AHEADance: Anticipatory Humanoid Dance from Streaming Audio
AHEADance: Anticipatory Humanoid Dance from Streaming Audio
This research introduces AHEADance, a system enabling humanoids to dance in sync with streamed music by combining real-time audio input with predictive forecasts of upcoming beats. The method uses ListenAhead to condition motion chunks on heard and predicted music, and Commit Forcing to ensure smooth continuation from previously committed movements. Evaluated on a physical Unitree G1 robot, the system successfully dances to live music and stops safely when the music ends without falling. Three independent evaluators validated synchronization, song adherence, and style consistency against real human dance data.
The study presents AHEADance, a robot-native streaming dance generator demonstrated on a physical Unitree G1 humanoid that synchronizes motion to streamed audio using predictive modeling and commitment-based training, reducing low-activity states from 83.5% to 10.3%.
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e decoded boundary of the next chunk; it reduces low activity from 83.5% to 10.3%, the level of real dance. Three music evaluators, each validated on real G1 dance, test synchronization, song and style. On a physical Unitree G1, it dances while the music plays and comes to rest when it stops, without a fall. Project page: https://ihcr.github.io/AHEADance
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e decoded boundary of the next chunk; it reduces low activity from 83.5% to 10.3%, the level of real dance. Three music evaluators, each validated on real G1 dance, test synchronization, song and style. On a physical Unitree G1, it dances while the music plays and comes to rest when it stops, without a fall. Project page: https://ihcr.github.io/AHEADance
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arXiv:2611.13370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A humanoid that dances to streamed music must commit each motion chunk before it has heard the music that chunk accompanies, and must continue from motion it has already committed. We present AHEADance, a robot-native streaming dance generator executed on a humanoid robot by a whole-body tracker. ListenAhead conditions each chunk on heard music and a frozen music model'
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