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, typically from 8:30am to 3:30pm, 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 summary and discussion of their assigned topic. The summary and discussion should be written in LaTeX using template listed below under files. The document should be 7 pages long not including images and references!

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:

WS

Year:

2025

Course Number:

MA-INF 4213

Links:

Basis

Course Start Date:

14.10.2025

Course End Date:

22.01.2026

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.

14.10.2025, Tuesday,  10:00-11:00hs, Room:2.025

Introductory Meeting (mandatory)
[presentation slides]

19.10.2025, SundayRegistration deadline on our website
26.10.2025, SundayRegistration deadline in BASIS
22.01.2026, Thursday,  8:45-12:00hsSeminar Day and written summary deadline

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

Registration

The registration is open. Register here.

Report and presentation template

Please use the following template for the written summary:
[Report template]

Please use the following template for the midterm and final presentation:
[Presentation template]

Topics:

  • MOSAIC: Generating Consistent, Privacy-Preserving Scenes from Multiple Depth Views in Multi-Room Environments
    Liu et al.
    ICCV 2025
    Supervisor: Xuying Huang
    [PDF]
  • Language-Grounded Dynamic Scene Graphs for Interactive Object Search with Mobile Manipulation
    Honerkamp et al.
    RAL 2024
    Supervisor: Rohit Menon
    [PDF]
  • DynaMem: Online Dynamic Spatio-Semantic Memory for Open World Mobile Manipulation
    Liu et al.
    ICRA 2025
    Supervisor: Rohit Menon
    [PDF]
  • GenNBV: Generalizable Next-Best-View Policy for Active 3D Reconstruction
    Chen et al.
    CVPR 2024
    Supervisor: Sicong Pan
    [PDF]
  • RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion
    Duisterhof et al.
    ArXiv preprint 2025
    Supervisor: Sicong Pan
    [PDF]
  • Skill Transformer: A Monolithic Policy for Mobile Manipulation
    Huang et al.
    ICCV 2023
    Supervisor: Ahmed Shokry
    [PDF]
  • PROBE: Proprioceptive Obstacle Detection and Estimation while Navigating in Clutter
    Ramesh et al.
    ICRA 2025
    Supervisor: Nils Dengler
    [PDF]
  • Poke and Strike: Learning Task-Informed Exploration Policies
    Aoyama et al.
    CORL 2025
    Supervisor: Nils Dengler
    [PDF]
  • OLiVia-Nav: An Online Lifelong Vision Language Approach for Mobile Robot Social Navigation
    Narasimhan et al.
    ICRA 2025
    Supervisor: Subham Agrawal
    [PDF]
  • Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters from Vision -- Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation
    Chen et al.
    RA-L 2024
    Supervisor: Shahram Khorshidi
    [PDF]
  • Learning to Walk from Three Minutes of Real-World Data with Semi-structured Dynamics Models
    Levy et al.
    CoRL 2024
    Supervisor: Shahram Khorshidi
    [PDF]
  • AnyPlace: Learning Generalized Object Placement for Robot Manipulation
    Zhao et al.
    CoRL 2025
    Supervisor: Benedikt Kreis
    [Website][PDF]