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arxivcs.RO2026-07-07

Calf-Integrated Arms for Bimanual Quadruped Loco-Manipulation

Yan Pan, Yuanchuan Ren, Chipui Chan, Jingcheng Sun, Chengxu Zhou

Most quadruped loco-manipulation designs trade manipulation capability against stance. A trunk-mounted arm sits high and usually carries a single arm; using the legs as manipulators lifts the manipulating leg off the ground; and even leg-mounted grippers reach two-handed tasks only by rearing onto the hind legs. This paper integrates a manipulator with a prismatic slider, two revolute joints, and a gripper into each front calf of a Unitree Go2. The two arms grasp objects at ground level and manipulate with both hands while all four feet stay planted, without rearing. With one arm carrying, the base stays free to walk. A vision-language model sequences skills from a predefined library at each skill boundary, conditioned on the head-camera image and task state, for long-horizon autonomy. In simulation, the design performs three bimanual tasks: a long-horizon cabinet task under autonomous skill selection, a cooperative two-handed lift, and an inter-arm handover.

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