ROBO Categories¶

ROBO (Robotics Operation Behavioral Ontology) is Humanoid Network's classification system for organizing human demonstration data by the robotic capability it trains.

The 7 Categories¶

1. Manipulation¶

Object grasping, lifting, placing, stacking, and rearranging. The most common category, covering fundamental robotic hand-object interactions.

Example quests: Pick up a mug, stack blocks, sort objects by color

Locomotion and spatial awareness. Walking through environments, avoiding obstacles, traversing doorways, climbing stairs.

Example quests: Walk through a room, navigate around furniture, open and walk through a door

3. Tool Use¶

Operating tools and instruments. Using utensils, scissors, screwdrivers, keyboards, and other human-designed implements.

Example quests: Use a spatula to flip an object, operate a hand drill, type on a keyboard

Human-facing behaviors. Gesturing, pointing, handing objects to people, following verbal or visual directions.

Example quests: Hand an object to another person, point to a location, follow pointing directions

5. Dexterous Manipulation¶

Fine motor skills requiring precision. Button pressing, knob turning, key insertion, threading, writing.

Example quests: Turn a doorknob, insert a key, thread a needle, press small buttons

6. Bimanual Coordination¶

Tasks requiring both hands working together. Folding, pouring, opening containers, carrying large objects.

Example quests: Fold a towel, pour from a bottle into a cup, open a jar

7. Dynamic Interaction¶

Tasks involving moving or unpredictable elements. Catching, throwing, balancing, reacting to perturbations.

Example quests: Catch a tossed ball, balance a tray while walking, react to a pushed object

Category Hierarchy¶

Each ROBO category contains sub-categories for finer-grained classification. The full taxonomy is available through the HAN SDK metadata endpoints.

Cross-Category Tasks¶

Many real-world tasks span multiple categories. A quest like "carry a tray of cups through a doorway" involves Manipulation + Navigation + Bimanual Coordination. These multi-category tasks are tagged with all applicable labels.