Cooperative Long Rope Skipping via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Jun 6, 2026 · Research Publication · Unitree · Humanoid

Humans exhibit remarkable motor agility, enabling a wide range of dynamic skills such as running and jumping, which highlights the great potential of humanoid robots for athletic locomotion. Among athletic sports, long rope skipping requires two rope turners to cooperatively swing the rope while adapting to a player under different jumping rhythms, making it a meaningful yet challenging task for humanoid robots.

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  • Experiments use G1 as the physical evaluation platform.
  • The reported results provide an independent evaluation on G1 hardware.

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