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Imitation learning is a popular approach for teaching motor skills to robots. However, most approaches focus on extracting policy parameters from execution traces alone (i.e., motion trajectories and perceptual data). No adequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Mariano Phielipp , Stefan Lee , Chitta Baral , Heni Ben Amor

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…

A fundamental challenge in teaching robots is to provide an effective interface for human teachers to demonstrate useful skills to a robot. This challenge is exacerbated in dexterous manipulation, where teaching high-dimensional,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam , Irmak Güzey , Soumith Chintala , Lerrel Pinto

We introduce an object-aware decoder for improving the performance of spatio-temporal representations on ego-centric videos. The key idea is to enhance object-awareness during training by tasking the model to predict hand positions, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Chuhan Zhang , Ankush Gupta , Andrew Zisserman

While recent advances in humanoid locomotion have achieved stable walking on varied terrains, capturing the agility and adaptivity of highly dynamic human motions remains an open challenge. In particular, agile parkour in complex…

Shared dynamics models are important for capturing the complexity and variability inherent in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Therefore, learning such shared dynamics models can enhance coordination and adaptability to enable successful…

Post-training is essential for turning pretrained generalist robot policies into reliable task-specific controllers, but existing human-in-the-loop pipelines remain tied to physical execution: each correction requires robot time, scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yaxuan Li , Zhongyi Zhou , Yefei Chen , Yanjiang Guo , Jiaming Liu , Shanghang Zhang , Jianyu Chen , Yichen Zhu

We introduce $\Psi_0$ (Psi-Zero), an open foundation model to address challenging humanoid loco-manipulation tasks. While existing approaches often attempt to address this fundamental problem by co-training on large and diverse human and…

Object handover is a basic, but essential capability for robots interacting with humans in many applications, e.g., caring for the elderly and assisting workers in manufacturing workshops. It appears deceptively simple, as humans perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Andras Kupcsik , David Hsu , Wee Sun Lee

We study the problem of teaching humanoid robots manipulation skills by imitating from single video demonstrations. We introduce OKAMI, a method that generates a manipulation plan from a single RGB-D video and derives a policy for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jinhan Li , Yifeng Zhu , Yuqi Xie , Zhenyu Jiang , Mingyo Seo , Georgios Pavlakos , Yuke Zhu

Robots are traditionally bounded by a fixed embodiment during their operational lifetime, which limits their ability to adapt to their surroundings. Co-optimizing control and morphology of a robot, however, is often inefficient due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chen Yu , Weinan Zhang , Hang Lai , Zheng Tian , Laurent Kneip , Jun Wang

We study the problem of mobile manipulation using legged robots equipped with an arm, namely legged loco-manipulation. The robot legs, while usually utilized for mobility, offer an opportunity to amplify the manipulation capabilities by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Minghuan Liu , Zixuan Chen , Xuxin Cheng , Yandong Ji , Ri-Zhao Qiu , Ruihan Yang , Xiaolong Wang

Recent progress in humanoid robots has unlocked agile locomotion skills, including backflipping, running, and crawling. Yet it remains challenging for a humanoid robot to perform forceful manipulation tasks such as moving objects, wiping,…

Humanoid robots, as general-purpose physical agents, must integrate both intelligent control and adaptive morphology to operate effectively in diverse real-world environments. While recent research has focused primarily on optimizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Guiliang Liu , Bo Yue , Yi Jin Kim , Kui Jia

Enabling humanoid robots to follow free-form natural language commands is a critical step toward seamless human-robot interaction and general-purpose embodied AI. However, existing methods remain limited, often constrained to simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhirui Liu , Kaiyang Ji , Ke Yang , Yahao Fan , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

Embodied Instruction Following (EIF) studies how autonomous mobile manipulation robots should be controlled to accomplish long-horizon tasks described by natural language instructions. While much research on EIF is conducted in simulators,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yuki Inoue , Hiroki Ohashi

Long-horizon whole-body humanoid teleoperation remains challenging due to accumulated global pose drift, particularly on full-sized humanoids. Although recent learning-based tracking methods enable agile and coordinated motions, they…

Learning to use tools or objects in common scenes, particularly handling them in various ways as instructed, is a key challenge for developing interactive robots. Training models to generate such manipulation trajectories requires a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tomoya Yoshida , Shuhei Kurita , Taichi Nishimura , Shinsuke Mori

Mobile manipulation tasks remain one of the critical challenges for the widespread adoption of autonomous robots in both service and industrial scenarios. While planning approaches are good at generating feasible whole-body robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Daniel Honerkamp , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada

We introduce a novel formulation for incorporating visual feedback in controlling robots. We define a generative model from actions to image observations of features on the end-effector. Inference in the model allows us to infer the robot…