Papers

7

Total Citations

155

H-Index

5

About

Weikang Wan is an emerging robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of dexterous manipulation, imitation learning, and generalizable robot policy learning. He is best known for **UniDexGrasp** (2023), a landmark contribution that achieved universal robotic dexterous grasping across hundreds of object categories — including unseen ones — by combining diverse grasp proposal generation with goal-conditioned reinforcement learning. The paper has accumulated 94 citations, establishing Wan as a notable voice in robot dexterity research. His broader portfolio reflects a consistent drive to make robots more adaptable: his work on generative adversarial self-imitation learning (2022) tackled category-level manipulation generalization, while **LOTUS** (2024) introduced continual imitation learning with unsupervised skill discovery, enabling robots to lifelong-learn new tasks efficiently. More recently, Wan has expanded into bimanual dexterous manipulation through **DexMimicGen** (2025), addressing critical data bottlenecks via automated demonstration generation, and contributed to **RoboVerse**, a unified platform for scalable robot learning. His exploration of spatial intelligence for vision-and-language navigation further signals an ambitious research agenda. Across his career, Wan's cumulative impact — over 150 citations — underscores his growing influence in building robots capable of truly generalist, real-world manipulation.

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H-Index
7
Papers
155
Total Citations
22
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
UniDexGrasp: Universal Robotic Dexterous Grasping via Learning Diverse Proposal Generation and Goal-Conditioned Policy
94 citations · 2023
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2025 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 58
🏛 Institutions: King University, Peking University, The University of Texas at Austin, UC San Diego Health System

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