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Imitation learning from human motion capture (MoCap) data provides a promising way to train humanoid robots. However, due to differences in morphology, such as varying degrees of joint freedom and force limits, exact replication of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Yi Zhao , Joni Pajarinen , Michael Muehlebach

A significant bottleneck in humanoid policy learning is the acquisition of large-scale, diverse datasets, as collecting reliable real-world data remains both difficult and cost-prohibitive. To address this limitation, we introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Rui Zhong , Yizhe Sun , Junjie Wen , Jinming Li , Chuang Cheng , Wei Dai , Zhiwen Zeng , Huimin Lu , Yichen Zhu , Yi Xu

We present Human to Humanoid (H2O), a reinforcement learning (RL) based framework that enables real-time whole-body teleoperation of a full-sized humanoid robot with only an RGB camera. To create a large-scale retargeted motion dataset of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Tairan He , Zhengyi Luo , Wenli Xiao , Chong Zhang , Kris Kitani , Changliu Liu , Guanya Shi

The acquisition of high-quality, action-aligned demonstration data remains a fundamental bottleneck in scaling foundation models for dexterous robot manipulation. Although robot-free human demonstrations (e.g., the UMI paradigm) offer a…

Humanoid robots with behavioral autonomy have consistently been regarded as ideal collaborators in our daily lives and promising representations of embodied intelligence. Compared to fixed-based robotic arms, humanoid robots offer a larger…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jin Wang , Nikos Tsagarakis

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising method to develop humanoid robot locomotion controllers. Despite the robust and stable locomotion demonstrated by previous RL controllers, their behavior often lacks the natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Qiyuan Zhang , Chenfan Weng , Guanwu Li , Fulai He , Yusheng Cai

Training manipulation policies for humanoid robots with diverse data enhances their robustness and generalization across tasks and platforms. However, learning solely from robot demonstrations is labor-intensive, requiring expensive…

Previous humanoid robot research works treat the robot as a bipedal mobile manipulation platform, where only the feet and hands contact the environment. However, we humans use all body parts to interact with the world, e.g., we sit in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ziwen Zhuang , Hang Zhao

Scaling real robot data is a key bottleneck in imitation learning, leading to the use of auxiliary data for policy training. While other aspects of robotic manipulation such as image or language understanding may be learned from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chengbo Yuan , Rui Zhou , Mengzhen Liu , Yingdong Hu , Shengjie Wang , Li Yi , Chuan Wen , Shanghang Zhang , Yang Gao

Humanoid robots are promising to acquire various skills by imitating human behaviors. However, existing algorithms are only capable of tracking smooth, low-speed human motions, even with delicate reward and curriculum design. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Weiji Xie , Jinrui Han , Jiakun Zheng , Huanyu Li , Xinzhe Liu , Jiyuan Shi , Weinan Zhang , Chenjia Bai , Xuelong Li

Whole-body manipulation is a powerful yet underexplored approach that enables robots to interact with large, heavy, or awkward objects using more than just their end-effectors. Soft robots, with their inherent passive compliance, are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Curtis C. Johnson , Carlo Alessi , Egidio Falotico , Marc D. Killpack

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…

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

Quadrupedal robots have demonstrated impressive locomotion capabilities in complex environments, but equipping them with autonomous versatile manipulation skills in a scalable way remains a significant challenge. In this work, we introduce…

Humanoid robots deployed in industrial environments are required to perform load-carrying transportation tasks that tightly couple locomotion and manipulation. However, achieving stable and robust locomotion under varying payloads and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lequn Fu , Yijun Zhong , Xiao Li , Yibin Liu , Zhiyuan Xu , Jian Tang , Shiqi Li

Egocentric videos are a valuable and scalable data source to learn manipulation policies. However, due to significant data heterogeneity, most existing approaches utilize human data for simple pre-training, which does not unlock its full…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xiongyi Cai , Ri-Zhao Qiu , Geng Chen , Lai Wei , Isabella Liu , Tianshu Huang , Xuxin Cheng , Xiaolong Wang

Humanoid locomotion is a challenging task due to its inherent complexity and high-dimensional dynamics, as well as the need to adapt to diverse and unpredictable environments. In this work, we introduce a novel learning framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Hyunyoung Jung , Zhaoyuan Gu , Ye Zhao , Hae-Won Park , Sehoon Ha

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

Humanoid robots hold great potential to perform various human-level skills, involving unified locomotion and manipulation in real-world settings. Driven by advances in machine learning and the strength of existing model-based approaches,…

In this report, we present HoloMotion-1, a humanoid motion foundation model for zero-shot whole-body motion tracking. A key innovation of HoloMotion-1 is to scale control-policy training with a large-scale hybrid motion corpus, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Maiyue Chen , Kaihui Wang , Bo Zhang , Xihan Ma , Zhiyuan Yang , Yi Ren , Qijun Huang , Zihao Zhu , Yucheng Wang , Zhizhong Su