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  1. FOCUS: Foot Observation Confidence for Robust Humanoid Proprioceptive Odometry

    Sep 2, 2026Kaixin Feng, Angsong Li, Shaopeng Zhang +5Robot State EstimationHumanoid Robotics

    1Wuhan University · 2AgiBot · 2AgiBot,†

  2. Unified Motion Retargeting for Humanoids with Learned Point Cloud Correspondence

    Sep 2, 2026Hanyang Cao, Yuetong Fang, Taesoo Kwon +10Motion RetargetingHumanoid Robotics

    HKUST(GZ) · Noitom Robotics · Hanyang University +2

  3. A Dual-Cam Parallel Elastic Actuator with Shared Gas-Spring Compensation for Humanoid Ankles

    Aug 31, 2026Jingcheng Jiang, Yifang Zhang, Nikos G. TsagarakisRoboticsHumanoid Robotics

    Humanoids and Human Centered Mechatronics (HHCM) Research Line Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genova, Italy

  4. Learning Agile Perceptive Traversal of Sparse 3D Structures for Humanoids

    Aug 30, 2026Efe Ongan, Chong Zhang, Boyang Sun +3Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobotic Perception

    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Computer Vision and Geometry Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  5. PAMoR: Parameterized Affective Motion Generation in Real Time for Humanoid Robots

    Aug 28, 2026Yan Pan, Lingfan Bao, Tianhu Peng +1Robot Motion GenerationValence-Arousal Modeling

    Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK

  6. HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object-Interaction

    Aug 17, 2026Jiahao Ji, Ji Ma, Runhan Zhang +12Humanoid RoboticsRobot Learning

    Noitom Robotics · National University of Singapore · The University of Hong Kong +2

  7. Policy-Induced Hand Priors in Humanoid Dual-Arm Manipulation: Diagnosing and Mitigating Initial-Pose Dependence

    Aug 12, 2026Chaeyeon Jung, Juyoun ParkBimanual Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Center for Humanoid Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Republic of Korea.

  8. RoboReact: Agentic Skill Distillation from Generated Egocentric Videos for Generalizable Whole-Body Manipulation

    Aug 4, 2026Shuliang He, Shuai Wang, Bo Yue +3Robot Skill LearningGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · JD Technology · Tsinghua University

  9. Toward Certified Functional Safety for Industrial Humanoid Robots: The Fail-Passive Gap and a Feasibility Study

    Aug 3, 2026Caiwu Ding, Tao Cui, Lingyun Wang +1Legged RoboticsSafety-Critical Control

    Siemens Foundational Technologies, Siemens Corporation, Princeton, NJ, USA

  10. StableMimic: Smooth Human-Like Recovery for Humanoid Motion Tracking - Learning Beyond the Tracking Distribution for Structured Post-Fall Behavior

    Aug 3, 2026Weihao Wu, Ming Huang, Ruofei Liu +3Robot Failure RecoveryRobot Imitation Learning

    Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China.

  11. Toward Geometry-Scalable Whole-Body Touch for Humanoids: A 3D-Printed Conformal EIT Skin

    Aug 3, 2026Haofeng Chen, Carson Kohlbrenner, Jiri Kubik +6Tactile SensingAdditive Manufacturing

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague · Human Interaction and Robotics group at CU Boulder · Eindhoven University of Technology

  12. Perception-and-action system for humanoid robot task execution in construction

    Aug 3, 2026Yanxi Liu, Yizhi LiuRobotic ConstructionMotion Retargeting

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University, 158 Link Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University, 151J Link Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA

  13. First Deployable Dynamic-CoM: A Unified Policy and Method-Agnostic Benchmark for Humanoid Single-Leg Balance

    Aug 1, 2026Yikai Zhou, Xingyun Wang, Jieming Cui +4RL for RoboticsHumanoid Robot Control

    Peking University

  14. Not Forgotten: Implementation and Evaluation of a Personalized Episodic Memory for the Humanoid Robot Head Kim

    Jul 27, 2026Steve Aschenbrenner, Marcel Heisler, Thomas Sievers +1Conversational MemoryEpisodic Memory

