robotics

Research, projects, and notes on robot learning, manipulation, and whatever I'm building.

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Sep 2026 · research

Visible Touch: Rendering Contact for Visuomotor Policies

Rendering tactile contact into the robot's camera view. Accepted to CoRL 2026 as a spotlight.

Metin Alp Dogan, Edward Sun, Feng Xu, Daniel Wu, Allen Peng, Dennis Hong, Yuchen Cui

CoRL 2026 (Spotlight)

A project exploring how tactile contact can be rendered into the robot's visual observation stream, so image-conditioned policies can use contact without a separate tactile architecture.

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Mar 2026 · research

ELISE: Embodied Language Intent-to-Skill Execution

Turning high-level language intent into dexterous skills, demonstrated on robot piano.

A robot learning project on turning high-level language intent into embodied skills, with a focus on structured reasoning for dexterous robot piano performance.

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Feb 2026 · project

Teaching Robots to Pour Latte Art

Training a dual-arm robot to pour heart patterns at the Founders Inc Physical AI Hackathon.

A Founders Inc Physical AI Hackathon project using pi0 VLA and kinesthetic teaching on OpenDroid R2D3 to train a dual-arm robot to pour heart patterns.

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Jan 2026 · research

Intent at a Glance: Gaze-Guided Robotic Manipulation via Foundation Models

Using where a person looks as an intent signal for robot manipulation.

Tracey Yee Hsin Tay, Xu Yan*, Jonathan Ouyang*, Daniel Wu, William Jiang, Jonathan Kao, Yuchen Cui

RSS 2025 Robot Planning in the Era of Foundation Models Workshop

A manipulation project using gaze as an intent signal for robots, connecting human attention with foundation-model-based robotic action.

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