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Amazon is training humanoids to move boxes. Makes sense! OmniRetarget is a data generation engine that enables complex loco-manipulation for humanoids. It uses offline retargeting from human MoCap datasets and augments data from single demos to produce 8 hours of trajectories that train RL policies in simulation, transferred zero-shot... show more

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Wow! Super impressive work by the new Amazon FAR team (from Covariant acquisition). Mapping long sequences of human motion (>30 sec) on robots with a differing shapes or interating with objects (box, table, etc) of different size. Enabling easier in-simulation data-augmentation and zero-shoot transfer. Super impressive and huge help to reduce the need for human teleop data (which is very complex to gather for humanoids) Dataset trajectories on Hugging Face (search OmniRetarget), full code framework to come soon Project page has some pretty three.js interactive demos

Wow! Super impressive work by the new Amazon FAR team (from Covariant acquisition). Mapping long sequences of human motion (>30 sec) on robots with a differing shapes or interating with objects (box, table, etc) of different size. Enabling easier in-simulation data-augmentation and zero-shoot transfer. Super impressive and huge help to reduce the need for human teleop data (which is very complex to gather for humanoids) Dataset trajectories on Hugging Face (search OmniRetarget), full code framework to come soon Project page has some pretty three.js interactive demos

Thomas Wolf

149,734 views • 9 months ago

A big part of scaling robot learning to solve real-world problems is that we somehow need to get enough diverse, high-quality data to train our robots to perform useful things. GPT and its fellow large language models were bootstrapped and proved out on a massive dataset of real-world language data. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, similarly massive datasets don’t really exist for robotics — so, in our unending pursuit of high-quality, useful data, we turn to simulation. I compared a couple recent works on sim-to-real robot manipulation, which discuss how to train perception-driven manipulation policies in simulation, in such a way that they’re useful in the real world. - DextraH-RGB, from NVIDIA - Sim-and-Real Co-Training: A Simple Recipe for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation, also from NVIDIA — specifically the GEAR lab - Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids, another GEAR lab paper - Local Policies Enable Zero-shot Long-Horizon Manipulation, from CMU (video from DextrAH-RGB)

A big part of scaling robot learning to solve real-world problems is that we somehow need to get enough diverse, high-quality data to train our robots to perform useful things. GPT and its fellow large language models were bootstrapped and proved out on a massive dataset of real-world language data. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, similarly massive datasets don’t really exist for robotics — so, in our unending pursuit of high-quality, useful data, we turn to simulation. I compared a couple recent works on sim-to-real robot manipulation, which discuss how to train perception-driven manipulation policies in simulation, in such a way that they’re useful in the real world. - DextraH-RGB, from NVIDIA - Sim-and-Real Co-Training: A Simple Recipe for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation, also from NVIDIA — specifically the GEAR lab - Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids, another GEAR lab paper - Local Policies Enable Zero-shot Long-Horizon Manipulation, from CMU (video from DextrAH-RGB)

Chris Paxton

20,486 views • 1 year ago

Amazon’s training humanoids to carry boxes. I’m racking my brain over why they’d do that. ResMimic enables precise, expressive humanoid loco-manipulation, bridging gaps in general motion tracking (GMT) policies, which lack object awareness. Amazon FAR led the work with a multi-institutional team:

Amazon’s training humanoids to carry boxes. I’m racking my brain over why they’d do that. ResMimic enables precise, expressive humanoid loco-manipulation, bridging gaps in general motion tracking (GMT) policies, which lack object awareness. Amazon FAR led the work with a multi-institutional team:

The Humanoid Hub

94,752 views • 9 months ago

This is how Amazon delivery bot will ring your doorbell. It is done by leveraging the same loco-manipulation framework that enables humanoid robots to move boxes, developed by Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team.

This is how Amazon delivery bot will ring your doorbell. It is done by leveraging the same loco-manipulation framework that enables humanoid robots to move boxes, developed by Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team.

The Humanoid Hub

196,178 views • 9 months ago

The million-dollar question in humanoid robotics is: Can humanoids tap into Internet-scale training data such as online videos due to their human-like physique? Our #CoRL2024 oral paper showed the promise of humanoids learning new skills from single video demonstrations. (1/n)

The million-dollar question in humanoid robotics is: Can humanoids tap into Internet-scale training data such as online videos due to their human-like physique? Our #CoRL2024 oral paper showed the promise of humanoids learning new skills from single video demonstrations. (1/n)

Yuke Zhu

69,582 views • 1 year ago

TWIST: a real-time teleoperation system for humanoid robots to mimic whole-body motions. Reference motion data is generated by retargeting human motion-capture data to the robot. Then, the controller is trained in simulation using reinforcement learning and behavior cloning.

