Research Overview

EMAIL Lab introduction

EMAIL-lab is dedicated to research in embodied intelligent manipulation, with the goal of enabling robots to interact with the physical world in a more skillful, adaptive, and generalizable manner. Our work spans a set of core research directions, including deformable object manipulation, dynamic manipulation, and dexterous manipulation, as well as arm-hand coordination for complex contact-rich skills. We are particularly interested in multimodal robotic manipulation, where vision, tactile, and force sensing are jointly leveraged to improve perception, control, and robustness in real-world interaction.

In addition, we study mobile manipulation and world models for embodied agents, aiming to endow robotic systems with stronger capabilities in prediction, planning, and decision-making in complex and unstructured environments. By combining advances in perception, control, learning, and physical reasoning, EMAIL-lab strives to push robotic manipulation toward more general embodied intelligence.

Featured Research

Deformable object manipulation, multi-modal perception, and long-horizon autonomy.

Deformable Object Manipulation

Deformable object manipulation

Learning and modeling for non-rigid materials (garments, bags, granular materials), including neural particle-based dynamics and interactive perception under contact.

Dexterous Manipulation

Dexterous manipulation

Perception and control that fuse vision with touch/force feedback to handle uncertainty, detect contact, and improve dexterity.

Task & Motion Planning

Task and motion planning

Planning for long-horizon manipulation, including subgoal reasoning under sparse rewards and contact-aware trajectories.