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Generative models have become increasingly powerful tools for robot motion generation, enabling flexible and multimodal trajectory generation across various tasks. Yet, most existing approaches remain limited in handling multiple types of…

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3D Human motion generation is pivotal across film, animation, gaming, and embodied intelligence. Traditional 3D motion synthesis relies on costly motion capture, while recent work shows that 2D videos provide rich, temporally coherent…

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To fluently collaborate with people, robots need the ability to recognize human activities accurately. Although modern robots are equipped with various sensors, robust human activity recognition (HAR) still remains a challenging task for…

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Recent diffusion-based human image animation techniques have demonstrated impressive success in synthesizing videos that faithfully follow a given reference identity and a sequence of desired movement poses. Despite this, there are still…

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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

Teleoperated humanoid robots hold significant potential as physical avatars for humans in hazardous and inaccessible environments, with the goal of channeling human intelligence and sensorimotor skills through these robotic counterparts.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Guillermo Colin , Joseph Byrnes , Youngwoo Sim , Patrick Wensing , Joao Ramos

Motion generation is a cornerstone of computer graphics, animation, gaming, and robotics, enabling the creation of realistic and varied character movements. A significant limitation of existing methods is their reliance on specific skeletal…

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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

Modeling 4D human-object interaction (HOI) is a compelling challenge in computer vision and an essential technology powering virtual and mixed-reality applications. While existing works have achieved promising results on specific HOI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mengfei Zhang , Jinlu Zhang , Zhigang Tu

Achieving general-purpose robotic manipulation requires robots to seamlessly bridge high-level semantic intent with low-level physical interaction in unstructured environments. However, existing approaches falter in zero-shot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Haichao Liu , Yuanjiang Xue , Yuheng Zhou , Haoyuan Deng , Yinan Liang , Lihua Xie , Ziwei Wang

Tactile sensing is crucial for robotic hands to achieve human-level dexterous manipulation, especially in scenarios with visual occlusion. However, its application is often hindered by the difficulty of collecting large-scale real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chi Zhang , Penglin Cai , Haoqi Yuan , Chaoyi Xu , Zongqing Lu

Humanoid robotics has strong potential to transform daily service and caregiving applications. Although recent advances in general motion tracking within physics engines (GMT) have enabled virtual characters and humanoid robots to reproduce…

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We present a unified framework for multi-task locomotion and manipulation policy learning grounded in a contact-explicit representation. Instead of designing different policies for different tasks, our approach unifies the definition of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shafeef Omar , Majid Khadiv

Human-robot interaction is increasingly moving toward multi-robot, socially grounded environments. Existing systems struggle to integrate multimodal perception, embodied expression, and coordinated decision-making in a unified framework.…

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The creation of diverse and realistic driving scenarios has become essential to enhance perception and planning capabilities of the autonomous driving system. However, generating long-duration, surround-view consistent driving videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Rui Chen , Zehuan Wu , Yichen Liu , Yuxin Guo , Jingcheng Ni , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

A generalist robot should perform effectively across various environments. However, most existing approaches heavily rely on scaling action-annotated data to enhance their capabilities. Consequently, they are often limited to single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qingwen Bu , Yanting Yang , Jisong Cai , Shenyuan Gao , Guanghui Ren , Maoqing Yao , Ping Luo , Hongyang Li

Teleoperation of humanoid robots has long been a challenging domain, necessitating advances in both hardware and software to achieve seamless and intuitive control. This paper presents an integrated solution based on several elements:…

Recent video generation models demonstrate impressive synthesis capabilities but remain limited by single-modality conditioning, constraining their holistic world understanding. This stems from insufficient cross-modal interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiehui Huang , Yuechen Zhang , Xu He , Yuan Gao , Zhi Cen , Bin Xia , Yan Zhou , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jiaya Jia

Reasoning is central to purposeful action, yet most robotic foundation models map perception and instructions directly to control, which limits adaptability, generalization, and semantic grounding. We introduce Action Reasoning Models…

Humanoid whole-body loco-manipulation promises transformative capabilities for daily service and warehouse tasks. While recent advances in general motion tracking (GMT) have enabled humanoids to reproduce diverse human motions, these…

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