Humanoid locomotion and manipulation: Current progress and challenges in control, planning, and learning

Z Gu, J Li, W Shen, W Yu, Z **e, S McCrory… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Humanoid robots have great potential to perform various human-level skills. These skills
involve locomotion, manipulation, and cognitive capabilities. Driven by advances in machine …

Hover: Versatile neural whole-body controller for humanoid robots

T He, W **ao, T Lin, Z Luo, Z Xu, Z Jiang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
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 …

Learning humanoid locomotion with perceptive internal model

J Long, J Ren, M Shi, Z Wang, T Huang, P Luo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In contrast to quadruped robots that can navigate diverse terrains using a" blind" policy,
humanoid robots require accurate perception for stable locomotion due to their high degrees …

What foundation models can bring for robot learning in manipulation: A survey

D Li, Y **, Y Sun, H Yu, J Shi, X Hao, P Hao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The realization of universal robots is an ultimate goal of researchers. However, a key hurdle
in achieving this goal lies in the robots' ability to manipulate objects in their unstructured …

Mimicking-bench: A benchmark for generalizable humanoid-scene interaction learning via human mimicking

Y Liu, B Yang, L Zhong, H Wang, L Yi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.17730, 2024 - arxiv.org
Learning generic skills for humanoid robots interacting with 3D scenes by mimicking human
data is a key research challenge with significant implications for robotics and real-world …

Bridging the Human to Robot Dexterity Gap through Object-Oriented Rewards

I Guzey, Y Dai, G Savva, R Bhirangi, L Pinto - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Training robots directly from human videos is an emerging area in robotics and computer
vision. While there has been notable progress with two-fingered grippers, learning …

Learning Humanoid Standing-up Control across Diverse Postures

T Huang, J Ren, H Wang, Z Wang, Q Ben… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Standing-up control is crucial for humanoid robots, with the potential for integration into
current locomotion and loco-manipulation systems, such as fall recovery. Existing …

Learning from Massive Human Videos for Universal Humanoid Pose Control

J Mao, S Zhao, S Song, T Shi, J Ye, M Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Scalable learning of humanoid robots is crucial for their deployment in real-world
applications. While traditional approaches primarily rely on reinforcement learning or …

ARMOR: Egocentric Perception for Humanoid Robot Collision Avoidance and Motion Planning

D Kim, M Srouji, C Chen, J Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.00396, 2024 - arxiv.org
Humanoid robots have significant gaps in their sensing and perception, making it hard to
perform motion planning in dense environments. To address this, we introduce ARMOR, a …

HOMIE: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation with Isomorphic Exoskeleton Cockpit

Q Ben, F Jia, J Zeng, J Dong, D Lin, J Pang - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Current humanoid teleoperation systems either lack reliable low-level control policies, or
struggle to acquire accurate whole-body control commands, making it difficult to teleoperate …