arXiv AI By Bikram Pandit, Mohitvishnu S. Gadde, Aayam Kumar Shrestha, Alan Fern

Learning Multi-Humanoid Pickup and Transport via Decentralized Object-Centric Control

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The paper presents a decentralized, object‑centric control strategy for cooperative multi‑humanoid pickup and transport of objects with diverse sizes, weights, and shapes. Each humanoid is assigned a local attachment region on the shared object and learns to perform gripperless bimanual pinching, enabling pickup, transport, and handover without task‑specific redesign. Experiments in simulation and on real hardware demonstrate that single‑robot trained policies transfer to multi‑robot settings and that additional multi‑robot training further improves coordination.

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