News
[Aug. 2025] AirExo-2 is accepted by CoRL 2025.
[Jun. 2025] FoAR is accepted by IROS 2025. See you in Hangzhou!
[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.
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Research
Representative papers are highlighted.
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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
CoRL, 2025 (oral)  
paper / data collection code / policy code / project page
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.
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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.
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Selected Awards and Honors
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- 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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