arXiv AI

GaitSpan: Growing Humanoid Locomotion from Walking to Running

arXiv:2607. 12114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A humanoid that can walk should not relearn locomotion from scratch to jog or run.

arXiv AI
Jun 4

CoRe-MoE: Contrastive Reweighted Mixture of Experts for Multi-Terrain Humanoid Locomotion with Gait Adaptation

arXiv:2606. 04718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans primarily rely on walking and running to traverse complex terrains, without resorting to unnecessarily complex motion patterns.

By Kailun Huang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Zikang Xie (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Yanzhe Xie (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Panpan Liao (Guangdong University of Technology), Fanghai Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Yanheng Mai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Wenhao Xu (South China Agricultural University), Yunheng Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Renjing Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Haohui Huang (Guangdong University of Technology)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

REFINE-DP: Diffusion Policy Fine-tuning for Humanoid Loco-manipulation via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603. 13707v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation requires coordinated task-space motion planning with stable loco-manipulation command tracking under complex robot-environment dynamics and long-horizon tasks.

By Zhaoyuan Gu, Yipu Chen, Zimeng Chai, Alfred Cueva, Thong Nguyen, Yifan Wu, Huishu Xue, Minji Kim, Isaac Legene, Fukang Liu, KyoungMok Kim, Ayan Barula, Yongxin Chen, Ye Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Learning Reusable Hybrid Motion Priors for Humanoid Locomotion from Motion Imitation

arXiv:2607. 24083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning can produce robust humanoid controllers, but each new task is typically trained as a separate policy with its own reward design and training process.

By Valerio Belli (UNIROMA, UCL), Valerio Modugno (UCL), Enrico Mingo Hoffman (HUCEBOT), Fabio Amadio (HUCEBOT)
arXiv AI
Jun 17

OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction

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.

By Lujie Yang, Xiaoyu Huang, Zhen Wu, Angjoo Kanazawa, Pieter Abbeel, Carmelo Sferrazza, C. Karen Liu, Rocky Duan, Guanya Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

LoComposition: Terrain-Adaptive Energy-Efficient Quadruped Locomotion without Gait Priors

arXiv:2606. 15896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based quadrupedal locomotion typically relies on complex reward formulations that entangle task specification, operational limits, gait preference, and terrain adaptation within a single optimization objective.

By Loukas Kordos, Leonard T. Franz, Simon Rappenecker, Oliver Hausdoerfer, Angela P. Schoellig, Pavel Kolev, Georg Martius
arXiv AI
Jul 23

PGTT: Phase-Guided Terrain Traversal for Perceptive Legged Locomotion

arXiv:2510. 18348v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: State-of-the-art perceptive Reinforcement Learning controllers for legged robots typically either (i) impose oscillator-or IK-based gait priors that constrain the action space, bias policy optimization, and limit adaptability across robot morphologies, or (ii) operate "blind," making them unable to anticipate hind-leg terrain and brittle to observation noise.

By Alexandros Ntagkas, Chairi Kiourt, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Scaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots

arXiv:2607. 15163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid control requires natural whole-body coordination, precise real-time responses to control signals, and robust generalization across diverse environmental contexts, making it a cornerstone for generalist embodied agents.

By Weishuai Zeng, Kangning Yin, Xiaojie Niu, Shunlin Lu, Weixiang Zhong, Jiahe Chen, Feiyu Jia, Xiao Chen, Zirui Wang, Furui Xu, Ming Zhou, Kailin Li, Weinan Zhang, He Wang, Li Yi, Dahua Lin, Jiangmiao Pang, Jingbo Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

OmniMimic: Dynamics-completed Motion Augmentation for Multi-style Omnidirectional Quadruped Locomotion

OmniMimic is a training framework that expands limited animal demonstration data into a single multi‑gait policy for omnidirectional quadruped locomotion. It uses temporal reversal, constrained dynamics completion, and sagittal reflection to generate kinematic and physical supervision beyond the observed directions, then progressively expands command ranges and employs a shared actor with soft‑gated gait‑specialized residual experts. In simulation, OmniMimic improves foot‑position accuracy by 12.9% and velocity‑tracking error by 63.1% over the APEX baseline across four gaits.

By Sheng Wu, Guoqiang Zhao, Zhe Yang, Fei Teng, Zhikun Zhou, Yanlin Yang, Zheng Fang, Hong Zheng, Yaonan Wang, Kailun Yang