    Stuttgart Media University, Germany · University of Lübeck

  15. A Case Study on the Acceptance of a Humanoid Robotic Head Employed in Three Public Spaces

    Jul 27, 2026Marcel Heisler, Luca Randecker, Christian Becker-AsanoSpoken Dialogue SystemsHuman-Robot Interaction

    All authors are with Stuttgart Media University, Germany

  16. Towards Miniature Humanoid Tele-Loco-Manipulation Using Virtual Reality and Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 22, 2026Nicolas Kosanovic, Jordan Dowdy, Jean Chagas VazHumanoid Loco-ManipulationHumanoid Robot Locomotion

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville · Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40208, USA

  17. Learning Diverse Humanoid Tasks via Synthetic Video Scenarios without Real World Data

    Jul 22, 2026Yun-Hao Tsai, Cong-Thanh Vu, Yen-Chen LiuSynthetic Data Generation for RoboticsLearning from Demonstration

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan 70101, Taiwan

  18. Imitation of Arm Gestures by the Semi-Humanoid Robot NICO

    Jul 20, 2026Anastasiya Ihnatovich, Igor FarkašHumanoid Robot ControlRobot Imitation Learning

    Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava, Mlynská dolina 6284, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia

  19. From Sign Language Generation to Humanoid Execution: Vision-Language Guided Retargeting with Collision Mitigation

    Jul 20, 2026Nabeela Khan, Bowen Wu, Runwu Shi +5Motion RetargetingHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Systems and Control Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · RIKEN Guardian Robot Project, Kyoto, Japan · ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan +1

  20. Articulated Humanoid Head for a Robot Receptionist Capable of Natural Human Interaction

    Jul 19, 2026Tharusha Fonseka, Charuka Bandara, Moshintha Hewavitharana +4RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Dept. of ECE National University of Singapore Singapore · Dept. of ENTC University of Moratuwa Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  21. Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid

    Jul 17, 2026Ruogu Li, Chenyang Ma, Sikai Li +6Humanoid Loco-ManipulationRobotic Hand Design

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Stanford University

  22. PACE: Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation in Human-Robot Interaction

    Jul 17, 2026Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Megani Rajendran +3Human-Robot InteractionPersona-Conditioned Generation

    Macquarie University, Australia. · NVIDIA, Singapore.

  23. Requirement-Driven Design of Whole-Body Social Tactile Sensing via Virtual Human-Robot Interaction

    Jul 13, 2026Dakarai Crowder, Ruohan Zhang, Alexis E. Block +1Tactile SensingHuman-Robot Interaction

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA · Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

  24. Automated Synthesis of Facial Mechanisms for Conversational Animatronic Robots

    Jul 13, 2026Zongzheng Zhang, Zi Lin, Jiawen Yang +6RoboticsAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) · Beihang University +1

  25. Effects of Robotic Touch on Older Users During Walking Guidance by a Humanoid Robot

    Jul 10, 2026Leonie Leven, Marko Ackermann, Christian Werner +4Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. · Geriatric Center, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. · Institute of Medical Psychology, University Hospital Heidelberg, and Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. +1

  26. ContactMimic: Humanoid Object Interaction via Contact Control

    Jul 9, 2026Xinyao Li, Xialin He, Runpei Dong +1Robotic ControlRobot Skill Learning

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  27. In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery

    Jul 8, 2026Zekai Liang, Nikita Thareja, Peihan Zhang +7Robot TeleoperationSurgical Robotics

    Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, 92093, CA, USA. · Department of Surgery, UC San Diego, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, 92037, CA, USA.

  28. Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in Generalist-Robot Safety

    Jul 8, 2026Zhijin Meng, Francisco CruzAI Agent SafetyRobot Safety

    School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales

  29. Communicative Efficiency of Single vs. Multi-Axis Robot Neck Motion

    Jul 8, 2026Chapa Sirithunge, Haewon Jeong, Qinghua Guan +2Robot Morphology-Control Co-DesignRobotics

    University of Bristol School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, Tankard’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TW, UK · EPFL Institute of Mechanical Engineering, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · University of Tokyo Department of Precision Engineering, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  30. ThorArena: Benchmarking Humanoid Physical Interaction with Human Motion-Force Demonstrations

    Jul 7, 2026Chenhao Yu, Hongwu Wang, Weitao Zhang +5Humanoid Robot ControlHumanoid Robotics

    Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · Technical University of Munich