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A One-Line ROS 2 Hook Can Fake What a Robot Is Doing

UCL and PolyU researchers spoof Franka telemetry through LD_PRELOAD, bypassing SROS 2 and beating an AI detector 87% of the time.

Robb Harlan
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FolDeX Makes Laundry the Real-Robot Benchmark

Shar Hendrix
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ergoCub Won’t Drop the Box Until You Mean It

Robb Harlan
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LIBERO-Recover Asks If the Arm Can Get Up After It Drops the Bowl

Shar Hendrix
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VLA-Precision Learns Lab Chemistry on Real Arms in Under an Hour

Robb Harlan
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R2S-Eval Ranks Robot Policies by Watching the Whole Rollout, Not Just Success

Shar Hendrix
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Safe-Stop Asks Whether a Humanoid Should Hit the Brakes at All

Robb Harlan
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A Soft Arm That Tracks Its Whole Shape, Not Just the Tip

Robb Harlan
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ETH’s ADAPT Turns Text Into Closed-Loop G1 Motion at 50 Hz

Robb Harlan
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UMR Retargets Human Motion to Humanoids With Surface Point Clouds, Not Hand-Labeled Joints

Shar Hendrix
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WM-LOCO Walks a G1 Across Stones, Stairs, and an 0.8 m Gap Onboard

Robb Harlan
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ConsJump Sends a 22 kg Aliengo Through a Body-Sized Gate

Robb Harlan
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ETH Humanoid Swings Monkey Bars From Onboard Lidar

Robb Harlan
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IHMC’s Alex Opens Doors You Can Edit While It Walks

Robb Harlan
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Menlo’s Asimov 1 Walks Zero-Shot From Sim, Onboard

Shar Hendrix
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UT Austin Leads a $30M NSF Center on Human-Robot Co-Adaptation

Robb Harlan
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Syracuse Gets Stock Poppy Walking Without Holding Its Hands

Shar Hendrix
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iCub in a Crib: Science Robotics Tests How Infants Learn Cause and Effect

Robb Harlan
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SOLO Walks a Humanoid 1.5 km on One Chest Camera

Shar Hendrix
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BeyondMimic Puts Cartwheels and Kick Combos on a Real G1

Robb Harlan
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DreamMimic Distills Privileged Teachers Into a Vision Humanoid

Robb Harlan
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Tokyo’s Musashi-W Gets a Joint Skin That Estimates Elbow Angle

Shar Hendrix
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IIT Kanpur Teaches a G1 to Stand Up Without Demos

Shar Hendrix
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DECOWAM Splits Base, Arm, and Camera Motion on a Wheeled Quad

Robb Harlan
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FS-MPC: Sampled Control That Doesn’t Fall Over on a Unitree H1

Robb Harlan
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MILD Walks an EngineAI Biped Across Foam, Grass, and Sand

Robb Harlan
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A Coding Agent Beats Diffusion Policy at Push-T, Then Does A–Z

Shar Hendrix
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Lambda-Hold Learns a Human-Like Sprint From Velocity Alone

Shar Hendrix
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ManiGuard: Finishing the Task Is Not the Same as Doing It Safely

Robb Harlan
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Noitom Drops 617.5 Hours of High-Precision Human Motion for Humanoids

Shar Hendrix
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Graph-MambaNav Puts the Coffee Machine Last in Line

Robb Harlan
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hint² Steers a Short-Horizon Policy With Two World Models

Robb Harlan
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OccPlanner Turns a Pixel Tap Into a 3D Path on a Go2

Shar Hendrix
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PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5 Scores the Path, Not Just the Finish

Robb Harlan
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ASPIRE-VINS Puts Extra Knots Where the Robot Actually Turns

Robb Harlan
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ContactIPM Pushes the Box Without Being Told When to Touch It

Robb Harlan
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D3D-GEN Builds Hospital Wards a Social Robot Can Actually Walk

Shar Hendrix
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A Radiance Field That Knows Which Blob Is the Apple

