Overview

Humanoid robotics studies how to build and control human-shaped machines for tasks that combine walking, balance, manipulation, and interaction in spaces designed for people. Common approaches include model-based whole-body control and model-predictive control, reinforcement learning and motion imitation, and perception systems that use cameras, depth, touch, or proprioception. Human demonstrations, video, and simulation are increasingly used to train skills, while benchmarks test locomotion, object handling, collaboration, and social behavior. A central challenge is making skills learned in simulation or from demonstrations reliable under real-world contact, uncertainty, and disturbances, while evaluating safety and task success consistently.

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152 papers32 papers in the last four weeks, up 39% on the four weeks before. 0.2% 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. Networked Humanoid Intelligence: Communication, Coordination, Collaboration, and Social Interaction

    Oct 26, 2026Loc X. Nguyen, Huy Q. Le, Ji Su Yoon +3Humanoid RoboticsMulti-Agent Communication

  3. HuGe: Scaling Humanoid Generalist Vision-Language-Action Models with Egocentric Experience

    Oct 25, 2026Yang Liu, Jiacheng Liu, Hengtao Li +14VLA Model TrainingVision-Language-Action Models

  4. Not an Accident: Exploiting Safety Filter Inadequacy in Humanoid Robots

    Oct 22, 2026Tiffany Bao, Shangtao Li, Yifan Sun +6Robot SafetySafety Filtering

  5. Test-Time Motion Steering for Perceptive Humanoid Fall Recovery

    Oct 21, 2026Osher Azulay, Cheng-Lin Hsieh, Stella X. YuHumanoid Robot Fall RecoveryHumanoid Robot Control

  6. Warping the Workspace: Expanding Visual Access with Adjustable Reach Mapping for Humanoid Teleoperation

    Oct 20, 2026Keigo Minamida, Koya Dendo, Yuto Nakamura +1Robot TeleoperationHumanoid Robotics

  7. EmbodyHOI: Embodiment-Aware Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation

    Oct 19, 2026Chaitanya Chawla, Kartik Sharma, Ananya Bal +2HOI GenerationHumanoid Robotics

  8. Compositional Humanoid Manipulation through Isomorphic Teleoperation and Independent Skill Routing

    Oct 19, 2026Yiming Wang, Peixian Yang, Lifeng Zhuo +5Robotic ManipulationHumanoid Robotics

  9. Evaluating Lightweight Contact Feedback in Dual-Operator Collaborative Humanoid Teleoperation

    Oct 16, 2026Austin Graves, Chuizheng Kong, Yunho Cho +4Robot TeleoperationHaptic Feedback for Robot Teleoperation

  10. Human-Like Redundancy Resolution for Real-Time Bimanual Humanoid Teleoperation

    Oct 12, 2026Chao Tan, Ming Shin Cindy Sung, Shuxian Liang +3Robotic ControlRobot Teleoperation

  11. B-Human '26 - Scalable Team Play up to 11 vs. 11

    Oct 10, 2026Arne Hasselbring, Tim Laue, Thomas Röfer +1RoboticsHumanoid Robotics

  12. Composable Dynamics for Cooperative Humanoids: A RoboCompiler Extension

    Oct 9, 2026Mehdi Heydari Shahna, Jouni MattilaMultibody DynamicsHumanoid Robot Control

  13. ATHLETE: Learning Reactive Humanoid Tennis via Trajectory-Guided Motion Matching

    Oct 9, 2026Zhihao Tian, Zifan Wang, Enzheng Zhu +4Robot Policy LearningHumanoid Robot Control

  14. PriMoRetarget: Humanoid Motion Transfer Through Prioritized Motion Retargeting

    Oct 8, 2026Nicholas Ioannidis, Dun Yang, Max Smith +4Motion RetargetingHumanoid Robotics

  15. PhoneBot: A Low-Cost Open Humanoid Robot Platform Reusing Smartphones

    Oct 6, 2026Ruochen Hou, Quanyou Wang, Daniel Koh +1Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobotics

  16. From Legs to Wheels: Embodiment-Aware Human Motion Retargeting for Mobile-Base Humanoids

    Oct 6, 2026Jiyeon Koo, Eunseom Pyo, Jeonghee Seo +2Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningMotion Retargeting

  17. BiGym 2.0: Benchmarking Learned and Agent-Developed Policies for Humanoid Household Manipulation

    Oct 6, 2026Zexi Zhang, Zecheng Zhu, Zidong Chen +2Whole-Body Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

  18. Talk, Render, Act: Integrating Social Gesture and Digital Face with Synchronized Speech for Conversational Humanoid Robot

    Oct 5, 2026Jin Jiang, Kun Li, Jiancong Ma +1Robot Motion GenerationCo-Speech Gesture Generation

  19. From Social Reasoning to Embodied Interaction: An Agentic Framework for Social Robots

    Oct 5, 2026Ziyu Cheng, Yuewen Guo, Zhirui Liu +5Agentic ReasoningHuman-Robot Interaction

  20. 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

  21. HumanoidToolBench: Benchmarking Humanoid Tool Use from Selection to Mobile Execution

    Oct 1, 2026Kyochul Jang, Seohyeon Park, Ohchul Kwon +9Mobile ManipulationRobotic Tool Use

  22. Continue, Abort, or Fall: Viability-Aware Policy Selection (VAPS) for Safe Humanoid Acrobatics

    Oct 1, 2026Siwei Ju, Lu Liu, Jan Peters +1Robotic ControlHumanoid Robot Control

  23. Toward Humanoid Robots in Construction: A Teleoperation Feasibility Study

    Sep 30, 2026Parastoo Ali Pour, David R. Martin, Chang Min Hur +6Robotic ConstructionHumanoid Loco-Manipulation

  24. RoboAssist: Interactive Human-Humanoid Planning for Long-Horizon Surgical Assistance

    Sep 30, 2026Jingwei Jia, Keyu Zhou, Jiewei Wang +7Robot SafetyHuman-Robot Collaboration

  25. Locomotion-Grounded Humanoid Soccer: Task-Gated Reinforcement Learning of a Multi-Directional Kicking Library

    Sep 30, 2026Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany, Jaehyun Jang, Hwanhee Kim +3Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobot Skill Learning