TWIST: a real-time teleoperation system for humanoid robots to mimic whole-body motions. Reference motion data is generated by retargeting human motion-capture data to the robot. Then, the controller is trained in simulation using reinforcement learning and behavior cloning.

The Humanoid Hub

46,715 views • 1 year ago

Why do most humanoid motion trackers still slip, skate, or clip through objects? Because the real bottleneck isn’t RL, it’s bad retargeting… OmniRetarget flips the script: instead of compensating with dozens of reward terms, it generates high-quality, interaction-preserving trajectories from human motions. The result is agile, human-like skills with minimal RL. ✅ 5 reward terms, 4 domain randomization terms, proprioception only, no history or curriculum ✅ Interaction mesh produces clean, contact-preserving motions with virtually no foot-skating ✅ Works across embodiments (Unitree H1, Booster T1) and scales from one demo to many scenes From carrying boxes to slope crawling to parkour-style rolls, policies trained on OmniRetarget data transfer zero-shot from sim to real hardware. Thanks for sharing, Zhen Wu! 📍Paper: Website: Dataset:

Why do most humanoid motion trackers still slip, skate, or clip through objects? Because the real bottleneck isn’t RL, it’s bad retargeting… OmniRetarget flips the script: instead of compensating with dozens of reward terms, it generates high-quality, interaction-preserving trajectories from human motions. The result is agile, human-like skills with minimal RL. ✅ 5 reward terms, 4 domain randomization terms, proprioception only, no history or curriculum ✅ Interaction mesh produces clean, contact-preserving motions with virtually no foot-skating ✅ Works across embodiments (Unitree H1, Booster T1) and scales from one demo to many scenes From carrying boxes to slope crawling to parkour-style rolls, policies trained on OmniRetarget data transfer zero-shot from sim to real hardware. Thanks for sharing, Zhen Wu! 📍Paper: Website: Dataset:

Ilir Aliu - eu/acc

61,491 views • 9 months ago

The power of generative models — now embodied in humanoids. Announcing DreamControl –– After a year-long research effort at General Robotics — we present a scalable framework for whole-body humanoid control that fuses diffusion priors with reinforcement learning to unlock real-world scene interaction. Diffusion + RL → natural whole-body skills on real robots. DreamControl enables humanoids to move beyond locomotion demos → performing natural, human-like skills such as –– Picking & lifting objects, Opening drawers & doors, Precise punching, kicking, and jumping, Bimanual manipulation tasks Our key innovation: a diffusion prior over human motion that guides RL, eliminating the need for massive teleoperation datasets, and producing motions that look human while transferring to real hardware. Trained purely in simulation, deployed on the Unitree G1 humanoid, DreamControl policies run in real time, bridging sim-to-real with unprecedented naturalness. We leverage a novel hybrid edge + cloud infrastructure that runs RL-trained policies on the edge backed by powerful AI models running in the cloud This is the next step in General Robotics’ journey toward general-purpose humanoid assistants that interact, adapt, and assist autonomously. Paper: Blog: 1/n

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Ashish Kapoor

118,133 views • 10 months ago

Sim-to-real learning for humanoid robots is a full-stack problem. Today, Amazon FAR is releasing a full-stack solution: Holosoma. To accelerate research, we are open-sourcing a complete codebase covering multiple simulation backends, training, retargeting, and real-world inference.

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Carlo Sferrazza

213,402 views • 7 months ago

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The Humanoid Hub

17,395 views • 9 months ago

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15,750 views • 1 month ago

What if robots could learn real-world tasks from your perspective… without ever touching a robot? This is a system that trains robot policies using nothing but human-first, egocentric video data from smart glasses. No robots, no teleop, no sensors, just humans doing real tasks in the real world. Why it matters ✅ Learns robot policies from 20 minutes of human video; zero robot demos ✅ Generalizes to new objects, views, and even robot morphologies ✅ Uses 3D points for interpretable, spatially grounded learning ✅ Deploys directly to real-world robots with strong zero-shot success Thank you, Vincent Liu, for sharing!!! Learn more here: 🔗 Paper: 🌐 Website: 📍 BOOKMARK FOR LATER

