FootQuery is a perceptive locomotion framework that retrieves depth information from a robot’s own history by querying each foot’s predicted next touchdown. The policy uses proprioceptive predictions of touchdown locations and uncertainties to sample relevant historical depth frames, fuses these per‑foot features with global visual memory, and generates control actions. In simulation and on a real Unitree G1 robot, FootQuery enables continuous traversal of complex outdoor stairs, indoor routes, platforms, and gaps, outperforming component ablations.
arXiv:2606. 08253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling humanoid robots to operate in complex, dynamic environments remains a critical challenge, fundamentally limited by the ability to navigate robustly, safely, and accurately.
arXiv:2606. 30645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perception-based humanoid loco-manipulation requires connecting egocentric observations and task instructions to whole-body motion.
arXiv:2509. 26633v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A dominant paradigm for teaching humanoid robots complex skills is to retarget human motions as kinematic references to train reinforcement learning (RL) policies.
arXiv:2606. 27581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current humanoid reinforcement-learning policies excel at free-space motions but struggle with contact-rich tasks, as pure kinematic tracking cannot resolve the physical ambiguities of interacting with objects and uneven terrain.
The paper introduces UniWM, a unified, memory‑augmented world model that merges egocentric visual foresight and planning into a single multimodal autoregressive backbone. By grounding action selection in visually imagined outcomes and using a hierarchical memory to fuse short‑term perception with long‑term trajectory context, UniWM aligns prediction with control and improves navigation stability. Experiments on four challenging benchmarks and the 1X Humanoid Dataset show up to 30% higher success rates, reduced trajectory errors, zero‑shot generalization to unseen datasets, and scalability to high‑dimensional humanoid navigation.
arXiv:2608. 05975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we present TRACE (Tokenized Robust Attention for Contact-Aware Estimation), an end-to-end learned proprioceptive odometry estimator for legged robots under unreliable contact conditions.
Perception-based humanoid loco-manipulation requires connecting egocentric observations and task instructions to whole-body motion. Learning this mapping requires synchronized egocentric images, language commands, and robot-compatible kinematic trajectories, yet no existing data source provides this complete tuple at scale.
arXiv:2601. 15995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parkour tasks for quadrupeds have emerged as a promising benchmark for agile locomotion.
arXiv:2512.23649v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans learn locomotion through visual observation, interpreting visual content first before imitating actions. However, state-of-the-art hum...
arXiv:2607. 07370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In embodied intelligence systems, the motion controller serves as the critical bridge between semantic reasoning and physical execution.
In this paper, we present TRACE (Tokenized Robust Attention for Contact-Aware Estimation), an end-to-end learned proprioceptive odometry estimator for legged robots under unreliable contact conditions. The proposed estimator directly predicts relative displacement, relative rotation, and body-frame velocity from a recent history of onboard inertial and joint measurements.
Humanoid motion imitation requires not only accurate perception of human kinematics but also faithful reproduction of physical interactions with the environment. However, existing pipelines rely primarily on vision-based motion capture and kinematic imitation, largely ignoring contact dynamics, leading to artifacts such as foot sliding, floor penetration, and unstable behaviors.