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Learning Agile Perceptive Traversal of Sparse 3D Structures for Humanoids

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 30, 2026 · UTC

Traversing sparse 3D structures requires humanoid robots to perceive thin, overhanging geometry while executing agile, accurate whole-body motions. We study this problem through monkey-bar traversal, where the robot must jump to the structure, traverse it through sparse bar interactions, and land safely. For this task, we present a reinforcement-learning-based perceptive control system that operates directly on observations from a head-mounted solid-state lidar. To extract task-relevant geometry from the sparse returns, the policy consumes the raw lidar scan through an attention-based encoder

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