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The capability of performing long-horizon, language-guided robotic manipulation tasks critically relies on leveraging historical information and generating coherent action sequences. However, such capabilities are often overlooked by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xiaofan Wang , Xingyu Gao , Jianlong Fu , Zuolei Li , Dean Fortier , Galen Mullins , Andrey Kolobov , Baining Guo

We aim to build complex humanoid agents that integrate perception, motor control, and memory. In this work, we partly factor this problem into low-level motor control from proprioception and high-level coordination of the low-level skills…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Josh Merel , Arun Ahuja , Vu Pham , Saran Tunyasuvunakool , Siqi Liu , Dhruva Tirumala , Nicolas Heess , Greg Wayne

A major challenge in humanoid robotics is designing a unified interface for commanding diverse whole-body behaviors, from precise footstep sequences to partial-body mimicry and joystick teleoperation. We introduce the Masked Humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Pranay Dugar , Aayam Shrestha , Fangzhou Yu , Bart van Marum , Alan Fern

Leveraging human motion data to impart robots with versatile manipulation skills has emerged as a promising paradigm in robotic manipulation. Nevertheless, translating multi-source human hand motions into feasible robot behaviors remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhecheng Yuan , Tianming Wei , Langzhe Gu , Pu Hua , Tianhai Liang , Yuanpei Chen , Huazhe Xu

In the domain of humanoid robot control, the fusion of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) with whole-body control is essential for semantically guided execution of real-world tasks. However, existing methods encounter challenges in terms of low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Weikai Qin , Sichen Wu , Ci Chen , Mengfan Liu , Linxi Feng , Xinru Cui , Haoqi Han , Hesheng Wang

The development of foundation models for embodied intelligence critically depends on access to large-scale, high-quality robot demonstration data. Recent approaches have sought to address this challenge by training on large collections of…

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

Motion imitation is a pivotal and effective approach for humanoid robots to achieve a more diverse range of complex and expressive movements, making their performances more human-like. However, the significant differences in kinematics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zhenghan Chen , Haodong Zhang , Dongqi Wang , Jiyu Yu , Haocheng Xu , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

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

Learning natural, stable, and compositionally generalizable whole-body control policies for humanoid robots performing simultaneous locomotion and manipulation (loco-manipulation) remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. Existing…

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

Human-humanoid collaboration shows significant promise for applications in healthcare, domestic assistance, and manufacturing. While compliant robot-human collaboration has been extensively developed for robotic arms, enabling compliant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yushi Du , Yixuan Li , Baoxiong Jia , Yutang Lin , Pei Zhou , Wei Liang , Yanchao Yang , Siyuan Huang

Understanding action correspondence between humans and robots is essential for evaluating alignment in decision-making, particularly in human-robot collaboration and imitation learning within unstructured environments. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Azizul Zahid , Jie Fan , Farong Wang , Ashton Dy , Sai Swaminathan , Fei Liu

Achieving both behavioral similarity and appropriateness in human-like motion generation for humanoid robot remains an open challenge, further compounded by the lack of cross-embodiment adaptability. To address this problem, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Shipeng Lyu , Fangyuan Wang , Weiwei Lin , Luhao Zhu , David Navarro-Alarcon , Guodong Guo

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently enabled robotic manipulation by grounding visual and linguistic cues into actions. However, most VLAs assume the Markov property, relying only on the current observation and thus suffering…

Humanoid robots hold great promise in assisting humans in diverse environments and tasks, due to their flexibility and adaptability leveraging human-like morphology. However, research in humanoid robots is often bottlenecked by the costly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Carmelo Sferrazza , Dun-Ming Huang , Xingyu Lin , Youngwoon Lee , Pieter Abbeel

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

We present a universal motion representation that encompasses a comprehensive range of motor skills for physics-based humanoid control. Due to the high dimensionality of humanoids and the inherent difficulties in reinforcement learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhengyi Luo , Jinkun Cao , Josh Merel , Alexander Winkler , Jing Huang , Kris Kitani , Weipeng Xu

In this paper, we introduce RealDex, a pioneering dataset capturing authentic dexterous hand grasping motions infused with human behavioral patterns, enriched by multi-view and multimodal visual data. Utilizing a teleoperation system, we…

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