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.

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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. HoloMotion-1 Technical Report

    May 14, 2026Maiyue Chen, Kaihui Wang, Bo Zhang +7Robot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning

  2. Learning Whole-Body Humanoid Locomotion via Motion Generation and Motion Tracking

    Apr 19, 2026Zewei Zhang, Kehan Wen, Michael Xu +7Robot Trajectory TrackingHumanoid Robot Locomotion

  3. ECHO: Edge-Cloud Humanoid Orchestration for Language-to-Motion Control

    Mar 17, 2026Haozhe Jia, Jianfei Song, Yuan Zhang +5Language-Conditioned Robot ControlRobot Motion Generation

  4. PhyGile: Physics-Prefix Guided Motion Generation for Agile General Humanoid Motion Tracking

    Mar 13, 2026Jiacheng Bao, Haoran Yang, Yucheng Xin +7Robot Trajectory TrackingHumanoid Robot Control

  5. ZeroWBC: Learning Natural Whole-Body Humanoid Interaction from Human Egocentric Data

    Mar 10, 2026Haoran Yang, Jiacheng Bao, Yucheng Xin +5Human Motion GenerationWhole-Body Control

  6. OmniXtreme: Breaking the Generality Barrier in High-Dynamic Humanoid Control

    Feb 27, 2026Yunshen Wang, Shaohang Zhu, Peiyuan Zhi +7Humanoid Robot ControlHumanoid Motion Tracking

  7. OmniTrack: General Motion Tracking via Physics-Consistent Reference

    Feb 27, 2026Yuhan Li, Peiyuan Zhi, Yunshen Wang +6Humanoid Motion TrackingHumanoid Robot Control

  8. EmbodMocap: In-the-Wild 4D Human-Scene Reconstruction for Embodied Agents

    Feb 26, 2026Wenjia Wang, Liang Pan, Huaijin Pi +83D Human ReconstructionEmbodied AI

  9. Iterative Closed-Loop Motion Synthesis for Scaling the Capabilities of Humanoid Control

    Feb 25, 2026Weisheng Xu, Qiwei Wu, Jiaxi Zhang +7Humanoid Robot ControlRobot Motion Generation

  10. KungfuBot: Physics-Based Humanoid Whole-Body Control for Learning Highly-Dynamic Skills

    Jun 15, 2025Weiji Xie, Jinrui Han, Jiakun Zheng +6Humanoid Robot ControlRobot Imitation Learning