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  1. Workhorse: Learning Robust Whole-Body Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Human Data

    Oct 6, 2026Songbo Hu, Qiayuan Liao, Yufeng Chi +4Humanoid Loco-ManipulationWhole-Body Robotic Manipulation

    University of California, Berkeley

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

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

    Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

  3. 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

    iRASC Lab., School of Computing, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Republic of Korea

  4. 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

    Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

  5. 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

    College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CCAI), United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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

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

    ShanghaiTech University · InstAdapt

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

    Oct 2, 2026Zhongxiang Lei, Lulu Cao, Xuyang Wang +3RL for RoboticsRobot Imitation Learning

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

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

    Seoul National University · University of Massachusetts Amherst · Google Research

  9. 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

    Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. · Robotics Institute Germany (RIG). · LimX Dynamics. +1

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

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

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA · Professional Master of Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems Program, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

  11. IronMind: Scaling Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation via Camera-Space Ego-Centric Pretraining

    Sep 30, 2026Huimin Pan, Yufan Ren, Kunpeng Song +16Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningVision-Language-Action Models

    World Model Team, XPENG Robotics

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

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

    Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. · Zhejiang University, China. · New York University, USA. +1

  13. 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

    School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  14. GestAdapt: Workspace-Conditioned Co-Speech Gesture Generation for Humanoid Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Bosong Ding, Xianglin Zhang, Miao Xin +2Robot Motion GenerationCo-Speech Gesture Generation

    Department of Intelligent Systems, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. · TU-Dresden, Dresden, Germany. · School of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing (CUMTB), Beijing, China.

  15. KPI: A Promptable Kernel for Physical Interaction on Humanoids

    Sep 28, 2026Yikai Wang, Honghao Zhu, Xiao Hu +5Humanoid Robot ControlImpedance Control

    Carnegie Mellon University. · Autel US. · Northeastern University.

  16. CoHuB: A Simulation Benchmark for Multi-Humanoid Collaboration

    Sep 28, 2026Hyunjin Park, Jebeom Chae, Minwoo Park +11Robotics SimulationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Yonsei University · Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology · University of California, Berkeley +1

  17. HOI-Retarget: Contact-Centric Retargeting for Human-Object Interaction

    Sep 28, 2026Jihwan Shin, Adrià López Escoriza, Junzhe He +2Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

  18. SocialHumanoid: Towards Expressive Humanoid Behavior via One-Step Co-Speech Motion Generation

    Sep 27, 2026Chengqun Yang, Tengjie Zhu, Liang Xu +10Human Motion GenerationCo-Speech Gesture Generation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · ZTE Corporation

  19. BeyondRetarget: Learning Executable Humanoid Motions Directly from Monocular Video

    Sep 24, 2026Tianyu Xiong, Yi Lu, Jinrui Wang +6Human Motion GenerationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Jiangsu Mobile Information System Integration Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China · China Mobile Zijin (Jiangsu) Innovation Research Institute Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China +1

  20. Anthropomimetic Soft Robotic Forearm with Independently Articulated Carpal Bones Enabling Human-Like Adaptive Stiffness Modulability

    Sep 24, 2026Yoshinobu Obata, Yinlai Jiang, Hiroshi Yokoi +1Robotic Hand DesignRobotics

    Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan · Center for Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

  21. HOTICE: Whole-Body Humanoid Object Transportation in Cluttered Environments

    Sep 21, 2026Toan Nguyen, Weiduo Yuan, Siheng Zhao +2Humanoid Loco-ManipulationHumanoid Robot Control

    University of Southern California

  22. LLM-based Conversational AI Knowledge Assistant for MyBuddy Humanoid Robot

    Sep 21, 2026Hanxiao ChenConversational AgentsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Electric Engineering and Information Systems The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

  23. MIRA: Real-Time Full-Duplex Human-Robot Interaction for Embodied Companions

    Sep 21, 2026Lijian Lin, Ye Zhu, Fan Zhang +5Co-Speech Gesture GenerationHuman-Robot Interaction

    International Digital Economy Academy · Astribot

  24. OmniCalib: Target-Free, Task-Structured Self-Calibration for Humanoid Robots

    Sep 17, 2026Kaixiang Lu, Haiyu Lan, Chunxiao Qiao +6RoboticsCamera Calibration

  25. WholeBodyWAM: Learning Whole-Body World Action Models with Scalable Motion Priors

    Sep 16, 2026Bowei Zhang, Qiyao Zhang, Shuanghao Bai +8Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningWorld Action Models

    Nankai University · Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics · Beijing Institute of Technology +1

  26. Visible-Reachable Workspace for Perception-Aware Humanoid Design

    Sep 8, 2026Boxi Xia, Zijiang Yang, Ryan Shin +5RoboticsRobotic Manipulation

    All authors are from Duke University.

  27. CALM: Configuration-Aware Human Intervention Boundaries During Robot Approach

    Sep 7, 2026Xinting Gao, Sipu Zhu, Weimin ZhuangRobot SafetySafe Motion Planning

    School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China · Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University, China

  28. BRIDGE: An Open-Source Humanoid Platform via Morphology-Control Co-Design for Physical AI

    Sep 3, 2026Jianren Wang, Letian Qian, Zikai Wang +4Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobot Morphology-Control Co-Design

    1Carnegie Mellon University · 2Huazhong University of Science and Technology · 3JoyIn AI

  29. Humanoid Safe Stop via Learned Stoppability Value

    Sep 2, 2026Junfeng Long, Pieter Abbeel, Koushil Sreenath +3Robot SafetyHumanoid Robotics

    UC Berkeley · Carnegie Mellon University · Stanford University

  30. Contact-Constrained Lower-Limb Joint-Offset Calibration for Humanoid Robots

    Sep 2, 2026Kaixiang Lu, Haiyu Lan, Chunxiao Qiao +5Model CalibrationHumanoid Robotics

    AGIBOT