Pan , Chenghao Shi , Yanjie Chen , Kaihong Huang , Zhiwen Zeng , Huimin Lu

While recent advances have demonstrated strong performance in individual humanoid skills such as upright locomotion, fall recovery and whole-body coordination, learning a single policy that masters all these skills remains challenging due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dewei Wang , Xinmiao Wang , Chenyun Zhang , Jiyuan Shi , Yingnan Zhao , Chenjia Bai , Xuelong Li

Visuomotor control (VMC) is an effective means of achieving basic manipulation tasks such as pushing or pick-and-place from raw images. Conditioning VMC on desired goal states is a promising way of achieving versatile skill primitives.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Oliver Groth , Chia-Man Hung , Andrea Vedaldi , Ingmar Posner

This study presents a control framework leveraging vision language models (VLMs) for multiple tasks and robots. Notably, existing control methods using VLMs have achieved high performance in various tasks and robots in the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Kazuki Shibata , Hideki Deguchi , Shun Taguchi

Bimanual manipulation is a longstanding challenge in robotics due to the large number of degrees of freedom and the strict spatial and temporal synchronization required to generate meaningful behavior. Humans learn bimanual manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arpit Bahety , Priyanka Mandikal , Ben Abbatematteo , Roberto Martín-Martín

Crafting a single, versatile physics-based controller that can breathe life into interactive characters across a wide spectrum of scenarios represents an exciting frontier in character animation. An ideal controller should support diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Chen Tessler , Yunrong Guo , Ofir Nabati , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

Humanoid robots are machines built with an anthropomorphic shape. Despite decades of research into the subject, it is still challenging to tackle the robot locomotion problem from an algorithmic point of view. For example, these machines…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Stefano Dafarra

The ability to specify robot commands by a non-expert user is critical for building generalist agents capable of solving a large variety of tasks. One convenient way to specify the intended robot goal is by a video of a person demonstrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Elliot Chane-Sane , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

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

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

Learning from real-world robot demonstrations holds promise for interacting with complex real-world environments. However, the complexity and variability of interaction dynamics often cause purely positional controllers to struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lai Wei , Xuanbin Peng , Ri-Zhao Qiu , Tianshu Huang , Xuxin Cheng , Xiaolong Wang

Humanoid robots hold great promise for operating in human-centric environments, yet achieving robust whole-body coordination across the head, hands, and legs remains a major challenge. We present a system that combines a modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Haozhi Qi , Yen-Jen Wang , Toru Lin , Brent Yi , Yi Ma , Koushil Sreenath , Jitendra Malik

Recent progress in GPU-accelerated, photorealistic simulation has opened a scalable data-generation path for robot learning, where massive physics and visual randomization allow policies to generalize beyond curated environments. Building…

Loco-Manipulation for humanoid robots aims to enable robots to integrate mobility with upper-body tracking capabilities. Most existing approaches adopt hierarchical architectures that decompose control into isolated upper-body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wandong Sun , Luying Feng , Baoshi Cao , Yang Liu , Yaochu Jin , Zongwu Xie

Human egocentric video captures rich manipulation demonstrations without any robot hardware, yet transferring these skills to robots remains challenging due to the embodiment gap between human and robot in both visual appearance and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhi Wang , Botao He , Kelin Yu , Seungjae Lee , Ruohan Gao , Furong Huang , Yiannis Aloimonos

The ability to flexibly leverage limbs for loco-manipulation is essential for enabling autonomous robots to operate in unstructured environments. Yet, prior work on loco-manipulation is often constrained to specific tasks or predetermined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xinghao Zhu , Yuxin Chen , Lingfeng Sun , Farzad Niroui , Simon Le Cleac'h , Jiuguang Wang , Kuan Fang

In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits of using human videos for policy learning, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Visual Robot Manipulation (VRM) aims to enable a robot to follow natural language instructions based on robot states and visual observations, and therefore requires costly multi-modal data. To compensate for the deficiency of robot data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dejie Yang , Zijing Zhao , Yang Liu

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