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

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

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

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

    Sep 30, 2026Parastoo Ali Pour, David R. Martin, Chang Min Hur +6TeleoperationHumanoid Robotics

    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

  3. Dense Temporal Motion Retargeting for Legged Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Jaeryeong Kim, Taerim Yoon, Jin Cheng +2Cross-Embodiment RetargetingLegged Robots

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Wasserwerkstrasse 12, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

  4. DexAgent: An Agentic Human2Sim2Robot Framework for Dexterous Manipulation with Self-Evolving Tool Library

    Sep 28, 2026Youhui Wang, Yunzhu Li, Li Fei-Fei +2Human-To-Robot TransferHumanoid Robotics

    Stanford University · Columbia University

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

    Sep 24, 2026Tianyu Xiong, Yi Lu, Jinrui Wang +6Cross-Embodiment RetargetingHuman Motion

    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

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

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

    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

  7. Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform

    Sep 22, 2026Yuanzhe Dong, Jie Cao, Shuman WangScalable Robot LearningHumanoid Robotics

    Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA

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

    Sep 21, 2026Hanxiao ChenHuman-Robot InteractionHumanoid Robotics

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

  9. Phrase-Level Robotic Guqin Performance: Bimanual Motion Planning and Audio-Tactile Interaction Monitoring

    Sep 21, 2026Zhen Wang, Zhiheng Chen, Tianyuan Bao +1Humanoid RoboticsTactile

    The Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, Shenzhen, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

  10. A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots

    Sep 1, 2026Duncan Calvert, Luigi Penco, Dexton Anderson +4Humanoid Loco-ManipulationHumanoid Robotics

    Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, 40 S Alcaniz St, Pensacola, FL 32502, USA. · University of West Florida, 11000 University Pkwy, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA.

  11. MiBOT: A head-worn robot that modulates cardiovascular responses through human-like soft massage

    Aug 30, 2026Alice Mylaeus, Stephanie Vogt, Berken Utku Demirel +4Soft RoboticsHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

  12. HandEdit: A Unified Benchmark for Egocentric Human-to-Robot Dexterous Hand Image Editing

    Aug 12, 2026Zhenjie Yang, Xingyu Jiao, Guopeng Zhong +18Robotic HandsLarge-Scale Robot Demonstration Datasets

    Inspire Robots · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Fudan University +3

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

    Aug 3, 2026Caiwu Ding, Tao Cui, Lingyun Wang +1Humanoid RoboticsRobust Fall Detection

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

  14. Self-Supervised Consistency Enhanced Disentangled Learning for Neural Decoding Generalization in Brain-Machine Interface

    Jul 27, 2026Jiyu Wei, Di Hong, Zhanjie Zhang +3Brain-Computer InterfaceRobust Cross-Domain Generalization

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Nanhu Brain-Computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou, China

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

    Jul 22, 2026Nicolas Kosanovic, Jordan Dowdy, Jean Chagas VazHumanoid Loco-ManipulationTeleoperation

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

  16. Optimization of sim-to-real transfer in the humanoid robot NICO

    Jul 20, 2026Juraj Gavura, Igor FarkašRobotic GraspingHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Applied Informatics Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

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

    Jul 20, 2026Anastasiya Ihnatovich, Igor FarkašHumanoid RoboticsMotion Imitation

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

  18. Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid

    Jul 17, 2026Ruogu Li, Chenyang Ma, Sikai Li +6Robotic HandsHumanoid Robotics

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Stanford University

  19. Vision-Based Dribbling for Humanoid Soccer via Privileged Representation Learning

    Jul 14, 2026Flavio Maiorana, Valerio Spagnoli, Eugenio Bugli +5BadmintonHumanoid Robotics

    Dept. of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome, Rome (Italy) · Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), C/ Llorens i Artigas 4-6, 08028, Barcelona, Spain · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  20. In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery

    Jul 8, 2026Zekai Liang, Nikita Thareja, Peihan Zhang +7Surgical RobotsHumanoid 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.

  21. Continuous and large-scale: ELEANOR, the soft architected arm inspired by the elephant trunk

    Jul 8, 2026Giovanna A. Naselli, Anderson B. Nardin, Seonggun Joe +6Soft RoboticsBio-Inspired Framework

    Soft BioRobotics Perception Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genova, GE, Italy · Department of Autonomous Systems Engineering, Korea Aerospace University, Seoul, South Korea · Photocentric Ltd., Peterborough PE1 5XN, United Kingdom +2

  22. HELP: Human-Efficient Large-Scale Robot Post-Training with Rollout Segmentation

    Jul 8, 2026Shaopeng Zhai, Qi Zhang, Tianyi Zhang +5Humanoid RoboticsRollout

    Continuous Learning Team, Shanghai AI Laboratory

  23. Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction

    Jun 25, 2026Philipp Allgeuer, Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Stefan WermterOpen-VocabularyRobotic Perception

    Knowledge Technology, Dept. of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany

  24. A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots

    Jun 24, 2026Duncan William CalvertHumanoid Loco-ManipulationHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA, HAL MARCUS COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, US

  25. Self Capacitive Tactile Sensor System designed for Companion Robots

    Jun 24, 2026Mohsin Ali, Hidenobu Sumioka, Shuhei IkemotoTactileHumanoid Robotics

    Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0196 Japan · Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, 2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Sorakugun, Kyoto 619-0288 Japan

