Events

Learning Humanoid Robots

Speaker: Xiaolong Wang

Location: 60 Fifth Avenue, Room 120
Videoconference link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98427693989

Date: Friday, September 20, 2024

Having a humanoid robot operating like a human has been a long-standing goal in robotics. The humanoid robot provides a generalized purpose platform to conduct diverse tasks we do in our daily lives. In this talk,
we study learning-based approaches for both the mobility and manipulation
skills of the humanoid robot, with the goal of generalization to diverse
tasks, objects, and scenes. I will discuss how to perform whole-body
control in humanoids with rich, diverse, and expressive motions. I will
also share some lessons we learned from developing teleoperation systems to
operate humanoid robots and collect training data. With the collected data,
we aim to build the robot foundation model using a novel RNN architecture
with Test-Time Training (TTT).