cs.ROJun 24, 2026

OmniContact: Chaining Meta-Skills via Contact Flow for Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Authors: Runyi YuXiaoyi LinJi MaYinhuai WangKoukou LuoJiahao JiHuayi WangWenjia Wang+6 more

Organizations: Noitom Robotics · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Wuhan University · The University of Hong Kong

Abstract

Learning long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation poses a dual challenge: it requires not only the robust execution of meta-skills but also their seamless, closed-loop chaining equipped with autonomous recovery. Existing approaches remain limited: explicit humanoid-object interaction representations offer precision but are notoriously difficult for high-level planning, whereas implicit skill embeddings are compact but lack the interpretability required for reliable composition. We propose \ours, a hierarchical framework centered on \textbf{contact flow (CF)}, a compact representation consisting of key body trajectories and time-series binary contact signals. Leveraging this shared interface, our low-level policy \textbf{CF-Track} learns a unified library of loco-manipulation skills, while our high-level module \textbf{CF-Gen} heuristically synthesizes future contact-flow sequences. To support this setting, we additionally collect the OmniContact dataset, a MoCap-based HOI corpus for humanoid loco-manipulation (Appendix~\ref{sec:dataset}). Together, they enable robust execution, autonomous failure recovery, and flexible composition of meta-skills for long-horizon tasks. Experiments show that OmniContact achieves 98.7%98.7\% success on \textit{Carry Box} and 76.5%76.5\% on \textit{Push-Stack Boxes}, outperforming prior baselines by average margins of 40.9%40.9\% in meta-skill and 66.5%66.5\% in skill chaining. Besides, our framework naturally integrates with VLMs for semantic task decomposition, enabling complex, semantically grounded loco-manipulation behaviors, such as arranging scattered boxes into a heart shape.

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