SPRINT: Efficient Spectral Priors for Humanoid Athletic Sprints

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Researchers introduced SPRINT, a frequency-adaptive spectral prior framework for humanoid sprinting.
Using a small motion library, it learns frequency-domain priors to generate stable, kinematically feasible trajectories.
The method achieved zero-shot sim-to-real transfer on the Unitree G1 humanoid robot.
In real-world tests, the robot sprinted at up to 6 m/s, highlighting a data-efficient path to high-speed locomotion.
