🔬 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
CoDex: Learning Compositional Dexterous Functional Manipulation without Demonstrations
Bowen Jiang, William Painter Reger, Roberto Martin-Martin
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
RoboTacDex: A Dexterous Visual-Tactile-Action Dataset for Humanoid Manipulation
Xinyi Wang, Donghan Li, Zi'Ang Chen +5 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
UniTacVLA: Unified Tactile Understanding and Prediction in Vision Language Action Models
Xidong Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Jiaxin Shi +5 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
From Grasps to Dexterity: Large-Scale Grasp Pretraining for Dexterous Manipulation
Ying Yuan, Xinyu Liu, Sriram Krishna +1 more
2026
HRI
Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics for Social Robots.
Kushniruk AW, Rohani S, Borycki EM
Studies in health technology and informatics · 2026