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Hiking on complex trails demands balance, agility, and adaptive decision-making over unpredictable terrain. Current humanoid research remains fragmented and inadequate for hiking: locomotion focuses on motor skills without long-term goals…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Kwan-Yee Lin , Stella X. Yu

We present a hierarchical policy-learning framework that enables a legged humanoid to cooperatively carry extended loads with a human partner using only haptic cues for intent inference. At the upper tier, a lightweight behavior-cloning…

Recent advances in real-time interactive text-driven motion generation have enabled humanoids to perform diverse behaviors. However, kinematics-only generators often exhibit physical hallucinations, producing motion trajectories that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Hanbyel Cho , Sang-Hun Kim , Jeonguk Kang , Donghan Koo

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

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

Current Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems for skill teaching are fragmented, and existing approaches in the literature do not offer a cohesive framework that is simultaneously efficient, intuitive, and universally safe. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zi-Qi Yang , Mehrdad R. Kermani

Quadruped robots are machines intended for challenging and harsh environments. Despite the progress in locomotion strategy, safely recovering from unexpected falls or planned drops is still an open problem. It is further made more difficult…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Francesco Roscia , Michele Focchi , Andrea Del Prete , Darwin G. Caldwell , Claudio Semini

While generative models have become effective at producing human-like motions from text, transferring these motions to humanoid robots for physical execution remains challenging. Existing pipelines are often limited by retargeting, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xichen Yuan , Zhe Li , Bofan Lyu , Kuangji Zuo , Yanshuo Lu , Gen Li , Jianfei Yang

Human behavior is fundamentally shaped by visual perception -- our ability to interact with the world depends on actively gathering relevant information and adapting our movements accordingly. Behaviors like searching for objects, reaching,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhengyi Luo , Chen Tessler , Toru Lin , Ye Yuan , Tairan He , Wenli Xiao , Yunrong Guo , Gal Chechik , Kris Kitani , Linxi Fan , Yuke Zhu

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

This paper addresses the problem of mobile grasping in dynamic, unknown environments where a robot must operate under a limited field-of-view. The fundamental challenge is the inherent trade-off between ``seeing'' around to reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tianrun Hu , Anxing Xiao , David Hsu , Hanbo Zhang

Recognizing human activities in videos is challenging due to the spatio-temporal complexity and context-dependence of human interactions. Prior studies often rely on single input modalities, such as RGB or skeletal data, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Hung Tran , Truyen Tran

Safe and trustworthy Human Robot Interaction (HRI) requires robots not only to complete tasks but also to regulate impedance and speed according to scene context and human proximity. We present SafeHumanoid, an egocentric vision pipeline…

Scalable learning of humanoid robots is crucial for their deployment in real-world applications. While traditional approaches primarily rely on reinforcement learning or teleoperation to achieve whole-body control, they are often limited by…

Unsupervised reinforcement learning (RL) aims at pre-training agents that can solve a wide range of downstream tasks in complex environments. Despite recent advancements, existing approaches suffer from several limitations: they may require…

Forecasting future events is a fundamental capability for general-purpose systems that plan or act across different levels of abstraction. Yet, evaluating whether a forecast is "correct" remains challenging due to the inherent uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jacob C Walker , Pedro Vélez , Luisa Polania Cabrera , Guangyao Zhou , Sayna Ebrahimi , Rishabh Kabra , Carl Doersch , Maks Ovsjanikov , João Carreira , Shiry Ginosar

Visual imitation learning enables robotic agents to acquire skills by observing expert demonstration videos. In the one-shot setting, the agent generates a policy after observing a single expert demonstration without additional fine-tuning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Yann LeCun , Farshad Khorrami

Analyzing student behavior in educational scenarios is crucial for enhancing teaching quality and student engagement. Existing AI-based models often rely on classroom video footage to identify and analyze student behavior. While these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xian Gao , Jiacheng Ruan , Jingsheng Gao , Mingye Xie , Zongyun Zhang , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Siheng Zhao , Yanjie Ze , Yue Wang , C. Karen Liu , Pieter Abbeel , Guanya Shi , Rocky Duan

We present a method for training reference-guided, perceptive reinforcement learning locomotion policies for humanoid robots in which reference trajectories are modulated in training to be consistent with terrain geometry. Aiming to deploy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 William D. Compton , Zachary Olkin , Aaron D. Ames