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Dr. Runhao Zeng is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, flexible electronics, and embodied AI. His work centers on developing intelligent, sensor-rich systems that bridge the physical and digital worlds, with a focus on triboelectric sensors and robot navigation. Dr. Zeng’s major contributions include the invention of flexible triboelectric sensor arrays fabricated via 3D-printed bead-on-string sacrificial layers—a breakthrough that enables highly stretchable, self-powered tactile sensing for human-machine interfaces. His 2024 paper on this topic has already garnered 37 citations, reflecting its immediate impact. In parallel, he has advanced vision-and-language navigation with a weakly-supervised multi-granularity map learning approach (16 citations), addressing the critical challenge of training robots to follow natural language instructions in complex environments. Most recently, Dr. Zeng has pushed the boundaries of soft robotics with a magnetic millirobot that achieves simultaneous locomotion and sensing (14 citations), inspired by biological systems. His work is notable for its interdisciplinary creativity, merging materials science, manufacturing, and AI to create practical, scalable solutions for next-generation interactive systems.