Robotics Research Publications

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Research PublicationX-Humanoid

X-Humanoid releases open-source Robo-ValueRL framework for humanoid precision manipulation

Humanoid

· research publication · X-Humanoid · Tiangong · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • Robo-ValueRL links value estimation, quality-conditioned policy learning and online residual adaptation for humanoid manipulation workflows.
  • The project page reports 240 hours of offline data, more than 3,000 online rollouts and 86% final success on millimeter-level chip insertion.
  • The release adds open-source code, model and dataset access for robot-learning developers working on precision-critical humanoid tasks.
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Company X-Humanoid
Product Tiangong
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

TaskNPoint: How to Teach Your Humanoid to Hit a Backhand in Minutes

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper teaches dynamic backhand-hitting skills on a Unitree G1 humanoid.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds imitation-learning and whole-body manipulation context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

Learning Asynchronous Upper-body Task-space Trajectory Tracking Policy for Humanoid Robots

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper studies asynchronous upper-body task-space tracking on Unitree G1.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds upper-body control and manipulation context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

RoboAtlas paper evaluates contextual active SLAM on Unitree Go2

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · Go2 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • RoboAtlas combines frontier exploration, global semantic-map reasoning, and egocentric VLM reasoning for contextual Active SLAM.
  • The system is evaluated on a Unitree Go2 in real-world environments exceeding 1,800 square meters with about 30,000 mapped semantic instances.
  • This is outside-team product research and is bound to Go2 only.
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Company Unitree
Product Go2
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

StairMaster paper deploys hollow-stair locomotion policy on Unitree Go2

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · Go2 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • StairMaster is a three-stage reinforcement-learning framework for quadruped locomotion on risky hollow stairs.
  • The paper deploys the policy on a Unitree Go2 robot and reports zero-shot stair climbing up to a 55-degree incline.
  • This is outside-team product research and is bound to Go2 only.
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Company Unitree
Product Go2
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

Wheeled-quadruped racing paper controls load transfer on Unitree Go2-W

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · Go2-W · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper presents a hierarchical MPC and reinforcement-learning framework for active roll control during autonomous wheeled-quadruped racing.
  • The controller uses a vehicle-dynamics bicycle model of the Unitree Go2-W platform and deploys a low-level whole-body RL policy on the robot actuators.
  • This is outside-team product research and is bound to Go2-W only.
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Company Unitree
Product Go2-W
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

fARfetch: Enabling Collocated AR-HRC in Large Visually Diverse Environments with VLM-Driven AR Content Adaptation

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · Go2 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper uses Unitree Go2 for collocated augmented-reality human-robot collaboration in visually diverse environments.
  • The artifact names Unitree Go2 in its metadata, making the quadruped product binding explicit.
  • The work adds human-robot-interaction and navigation context for Go2 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product Go2
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

RGB: RL Guided Whole-Body MPPI for Humanoid Control

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper combines reinforcement learning and MPPI for whole-body humanoid control on Unitree G1.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds reinforcement-learning and whole-body-control context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationDobot

Human-Robot Shared Control for Humanized End-Effector Teleoperation

Industrial

· research publication · Dobot · DOBOT CR10 · Industrial

Evidence notes
  • The study proposes a real-time shared-control framework for human-like end-effector trajectories during teleoperation.
  • The framework preserves operator intent while applying movement profiles based on the two-thirds power law.
  • The authors validate the approach in real-world experiments on a 6-DoF Dobot CR10 robotic arm.
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Company Dobot
Product DOBOT CR10
Event type Research Publication
Segment Industrial
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Research PublicationRobotiq

Bridging Semantics and Kinematics: A Modular Framework for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

End Effectors

· research publication · Robotiq · Robotiq Hand-E Adaptive Gripper · End Effectors

Evidence notes
  • This paper presents a modular training-free framework for zero-shot, language-guided robotic manipulation in semi-structured environments. The architecture bridges the gap between high-level reasoning and low-level kinematics by decomposing the vision-action pipeline into three stages: visual perception, semantic interpretation, and task execution.
  • The work is explicitly tied to Robotiq Hand-E Adaptive Gripper, making the product binding high confidence.
  • The artifact adds product-linked research coverage for Robotiq Hand-E Adaptive Gripper in manipulation and dexterity.
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Company Robotiq
Event type Research Publication
Segment End Effectors
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Research PublicationUnitree

