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TopicAll Manipulation · 97 VLA · 71 Navigation · 52 General robotics · 41 Robot learning · 32 Simulation · 24 Perception · 23 Humanoid · 20 Locomotion · 16 Safety · 13 Aerial · 4 World Action Models · 4 World-action model · 3 Aerial manipulation · 2 Dexterous manipulation · 2 Sim-to-Real Manipulation · 2 Social Navigation · 2 Vision-Language Navigation · 2 3D Assembly · 1 3DGS dataset · 1 5G Simulation · 1 AMR Operations · 1 Active vision manipulation · 1 Adaptive MPC · 1 Adaptive action horizons · 1 Adaptive intervention · 1 Aerial Manipulation · 1 Aerial navigation · 1 Agricultural Robotics · 1 Articulation Estimation · 1 Autonomous Driving · 1 Autonomous Exploration · 1 Battery-aware RL · 1 Belief-space planning · 1 Benchmark for adding wrist force sensing to VLA manipulation policies · 1 Bimanual Manipulation · 1 Byzantine localization · 1 Canal inspection · 1 Co-speech Humanoid · 1 Compositional Manipulation · 1 Construction navigation · 1 Contact-Rich Manipulation · 1 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Oct 15, 2026arXiv

humanoid teleoperation with heavy unknown payloadsExpert

Inertially Significant Humanoid Teleoperation via Whole Body Model Predictive Control and Online Parameter Estimation

James Foster, Beomyeong Park, Luigi Penco, Robert GriffinFlorida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), University of West Florida

IHMC researchers let a humanoid sense the weight it is carrying while it moves and feed that estimate straight into its whole-body controller, so a VR operator can steer heavy tools without worrying about balance. In simulation the fix cut the arm's vertical tracking error by more than 25 times under load.

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Humanoid

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Manipulation · 97 VLA · 71 Navigation · 52 General robotics · 41 Robot learning · 32 Simulation · 24 Perception · 23 Humanoid · 20 Locomotion · 16 Safety · 13 Aerial · 4 World Action Models · 5 World-action model · 3 Aerial manipulation · 3 Dexterous manipulation · 3 Sim-to-Real Manipulation · 3 Social Navigation · 3

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