  26. R2HandoverSim: A Simulation Framework and Benchmark for Robot-to-Human Object Handovers

    Jun 19, 2026Hanxin Zhang, Abdulqader Dhafer, Hongbiao Dong +1Humanoid RoboticsHandoff

    DANiLab, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK · School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK · School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  27. Data Standards for Humanoid Robotics: The Missing Infrastructure for Physical AI

    Jun 18, 2026Shaoshan Liu, Xiugong Qin, Xuan Wu +4Robotic Data AcquisitionHumanoid Robotics

  28. Proprioceptive Invariant State Estimation for Humanoid Robots on Non-Inertial Ground

    Jun 17, 2026Falak Mandali, Zijian He, Yan GuExtended Kalman FilterProprioception

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

  29. Generating Natural and Expressive Robot Gestures through Iterative Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback using LLMs

    Jun 17, 2026Chris Lee, Flora Salim, Benjamin Tag +1Co-Speech Gesture GenerationHumanoid Robotics

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia · Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  30. Beyond Failure Recovery: An Engagement-Aware Human-in-the-loop Framework for Robotic Systems

    Jun 16, 2026Jiaying Fang, Joyce Yang, Zhanxin Wu +2Human-Robot InteractionHumanoid Robotics

    Cornell University

  31. Identification of a Physics-Based Electrical Power Consumption Model for the Unitree G1 Humanoid Arm

    Jun 14, 2026Nestor N. Deniz, Sebastian Vega, Simon Parsons +1TorqueEnergy Consumption

    Engineering Department at Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire TF10 8NB, UK · Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology and Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems

  32. SIMPLE: Simulation-Based Policy Learning and Evaluation for Humanoid Loco-manipulation

    Jun 6, 2026Songlin Wei, Zhenhao Ni, Jie Liu +9Humanoid Loco-ManipulationSim-To-Real Reinforcement Learning

    USC Physical Superintelligence (PSI) Lab

  33. PHASOR: Phase-Anchored Universal Action Representations for Humanoid Embodiments

    Jun 1, 2026Kihyun Kim, Chaeyun Kim, Jongho Shin +4Cross-Embodiment TransferRobot Policies

    AIM Intelligence · Seoul National University · LG Electronics +2

  34. Towards Shared Embodied Intelligence in Humanoid Robots through Optimization Development and Testing of the Human Aware ergoCub Robot

    May 26, 2026Carlotta Sartore, Mohamed Elobaid, Lorenzo Rapetti +13Human-Robot CollaborationHumanoid Robotics

    GenerativeBionics, Genova, Italy. · 2Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy. · School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. +3

  35. DUET: Unified Dual-Space Emotion Control for Diffusion and Flow-Matching Driven Text-to-Speech

    May 20, 2026Xu Zhang, Longbing Cao, Zhangkai WuFlow-Matching Text-To-SpeechEmotion

    Frontier AI Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  36. Constraint-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning Based on Dynamic Decoupled Spherical Radial Squashing

    May 5, 2026Qijun Liao, Zhaoxin Yu, Jue YangActuatorHumanoid Robotics

    School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  37. A Replicable Robotics Awareness Method Using LLM-Enabled Robotics Interaction: Evidence from a Corporate Challenge

    Apr 23, 2026S. A. Prieto, M. A. Gopee, Y. Ben Arab +3Human-Robot InteractionHuman-Robot Collaboration

    KINESIS Core Technology Platform, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), United Arab Emirates (UAE). · S.M.A.R.T. Construction Research Group, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), United Arab Emirates (UAE). · AD Ports Group, Corporate Innovation Department, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

  38. Achieving Interaction Fluidity in a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic System: A Prototype for Fluid Error-Correction

    Apr 21, 2026Carlos Baptista De Lima, Julian Hough, Frank Förster +2Human-Robot InteractionHumanoid Robotics

    Swansea University · Swansea, United Kingdom · University of Hertfordshire +1

  39. Physically Grounded 3D Generative Reconstruction under Hand Occlusion using Proprioception and Multi-Contact Touch

    Apr 10, 2026Gabriele Mario Caddeo, Pasquale Marra, Lorenzo NataleProprioceptionOcclusion

    Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

  40. Learning Human-Like Badminton Skills for Humanoid Robots

    Feb 9, 2026Yeke Chen, Shihao Dong, Xiaoyu Ji +12BadmintonMotion Imitation

    Adaptive Robotic Controls Lab (ArcLab), Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · EngineAI Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

  41. LapSurgie: Humanoid Robots Performing Surgery via Teleoperated Handheld Laparoscopy

    Oct 3, 2025Zekai Liang, Xiao Liang, Soofiyan Atar +7Surgical RobotsHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA. · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. · UC San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.

  42. Dancing with REEM-C: A robot-to-human physical-social communication study

    Aug 9, 2024Marie Charbonneau, Francisco Javier Andrade Chavez, Katja MombaurHuman-Robot InteractionHumanoid Robotics

    Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada. · Systems Design, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada. · Engineering, Thompson Rivers University, 805 TRU Way, Kamloops, BC, V2C 0C8, Canada. +1

  43. Context-Aware System Synthesis, Task Assignment, and Routing

    Jun 14, 2017Jason Ziglar, Ryan Williams, Alfred WicksRepair-Assignment ProblemHumanoid Robotics