CoorDex: Coordinating Body and Hand Priors for Continuous Dexterous Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper coordinates body and hand priors for continuous dexterous loco-manipulation on Unitree G1.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds dexterity and whole-body manipulation context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

LP-NavOA: Integrated Local Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance for Humanoid Robots under Limited Perception

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper evaluates local navigation and obstacle avoidance on Unitree G1 under limited perception.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds navigation and planning context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

TEXEDO: Test Time Scaling for Controller-aware Language-conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper studies controller-aware language-conditioned humanoid motion generation on Unitree G1.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds language-conditioned motion and whole-body-control context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUniversal Robots

UR20 pose-accuracy paper evaluates Universal Robots arm under ISO 9283 testing

Industrial

· research publication · Universal Robots · UR20 · Industrial

Evidence notes
  • The paper reports experimental pose-accuracy testing of the UR20 robot from Universal Robots.
  • The experiments follow ISO 9283 guidelines and use an OptiTrack vision system to record robot positions.
  • This is outside-team product research and is bound to UR20 only.
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Product UR20
Event type Research Publication
Segment Industrial
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Research PublicationBoston Dynamics

3D semantic scene-graph paper demonstrates open-vocabulary object retrieval on Spot

Humanoid

· research publication · Boston Dynamics · Spot · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper builds hierarchical 3D scene-graph forests using VLM and LLM reasoning over semantic relationships.
  • The authors demonstrate downstream robotics use in an open-vocabulary object-retrieval task using a real-world indoor deployment on Boston Dynamics Spot.
  • The event is external product research and is bound to Spot rather than a Boston Dynamics company research release.
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Product Spot
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

VQActFlow: Vector-Quantized Action Mode Steering for Multi-Task Robot Manipulation

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper studies vector-quantized action-mode steering for multi-task robot manipulation on Unitree G1.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds manipulation and imitation-learning context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

Long-Distance Real-World Navigation of the Legged-Wheeled Robot Go2-W Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · Go2-W · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper builds a deep-reinforcement-learning locomotion controller and autonomous navigation system for the commercially available Go2-W.
  • The controller extends a proprioception-only quadruped policy to the 16-DoF legged-wheeled platform.
  • The work reports long-range autonomous navigation experiments with the Go2-W in real-world environments.
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Company Unitree
Product Go2-W
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

Duet: Dual-Robot Understanding via Efficient Teaching

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper studies dual-robot understanding via efficient teaching with Unitree G1.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds human-robot-interaction and imitation-learning context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

ForEnt dataset paper collects forest-entrapment data with Unitree Go2

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · Go2 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • ForEnt is a multi-modal dataset for studying quadruped robot entrapments in forest environments.
  • The dataset is collected with a Unitree Go2 quadruped across eight forest sites to characterize vegetation-related failure modes.
  • This is outside-team product research and is bound to Go2 only.
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Company Unitree
Product Go2
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationUnitree

HALOMI: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation with Active Perception from Human Demonstrations

Humanoid

· research publication · Unitree · G1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper learns humanoid loco-manipulation with active perception from human demonstrations on Unitree G1.
  • The artifact names Unitree G1 in its metadata, making the humanoid product binding explicit.
  • The work adds active perception and loco-manipulation context for G1 research use.
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Company Unitree
Product G1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationXDOF

XDOF and research partners release ABC-130K teleoperation dataset

Data Infrastructure

· research publication · XDOF · Data Infrastructure

Evidence notes
  • ABC-130K covers 134,806 episodes, 195 tasks and 3,553 hours of bimanual manipulation data.
  • The ABC release includes open-source training and inference code, model checkpoints, a hardware setup and a simulation pipeline.
  • The dataset is hosted on Hugging Face under the XDOF organization and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Company XDOF
Event type Research Publication
Segment Data Infrastructure
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