Humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments must combine robust whole-body control with the ability to perceive and physically interact with surrounding objects. While large-scale human motion data provides powerful priors for natural and versatile humanoid control, effectively transferring such priors to pe …
Text-driven human motion generation has advanced substantially, yet most methods assume instructions are available before synthesis. Interactive applications require responding to new instructions while continuing ongoing actions, such as answering a phone while walking. Existing approaches address streaming generation …
Extending a text embedding model to new modalities typically degrades text retrieval quality, and existing omni-modal embedders compensate with multi-billion parameters. We present Omni-Embed-Mini, a 0.9B-parameter model that maps text, speech, audio, images, video, and visually-rich documents into a single shared cosi …
3D Gaussian avatars support fast rendering, however, their real-time animation is often challenged by the costly neural inference. We address this bottleneck and show that the animation of pretrained avatar models can be closely approximated by a linear combination of identity-independent blendshapes. Building on this …
World Action Models (WAMs) couple visual dynamics prediction with action generation, yet they do not explicitly support the reuse of action experience across manipulation tasks. Furthermore, existing WAMs struggle to capture underlying cross-task semantic relationships that could guide target action prediction, as redu …
Human motion, environmental contacts, and interaction forces are governed by common physical laws, yet existing approaches typically separate visual pose reconstruction from contact and force estimation. This separation limits joint reasoning and can propagate errors between stages. We introduce PACT, an end-to-end mod …
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies often fail when a robot's executed motion deviates from their commanded action. Such execution errors arise from the robot's mechanics and operating conditions, such as wear and payload changes. We propose self-compensating VLA, a deployment-time adaptation method that enables a VL …
Physical AI requires more than increasingly large robot datasets: intelligent robots acquire knowledge through continuous interaction with the physical world. We argue that the defining scientific resource of Physical AI is therefore not raw robot data alone, but robot experience - physically grounded interaction whose …
Robots operating in open environments act under partial observability, physical constraints, and dynamic task contexts. Beyond mapping observations and language instructions to actions, they must anticipate how candidate actions may affect future states and task-relevant outcomes. Recent advances in world models, video …