What if robots could learn real-world tasks from your perspective… without ever touching a robot? This is a system that trains robot policies using nothing but human-first, egocentric video data from smart glasses. No robots, no teleop, no sensors, just humans doing real tasks in the real world. Why it matters ✅ Learns robot policies from 20 minutes of human video; zero robot demos ✅ Generalizes to new objects, views, and even robot morphologies ✅ Uses 3D points for interpretable, spatially grounded learning ✅ Deploys directly to real-world robots with strong zero-shot success Thank you, Vincent Liu, for sharing!!! Learn more here: 🔗 Paper: 🌐 Website: 📍 BOOKMARK FOR LATER

Ilir Aliu - eu/acc

10,509 views • 1 year ago

Introducing Tether 🪢, a fun little idea to scale data by having our robot “play” in the real world for over 24 hours, throughout the day and overnight—improving policies from zero to mastery with minimal supervision! But play is messy, with out-of-distribution scenarios that are hard to anticipate. To perform autonomous functional play in the real world, from just a handful of demos, we propose a highly robust few-shot imitation method that warps demo trajectories using visual correspondences. Then, continuously running it within a multi-task VLM-guided cycle, we generate a data stream that produces 1000+ expert-level demos. This generated data is finally funneled downstream to train imitation learning policies, which improve from zero to near-perfect success rates. We’ll be presenting Tether at #ICLR2026 in just a few weeks! But before that, deep dive with me… 🧵

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Will Liang

45,476 views • 4 months ago

Unreal Engine 5 is becoming the go-to platform for robotics teams, not just as a simulator but as a synthetic data factory powering the next generation of robotics systems🦾 From synthetic data to sim-to-real transfer, read our piece on how UE5 is quietly reshaping how robots learn to see, move, and act in the real world:

Unreal Engine 5 is becoming the go-to platform for robotics teams, not just as a simulator but as a synthetic data factory powering the next generation of robotics systems🦾 From synthetic data to sim-to-real transfer, read our piece on how UE5 is quietly reshaping how robots learn to see, move, and act in the real world:

Unreal Engine

61,187 views • 3 months ago

Robot foundation models are limited by costly real data, while simulation data is plentiful but visually mismatched to reality. We present Point Bridge, a method that enables zero-shot sim-to-real transfer for robot learning with minimal visual alignment.

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Siddhant Haldar

19,890 views • 5 months ago

Okay, this is actually insane. 🪜 A humanoid that climbs a ladder — then performs tasks from it. Amazon FAR’s LadderMan learns ladder climbing in simulation, transfers zero-shot to a real Unitree G1, and supports stable on-ladder manipulation under tight ladder constraints. The demo: climb, stabilize, adjust a wall painting, hand off a box from a high shelf, tighten a light bulb. That last part matters because ladders are brutal for humanoids: sparse footholds, limited handholds, noisy depth, and almost no margin for balance errors. This is what real human spaces actually demand — not just flat floors.

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RoboHub🤖

11,041 views • 1 month ago

.Polymath is training world generation models to automate the creation of RL environments. Traditionally, RL environment generation has been bottlenecked by human data. Superintelligence will never be achieved by human data alone. Polymath is building the core technology to enable automated environment generation using far less human effort than traditionally required, and eventually none. This allows for more complex and realistic worlds, and higher quality, scale, and diversity of tasks. This will be essential to unlock RL scaling. The end goal is to create large-scale, long-horizon environments from a text description alone. This will enable the creation of worlds of arbitrary complexity and scale, which is foundational for training & evaluating autonomous, superintelligent AI agents. Congrats on the launch, Dylan Ma and Naren Yenuganti!

.Polymath is training world generation models to automate the creation of RL environments. Traditionally, RL environment generation has been bottlenecked by human data. Superintelligence will never be achieved by human data alone. Polymath is building the core technology to enable automated environment generation using far less human effort than traditionally required, and eventually none. This allows for more complex and realistic worlds, and higher quality, scale, and diversity of tasks. This will be essential to unlock RL scaling. The end goal is to create large-scale, long-horizon environments from a text description alone. This will enable the creation of worlds of arbitrary complexity and scale, which is foundational for training & evaluating autonomous, superintelligent AI agents. Congrats on the launch, Dylan Ma and Naren Yenuganti!

