Bruce

Bruce is a kid-sized humanoid robot that became a proud member of the SAIR Lab in January 2024. Designed to move and behave like a human by Westwood Robotics, it serves as a hands-on research partner for exploring a wide range of topics in robotics.

Its research interests include locomotion, visual perception, whole-body control, and human-robot interaction, especially helping newcomers test and refine their algorithms in the real world. Whether it’s learning to climb stairs, track moving objects, or recover from a push, Bruce is always ready to take on a challenge.

With its full-body form and lifelike dynamics, it turns abstract code into expressive, physical motion, and brings ideas to life, one step at a time.

Publications

iWalker: Imperative Visual Planning for Walking Humanoid Robot.
Xiao Lin, Yuhao Huang, Taimeng Fu, Xiaobin Xiong, Chen Wang.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2865–2872, 2025.

Highlighted as an iSeries Article in Humanoid Robots; Best Workshop Paper Award
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@inproceedings{lin2025iwalker,
  title = {{iWalker}: Imperative Visual Planning for Walking Humanoid Robot},
  author = {Lin, Xiao and Huang, Yuhao and Fu, Taimeng and Xiong, Xiaobin and Wang, Chen},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages = {2865--2872},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18361},
  video = {https://youtu.be/FPV74PznzTU},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/iwalker},
  addendum = {Highlighted as an iSeries Article in Humanoid Robots; Best Workshop Paper Award}
}
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Lin, Xiao and Huang, Yuhao and Fu, Taimeng and Xiong, Xiaobin and Wang, Chen, "iWalker: Imperative Visual Planning for Walking Humanoid Robot," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
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