Seminar Humanoid Robots

In this seminar, we cover state-of-the-art research papers from conferences and journals in the field of humanoid robotics and related fields. The available topics are presented in the mandatory Introductory Meeting and can be selected during the registration for the seminar on our website. In the Introductory Meeting, we will present the available topics, the registration process, the requirements, and answer your questions.

Participants of the seminar have to prepare a talk of 20 minutes which will be given on the Seminar Day at the end of the semester. After the talk, there will be a Q&A of about 5 minutes where you will be asked questions by the staff and other participants of the seminar. Bachelor students can choose to present their topic in German, master students must give their presentation in English.

The Seminar Day is a whole day event, which takes place towards the end of the semester. All participants are required to be present on the Seminar Day, to give their presentation, and also to listen to the talks of the other participants. Active participation during the Q&A sessions counts as a bonus towards your final score.

Participating students are also required to write a short research proposal on their assigned topic. The proposal should be written in LaTeX using a template listed below under files.

Each participant will be paired up with a supervisor who monitors their progress and is available to help with questions or difficulties. Students can work freely during the semester to prepare their material. The written summary and the presentation slides must be submitted by the morning of the Seminar Day.


Semester:

SS

Year:

2026

Course Number:

MA-INF 4213, MA-MORO-E09

Links:

Basis

Course Start Date:

15.04.2026

Course End Date:

30.09.2026

ECTS:

4

Responsible HRL Lecturers:


Important dates:

All interested students have to attend the Introductory Meeting. In the Introductory Meeting, we will present the topics, the schedule, the registration process, and answer your questions.

15.04.2026, Wednessday, 10:00hs-11:00hs (room 2.025)

Introductory Meeting (mandatory)
[presentation slides]

19.04.2026, SundayRegistration deadline on our website
26.04.2026, SundayRegistration deadline in BASIS
26.06.2026, Friday, 10:00hs-13:00hsSeminar Day and written summary deadline

After the Introductory Meeting, each participant arranges an individual schedule with the respective supervisor.

Registration

The registration is closed.

Proposal and presentation template

Please use the following template for the research proposal:
[Proposal template]

Please use the following template for the presentation:
[Presentation template]

Topics:

  • Sampling-Based Motion Planning With SceneGraphs Under Perception Constraints
    Meng et al.
    RAL 2026
    Supervisor: Rohit Menon
    [PDF]
  • RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion
    Duisterhof et al.
    NeurIPS 2025
    Supervisor: Sicong Pan
    [PDF]
  • Diffusion-based RGB-D Semantic Segmentation with Deformable Attention Transformer
    Minh et al.
    ICRA 2025
    Supervisor: Xuying Huang
    [PDF]
  • Steering Your Generalists: Improving Robotic Foundation Models via Value Guidance
    Nakamoto et al.
    CoRL 2024
    Supervisor: Ahmed Shokry
    [PDF]
  • SIMPACT: Simulation-Enabled Action Planning using Vision-Language Models
    Liu et al.
    CVPR 2026
    Supervisor: Benno Wingender
    [PDF]
  • GauSS-MI: Gaussian Splatting Shannon Mutual Information for Active 3D Reconstruction
    Xie et al.
    RSS 2025
    Supervisor: Niklas Mueller-Goldingen
    [PDF]
  • OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction
    Yang et al.
    ICRA 2026
    Supervisor: Shahram Khorshidi
    [PDF]
  • Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters from Vision - Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation
    Chen et al.
    RA-L 2024
    Supervisor: Shahram Khorshidi
    [PDF]
  • BehAV: Behavioral Rule Guided Autonomy Using VLMs for RobotNavigation in Outdoor Scenes
    Weerakoon et al.
    RA-L 2024
    Supervisor: Subham Agrawal
    [PDF]