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ZeroWBC: Learning Natural Whole-Body Humanoid Interaction from Human Egocentric Data

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Achieving versatile and natural whole-body humanoid interaction control remains challenging due to the high cost of whole-body teleoperation data. We present ZeroWBC, a teleoperation-free framework that learns humanoid whole-body interaction from human egocentric videos paired with synchronized whole-body motion and text annotations. ZeroWBC adopts a generation-then-tracking formulation to tackle the static scene whole-body interaction control problem. Given an initial egocentric image and a language instruction, a fine-tuned Vision-Language Model generates future human whole-body motion tokens, which are decoded into continuous motions and retargeted to the humanoid. The resulting reference motions, together with root and key body-part trajectories, are then executed by a general interactive motion tracking policy. To improve interaction performance, we introduce an interaction-oriented tracking reward that prioritizes global root and key body-part trajectory alignment while preserving natural whole-body motion. Experiments on the Unitree G1 humanoid robot show that ZeroWBC enables diverse scene-aware behaviors without robot teleoperation demonstrations. These results suggest a scalable paradigm for learning natural humanoid whole-body interaction from human egocentric data.

Haoran Yang, Jiacheng Bao, Yucheng Xin, Haoming Song, Yuyang Tian, Bin Zhao, Dong Wang, Xuelong Li• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Motion ReconstructionHumanML3D (test)
MPJPE0.536
12
Joint-level motion trackingMoCap (test)
MPJPE0.4472
3
Joint-level motion trackingGeneration (test)
MPJPE0.5671
3
Text-to-motion generationNymeria (test)
BLEU-150.11
2
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