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Data-driven robotic learning faces an obvious dilemma: robust policies demand large-scale, high-quality demonstration data, yet collecting such data remains a major challenge owing to high operational costs, dependence on specialized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yan Huang , Shoujie Li , Xingting Li , Wenbo Ding

We aim to control a robot to physically behave in the real world following any high-level language command like "cartwheel" or "kick". Although human motion datasets exist, this task remains particularly challenging since generative models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shusheng Xu , Huaijie Wang , Jiaxuan Gao , Yutao Ouyang , Chao Yu , Yi Wu

We present CoMoGen, a controllable video generation framework that generates realistic interactive dynamics from a single binary mask sequence conditioned on an input image. CoMoGen introduces a lightweight MaskAdapter that encodes binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Adil Meric , Lin Geng Foo , Mert Kiray , Benjamin Busam , Rishabh Dabral , Christian Theobalt

Enabling humanoid robots to achieve natural and dynamic locomotion across a wide range of speeds, including smooth transitions from walking to running, presents a significant challenge. Existing deep reinforcement learning methods typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qingpeng Li , Chengrui Zhu , Yanming Wu , Xin Yuan , Zhen Zhang , Jian Yang , Yong Liu

We present an imitation learning framework that extracts distinctive legged locomotion behaviors and transitions between them from unlabeled real-world motion data. By automatically discovering behavioral modes and mapping user steering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Dongho Kang , Jin Cheng , Fatemeh Zargarbashi , Taerim Yoon , Sungjoon Choi , Stelian Coros

Humans use different modalities, such as speech, text, images, videos, etc., to communicate their intent and goals with teammates. For robots to become better assistants, we aim to endow them with the ability to follow instructions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Rutav Shah , Roberto Martín-Martín , Yuke Zhu

Humanoid robots that can autonomously operate in diverse environments have the potential to help address labour shortages in factories, assist elderly at homes, and colonize new planets. While classical controllers for humanoid robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ilija Radosavovic , Tete Xiao , Bike Zhang , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Koushil Sreenath

In this paper, we present a machine learning approach to move a group of robots in a formation. We model the problem as a multi-agent reinforcement learning problem. Our aim is to design a control policy for maintaining a desired formation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Abhay Rawat , Kamalakar Karlapalem

Despite recent advances in 3D human motion generation (MoGen) on standard benchmarks, existing text-to-motion models still face a fundamental bottleneck in their generalization capability. In contrast, adjacent generative fields, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jing Lin , Ruisi Wang , Junzhe Lu , Ziqi Huang , Guorui Song , Ailing Zeng , Xian Liu , Chen Wei , Wanqi Yin , Qingping Sun , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Ziwei Liu

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

Control policy learning for modular robot locomotion has previously been limited to proprioceptive feedback and flat terrain. This paper develops policies for modular systems with vision traversing more challenging environments. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Julian Whitman , Howie Choset

Imitation learning is a popular paradigm to teach robots new tasks, but collecting robot demonstrations through teleoperation or kinesthetic teaching is tedious and time-consuming. In contrast, directly demonstrating a task using our human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nick Heppert , Minh Quang Nguyen , Abhinav Valada

Reproducing the diverse and agile locomotion skills of animals has been a longstanding challenge in robotics. While manually-designed controllers have been able to emulate many complex behaviors, building such controllers involves a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xue Bin Peng , Erwin Coumans , Tingnan Zhang , Tsang-Wei Lee , Jie Tan , Sergey Levine

Simulation plays a key role in scaling robot learning and validating policies, but constructing simulations remains a labor-intensive process. This paper introduces ReGen, a generative simulation framework that automates simulation design…

Many Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches use joint control signals (positions, velocities, torques) as action space for continuous control tasks. We propose to lift the action space to a higher level in the form of subgoals for a motion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Fei Xia , Chengshu Li , Roberto Martín-Martín , Or Litany , Alexander Toshev , Silvio Savarese

Robots are increasingly deployed across diverse domains to tackle tasks requiring novel skills. However, current robot learning algorithms for acquiring novel skills often rely on demonstration datasets or environment interactions,…

This paper introduces MotionGlot, a model that can generate motion across multiple embodiments with different action dimensions, such as quadruped robots and human bodies. By leveraging the well-established training procedures commonly used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Sudarshan Harithas , Srinath Sridhar

Achieving robust locomotion on complex terrains remains a challenge due to high dimensional control and environmental uncertainties. This paper introduces a teacher prior framework based on the teacher student paradigm, integrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Fangcheng Jin , Yuqi Wang , Peixin Ma , Guodong Yang , Pan Zhao , En Li , Zhengtao Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have unified diverse linguistic tasks within a single framework, yet such unification remains unexplored in human motion generation. Existing methods are confined to isolated tasks, limiting flexibility for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Wendong Bu , Kaihang Pan , Yuze Lin , Jiacheng Li , Kai Shen , Wenqiao Zhang , Juncheng Li , Jun Xiao , Siliang Tang

Data scarcity remains a fundamental challenge in robot learning. While human demonstrations benefit from abundant motion capture data and vast internet resources, robotic manipulation suffers from limited training examples. To bridge this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiao Hu , Qi Yin , Yangming Shi , Yang Ye