Humanoid robots can suffer significant performance drops under small changes in dynamics, task specifications, or environment setup. We propose HoRD, a two-stage learning framework for robust humanoid control under domain shift. First, we train a high-performance teacher policy via history-conditioned reinforcement learning, where the policy infers latent dynamics context from recent state--action trajectories to adapt online to diverse randomized dynamics. Second, we perform online distillation to transfer the teacher's robust control capabilities into a transformer-based student policy that operates on sparse root-relative 3D joint keypoint trajectories. By combining history-conditioned adaptation with online distillation, HoRD enables a single policy to adapt zero-shot to unseen domains without per-domain retraining. Extensive experiments show HoRD outperforms strong baselines in robustness and transfer, especially under unseen domains and external perturbations. Code and project page are available at https://tonywang-0517.github.io/hord/.
StyleLoco: Generative Adversarial Distillation for Natural Humanoid Robot Locomotion
National Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI(通用人工智能国家重点实验室,BIGAI);School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University(山东大学控制科学与工程学院);Huazhong University of Science and Technology(华中科技大学)
Peking University(北京大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));Shanghai Jiaotong University(上海交通大学);Fudan University(复旦大学);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室)
Learning to Evolve: Multi-modal Interactive Fields for Robust Humanoid Navigation in Dynamic Environments
State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School(一般人工智能国家重点实验室,北京大学深圳研究生院);Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford(牛津大学机器人研究所);Institute for Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院计算机科学系机器学习研究所)
TACT-ful: Multi-Channel Terrain Affordance and Compliance Training for Payload-Robust Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion
VinRobotics, Vietnam(越南VinRobotics);Center for AI Research, VinUniversity, Vietnam(越南VinUniversity人工智能研究中心);Intelligent Autonomous Systems, TU Darmstadt, Germany(德国达姆施塔特工业大学智能自主系统)