Robots come in many forms. Some are compact research platforms, while others are full-size humanoids designed for industrial work. They differ in height, weight, joint structure, payload, and control architecture, but they share one fundamental challenge: translating human movement into robot behavior.
Xsens motion capture turns full-body human movement into precise kinematic data that can support teleoperation, motion retargeting, simulation, imitation learning, and AI training datasets. Because Xsens captures the movement of the human operator rather than relying on a single robot platform, the data can be adapted to different embodiments and development workflows.
The examples below range from a 58-centimeter educational robot to full-size industrial humanoids and a stationary dual-arm cobot. Together, they demonstrate the versatility of human motion data across robotics.
Country: China
Robot type: Compact general-purpose humanoid
Height: 1.32 m
Weight: Approximately 35 kg
Degrees of freedom: 23–43, depending on configuration
Unitree G1 is a compact humanoid platform designed for robotics development, AI research, and embodied intelligence applications. Its smaller proportions, broad joint ranges, and optional dexterous hands make it a popular platform for experimenting with full-body control and manipulation.
Xsens full-body motion data can be retargeted to the G1 for applications such as live teleoperation, testing, and robot behavior development.
Country: United States
Robot type: Full-size industrial humanoid
Height: 1.9 m
Weight: 90 kg
Degrees of freedom: 56
Boston Dynamics’ fully electric Atlas is designed for industrial automation and real-world material-handling applications. Its 56 degrees of freedom, fully rotational joints, 2.3-meter reach, and ability to lift loads of up to 50 kg give it a range of motion that extends beyond normal human biomechanics.
A 60 Minutes feature showed how Xsens motion capture can contribute to the Atlas training pipeline. Human movement captured with an Xsens suit was retargeted to the robot before more than 4,000 simulated Atlas robots trained the behavior in parallel. The resulting skill could then be deployed on the physical robot.
Country: China
Robot type: Compact interactive humanoid
Height: 1.31 m
Weight: Approximately 35–39 kg
Degrees of freedom: 25–30, depending on configuration
AgiBot X2 is a half-size humanoid designed for expressive movement, interaction, research, and commercial demonstrations. Its configurations offer up to 30 degrees of freedom, including seven degrees of freedom per arm, three at the waist, and six per leg.
Country: China
Robot type: Full-size general-purpose humanoid
Height: 1.65 m
Degrees of freedom: 31
LimX Dynamics develops several humanoid and bipedal research platforms. Its full-size Oli humanoid has 31 active degrees of freedom, integrated depth cameras, configurable end effectors, and development support for platforms including NVIDIA Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, and Gazebo.
This example adds another robot architecture to the mix, showing how human motion data can support different combinations of locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body control.
Country: China
Robot type: Full-size industrial humanoid
Arm span: 2 m
Arm configuration: Seven degrees of freedom per arm
Dual-arm carrying capacity: 20–40 kg
Ti5’s Yaoguang humanoid is built around industrial manipulation and load-bearing applications. It combines high-torque leg joints with seven-degree-of-freedom arms, six-dimensional force sensing in the hands, and multiple depth cameras covering the front, rear, and hands.
Ti5 uses Xsens in a closed-loop development process: human motion is captured, cleaned and processed, imported into the robot control platform, mapped to the robot, and used for algorithm training and prototype optimization.
Country: China
Robot type: Full-size industrial humanoid
Height: 1.75 m
Weight: Approximately 75 kg for the bipedal version
Degrees of freedom: Up to 52
Dual-arm handling capacity: 25–30 kg
At 1.75 meters tall, the Kepler Forerunner K2 is built around human-scale industrial work. Its highest-specification configuration includes 52 degrees of freedom, including eleven degrees of freedom in each dexterous hand. Kepler positions the robot for manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, and high-risk operations.
Its human-like proportions make K2 a strong example of how full-body Xsens data can be translated into motion for a large industrial humanoid.
Country of origin: France
Robot type: Small educational and research humanoid
Height: 58 cm
Weight: Approximately 5.5 kg
Degrees of freedom: 25
NAO is considerably smaller than the industrial humanoids in this list. Designed for education, programming, human–robot interaction, and academic research, it can walk, gesture, dance, speak, and respond to its surroundings.
Its inclusion demonstrates that Xsens motion data is not limited to robots with human-sized proportions. Human movement can be retargeted to a much smaller embodiment while accounting for different limb lengths, joint limits, and balance requirements.
Country: China
Robot type: Full-size, open-development humanoid
Reference model: Tiangong Lite
Height: 1.63 m
Weight: 43 kg
Degrees of freedom: 20
Tiangong is an open humanoid platform developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. The Lite reference model has four degrees of freedom in each arm and six in each leg, with a ROS-based development environment and open resources for robot control and simulation.
The platform demonstrates how Xsens motion capture can support robots built around open development, motion-control research, and embodied-intelligence experimentation.
Country of origin: United States
Robot type: Fixed-base dual-arm collaborative robot
Height: 94 cm from waist to head
Weight: 75 kg excluding the pedestal
Degrees of freedom: 16
Baxter is different from every other robot on this list: it does not walk and does not have a conventional humanoid lower body. Instead, it uses two seven-degree-of-freedom arms and a two-degree-of-freedom head for collaborative manipulation and robotics research.
This makes Baxter an important example of Xsens versatility. Human motion data can be mapped not only to bipedal humanoids, but also to robotic arms and other machines with entirely different kinematic structures.
These robots range from 58 centimeters to 1.75 meters in height and from 16 to 52 degrees of freedom. They include educational platforms, interactive robots, industrial humanoids, open research systems, and a fixed-base collaborative robot. And these are not all the robots Xsens can be used with. There is no limit.
What connects them is not their hardware. It is the ability to use accurate human movement as an input for robot development.
Whether the objective is live teleoperation, training-data collection, imitation learning, simulation, motion mapping, or behavior testing, Xsens provides an adaptable human-motion pipeline that can work across different robot platforms.