Key papers

• Perpetual Humanoid Control For Real-time Simulated Avatars (2023)
  Zhengyi Luo, Jinkun Cao, Alexander Winkler, et al.
  13.84
• From Motor Control To Team Play In Simulated Humanoid Football (2021)
  Siqi Liu, Guy Lever, Zhe Wang, et al.
  13.60
• Acinoset: A 3D Pose Estimation Dataset And Baseline Models For Cheetahs In The Wild (2021)
  Daniel Joska, Liam Clark, Naoya Muramatsu, et al.
  12.87
• PMP: Learning To Physically Interact With Environments Using Part-wise Motion Priors (2023)
  Jinseok Bae, Jungdam Won, Donggeun Lim, et al.
  11.39
• A Data-efficient Deep Learning Approach For Deployable Multimodal Social Robots (2019)
  Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
  9.03
• Gait Generation Using Intrinsically Stable MPC In The Presence Of Persistent Disturbances (2019)
  Filippo M. Smaldone, Nicola Scianca, Valerio Modugno, et al.
  9.03
• Proxycap: Real-time Monocular Full-body Capture In World Space Via Human-centric Proxy-to-motion Learning (2023)
  Yuxiang Zhang, Hongwen Zhang, Liangxiao Hu, et al.
  8.60
• Tokenhsi: Unified Synthesis Of Physical Human-scene Interactions Through Task Tokenization (2025)
  Liang Pan, Zeshi Yang, Zhiyang Dou, et al.
  6.34
• Automatic Gain Tuning Of A Momentum Based Balancing Controller For Humanoid Robots (2016)
  Daniele Pucci, Gabriele Nava, Francesco Nori
  6.34
• Physics-Informed Neural Networks with Unscented Kalman Filter for Sensorless Joint Torque Estimation in Humanoid Robots (2025)
  Ines Sorrentino et al.
  6.12
• Demonstrating Berkeley Humanoid Lite: An Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot (2025)
  Yufeng Chi et al.
  5.96
• Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning (2025)
  Zhaoyuan Gu et al.
  5.79
• Perceptive Mixed-Integer Footstep Control for Underactuated Bipedal Walking on Rough Terrain (2025)
  Brian Acosta and Michael Posa
  5.48
• GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots (2025)
  NVIDIA: Johan Bjorck et al.
  5.24
• Learning Diverse Humanoid Tasks via Synthetic Video Scenarios without Real World Data (2026)
  Yun-Hao Tsai et al.
  5.01
• OmniContact: Chaining Meta-Skills via Contact Flow for Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation (2026)
  Runyi Yu et al.
  4.95
• RoboTales: ROBOTic Anthropomorphic LEarning Systems (2026)
  Andrew Chen et al.
  4.95
• TaskNPoint: How to Teach Your Humanoid to Hit a Backhand in Minutes (2026)
  Blake Werner et al.
  4.95
• A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots (2026)
  Duncan William Calvert
  4.95
• PressMimic: Pressure-Guided Motion Capture and Control for Humanoid Robot Imitation (2026)
  Yi Lu et al.
  4.95
• Humanoid-DART: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation using Diffusion-guided Augmentation through Relabeling and Tracking (2026)
  Pranav Debbad et al.
  4.95
• HumanoidUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation (2026)
  Hongwu Wang et al.
  4.95
• LangWBC: Language-directed Humanoid Whole-Body Control via End-to-end Learning (2025)
  Yiyang Shao et al.
  4.87
• Learning Humanoid Arm Motion via Centroidal Momentum Regularized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (2025)
  Ho Jae Lee et al.
  4.53
• Hapticlever: Kinematic Force Feedback Using A 3D Pantograph (2022)
  Marcus Friedel, Ehud Sharlin, Ryo Suzuki
  4.52
• Learning Aerodynamics for the Control of Flying Humanoid Robots (2025)
  Antonello Paolino et al.
  4.47
• Foundation Model For Skeleton-based Human Action Understanding (2025)
  Hongsong Wang, Wanjiang Weng, Junbo Wang, et al.
  4.47
• Behavior Foundations for Quadruped Robots: ABot-C0 Technical Report (2026)
  Xufeng Zhao et al.
  4.39
• Immersive Social Interaction with VR and LLM-Assisted Humanoids (2026)
  Niraj Pudasaini et al.
  4.39
• EgoHTR: Egocentric 4D Demonstrations of Human Terrain Traversal (2026)
  Alex Brandes et al.
  4.39
• RAVEN: Reinforcement-Adaptive Visibility-Graph Planning for Robust Humanoid Navigation with Collision-Free MPC (2026)
  Ruochen Hou et al.
