I am an M.Phil. student in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). My research focuses on humanoid locomotion, whole-body control, reinforcement learning, and embodied intelligence.

I work across algorithms and robot systems, with a particular interest in turning policies that succeed in simulation into physical skills that remain reliable in the real world.

Research Interests

  • Humanoid Robotics
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Whole-Body Control
  • Sim-to-Real
  • Embodied Intelligence

News

  • 2026.07: Our team won the RoboCup World Cup Soccer 3D Simulation championship.
  • 2026.06: Won the HKUST(GZ) Campus Top 10 Singing Competition championship.
  • 2026.02: Our paper on bimanual active perception was accepted by ICRA 2026.
  • 2025.12: Led the team to 8th place in the ATEC 2025 Real-World Extreme Challenge.
  • 2025.10: Won 3rd place in the IROS 2025 Robot Dance Competition.

Research

2026 Unified humanoid recovery and locomotion framework

Learning Robust Humanoid Motion Control for Robot Soccer

A unified recovery-locomotion framework designed to recover from diverse falls, resume walking, and remain robust under physical variation.

HumanoidReinforcement LearningSim-to-Real
2026 Self-play humanoid dribbling framework

Self-Play Dribbling for Humanoid Robot Soccer

A self-play learning framework for agile dribbling policies in competitive multi-agent environments.

Self-PlayRobot SoccerDeep RL
2025 Human motion retargeted to a Unitree G1 humanoid robot

From Video to G1 Dance

A motion-retargeting and whole-body-control pipeline for transferring human motion from video to a Unitree G1 humanoid robot.

Motion RetargetingWhole-Body ControlIROS

Publications

2026 Research project preview

Towards Exploratory and Focused Manipulation with Bimanual Active Perception: A New Problem, Benchmark and Strategy

Yuxin He, Ruihao Zhang, Tianao Shen, Cheng Liu, Qiang Nie

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 — Accepted

Education

  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) Sep. 2024 - Oct. 2026
    M.Phil. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems · Guangzhou, China Current GPA: 3.3/4.0
  • Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2024
    B.Eng. in Electromagnetic Fields and Wireless Technology · Nanjing, China Honor Degree and Top 5% General Scholarship; focus on wireless systems and robotics.

Experience

  • Text2HumanoidAction — M.Phil. Thesis Project Mar. 2026 - Present
    HKUST(GZ) Developing a framework that uses physical priors from a large-scale video generation model to guide continuous whole-body humanoid motion generation.
  • RoboCup 3D Simulation Competition — Team Member Mar. 2026 - Present
    HKUST(GZ) Built a curriculum-learning fall-recovery policy with PPO, key-state initialization, and domain randomization.
  • ATEC 2025 Real-World Extreme Challenge — Team Leader / Core Developer Sep. 2025 - Dec. 2025
    CUHK & Alibaba Led the team to 8th place and developed teleoperation, data-collection, and bimanual locomotion components.
  • IROS 2025 Robot Dance Competition — Project Leader Jun. 2025 - Oct. 2025
    Guangdong, China Developed a video-to-dance pipeline for Unitree G1 using motion retargeting and whole-body control; won 3rd place.
  • THU AIR Embodied AI Winter Camp — Outstanding Camper Jan. 2025 - Feb. 2025
    Tsinghua University AIR Built a simulation data-collection pipeline and deployed ACT for robotic manipulation.
  • Future Dynamics — Co-Founder / Technical Lead Mar. 2024 - Present
    HKUST(GZ) Lead technical strategy and robotics hardware-software integration.
  • Xbotpark Entrepreneurial Camp — Team Leader Jul. 2022 - Aug. 2022
    Changzhou, Jiangsu Developed a medical IoT prototype with STM32, RFID, and Wi-Fi; awarded Best Project.
  • RoboCup 3D Simulation Competition — Team Leader / Algorithm Developer Nov. 2020 - Nov. 2022
    NJUPT Implemented role assignment and collaboration algorithms and optimized bipedal walking using CMA-ES.

Projects

2026 HKUST Guangzhou RoboCup championship team

RoboCup 3D Simulation Champion

2026 HKUST Guangzhou RoboCup team

HKUST(GZ) RoboCup Team

2025 IROS Mecha Challenge presentation

From Video to G1 Dance

2025 Teleoperation data collection for the ATEC challenge

ATEC Real-World Extreme Challenge

2024 - Present Future Dynamics humanoid robot concept

Future Dynamics

2019 Robot built at the DJI RoboMaster summer camp

DJI RoboMaster High-School Camp

Technical Skills

Languages & Frameworks

  • Python
  • C/C++
  • ROS
  • PyTorch
  • MATLAB

Robotics

  • Isaac Gym
  • MuJoCo
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Whole-Body Control

Tools & Hardware

  • Git
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • SolidWorks
  • STM32
  • PCB Design

Honors & Awards

  • 2026: RoboCup World Cup Soccer 3D Simulation Champion
  • 2026: HKUST(GZ) Campus Top 10 Singing Competition Champion
  • 2025: ATEC Real-World Extreme Challenge — 8th Place
  • 2025: IROS Mecha Challenge (Robot Dance) — 3rd Place
  • 2024: Honor Degree and General Scholarship (Top 5%), NJUPT
  • 2023: National Inspiration Scholarship
  • 2022: RoboCup China Competition National Championship
  • 2021: RoboCup World Cup — Third Prize
  • 2019: DJI RoboMaster Robot Summer Camp — Third Prize