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
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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.
@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},
cover = {/img/posts/2024-09-30-iwalker/thumbnail.gif},
addendum = {Best Paper Award at IROS Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles; Enabling humanoid walking via self-supervised footstep planning}
}
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.
iWalker: Imperative Visual Planning for Walking Humanoid Robot.IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2865–2872, 2025.