HumanPlus
HumanPlus is a Stanford research system in which a Unitree H1 humanoid with added hands learns from human motion data and then shadows a human operator seen by a single camera. Demonstrations collected this way are used to train autonomous skills such as putting on shoes and folding clothes. The code and hardware modifications are open source.
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How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Research
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- June 2024
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 33
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric (Unitree H1 base)
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- yes
Where it stands
Open source system built on a Unitree H1; used to study learning from human videos.
What stands out
- Real time whole body shadowing from one RGB camera
- Autonomous skills learned from shadowed data
- Open source on top of Unitree H1
Autonomy, observed
Paper shows autonomous shoe wearing, folding and greeting tasks learned from shadowed demonstrations
The robot shadows a human's body pose in real time from a camera
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: dexterous hands added to a Unitree H1
- Sensors: single RGB camera for shadowing, joint encoders
- Compute: onboard computer with RGB camera
- AI stack: Humanoid Shadowing Transformer trained on human motion data and imitation learning from shadowed demonstrations
Price and volume
research system on a commercial H1
Open source
Code and hardware designs released
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
Other robots by Stanford University.
Sources
- 01HumanPlus: Humanoid Shadowing and Imitation from HumansStanford University · 2024-06
- 02HumanPlus paperarXiv · 2024-06
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