  4.39
• Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid (2026)
  Ruogu Li et al.
  4.39
• Towards Miniature Humanoid Tele-Loco-Manipulation Using Virtual Reality and Reinforcement Learning (2026)
  Nicolas Kosanovic et al.
  4.39
• ORCA: An Open-Source, Reliable, Cost-Effective, Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand for Uninterrupted Dexterous Task Learning (2025)
  Clemens C. Christoph et al.
  4.36
• RUKA: Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning (2025)
  Anya Zorin et al.
  4.36
• SyLink Hand: A Synergy-Inspired Linkage-Driven Anthropomorphic Hand for Human-Like Dexterity (2026)
  Hao Wu et al.
  4.33
• Robust Fall Recovery for Armless Bipedal-Wheeled Robots Via Force-Guided Learning (2026)
  Haidong Hou et al.
  4.33
• HALOMI: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation with Active Perception from Human Demonstrations (2026)
  Zehui Zhao et al.
  4.33
• BFMTrack: Latent Sequence Optimization for Physics-Based Motion Tracking with Behavioral Foundation Models (2026)
  Thomas Rupf et al.
  4.33
• RGB: RL Guided Whole-Body MPPI for Humanoid Control (2026)
  Yunsoo Seo et al.
  4.33
• RAVEN: Long-Horizon Reasoning & Navigation with a Visuo-Spatio-Temporal Memory (2026)
  Yixun Hu et al.
  4.33
• Self Capacitive Tactile Sensor System designed for Companion Robots (2026)
  Mohsin Ali et al.
  4.33
• WOLF-VLA: Whole-Body Humanoid Optimal Locomotion Framework for Vision-Language-Action Learning (2026)
  Melya Boukheddimi et al.
  4.33
• Learning Asynchronous Upper-body Task-space Trajectory Tracking Policy for Humanoid Robots (2026)
  Yumeng Liu et al.
  4.33
• FORCE: Efficient VLA Reinforcement Fine-Tuning via Value-Calibrated Warm-up and Self-Distillation (2026)
  Shuyi Zhang et al.
  4.33
• Training Vision-Language-Action Models with Dense Embodied Chain-of-Thought Supervision (2026)
  Haoyang Li et al.
  4.33
• Signal Temporal Logic Motion Planning via Graphs of Convex Sets (2026)
  Yu Chen et al.
  4.27
• Any2Any: Efficient Cross-Embodiment Transfer for Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking (2026)
  Ming Yang et al.
  4.27
• Direct Dynamic Retargeting for Humanoid Imitation Learning from Videos (2026)
  Constant Roux et al.
  4.27
• Towards Shared Embodied Intelligence in Humanoid Robots through Optimization Development and Testing of the Human Aware ergoCub Robot (2026)
  Carlotta Sartore and Mohamed Elobaid and Lorenzo Rapetti and Giulio Romualdi and Stefano Dafarra and Nicola A. Piga and Ines Sorrentino and Paolo Maria Vicecone and Silvio Traversaro and Ugo Pattacini and Luca Fiorio and Francesco Draicchio and Giovanna Tranfo and Lorenzo Natale and Marco Maggiali and Daniele Pucci
  4.27
• Uni-LaViRA: Language-Vision-Robot Actions Translation for Unified Embodied Navigation (2026)
  Hongyu Ding et al.
  4.27
• HumanoidMimicGen: Data Generation for Loco-Manipulation via Whole-Body Planning (2026)
  Kevin Lin et al.
  4.27
• EIT-Pneumatic Hybrid Robotic Skin for Practical and Accurate Force Map Reconstruction (2026)
  Junhwi Cho et al.
  4.27
• SSR: Scaling Surefooted and Symmetric Humanoid Traversal to the Open World (2026)
  Ruiqi Yu et al.
  4.27
• RL-Augmented MPC for Non-Gaited Legged and Hybrid Locomotion (2026)
  Andrea Patrizi et al.
  4.04
• HUSKY: Humanoid Skateboarding System via Physics-Aware Whole-Body Control (2026)
  Jinrui Han et al.
  3.98
• Contact-Rich and Deformable Foot Modeling for Locomotion Control of the Human Musculoskeletal System (2025)
  Haixin Gong et al.
  3.92
• SKATER: Synthesized Kinematics for Advanced Traversing Efficiency on a Humanoid Robot via Roller Skate Swizzles (2026)
  Junchi Gu et al.
  3.92
• Vision-Language Models on the Edge for Real-Time Robotic Perception (2026)
  Sarat Ahmad et al.
  3.92
• Efficiently Learning Robust Torque-based Locomotion Through Reinforcement with Model-Based Supervision (2026)
  Yashuai Yan et al.
  3.92