🔬 University#52 Hefei, China· Est. 1958
University of Science and Technology of China — Robot Research
Home to Jia Jia — China's most realistic humanoid robot — and Xiao Man, a service robot that gained international attention. USTC's robot research merges AI with expressive humanoid design.
social robotsHRIAI systemsdexterous manipulation
Notable achievements
Jia Jia realistic android, Xiao Man service robot, AI dialogue systems for HRI, social robot design, international media coverage.
Notable work
Jia Jia androidXiao Man robot
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
MANIPULATION
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Hand-in-the-Loop: Improving VLA Policies for Dexterous Manipulation via Seamless Hand-Arm Intervention
Zhuohang Li, Liqun Huang, Wei Xu +5 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
Beyond Binary: Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation with Physics-Grounded Contact Representation
Jiahe Pan, Stelian Coros, Jitendra Malik +1 more
2026
HRI
Open access
Robo-Blocks: Generative Scaffolding in End-User Design and Programming of Social Robots
Arissa J. Sato, Callie Y. Kim, Nathan Thomas White +4 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
VR-DAgger: Immersive VR for Dexterous Data Collection and Uncertainty-Guided On-Policy Correction
René Zurbrügg, Tifanny Portela, Arjun Bhardwaj +3 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
DexSIM: Real-time Dexterous Simulation with Unified Causal Video Diffusion
Adam Lee
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
RLDX-1 Technical Report
Dongyoung Kim, Huiwon Jang, Myungkyu Koo +17 more
2026