How It Works
Long-horizon loco-manipulation
A robot task that combines walking or moving around (locomotion) with handling objects (manipulation) over many steps in a row — for example, walking to a kitchen, opening a fridge, taking something out and carrying it elsewhere. “Long-horizon” means errors early on can ruin the whole sequence, which is what makes it hard.
Origin · no single documented coiner
Research vocabulary from legged and humanoid robotics, combining two older terms; no single coiner. Projects such as Stanford’s HomeBody describe their goals this way.