Shar Hendrix
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Attune Asks Operators Why Their Eyes Left One Robot for Another

Robb Harlan
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EgoPHI Reads 3D Hand Force From a Single Head-Cam Frame

Robb Harlan
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FUSE Looks Around Before It Decides What Can Scoop the Food

Shar Hendrix
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Mind the Context Teaches a Robot When Mopping Is Rude

Shar Hendrix
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SAP-Nav Makes a Robot Look Twice Before It Claims It Found the Pillow

Robb Harlan
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HumanTracker Grades Humanoid Tracking the Way People See It

Robb Harlan
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RoboSynChallenge Grades Manipulation on Real Arms, Not Just Sim

Robb Harlan
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S2-HWM Lets a Surgical World Model Think in Events

Shar Hendrix
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CMU Team Captures Real Clinician Bathing Demos for Soft-Hand Transfer

Shar Hendrix
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Robots Learn Human-Like Handwriting From 3,142 Alphabet Demos

Robb Harlan
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FailBench Asks What Happens When the Robot Failure Is Inevitable

Robb Harlan
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GAUGE Stress-Tests Physics Engines and Video World Models Against Real Motion Capture

Shar Hendrix
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Hijacking a Sorting Robot With a Sticky Note: Physical Prompt Injection

Shar Hendrix
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XEWorld Asks: Can Your World Model Draw a Robot It Never Saw?

Shar Hendrix
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3D-Printed EIT Skin: Geometry-Scalable Touch for Humanoid Surfaces

Shar Hendrix
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StableMimic: One G1 Policy for Dance Tracking and Getting Back Up

Robb Harlan
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Context-Aware Motion Priors Teach Humanoids Which Reference Clips Matter

Shar Hendrix
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Ego2Robot Turns Egocentric Human Video Into 18,561 Hours of Robot Training Data

Shar Hendrix
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Industrial Humanoids Hit the Fail-Passive Gap: E-Stop Logic That Assumes Legs Can Fall

Robb Harlan
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PFM-HR Trains Humanoid Motion Priors on Unordered Pose Data

Robb Harlan
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RoboReact Builds Whole-Body Humanoid Skills From One RGB-D Snapshot

Shar Hendrix
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UVT Trains VLAs on Unified Visuomotor Targets, Not Just Actions

Shar Hendrix
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BifrostUMI Bridges Robot-Free Demos to G1 Whole-Body Skills

Shar Hendrix
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HALOMI Teaches G1 Loco-Manipulation From Human Demos Alone

Shar Hendrix
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HiWET Tracks Humanoid Hands in the World Frame

Robb Harlan
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HumanoidMimicGen: NVIDIA Turns One Teleop Demo Into Thousands

Robb Harlan
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HuMI: Robot-Free Whole-Body Skills on Unitree G1

Robb Harlan
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SIMPLE: PSI Lab’s Dual-Sim Benchmark for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Shar Hendrix
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EgoHumanoid Trains Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Egocentric Human Video

Shar Hendrix
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RoboNaldo: Unitree G1 Scores Sub-Meter Humanoid Soccer Shots on Grass

Shar Hendrix
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FA-RDP: Diffusion Policies That Switch Frequency When Contact Hits

Shar Hendrix
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Train a Humanoid from AI Video, Not MoCap: NCKU’s Synthetic Demo Pipeline

Robb Harlan
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Touch Dreaming: CMU Humanoid Learns Contact Before It Happens

Shar Hendrix
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PAC-MAN: Caltech Teaches a Unitree G1 to Dodge Balls Safely

Robb Harlan
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Ψ₀ (Psi-Zero): Open Foundation Model for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Shar Hendrix
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Handroid Turns One 27-DoF Body Into a Hand or a Tiny Humanoid

Shar Hendrix
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LeRobot Humanoid: A $2,500 Open-Source Biped You Can Print

Shar Hendrix
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World Labs Shows R2S2R: Train Robot Policies With Zero Real Data

Robb Harlan