{"id":246370,"date":"2026-11-02T22:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/humanoid-ai-connects-walking-and-object-handling-without-demonstrations-of-complete-task-sequences"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:09:57","slug":"humanoid-ai-connects-walking-and-object-handling-without-demonstrations-of-complete-task-sequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/humanoid-ai-connects-walking-and-object-handling-without-demonstrations-of-complete-task-sequences","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid AI connects walking and object handling without demonstrations of complete task sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A humanoid AI system has been developed that learns jointly from separately collected locomotion and object-manipulation data to perform multiple stages of a task in sequence.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by professor Songhwai Oh of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University College of Engineering has developed RISE (Responsibility-Induced Specialized Experts), a vision-language-action (VLA) framework that learns jointly from locomotion and object-manipulation demonstrations collected independently and enables a humanoid robot to perform multistep tasks sequentially.<\/p>\n<p>The team connected locomotion and object manipulation without requiring additional demonstrations of multistep tasks involving transitions between the two behaviors, and validated the framework in both simulation and experiments using a real humanoid robot, the Unitree G1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A humanoid AI system has been developed that learns jointly from separately collected locomotion and object-manipulation data to perform multiple stages of a task in sequence. A research team led by professor Songhwai Oh of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University College of Engineering has developed RISE (Responsibility-Induced Specialized Experts), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}