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For a general-purpose robot to operate in reality, executing a broad range of instructions across various environments is imperative. Central to the reinforcement learning and planning for such robotic agents is a generalizable reward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yanting Yang , Minghao Chen , Qibo Qiu , Jiahao Wu , Wenxiao Wang , Binbin Lin , Ziyu Guan , Xiaofei He

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.…

Generating human-like behavior on robots is a great challenge especially in dexterous manipulation tasks with robotic hands. Scripting policies from scratch is intractable due to the high-dimensional control space, and training policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zihan Ding , Yuanpei Chen , Allen Z. Ren , Shixiang Shane Gu , Qianxu Wang , Hao Dong , Chi Jin

Learning a general humanoid whole-body controller is challenging because practical reference motions can exhibit noise and inconsistencies after being transferred to the robot domain, and local defects may be amplified by closed-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yubiao Ma , Han Yu , Jiayin Xie , Changtai Lv , Qiang Luo , Chi Zhang , Yunpeng Yin , Boyang Xing , Xuemei Ren , Dongdong Zheng

Unified video and action prediction models hold great potential for robotic manipulation, as future observations offer contextual cues for planning, while actions reveal how interactions shape the environment. However, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yijie Zhu , Rui Shao , Ziyang Liu , Jie He , Jizhihui Liu , Jiuru Wang , Zitong Yu

Humans rarely plan whole-body interactions with objects at the level of explicit whole-body movements. High-level intentions, such as affordance, define the goal, while coordinated balance, contact, and manipulation can emerge naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Sirui Xu , Samuel Schulter , Morteza Ziyadi , Xialin He , Xiaohan Fei , Yu-Xiong Wang , Liangyan Gui

Bearing in mind the limited parametric knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) which supplies them with the relevant external knowledge has served as an approach to mitigate the issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Hanna Zubkova , Ji-Hoon Park , Seong-Whan Lee

We tackle the challenges of synthesizing versatile, physically simulated human motions for full-body object manipulation. Unlike prior methods that are focused on detailed motion tracking, trajectory following, or teleoperation, our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chen Tessler , Yifeng Jiang , Erwin Coumans , Zhengyi Luo , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

This paper introduces MobileH2R, a framework for learning generalizable vision-based human-to-mobile-robot (H2MR) handover skills. Unlike traditional fixed-base handovers, this task requires a mobile robot to reliably receive objects in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Zifan Wang , Ziqing Chen , Junyu Chen , Jilong Wang , Yuxin Yang , Yunze Liu , Xueyi Liu , He Wang , Li Yi

Humanoid robots deployed in real-world scenarios often need to carry unknown payloads, which introduce significant mismatch and degrade the effectiveness of simulation-to-reality reinforcement learning methods. To address this challenge, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyi Wang , Chenyun Zhang , Weiji Xie , Chao Yu , Wei Song , Chenjia Bai , Shiqiang Zhu

Humanoid robots have shown success in locomotion and manipulation. Despite these basic abilities, humanoids are still required to quickly understand human instructions and react based on human interaction signals to become valuable…

Humanoid robots capable of autonomous operation in diverse environments have long been a goal for roboticists. However, autonomous manipulation by humanoid robots has largely been restricted to one specific scene, primarily due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yanjie Ze , Zixuan Chen , Wenhao Wang , Tianyi Chen , Xialin He , Ying Yuan , Xue Bin Peng , Jiajun Wu

Humanoid robots promise general-purpose assistance, yet real-world humanoid loco-manipulation remains challenging because it requires whole-body stability, end-effector dexterity, and contact-aware interaction under frequent contact…

Reliable fall recovery is critical for humanoids operating in cluttered environments. Unlike quadrupeds or wheeled robots, humanoids experience high-energy impacts, complex whole-body contact, and large viewpoint changes during a fall,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Osher Azulay , Zhengjie Xu , Andrew Scheffer , Stella X. Yu

Humanoid activities involving sequential contacts are crucial for complex robotic interactions and operations in the real world and are traditionally solved by model-based motion planning, which is time-consuming and often relies on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Chong Zhang , Wenli Xiao , Tairan He , Guanya Shi

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

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

Human motion provides rich priors for training general-purpose humanoid control policies, but raw demonstrations are often incompatible with a robot's kinematics and dynamics, limiting their direct use. We present a two-stage pipeline for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hanwen Wang , Qiayuan Liao , Bike Zhang , Kunzhao Ren , Koushil Sreenath , Xiaobin Xiong

Dexterous manipulation with anthropomorphic robot hands remains a challenging problem in robotics because of the high-dimensional state and action spaces and complex contacts. Nevertheless, skillful closed-loop manipulation is required to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Malte Mosbach , Kara Moraw , Sven Behnke

Humanoid loco-manipulation in unstructured environments demands tight integration of egocentric perception and whole-body control. However, existing approaches either depend on external motion capture systems or fail to generalize across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shaofeng Yin , Yanjie Ze , Hong-Xing Yu , C. Karen Liu , Jiajun Wu