ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 19, 2026

Compositional Humanoid Manipulation through Isomorphic Teleoperation and Independent Skill Routing

We present Humanoid Semantic Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policy (HS-MoDP), which composes separately demonstrated arm skills through independent semantic routing over a shared expert pool.

Key points

  • Humanoid manipulation requires reusable arm skills, yet demonstrating every possible skill combination is impractical.
  • A semantic scheduler integrates the learned policy with an existing locomotion controller through alternating manipulation and repositioning stages, extending the effective workspace and enabling skill reuse across location changes.
  • To acquire demonstrations of whole-body contact manipulation, we develop G1Exo, an isomorphic exoskeleton that provides direct joint-level control of arm configurations.
  • G1Exo enables more reliable contact teleoperation than end-effector VR-IK, and its demonstrations improve contact-skill learning across four policy architectures.

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