Overview

Humanoid motion tracking studies how robots can reproduce human movements and follow motion commands despite differences in body shape, dynamics, and environment. Common approaches retarget motion-capture or video data to robot bodies, then train physics-based controllers with reinforcement learning or imitation; newer systems also use Transformers and generative motion models to broaden the range of skills. Research increasingly tests real-robot transfer, terrain and object interaction, teleoperation, recovery, and adaptation across robot embodiments. A central challenge is balancing faithful, expressive motion with physical feasibility, safety, and robustness, while benchmarks that measure pose error alone may miss unstable contacts or poor task execution.

Latest papers

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74 papers22 papers in the last four weeks, up 83% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. SONIC-K1: Porting a Universal Humanoid Motion Tracker to a Small Humanoid on a Single GPU

    Oct 29, 2026Kyrylo Kolesnichenko, Jong-Hoon KimHumanoid Motion TrackingHumanoid Robot Control

  2. Whole-Body Humanoid Control via Stochastic Motion Tokenization

    Oct 27, 2026Michael Drolet, Oleg Arenz, Jan PetersHumanoid Robot ControlHumanoid Motion Tracking

  3. HumanoidNDM: Closing the Training-Deployment Gap of Motion Tracking via Humanoid Neural Dynamics Model

    Oct 25, 2026Chao Chen, Zhenrong Wang, Jilong Wang +4Robot Policy AdaptationHumanoid Motion Tracking

  4. MimicAll: Structured Embodiment Conditioning for Cross-Humanoid Whole-Body Motion Tracking

    Oct 24, 2026Jia Li, Lingyun Xu, Yitang Li +1Humanoid Motion TrackingCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

  5. ViT-H: Generative Video-To-Humanoid Control with Motion Tracking Feedback

    Oct 23, 2026Zimo He, Tianyi Bian, Zizhong Yang +7Robot Learning from VideoHuman-to-Robot Motion Imitation

  6. Delay Randomization Widens the Delay Margin of Learned Humanoid Motion Trackers

    Oct 23, 2026Shaoqin Li, Yi SunHumanoid Robot ControlRobust Control

  7. Robot Motion Transition with a Human Motion Prior

    Oct 22, 2026Taehyun Byun, Taemoon Jeong, Yoonbyung Chai +4Robot Motion GenerationHumanoid Motion Tracking

  8. SP-HLM: Sparse-Pose-Driven Motion Generation and Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Oct 21, 2026Zhaohui Yang, Quanbao Lin, Chengqi Shi +9Humanoid Loco-ManipulationHumanoid Robot Control

  9. HuMiT: Low-Latency Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation via Compact Reference Tracking

    Oct 21, 2026Liu Cao, Botian Xu, Ruoqu Chen +5Robot TeleoperationHumanoid Robot Control

  10. Fast Motion Retargeting Pipeline for Scalable Humanoid Robot Learning

    Oct 20, 2026Daniel Marew, Sangjun Park, Nisal Perera +1Motion RetargetingHuman-to-Robot Motion Imitation

  11. Beyond Kinematic Tracking: Preserving Expressive Characteristics in Humanoid Whole-Body Control

    Oct 14, 2026Lingfan Bao, Hanshang Zhu, Yan Pan +6Whole-Body ControlHumanoid Motion Tracking

  12. TRACE: Efficient Transfer Learning for Neural Whole-Body Control Across Humanoid Embodiments

    Oct 13, 2026Qingyu Lan, Zhihao Tian, Zifan Wang +1Humanoid Robot ControlCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

  13. Test-Time Compute for Humanoid Behavior Foundation Models

    Oct 10, 2026Weiji Xie, Junsong Wu, Zibo Zhou +5Loco-ManipulationInference-Time Optimization

  14. From Digital Human Interactions to Physics-Based Humanoid Skills: Physics-Grounded Post-Training of Interaction Generators

    Oct 7, 2026Kerui Chen, Jianrong Zhang, Kai Lv +1Physics-Informed Generative ModelingDiffusion Models for Motion Generation

  15. MimicX: Policy-in-the-Loop Supervision Refinement for Video-Driven Humanoid Motion Tracking

    Oct 6, 2026Shuaijun Liu, Chenglong Zhang, Xuhao Liu +7Humanoid Motion TrackingHumanoid Robot Control

  16. BRACE: Adapting Whole-Body References for Force and Terrain Aware Humanoid Motion Tracking

    Oct 5, 2026Sudarshan Harithas, Chen Yu, Juan Borbon +5Humanoid Motion TrackingTerrain-Aware Robot Locomotion

  17. Continual Humanoid Motion Learning

    Oct 3, 2026Zhewen He, Hao Huang, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala +4Continual Robot LearningHumanoid Motion Tracking

  18. FlowHMR: Physically Plausible Motion Capture from Video

    Oct 2, 2026Zhanke Wang, Chengfeng Zhao, Qing Shuai +8Style-Conditioned Motion Generation3D Human Motion Reconstruction

  19. KungfuAthleteBot: learning high-dynamic humanoid motion from video with unified robust recovery

    Oct 2, 2026Zhongxiang Lei, Lulu Cao, Xuyang Wang +3RL for RoboticsHumanoid Robot Fall Recovery

  20. Filter-Aware Fine-Tuning for Safe Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking

    Oct 1, 2026Pranit Mohnot, Christian Helten, Daniele Gammelli +1Humanoid Motion TrackingRobot Safety

  21. GAE: General Action Expert for Real-Time Humanoid Teleoperation

    Sep 28, 2026Yuefan Wang, Huaicheng Zhou, Xiao He +6Robot TeleoperationHumanoid Robot Control

  22. AMBIT: Anticipatory Multimodal Body Recruitment for Bimanual Tracking on a Humanoid

    Sep 27, 2026Hanlong Li, Sihan Tan, Takeshi Ashizawa +2Bimanual Robotic ManipulationHumanoid Robot Control

  23. Generate, Track, Improve: Perceptive Multi-Skill Humanoid Locomotion with RL-Fine-Tuned Motion Generators

    Sep 25, 2026Zachary Olkin, William D. Compton, Aaron D. AmesHumanoid Robot LocomotionRobot Motion Generation

  24. Sample, Simulate, Select: Physics-in-the-Loop Text-to-Motion for Humanoids Without Training

    Sep 22, 2026Raphael Memmesheimer, Sven BehnkeHuman Motion GenerationRobot Motion Generation

  25. PLAT: Sparse Timed Keyframe Motion Tracking for Humanoid Control via Privileged Latent Transition Learning

    Sep 22, 2026Zepeng Wang, Jiangxing Wang, Chao Ma +2Robot Imitation LearningHumanoid Motion Tracking

  26. Learning Distance-Conditioned Object Transport for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from a Single Motion Clip

    Sep 18, 2026Yuhyeon Hwang, Daniel Sungho Jung, YongHyeok Seo +4Humanoid Loco-ManipulationLoco-Manipulation

  27. Gated Residual Body-Hand Coordination for Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation

    Sep 16, 2026Ruiming Wu, Shuang Li, Liding Zhang +2Bimanual Robotic ManipulationRobot Teleoperation