19 papers
Learning Loco-Manipulation From SMPC Demonstrations With Sparse Offline-to-Online RL
Martin Schuck, Maks Sorokin, Simone Manni +5
Integrating locomotion and manipulation is essential for robot autonomy, but scaling standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) to complex tasks is severely bottlenecked by the slow, man…
EgoHTR: Egocentric 4D Demonstrations of Human Terrain Traversal
Alex Brandes, Haig Conti Georges Sajelian, Manthan Patel +11
The paper introduces EgoHTR, a dataset of egocentric 4D human motion captured in complex, unstructured terrain using wearable sensors and a portable 3D scanner, and demonstrates it…
Learning Whole-Body Humanoid Locomotion via Motion Generation and Motion Tracking
Zewei Zhang, Kehan Wen, Michael Xu +7
Whole-body humanoid locomotion is challenging due to high-dimensional control, morphological instability, and the need for real-time adaptation to various terrains using onboard pe…
Robots Need More than VLA and World Models
Elis Karcini, Faisal Mehrban, Quang Nguyen +6
Generalist robot intelligence is often framed as a policy-scaling problem: collect more robot demonstrations, train larger Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and expect broader g…
Using large language models for embodied planning introduces systematic safety risks
Tao Zhang, Kaixian Qu, Zhibin Li +4
Large language models are increasingly used as planners for robotic systems, yet how safely they plan remains an open question. To evaluate safe planning systematically, we introdu…
PAINT: Partner-Agnostic Intent-Aware Cooperative Transport with Legged Robots
Zhihao Cao, Tianxu An, Chenhao Li +2
Collaborative transport requires robots to infer partner intent through physical interaction while maintaining stable loco-manipulation. This becomes particularly challenging in co…