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 …

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 …

Ogmp: Oracle guided multi-mode policies for agile and versatile robot control

L Krishna, N Sobanbabu, Q Nguyen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.04205, 2024 - arxiv.org
The efficacy of reinforcement learning for robot control relies on the tailored integration of
task-specific priors and heuristics for effective exploration, which challenges their …

Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap for Athletic Loco-Manipulation

N Fey, GB Margolis, M Peticco, P Agrawal - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Achieving athletic loco-manipulation on robots requires moving beyond traditional tracking
rewards-which simply guide the robot along a reference trajectory-to task rewards that drive …

A Plug-and-Play Physical Motion Restoration Approach for In-the-Wild High-Difficulty Motions

Y Zhang, R Li, Y Zhang, L Pan, J Wang, Y Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Extracting physically plausible 3D human motion from videos is a critical task. Although
existing simulation-based motion imitation methods can enhance the physical quality of …

Zero-shot Whole-Body Humanoid Control via Behavioral Foundation Models

A Tirinzoni, A Touati, J Farebrother, M Guzek… - NeurIPS 2024 Workshop … - openreview.net
Unsupervised reinforcement learning (RL) aims at pre-training models that can solve a wide
range of downstream tasks in complex environments. Despite recent advancements …

MuJoCo Manipulus: A Robot Learning Benchmark for Generalizable Tool Manipulation

J Zamora, D Seita, Y Wang - openreview.net
We propose MuJoCo Manipulus, a novel open-source benchmark powered by the MuJoCo
physics simulation engine, designed to accelerate advances in robot learning for tool …