RoboDreamer: Anticipatory Humanoid Locomotion with Predictive State-Space Models

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Humanoid locomotion requires control policies that remain stable under imperfect sensing while exploiting temporal context for consistent motion. We present RoboDreamer, a two-stage teacher--student framework that combines next-observation consistency with randomized continuous temporal masking. A teacher is first trained on clean observations, and a student is then distilled under masked recent observations, encouraging the policy to infer missing current information from history. At inference, the same masking interface is reused for implicit closed-loop action refinement and optional multi-step action chunking. Mamba is used as the temporal backbone, while matched ablations show that masking/distillation provides a substantial part of the gain and Mamba contributes additional tracking improvements with real-time latency. Experiments in IsaacLab, MuJoCo, and on a Unitree G1 demonstrate robust motion tracking under observation masking and successful real-world deployment.

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