5 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning
Zhaoyuan Gu, Junheng Li, Wenlan Shen +15
Humanoid robots hold great potential to perform various human-level skills, involving unified locomotion and manipulation in real-world settings. Driven by advances in machine lear…