Running with Robots: A Step Towards Truly Autonomous Humanoids

Researchers have developed a new approach to controlling humanoid robots that combines optimized human motion data with reinforcement learning, resulting in more natural and robust running gaits.

![The CHIRP dataset addresses complex video understanding by simultaneously tackling the challenges of identifying <i>who</i> is present, determining <i>what</i> actions are being performed - leveraging both action recognition and [latex]2D[/latex] keypoint estimation - and providing detailed annotations like object segmentation and bounding boxes, culminating in application-specific benchmarks evaluating performance through biologically relevant metrics such as individual feeding rates and co-occurrence patterns.](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25524v1/Figures/DatasetSum.png)
![A sequence of story and character images serves as the basis for comparative textual analysis, where both human and GPT-4o outputs are segmented-marked by [SEP]-to correspond with individual images in the sequence, establishing a unit for evaluating performance across varying prompt lengths.](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25537v1/Figures/char_0001.jpg)