Zihao He 何子浩

I am a senior 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 dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing, and cross-embodiment learning with the ultimate goal of building intelligent robots capable of achieving human-level dexterity.

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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.

Research

Representative papers are highlighted. * denotes equal contribution. † denotes corresponding author(s).

Learning Dexterous Manipulation with Quantized Hand State
Ying Feng*, Hongjie Fang*, Yinong He*, Jingjing Chen, Chenxi Wang, Zihao He, Ruonan Liu, Cewu Lu†
arXiv, 2025
paper / code comming soon / project page

Propose DQ-RISE, which quantizes hand states to simplify hand motion prediction while preserving essential patterns, and applies a continuous relaxation that allows arm actions to diffuse jointly with these compact hand states. This design enables the policy to learn arm-hand coordination from data while preventing hand actions from overwhelming the action space. Experiments show that DQ-RISE achieves more balanced and efficient learning, paving the way toward structured and generalizable dexterous manipulation.

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.

FoAR: Force-Aware Reactive Policy for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Zihao He*, Hongjie Fang*, Jingjing Chen, Hao-Shu Fang†, Cewu Lu†
RA-L, 2025  
paper / code / project page / X

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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