# OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Home Platform for Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.28197 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.28197/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 51 of its 80 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Apr 2026.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Robots that assist people must respond promptly and appropriately to human activity, which requires low-latency processing, accurate perception, and anticipation of human motion. These requirements are especially difficult to meet in living environments, where perception must cover wide areas, remain robust to occlusion, and capture natural behavior without wearable devices. We present OmniRobotHome, a testbed that addresses these challenges in a fully furnished home that supports natural everyday activity. Its 48 hardware-synchronized cameras provide room-wide coverage, enabling accurate markerless perception under occlusion. A distributed perception pipeline processes these streams in parallel and delivers persistent human and object states to robot controllers with low latency. We demonstrate OmniRobotHome through two human-robot interaction studies: proactive yielding for safety and nonverbal intent recognition for assistance. Through these studies, we analyze how camera coverage, state latency, multi-view pose, hand, and gaze estimation, and behavior-memory-based forecasting affect overall task performance. Our results highlight the value of OmniRobotHome as a testbed for studying human-robot assistance in real living environments.
