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HOVER: switching whole-body control modes within one policy

A humanoid policy tracks hand, head and root commands while coordinating upper and lower body motion.

HOVER2024–2025
Frame from the official HOVER recording: left/right hand-position control on Unitree H1.
Frame from the official HOVER recording: left/right hand-position control on Unitree H1.HOVER research team

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Left/right hand-position control on Unitree H1; comparisons between control inputs are on the project page. · HOVER research team · 1080p source video

01 / STUDY

Mechanism and experiments

HOVER distils several command spaces into one control policy. Official recordings show hand-position, joint-angle and root-motion control, including mode switches during execution. Experiments cover platforms including the Unitree H1 family and Fourier GR1T2. The paper and code are publicly available.

02 / CONTEXT

Test conditions and scope

The policy tracks supplied motion commands. Teleoperation and autonomous task planning are separate components; these experiments demonstrate whole-body control rather than independent selection of servicing tasks.

03 / SOURCE

Papers and primary sources

HOVER: Versatile Neural Whole-Body Controller for Humanoid Robots
Tairan He et al. · NVIDIA / CMU and collaborators
ICRA 2025

Further reading