Scalable and General Whole-Body Control for Cross-Humanoid Locomotion

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Main Authors: Xue, Yufei, Lin, YunFeng, Dong, Wentao, Tang, Yang, Wang, Jingbo, Pang, Jiangmiao, Zhou, Ming, Liu, Minghuan, Zhang, Weinan
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Published: 2026
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author Xue, Yufei
Lin, YunFeng
Dong, Wentao
Tang, Yang
Wang, Jingbo
Pang, Jiangmiao
Zhou, Ming
Liu, Minghuan
Zhang, Weinan
author_facet Xue, Yufei
Lin, YunFeng
Dong, Wentao
Tang, Yang
Wang, Jingbo
Pang, Jiangmiao
Zhou, Ming
Liu, Minghuan
Zhang, Weinan
contents Learning-based whole-body controllers have become a key driver for humanoid robots, yet most existing approaches require robot-specific training. In this paper, we study the problem of cross-embodiment humanoid control and show that a single policy can robustly generalize across a wide range of humanoid robot designs with one-time training. We introduce XHugWBC, a novel cross-embodiment training framework that enables generalist humanoid control through: (1) physics-consistent morphological randomization, (2) semantically aligned observation and action spaces across diverse humanoid robots, and (3) effective policy architectures modeling morphological and dynamical properties. XHugWBC is not tied to any specific robot. Instead, it internalizes a broad distribution of morphological and dynamical characteristics during training. By learning motion priors from diverse randomized embodiments, the policy acquires a strong structural bias that supports zero-shot transfer to previously unseen robots. Experiments on twelve simulated humanoids and seven real-world robots demonstrate the strong generalization and robustness of the resulting universal controller.
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spellingShingle Scalable and General Whole-Body Control for Cross-Humanoid Locomotion
Xue, Yufei
Lin, YunFeng
Dong, Wentao
Tang, Yang
Wang, Jingbo
Pang, Jiangmiao
Zhou, Ming
Liu, Minghuan
Zhang, Weinan
Robotics
Learning-based whole-body controllers have become a key driver for humanoid robots, yet most existing approaches require robot-specific training. In this paper, we study the problem of cross-embodiment humanoid control and show that a single policy can robustly generalize across a wide range of humanoid robot designs with one-time training. We introduce XHugWBC, a novel cross-embodiment training framework that enables generalist humanoid control through: (1) physics-consistent morphological randomization, (2) semantically aligned observation and action spaces across diverse humanoid robots, and (3) effective policy architectures modeling morphological and dynamical properties. XHugWBC is not tied to any specific robot. Instead, it internalizes a broad distribution of morphological and dynamical characteristics during training. By learning motion priors from diverse randomized embodiments, the policy acquires a strong structural bias that supports zero-shot transfer to previously unseen robots. Experiments on twelve simulated humanoids and seven real-world robots demonstrate the strong generalization and robustness of the resulting universal controller.
title Scalable and General Whole-Body Control for Cross-Humanoid Locomotion
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05791