Y Combinator

44,192 views • 4 months ago

We might be solving the wrong problem in robotics. That’s what this makes clear. UMI → Universal Manipulation Interface A simple $400 gripper that lets you teach robots by demonstration. You hold it like a tool. Show the task. The robot learns. No teleoperation. No expensive hardware. No robot-specific data. Stanford open-sourced everything → hardware, code, datasets. What stands out to me is the bottleneck. Not algorithms. Data. Teleoperation → ~35 demos/hour UMI → ~111 demos/hour And the data transfers across robots → UR5, Franka, others. The design is surprisingly practical: → GoPro fisheye lens (155° FOV) + mirrors for depth → SLAM + IMU for precise 6DoF tracking → latency matching for dynamic tasks → diffusion policies for multimodal actions Then it scales. Cheng Chi takes this further with Sunday Robotics (with Tony Zhao). A $200 glove → deployed in 500+ homes → ~10 million real-world interactions. Not lab data. Real human behavior. Their robot learns dishes, laundry, espresso → with zero robot-specific data. This is where the shift becomes obvious. From training robots in controlled environments → to learning directly from humans at scale So here’s the real question: Will robotics be unlocked by better models… or by unlocking data? #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork

We might be solving the wrong problem in robotics. That’s what this makes clear. UMI → Universal Manipulation Interface A simple $400 gripper that lets you teach robots by demonstration. You hold it like a tool. Show the task. The robot learns. No teleoperation. No expensive hardware. No robot-specific data. Stanford open-sourced everything → hardware, code, datasets. What stands out to me is the bottleneck. Not algorithms. Data. Teleoperation → ~35 demos/hour UMI → ~111 demos/hour And the data transfers across robots → UR5, Franka, others. The design is surprisingly practical: → GoPro fisheye lens (155° FOV) + mirrors for depth → SLAM + IMU for precise 6DoF tracking → latency matching for dynamic tasks → diffusion policies for multimodal actions Then it scales. Cheng Chi takes this further with Sunday Robotics (with Tony Zhao). A $200 glove → deployed in 500+ homes → ~10 million real-world interactions. Not lab data. Real human behavior. Their robot learns dishes, laundry, espresso → with zero robot-specific data. This is where the shift becomes obvious. From training robots in controlled environments → to learning directly from humans at scale So here’s the real question: Will robotics be unlocked by better models… or by unlocking data? #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork

Pascal Bornet

186,223 views • 3 months ago

So I heard we need more data for robot learning :) Purely real world teleop is expensive and slow, making large scale data collection challenging. I’ve been excited about getting more data into robot learning, going beyond just real-world teleop data. To this end, we’ve been scaling up data generation with RL in realistic simulations generated on the fly from crowdsourced videos. Enables realistic data collection, much more cheaply than purely real world teleop. Importantly, data collection becomes even*cheaper* with more environments, allowing training with over 100x more data. Transfers to real robots for generalizable manipulation. A 🧵 (1/N)

So I heard we need more data for robot learning :) Purely real world teleop is expensive and slow, making large scale data collection challenging. I’ve been excited about getting more data into robot learning, going beyond just real-world teleop data. To this end, we’ve been scaling up data generation with RL in realistic simulations generated on the fly from crowdsourced videos. Enables realistic data collection, much more cheaply than purely real world teleop. Importantly, data collection becomes evencheaper with more environments, allowing training with over 100x more data. Transfers to real robots for generalizable manipulation. A 🧵 (1/N)

Abhishek Gupta

13,348 views • 1 year ago

Humanoids finally move like humans… and can do more than copy. [Details + demos in thread 👇] A new framework, BeyondMimic, shows how to learn naturalistic whole-body control from human motion. But then goes further by composing those skills into versatile, zero-shot policies. Two key pieces make it work: •Motion tracking pipeline: robustly turns human mocap into dynamic robot motions (jump spins, sprinting, cartwheels) on real hardware •Guided diffusion policy: distills motion primitives and enables zero-shot downstream tasks with simple cost functions The result: ✅ State-of-the-art motion quality from mocap tracking ✅ Versatile task execution; waypoint navigation, joystick teleop, obstacle avoidance ✅ Stable sim-to-real transfer for diverse humanoid skills Thank you for sharing, Qiayuan Liao! 📍 Paper: Video:

Humanoids finally move like humans… and can do more than copy. [Details + demos in thread 👇] A new framework, BeyondMimic, shows how to learn naturalistic whole-body control from human motion. But then goes further by composing those skills into versatile, zero-shot policies. Two key pieces make it work: •Motion tracking pipeline: robustly turns human mocap into dynamic robot motions (jump spins, sprinting, cartwheels) on real hardware •Guided diffusion policy: distills motion primitives and enables zero-shot downstream tasks with simple cost functions The result: ✅ State-of-the-art motion quality from mocap tracking ✅ Versatile task execution; waypoint navigation, joystick teleop, obstacle avoidance ✅ Stable sim-to-real transfer for diverse humanoid skills Thank you for sharing, Qiayuan Liao! 📍 Paper: Video:

Ilir Aliu - eu/acc

72,522 views • 11 months ago