QuadFM: Foundational Text-Driven Quadruped Motion Dataset for Generation and ControlLi Gao, Fuzhi Yang, Jianhui Chen et al.
Despite significant advances in quadrupedal robotics, a critical gap persists in foundational motion resources that holistically integrate diverse locomotion, emotionally expressive behaviors, and rich language semantics-essential for agile, intuitive human-robot interaction. Current quadruped motion datasets are limited to a few mocap primitives (e.g., walk, trot, sit) and lack diverse behaviors with rich language grounding. To bridge this gap, we introduce Quadruped Foundational Motion (QuadFM) , the first large-scale, ultra-high-fidelity dataset designed for text-to-motion generation and general motion control. QuadFM contains 11,784 curated motion clips spanning locomotion, interactive, and emotion-expressive behaviors (e.g., dancing, stretching, peeing), each with three-layer annotation-fine-grained action labels, interaction scenarios, and natural language commands-totaling 35,352 descriptions to support language-conditioned understanding and command execution. We further propose Gen2Control RL, a unified framework that jointly trains a general motion controller and a text-to-motion generator, enabling efficient end-to-end inference on edge hardware. On a real quadruped robot with an NVIDIA Orin, our system achieves real-time motion synthesis (<500 ms latency). Simulation and real-world results show realistic, diverse motions while maintaining robust physical interaction. The dataset will be released at https://github.com/GaoLii/QuadFM.
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Behavior Foundations for Quadruped Robots: ABot-C0 Technical ReportXufeng Zhao, Fuzhi Yang, Jianhui Chen et al.
In embodied intelligence systems, the motion controller serves as the critical bridge between semantic reasoning and physical execution. Humanoid control has progressed rapidly through large-scale human motion-capture data and motion-tracking paradigm. However, producing quadruped robots motion corpora with scalability and physical feasibility faces more fundamental obstacles: animal motion data is scarce, and cross-embodiment retargeting remains fragile. We present ABot-C0, a generalist motion-control system for quadruped robots that establishes three complementary behavior foundations: a scalable multi-source motion-data pipeline, robust policy learning across motion tracking, locomotion, and scene interaction, and a unified deployment stack for reliable real-world operation. Fundamentally, we construct a data pyramid through conditional video-generation synthesis, annotated motion capture, teleoperation and human design, producing 16,074 physically feasible motion clips as the data foundation for various motion learning demands. We then train a Flow-Matching generalist policy that demonstrates for the first time quadruped motion tracking scaling law that its performance improves consistently as training scales up, with zero-shot capability to track unseen motions. Then, we push a step further for robust all-terrain traversal locomotion by adopting a three-stage privileged-to-perceptive framework with temporal LiDAR memory and terrain-predictive supervision. Collectively, these components form a motion generalist that coordinates multi-policy execution, smooth behavior transitions, energy-efficient control, and safety mechanisms for real-world deployment. Extensive experiments on urban-terrain autonomous navigation and companion-style multimodal interaction demonstrate that quadruped robots move beyond single-function demos toward product-level behavioral intelligence.