Lin Shao
Assistant Professor
Develops algorithms and systems for robot perception and manipulation toward general-purpose robots.
Lin Shao's lab at NUS works on manipulation & robot learning and robot perception & SLAM. 26 papers since 2023, 2 at top venues, mostly CVPR and NeurIPS. 12 PhD students and 12 master's students. 9 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 8%
- PhD students
- 12
- MS students
- 12
- alumni listed
- 9
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 1
- 8 papers2024 · T1 1
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning16 papers
- manipulation8 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM6 papers
- develops algorithms0 papers
- robot perception0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)AdaptPNP: Integrating Prehensile and Non-Prehensile Skills for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Bi-Adapt: Few-shot Bimanual Adaptation for Novel Categories of 3D Objects via Semantic Correspondence (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Goal-VLA: Image-Generative VLMs as Object-Centric World Models Enable Zero-shot Robot Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)LISN: Language-Instructed Social Navigation with VLM-based Controller Modulating (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Manual2Skill++: Connector-Aware General Robotic Assembly from Instruction Manuals via Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)ShapeForce: Low-Cost Soft Robotic Wrist for Contact-Rich Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)T(R,O) Grasp: Efficient Graph Diffusion of Robot-Object Spatial Transformation for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping (opens in a new tab)
20256 papers
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)D(R,O) Grasp: A Unified Representation of Robot and Object Interaction for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)EMOS: Embodiment-aware Heterogeneous Multi-robot Operating System with LLM Agents (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)FLIP: Flow-Centric Generative Planning as General-Purpose Manipulation World Model (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)Manual2Skill: Learning to Read Manuals and Acquire Robotic Skills for Furniture Assembly Using Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)MetaFold: Language-Guided Multi-Category Garment Folding Framework via Trajectory Generation and Foundation Model (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)VLA-OS: Structuring and Dissecting Planning Representations and Paradigms in Vision-Language-Action Models (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- CVPR (T1)Category-Level Multi-Part Multi-Joint 3D Shape Assembly (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)GAMMA: Generalizable Articulation Modeling and Manipulation for Articulated Objects (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Jade: A Differentiable Physics Engine for Articulated Rigid Bodies with Intersection-Free Frictional Contact (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)Learning Reward for Robot Skills Using Large Language Models via Self-Alignment (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)ManiFoundation Model for General-Purpose Robotic Manipulation of Contact Synthesis with Arbitrary Objects and Robots (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)RiEMann: Near Real-Time SE(3)-Equivariant Robot Manipulation without Point Cloud Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)SoftMAC: Differentiable Soft Body Simulation with Forecast-based Contact Model and Two-way Coupling with Articulated Rigid Bodies and Clothes (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)TieBot: Model-based Learning to Knot a Tie from Visual Demonstration via Differentiable Physics-based Simulation (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)ClothesNet: An Information-Rich 3D Garment Model Repository with Simulated Clothes Environment (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)DexRepNet: Learning Dexterous Robotic Grasping Network with Geometric and Spatial Hand-Object Representations (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Diff-LfD: Contact-aware Model-based Learning from Visual Demonstration for Robotic Manipulation via Differentiable Physics-based Simulation and Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)DiffClothAI: Differentiable Cloth Simulation with Intersection-free Frictional Contact and Differentiable Two-Way Coupling with Articulated Rigid Bodies (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)SAM-RL: Sensing-Aware Model-based Reinforcement Learning via Differentiable Physics-based Simulation and Rendering (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went9 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 6
Also to
- Georgia Tech
- MIT
- Simon Fraser University
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School of Computing PhD in Computer Science
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