Zhibin Li
Associate Professor in Swarm Robotics
Leads the Advanced Intelligent Robotics Lab, building robots that learn, adapt and cooperate, including legged locomotion learning.
Zhibin Li's lab at UCL works on legged locomotion & humanoids. 36 papers since 2023, 21 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 58%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 3
- 8 papers2024 · T1 6
- 16 papers2023 · T1 10
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, Nature Machine Intelligence, CoRL, RA-L
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Legged locomotion & humanoids12 papers
- adapt0 papers
- advanced0 papers
- intelligent robotics0 papers
- legged locomotion0 papers
Paper list
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20263 papers
- ICRA (T1)DemoBot: Efficient Learning of Bimanual Manipulation with Dexterous Hands From Third-Person Human Videos (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AIDiscovery of skill-switching criteria for learning agile quadruped locomotion (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning End-to-End Dexterous Arm-Hand VLA Policies with Shared Autonomy: DexGrasp AI Copilot for Efficient Teleoperation (opens in a new tab)
20259 papers
- Science Robotics (T1)AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration. (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsBio-inspired neural networks with central pattern generators for learning multi-skill locomotion
- Robotics and Autonomous SystemsDexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Efficient Learning of A Unified Policy For Whole-body Manipulation and Locomotion Skills (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers of Information Technology and Electronic EngineeringEfficient learning of robust multigait quadruped locomotion for minimizing the cost of transport (opens in a new tab)
- FRONTIERS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERINGEfficient learning of robust multigait quadruped locomotion for minimizing the cost of transport (vol 26, pg 1679, 2025)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringeGAIT: Multi-Skilled Policy for Energy-efficient Gait Transitions (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)RoboBallet: Planning for multirobot reaching with graph neural networks and reinforcement learning. (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence ResearchTowards Generalist Robot Learning from Internet Video: A Survey (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and BionicsAchieving Dexterous Bidirectional Interaction in Uncertain Conditions for Medical Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)DexSkills: Skill Segmentation Using Haptic Data for Learning Autonomous Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Distilling Reinforcement Learning Policies for Interpretable Robot Locomotion: Gradient Boosting Machines and Symbolic Regression (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Efficient Tactile Sensing-based Learning from Limited Real-world Demonstrations for Dual-arm Fine Pinch-Grasp Skills (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Intrinsic Language-Guided Exploration for Complex Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Neural ODE-based Imitation Learning (NODE-IL): Data-Efficient Imitation Learning for Long-Horizon Multi-Skill Robot Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- CASESafe Value Functions: Learned Critics as Hard Safety Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)TiV-ODE: A Neural ODE-based Approach for Controllable Video Generation from Text-Image Pairs (opens in a new tab)
202316 papers
- CoRL (T1)A Data-efficient Neural ODE Framework for Optimal Control of Soft Manipulators (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Agile and Versatile Robot Locomotion via Kernel-based Residual Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation MagazineCollaborative Bimanual Manipulation Using Optimal Motion Adaptation and Interaction Control Retargetting Human Commands to Feasible Robot Control References (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Data-efficient Non-parametric Modelling and Control of an Extensible Soft Manipulator (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)Hierarchical generative modelling for autonomous robots (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)Hybrid hierarchical learning for solving complex sequential tasks using the robotic manipulation network ROMAN (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)Identifying important sensory feedback for learning locomotion skills (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Instance-wise Grasp Synthesis for Robotic Grasping (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Language-guided Robot Grasping: CLIP-based Referring Grasp Synthesis in Clutter (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LLearning Complex Motor Skills for Legged Robot Fall Recovery (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AILearning hybrid locomotion skills—Learn to exploit residual actions and modulate model-based gait control (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental SystemsLearning to Assist Bimanual Teleoperation using Interval Type-2 Polynomial Fuzzy Inference (opens in a new tab)
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