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Traditional reinforcement learning methods for human-object interaction (HOI) rely on labor-intensive, manually designed skill rewards that do not generalize well across different interactions. We introduce SkillMimic, a unified data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yinhuai Wang , Qihan Zhao , Runyi Yu , Hok Wai Tsui , Ailing Zeng , Jing Lin , Zhengyi Luo , Jiwen Yu , Xiu Li , Qifeng Chen , Jian Zhang , Lei Zhang , Ping Tan

Human demonstrations offer rich environmental diversity and scale naturally, making them an appealing alternative to robot teleoperation. While this paradigm has advanced robot-arm manipulation, its potential for the more challenging,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Modi Shi , Shijia Peng , Jin Chen , Haoran Jiang , Yinghui Li , Di Huang , Ping Luo , Hongyang Li , Li Chen

As entertainment robots gain popularity, the demand for natural and expressive motion, particularly in dancing, continues to rise. Traditionally, dancing motions have been manually designed by artists, a process that is both labor-intensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Ryo Watanabe , Chenhao Li , Marco Hutter

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

Since the introduction of DeepMimic [Peng et al. 2018], subsequent research has focused on expanding the repertoire of simulated motions across various scenarios. In this study, we propose an alternative approach for this goal, a deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Taesoo Kwon , Taehong Gu , Jaewon Ahn , Yoonsang Lee

How can we teach humanoids to climb staircases and sit on chairs using the surrounding environment context? Arguably, the simplest way is to just show them-casually capture a human motion video and feed it to humanoids. We introduce…

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

Reconstructing physically plausible human motion from monocular videos remains a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Existing methods primarily focus on kinematics-based pose estimation, often leading to unrealistic results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Qiao Feng , Yiming Huang , Yufu Wang , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu

While deep reinforcement learning methods have shown impressive results in robot learning, their sample inefficiency makes the learning of complex, long-horizon behaviors with real robot systems infeasible. To mitigate this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Taewook Nam , Shao-Hua Sun , Karl Pertsch , Sung Ju Hwang , Joseph J Lim

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise as interactive agents that solve tasks through extended sequences of environment interactions. While prior work has primarily focused on system-level optimizations or algorithmic improvements,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sunghwan Kim , Junhee Cho , Beong-woo Kwak , Taeyoon Kwon , Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Xingxing Zhang , Furu Wei , Jinyoung Yeo

Imitation learning from human demonstrations offers a promising approach for robot skill acquisition, but egocentric human data introduces fundamental challenges due to the embodiment gap. During manipulation, humans actively coordinate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Justin Yu , Yide Shentu , Di Wu , Pieter Abbeel , Ken Goldberg , Philipp Wu

Humans exhibit diverse and expressive whole-body movements. However, attaining human-like whole-body coordination in humanoid robots remains challenging, as conventional approaches that mimic whole-body motions often neglect the distinct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiyuan Shi , Xinzhe Liu , Dewei Wang , Ouyang Lu , Sören Schwertfeger , Chi Zhang , Fuchun Sun , Chenjia Bai , Xuelong Li

Mastering complex sequential tasks continues to pose a significant challenge in robotics. While there has been progress in learning long-horizon manipulation tasks, most existing approaches lack rigorous mathematical guarantees for ensuring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Alexandre St-Aubin , Amin Abyaneh , Hsiu-Chin Lin

The human-like form of humanoid robots positions them uniquely to achieve the agility and versatility in motor skills that humans possess. Learning from human demonstrations offers a scalable approach to acquiring these capabilities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qiayuan Liao , Takara E. Truong , Xiaoyu Huang , Yuman Gao , Guy Tevet , Koushil Sreenath , C. Karen Liu

Legged robots are becoming increasingly powerful and popular in recent years for their potential to bring the mobility of autonomous agents to the next level. This work presents a deep reinforcement learning approach that learns a robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Zhaocheng Liu , Fernando Acero , Zhibin Li

Legged robots must exhibit robust and agile locomotion across diverse, unstructured terrains, a challenge exacerbated under blind locomotion settings where terrain information is unavailable. This work introduces a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Matheus P. Angarola , Francisco Affonso , Marcelo Becker

Most locomotion methods for humanoid robots focus on leg-based gaits, yet natural bipeds frequently rely on hands, knees, and elbows to establish additional contacts for stability and support in complex environments. This paper introduces…

Whole-body manipulation (WBM) for humanoid robots presents a promising approach for executing embracing tasks involving bulky objects, where traditional grasping relying on end-effectors only remains limited in such scenarios due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Chunxin Zheng , Kai Chen , Zhihai Bi , Yulin Li , Liang Pan , Jinni Zhou , Haoang Li , Jun Ma

Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios requiring strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Junjia Liu , Zhuo Li , Minghao Yu , Zhipeng Dong , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

Robotic loco-manipulation tasks often involve contact-rich interactions with the environment, requiring the joint modeling of contact force and robot position. However, recent visuomotor policies often focus solely on learning position or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Peiyuan Zhi , Peiyang Li , Jianqin Yin , Baoxiong Jia , Siyuan Huang