6 accepted papers
This paper tackles the challenge of enabling real-world humanoid robots to perform expressive and dynamic whole-body motions while maintaining stability. We propose ExBody2, a whole-body tracking framework trained in simulation with Reinforcement Learning and then transferred to the real world. The …
This paper presents GSWorld, a robust, photo-realistic simulator for robotics manipulation that combines 3D Gaussian Splatting with physics engines. Our framework advocates ‘closing the loop’ of developing manipulation policies with reproducible evaluation of policies learned from real-robot data an…
In the deep learning era, 2D LiDAR perception is often overlooked as research prioritizes 3D point clouds. Yet, 2D LiDAR remains essential for low-cost robotic systems due to its affordability. Despite its simplicity, it faces major challenges-not only in perception but also in learning itself, as d
Humanoid robots require both robust lower-body locomotion and precise upper-body manipulation. While recent Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches provide whole-body loco-manipulation policies, they lack precise manipulation with high DoF arms. In this paper, we propose decoupling upper-body control
‘In-the-wild’ mobile manipulation aims to deploy robots in diverse real-world environments, which requires the robot to (1) have skills that generalize across object configurations; (2) be capable of long-horizon task execution in diverse environments; and (3) perform complex manipulation beyond pic
The ability for robots to perform efficient and zero-shot grasping of object parts is crucial for practical applications and is becoming prevalent with recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs). To bridge the 2D-to-3D gap for representations to support such a capability, existing methods rely…