The Humanoid Athletic Robotics Project (HARP) is a team of students from Stanford Student Robotics with the eponymous mission of training humanoid robots to move, react, and coordinate like humans can through learning-based control, real-time perception, and dynamic whole-body coordination.
Humanoid platforms remain difficult to access for most student researchers due to the technical and financial barriers involved. HARP exists to change that. By building on Stanford's collaborative research environment, we aim to lower those barriers and create a shared platform for experimentation in athletic and dynamic robotics, a domain that demands exactly the kind of balance, adaptation, and real-time decision-making that makes humanoid research hard. Our long-term goal is to push the frontier of what student-driven humanoid robotics can achieve, from on-campus demonstrations to international stages.