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Humanoid motion tracking policies are central to building teleoperation pipelines and hierarchical controllers, yet they face a fundamental challenge: the embodiment gap between humans and humanoid robots. Current approaches address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Joao Pedro Araujo , Yanjie Ze , Pei Xu , Jiajun Wu , C. Karen Liu

Achieving autonomous and versatile whole-body loco-manipulation remains a central barrier to making humanoids practically useful. Yet existing approaches are fundamentally constrained: retargeted data are often scarce or low-quality;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xialin He , Sirui Xu , Xinyao Li , Runpei Dong , Liuyu Bian , Yu-Xiong Wang , Liang-Yan Gui

Retargeting human motion to heterogeneous robots is a fundamental challenge in robotics, primarily due to the severe kinematic and dynamic discrepancies between varying embodiments. Existing solutions typically resort to training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Haoyu Zhang , Shibo Jin , Lusong Li , Jun Li , Liang Lin , Xiaodong He , Zecui Zeng

Whole-body humanoid locomotion is challenging due to high-dimensional control, morphological instability, and the need for real-time adaptation to various terrains using onboard perception. Directly applying reinforcement learning (RL) with…

Humanoid robots have the promise of locomoting like humans, including fast and dynamic running. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) controllers that can mimic human motions have become popular as they can generate very dynamic behaviors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zachary Olkin , William D. Compton , Ryan M. Bena , Aaron D. Ames

Recovering world-coordinate human motion from monocular videos with humanoid robot retargeting is significant for embodied intelligence and robotics. To avoid complex SLAM pipelines or heavy temporal models, we propose a lightweight,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhangzheng Tu , Kailun Su , Shaolong Zhu , Yukun Zheng

Human-to-humanoid imitation learning aims to learn a humanoid whole-body controller from human motion. Motion retargeting is a crucial step in enabling robots to acquire reference trajectories when exploring locomotion skills. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xingyu Chen , Hanyu Wu , Sikai Wu , Mingliang Zhou , Diyun Xiang , Haodong Zhang

A dominant paradigm for teaching humanoid robots complex skills is to retarget human motions as kinematic references to train reinforcement learning (RL) policies. However, existing retargeting pipelines often struggle with the significant…

We present the KinoDynamic Motion Retargeting (KDMR) framework, a novel approach for humanoid locomotion that models the retargeting process as a multi-contact, whole-body trajectory optimization problem. Conventional kinematics-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiaoyu Zhang , Steven Haener , Varun Madabushi , Maegan Tucker

Human motion retargeting for humanoid robots, transferring human motion data to robots for imitation, presents significant challenges but offers considerable potential for real-world applications. Traditionally, this process relies on human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zihan Xu , Mengxian Hu , Kaiyan Xiao , Qin Fang , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Effective motion representation is crucial for enabling robots to imitate expressive behaviors in real time, yet existing motion controllers often ignore inherent patterns in motion. Previous efforts in representation learning do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Matthias Heyrman , Chenhao Li , Victor Klemm , Dongho Kang , Stelian Coros , Marco Hutter

Imitation Learning from monocular video demonstrations provides a scalable approach for teaching complex skills to humanoid robots. However, translating human motion to humanoids requires overcoming significant morphological mismatches.…

Retargeting human kinematic reference motion onto a robot's morphology remains a formidable challenge. Existing methods often produce physical inconsistencies, such as foot sliding, self-collisions, or dynamically infeasible motions, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 David Müller , Agon Serifi , Sammy Christen , Ruben Grandia , Espen Knoop , Moritz Bächer

Robot motion planning has made vast advances over the past decades, but the challenge remains: robot mobile manipulators struggle to plan long-range whole-body motion in common household environments in real time, because of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yunfan Lu , Yuchen Ma , David Hsu , Panpan Cai

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

This paper presents a novel framework that enables real-world humanoid robots to maintain stability while performing human-like motion. Current methods train a policy which allows humanoid robots to follow human body using the massive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Haoyu Zhao , Sixu Lin , Qingwei Ben , Minyue Dai , Hao Fei , Jingbo Wang , Hua Zou , Junting Dong

Humanoid robot teleoperation allows humans to integrate their cognitive capabilities with the apparatus to perform tasks that need high strength, manoeuvrability and dexterity. This paper presents a framework for teleoperation of humanoid…

Realizing interactive whole-body control for multi-humanoid systems is critical for unlocking complex collaborative capabilities in shared environments. Although recent advancements have significantly enhanced the agility of individual…

Motion retargeting for specific robot from existing motion datasets is one critical step in transferring motion patterns from human behaviors to and across various robots. However, inconsistencies in topological structure, geometrical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Zhefeng Cao , Ben Liu , Sen Li , Wei Zhang , Hua Chen

Robust disturbance rejection remains a longstanding challenge in humanoid locomotion, particularly on unstructured terrains where sensing is unreliable and model mismatch is pronounced. While perception information, such as height map,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Qixin Zeng , Hongyin Zhang , Shangke Lyu , Junxi Jin , Donglin Wang , Chao Huang
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