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20222026
most citedSee, Hear, and Feel: Smart Sensory Fusion for Robotic Manipulation

10 citations · 15 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

Efficient Image Synthesis with Sphere Latent Encoder

Tung Do, Thuan Hoang Nguyen, Hao Li

Few-step image generation has seen rapid progress, with consistency and meanflow-based methods significantly reducing the number of sampling steps. Despite their low inference cost…

cs.GR2026

FFAvatar: Few-Shot, Feed-Forward, and Generalizable Avatar Reconstruction

Thuan Hoang Nguyen, Jiahao Luo, Yinyu Nie +3

Avatar reconstruction has traditionally relied on per-subject optimization that requires hours of computation or on expensive preprocessing that limits scalability. We introduce FF…

cs.RO2026

IMPASTO: Integrating Model-Based Planning with Learned Dynamics Models for Robotic Oil Painting Reproduction

Yingke Wang, Hao Li, Yifeng Zhu +6

Robotic reproduction of oil paintings using soft brushes and pigments requires force-sensitive control of deformable tools, prediction of brushstroke effects, and multi-step stroke…

cs.RO2026

UMI-Underwater: Learning Underwater Manipulation without Underwater Teleoperation

Hao Li, Long Yin Chung, Jack Goler +5

Underwater robotic grasping is difficult due to degraded, highly variable imagery and the expense of collecting diverse underwater demonstrations. We introduce a system that (i) au…

cs.RO2025

Multimodal Sensing for Robot-Assisted Sub-Tissue Feature Detection in Physiotherapy Palpation

Tian-Ao Ren, Jorge Garcia, Seongheon Hong +6

Robotic palpation relies on force sensing, but force signals in soft-tissue environments are variable and cannot reliably reveal subtle subsurface features. We present a compact mu…

cs.RO2025

TypeTele: Releasing Dexterity in Teleoperation by Dexterous Manipulation Types

Yuhao Lin, Yi-Lin Wei, Haoran Liao +6

Dexterous teleoperation plays a crucial role in robotic manipulation for real-world data collection and remote robot control. Previous dexterous teleoperation mostly relies on hand…

cs.RO2025

TacCap: A Wearable FBG-Based Tactile Sensor for Seamless Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer

Chengyi Xing, Hao Li, Yi-Lin Wei +6

Tactile sensing is essential for dexterous manipulation, yet large-scale human demonstration datasets lack tactile feedback, limiting their effectiveness in skill transfer to robot…

cs.RO2024

Whisker-Inspired Tactile Sensing: A Sim2Real Approach for Precise Underwater Contact Tracking

Hao Li, Chengyi Xing, Saad Khan +2

Aquatic mammals, such as pinnipeds, utilize their whiskers to detect and discriminate objects and analyze water movements, inspiring the development of robotic whiskers for sensing…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Navigation and 3D Surface Reconstruction from Passive Whisker Sensing

Michael A. Lin, Hao Li, Chengyi Xing +1

Whiskers provide a way to sense surfaces in the immediate environment without disturbing it. In this paper we present a method for using highly flexible, curved, passive whiskers m…

cs.RO2024★ 4 cited

Grasp as You Say: Language-guided Dexterous Grasp Generation

Yi-Lin Wei, Jian-Jian Jiang, Chengyi Xing +5

This paper explores a novel task "Dexterous Grasp as You Say" (DexGYS), enabling robots to perform dexterous grasping based on human commands expressed in natural language. However…

cs.CV2023

The ObjectFolder Benchmark: Multisensory Learning with Neural and Real Objects

Ruohan Gao, Yiming Dou, Hao Li +5

We introduce the ObjectFolder Benchmark, a benchmark suite of 10 tasks for multisensory object-centric learning, centered around object recognition, reconstruction, and manipulatio…

cs.RO2023

Sonicverse: A Multisensory Simulation Platform for Embodied Household Agents that See and Hear

Ruohan Gao, Hao Li, Gokul Dharan +6

Developing embodied agents in simulation has been a key research topic in recent years. Exciting new tasks, algorithms, and benchmarks have been developed in various simulators. Ho…

cs.RO2022★ 10 cited

See, Hear, and Feel: Smart Sensory Fusion for Robotic Manipulation

Hao Li, Yizhi Zhang, Junzhe Zhu +7

Humans use all of their senses to accomplish different tasks in everyday activities. In contrast, existing work on robotic manipulation mostly relies on one, or occasionally two mo…