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Human–Humanoid Robots’ Cross-Embodiment Behavior-Skill Transfer Using Decomposed Adversarial Learning From Demonstration: HOTU, a Human–Humanoid Robots’ Skill Transfer Framework

March 18, 2025 by Junjia Liu, Zhuo Li, Minghao Yu, Zhipeng Dong, Sylvain Calinon, Darwin Caldwell, Fei Chen

Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios that require strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is challenging due to the high degrees of freedom of humanoid robots, and collecting sufficient training data for humanoid is a laborious process. Given the rapid introduction of new humanoid platforms, a cross-embodiment framework that allows generalizable skill transfer is becoming increasingly critical. To address this, we propose a transferable framework that reduces the data bottleneck by using a unified digital human model as a common prototype and bypassing the need for retraining on every new robot platform. The model learns behavior primitives from human demonstrations through adversarial imitation, and the complex robot structures are decomposed into functional components, each of which are trained independently and dynamically coordinated.

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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10859269

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Filed Under: Past Features Tagged With: Behavioral sciences, Dynamics, Hands, Humanoid robots, Imitation learning, Kinematics, Legged locomotion, Manipulators, Robot kinematics, Robots

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