Zihao He 何子浩

I am a junior undergraduate student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I am currently a visiting research intern at UCSD, advised by Prof. Hao Su. Previously, I was a member of SJTU Machine Vision and Intelligence Group (MVIG), advised by Dr. Hao-Shu Fang, and Prof. Cewu Lu.

My research interests mainly lie in multimodal perception and robot learning, with the ultimate goal of building agile, intelligent robots that can coexist peacefully with humans, enhancing our daily lives. Outside of reseach, I love playing badminton, hiking, and any kinds of sports.

Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about research, sports, or anything else!

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News

[Apr. 2025] FoAR is accepted by RA-L.
[Mar. 2025] AirExo-2 is released! Check our website for more details.
[Nov. 2024] FoAR is released! Check our website for more details.

Research

Representative papers are highlighted.

AirExo-2: Scaling up Generalizable Robotic Imitation Learning with Low-Cost Exoskeletons
Hongjie Fang*, Chenxi Wang*, Yiming Wang*, Jingjing Chen*, Shangning Xia, Jun Lv, Zihao He, Xiyan Yi, Yunhan Guo, Xinyu Zhan, Lixin Yang, Weiming Wang, Cewu Lu, Hao-Shu Fang
arXiv | Robot Learning Workshop @ ICLR, 2025
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Develop AirExo-2, an updated low-cost exoskeleton system for large-scale in-the-wild demonstration collection. By transforming the collected in-the-wild demonstrations into pseudo-robot demonstrations, our system addresses key challenges in utilizing in-the-wild demonstrations for downstream imitation learning in the real world. Propose RISE-2, a generalizable imitation policy that integrates 2D and 3D perceptions, outperforming previous imitation learning policies in both in-domain and out-of-domain tasks, even with limited demonstrations. By leveraging in-the-wild demonstrations collected and transformed by the AirExo-2 system, without the need for additional robot demonstrations, RISE-2 achieves comparable or superior performance to policies trained with teleoperated data, highlighting the potential of AirExo-2 for scalable and generalizable imitation learning.

FoAR: Force-Aware Reactive Policy for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Zihao He*, Hongjie Fang*, Jingjing Chen, Hao-Shu Fang, Cewu Lu
RA-L, 2025  
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Propose FoAR, a force-aware reactive policy that combines high-frequency force/torque sensing with visual inputs to enhance the performance in contact-rich manipulation. Built upon the RISE policy, FoAR incorporates a multimodal feature fusion mechanism guided by a future contact predictor, enabling dynamic adjustment of force/torque data usage between non-contact and contact phases. Its reactive control strategy also allows FoAR to accomplish contact-rich tasks accurately through simple position control.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • 2024: John Wu & Jane Sun Excellence Scholarship (10 winners in JI)
  • 2024: Student Development Scholarship - Sports (5 winners in JI)
  • 2024: Fan Hsu-chi Scholarship (15 winners in SJTU)
  • 2023: National Scholarship (Top 0.2% nationwide)
  • 2023: John Wu & Jane Sun Excellence Scholarship (10 winners in JI)
  • 2023: A-level Merit Scholarship (Top 1% SJTU)
  • 2023: Merit Student (Top 5% SJTU)
  • 2022: Silver Medal Winner of University Physics Competition
  • 2021: First Prize in Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), Zhejiang Province

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