Humanoid loco-manipulation is often simplified into a stop-and-go process: walking to an object, stopping to manipulate it, and then resuming locomotion. It also commonly relies on low degree-of-freedom (DoF) end effectors that behave like an open-close grasp primitive.
arXiv:2603. 03751v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cooperative object transport in unstructured environments remains challenging for assistive humanoids because strong, time-varying interaction forces can make tracking-centric whole-body control unreliable, especially in close-contact support tasks.
By Hao Zhang, Yves Tseng, Ding Zhao, H. Eric Tseng
arXiv:2606. 29209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present AnyBody, a unified whole-body humanoid controller driven by an arbitrary subset of body keypoints chosen at deploy time.
By Shuning Li, Sikai Li, Jiachen Li, Mingyu Ding
arXiv:2510. 08807v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: From loco-motion to dextrous manipulation, humanoid robots have made remarkable strides in demonstrating complex full-body capabilities.
By Zhenyu Zhao, Hongyi Jing, Xiawei Liu, Jiageng Mao, Abha Jha, Hanwen Yang, Rong Xue, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang
arXiv:2511. 07820v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the rise of billion-parameter foundation models trained across thousands of graphical processing units (GPUs), similar scaling gains have not been shown for humanoid control.
By Zhengyi Luo, Ye Yuan, Tingwu Wang, Chenran Li, Fernando Casta\~neda, Sirui Chen, Zi-Ang Cao, Jiefeng Li, David Minor, Qingwei Ben, Jinhyung Park, David Sami, Zi Wang, Xingye Da, Runyu Ding, Cyrus Hogg, Lina Song, Edy Lim, Eugene Jeong, Tairan He, Haoru Xue, Wenli Xiao, Simon Yuen, Jan Kautz, Yan Chang, Umar Iqbal, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Yuke Zhu
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
Humanoid robots hold great promise as general-purpose agents in human-centered environments, yet generalist vision-language-action (VLA) foundation models are not readily applicable to humanoid whole-body loco-manipulation. The high dimensionality and interdependence of humanoid motions make it challenging for conventional single-stage VLA architectures to coordinate locomotion, waist posture, and dual-arm manipulation effectively.
arXiv:2506. 12851v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humanoid robots are promising to acquire various skills by imitating human behaviors.
By Weiji Xie, Jinrui Han, Jiakun Zheng, Huanyu Li, Xinzhe Liu, Jiyuan Shi, Weinan Zhang, Chenjia Bai, Xuelong Li
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.
By Xufeng Zhao, Fuzhi Yang, Jianhui Chen, Li Gao, Zhang Meng, Jie Gao, Yao Zheng, Wenyu Liu, Menglin Yang, Minqi Gu, Yaru Zhao, Honglin Han, Shihui Su, Zixiao Tang, Liu Liu, Mu Xu, Yang Cai, Wenbin Tang
arXiv:2608. 16837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots hold great promise as general-purpose agents in human-centered environments, yet generalist vision-language-action (VLA) foundation models are not readily applicable to humanoid whole-body loco-manipulation.
By Langzhe Gu, Chengkai Hou, Meng Li, Xinhua Wang, Jiaming Liu, Xinyuan Lv, Bowei Zhang, Shuanghao Bai, Guangrun Li, Jingyang He, Gaole Dai, Ziluo Ding, Zhiyuan Xu, Kuan Cheng, Jian Tang, Zhengping Che, Shanghang Zhang
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: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