Recap of IROS 2025 | The Second IROS Trip Concludes Successfully, Unlocking Boundless Possibilities for Humanoid Robotics Research

From October 20 to 25, 2025, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) was successfully held at the Hangzhou International Expo Center. IROS (short for IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) is one of the most influential international conferences in the global field of intelligent robots and systems. As a key exchange platform for cutting-edge robotics technologies, IROS brings together top global scholars, research institutions, and innovative enterprises to jointly discuss the latest breakthroughs and future directions in the field of intelligent robots.

High Torque Robotics has built a complete R&D ecosystem centered on the humanoid robot platform, integrating hardware design, drive development, and algorithm verification. As a pioneer in cutting-edge embodied intelligence technology, High Torque Robotics showcased Mini Pi, Mini Pi+, and Mini Hi at the exhibition, presenting its latest progress in the field of humanoid robots.

IROS 2025 | High Torque Robotics' Exhibition Highlights

► Highlight 1: High-Dynamic Full-Body Motion Control

As an open platform for scientific research and secondary development, High Torque Robotics fully demonstrated the high stability and reliability of its hardware system. During the multi-day continuous demonstrations, it completed multiple sets of high-dynamic movements including football, martial arts, and rapid fall-and-stand, and still maintained stable control performance in a high-interference environment. Throughout the week-long high-intensity operation, it achieved a stable demonstration with zero faults and no damage. In the on-site demonstration, products such as Mini Pi became popular "check-in spots" due to their excellent durability and load capacity.

At present, in terms of the R&D ecosystem, products in the Mini Pi+ series have achieved full open-source availability of the full-body control algorithm framework for imitation learning and reinforcement learning. The platform is equipped with 0-gap Sim2Real capability, enabling highly consistent migration from simulation to real-world deployment. Meanwhile, we provide comprehensive URDFs, SDKs, and development tutorials to support universities and research institutions in conducting secondary development and algorithm verification.

► Highlight 2: Autonomous Perception and Decision-Making

The platform supports the connection and fusion of a variety of external sensors, including RealSense D435i, ZED Mini, voice interaction modules, etc., enabling more comprehensive perception capabilities. Through multimodal information fusion, the robot is equipped with functions such as autonomous obstacle avoidance, target recognition and tracking.

► Highlight 3: Fully In-House Developed Hardware Platform

The achievement of the aforementioned performance is also attributed to High Torque’s fully in-house developed "small-size, high-torque" joint modules, enabling the robot to perform complex full-body motion control on a lightweight body. Meanwhile, the robot adopts a modular structural design, supporting customized requirements to meet diverse needs for scientific research verification, development, and application.

The Planetary Series joint modules have achieved large-scale mass production, suitable for various application scenarios such as robot bodies, exoskeletons, and robotic arms. With this hardware system, our robot products have become a reproducible, verifiable, and scalable research-grade platform, capable of providing a development platform with high consistency and high reliability for research directions including motion control, imitation learning, and perception fusion.

We conducted face-to-face exchanges with research teams, robotics enterprises, and academic institutions from around the world, engaging in in-depth discussions on the latest trends and core challenges in the field of humanoid robots. Through these exchanges and demonstrations, we are more convinced that: humanoid robots are not exclusive to laboratories—they can become a creative platform for every developer.

We are committed to enabling every developer to have their own humanoid robot.Let us jointly witness the arrival of humanoid robots stepping into the "PC Era"!

Creating New Possibilities in the Robotics Industry