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 …

Whole-body humanoid robot locomotion with human reference

Q Zhang, P Cui, D Yan, J Sun, Y Duan… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, humanoid robots have made significant advances in their ability to perform
challenging tasks due to the deployment of Reinforcement Learning (RL), however, the …

Expressive whole-body control for humanoid robots

X Cheng, Y Ji, J Chen, R Yang, G Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Can we enable humanoid robots to generate rich, diverse, and expressive motions in the
real world? We propose to learn a whole-body control policy on a human-sized robot to …

Berkeley humanoid: A research platform for learning-based control

Q Liao, B Zhang, X Huang, X Huang, Z Li… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce Berkeley Humanoid, a reliable and low-cost mid-scale humanoid research
platform for learning-based control. Our lightweight, in-house-built robot is designed …

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Bipedal Locomotion: A Brief Survey

L Bao, J Humphreys, T Peng, C Zhou - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.17070, 2024 - arxiv.org
Bipedal robots are garnering increasing global attention due to their potential applications
and advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly in Deep Reinforcement Learning …

Learning human-to-humanoid real-time whole-body teleoperation

T He, Z Luo, W **ao, C Zhang, K Kitani, C Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present Human to Humanoid (H2O), a reinforcement learning (RL) based framework that
enables real-time whole-body teleoperation of a full-sized humanoid robot with only an RGB …

Exbody2: Advanced expressive humanoid whole-body control

M Ji, X Peng, F Liu, J Li, G Yang, X Cheng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper enables real-world humanoid robots to maintain stability while performing
expressive motions like humans do. We propose ExBody2, a generalized whole-body …

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 …

A Biomechanics-Inspired Approach to Soccer Kicking for Humanoid Robots

D Marew, N Perera, S Yu, S Roelker… - 2024 IEEE-RAS 23rd …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soccer kicking is a complex whole-body motion that requires intricate coordination of
various motor actions. To accomplish such dynamic motion in a humanoid robot, the robot …

Revisiting Reward Design and Evaluation for Robust Humanoid Standing and Walking

B van Marum, A Shrestha, H Duan, P Dugar… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
A necessary capability for humanoid robots is the ability to stand and walk while rejecting
natural disturbances. Recent progress has been made using sim-to-real reinforcement …