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most citedSONIC: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control

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13 papers

cs.RO2026

Learning Dexterous Manipulation Using Contact Wrench Guidance From Human Demonstration

Xinghao Zhu, Zixi Liu, Shalin Jain +18

Dexterous robot manipulation can benefit from the abundance of human demonstrations, but transferring such demonstrations to robot policies remains challenging. We present Contact…

cs.CV2026

Ground Reaction Inertial Poser: Physics-based Human Motion Capture from Sparse IMUs and Insole Pressure Sensors

Ryosuke Hori, Jyun-Ting Song, Zhengyi Luo +4

We propose Ground Reaction Inertial Poser (GRIP), a method that reconstructs physically plausible human motion using four wearable devices. Unlike conventional IMU-only approaches,…

cs.RO2025

CHIP: Adaptive Compliance for Humanoid Control through Hindsight Perturbation

Sirui Chen, Zi-ang Cao, Zhengyi Luo +7

Recent progress in humanoid robots has unlocked agile locomotion skills, including backflipping, running, and crawling. Yet it remains challenging for a humanoid robot to perform f…

cs.RO2025

Opening the Sim-to-Real Door for Humanoid Pixel-to-Action Policy Transfer

Haoru Xue, Tairan He, Zi Wang +9

Recent progress in GPU-accelerated, photorealistic simulation has opened a scalable data-generation path for robot learning, where massive physics and visual randomization allow po…

cs.RO2025

VIRAL: Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Tairan He, Zi Wang, Haoru Xue +11

A key barrier to the real-world deployment of humanoid robots is the lack of autonomous loco-manipulation skills. We introduce VIRAL, a visual sim-to-real framework that learns hum…

cs.RO2025

BFM-Zero: A Promptable Behavioral Foundation Model for Humanoid Control Using Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning

Yitang Li, Zhengyi Luo, Tonghe Zhang +10

Building Behavioral Foundation Models (BFMs) for humanoid robots has the potential to unify diverse control tasks under a single, promptable generalist policy. However, existing ap…

cs.RO2025★ 3 cited

SONIC: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control

Zhengyi Luo, Ye Yuan, Tingwu Wang +25

Despite the rise of billion-parameter foundation models trained across thousands of graphical processing units (GPUs), similar scaling gains have not been shown for humanoid contro…

cs.CV2025

Self-Improving Vision-Language-Action Models with Data Generation via Residual RL

Wenli Xiao, Haotian Lin, Andy Peng +9

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) has become the de facto post-training strategy for large vision-language-action (VLA) models, but its reliance on costly human demonstrations limits sc…

cs.RO2025

HDMI: Learning Interactive Humanoid Whole-Body Control from Human Videos

Haoyang Weng, Yitang Li, Nikhil Sobanbabu +5

Enabling robust whole-body humanoid-object interaction (HOI) remains challenging due to motion data scarcity and the contact-rich nature. We present HDMI (HumanoiD iMitation for In…

cs.RO2025

Emergent Active Perception and Dexterity of Simulated Humanoids from Visual Reinforcement Learning

Zhengyi Luo, Chen Tessler, Toru Lin +8

Human behavior is fundamentally shaped by visual perception -- our ability to interact with the world depends on actively gathering relevant information and adapting our movements…

cs.RO2025

MaskedManipulator: Versatile Whole-Body Manipulation

Chen Tessler, Yifeng Jiang, Erwin Coumans +3

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 t…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

ASAP: Aligning Simulation and Real-World Physics for Learning Agile Humanoid Whole-Body Skills

Tairan He, Jiawei Gao, Wenli Xiao +15

Humanoid robots hold the potential for unparalleled versatility in performing human-like, whole-body skills. However, achieving agile and coordinated whole-body motions remains a s…

cs.RO2024

HOVER: Versatile Neural Whole-Body Controller for Humanoid Robots

Tairan He, Wenli Xiao, Toru Lin +9

Humanoid whole-body control requires adapting to diverse tasks such as navigation, loco-manipulation, and tabletop manipulation, each demanding a different mode of control. For exa…