Human demonstrations teach humanoids whole-body manipulation without robot teleoperation

Workhorse converts egocentric video and five human body-link poses into robot actions for contact-rich tasks involving hands, feet and dynamic recovery.

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Songbo Hu · Qiayuan Liao · Yufeng Chi · Kevin Zakka · Yakun Sophia Shao · Pieter Abbeel · +1 more

University of California, Berkeley

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The authors recorded demonstrations using five wearable pose trackers, corresponding to the torso, wrists and feet, plus a chest-mounted camera.

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Workhorse enables humanoid robots to perform whole-body manipulation tasks by learning from human demonstrations without robot-specific retargeting.

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