Wenzhen Yuan
Assistant Professor
Studies tactile sensing for robot perception and manipulation, including vision-based tactile sensors and soft robotics.
Wenzhen Yuan's lab at UIUC works on robot perception & SLAM, manipulation & robot learning and data management & big data. 19 papers since 2023, 13 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 8 PhD students and 2 master's students. 39 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 68%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 39
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 5
- 5 papers2024 · T1 2
- 6 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, RA-L, ICCV, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- tactile12 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM3 papers
- Manipulation & robot learning3 papers
- Data management & big data0 papers
- soft robotics0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20261 paper
- RA-LFruitTouch: A Perceptive Gripper for Gentle and Scalable Fruit Harvesting
20257 papers
- ICRA (T1)DoorBot: Closed-Loop Task Planning and Manipulation forDoor Opening in the Wild with Haptic Feedback
- RA-LGelBelt: A Vision-based Tactile Sensor for Continuous Sensing of Large Surfaces
- ICRA (T1)Learning to Double Guess: An Active Perception Approach for Estimating the Center of Mass of Arbitrary Objects
- ICLR (T1)Sensor-Invariant Tactile Representation
- ICRA (T1)Social Gesture Recognition in SpHRI: Leveraging Fabric-Based Tactile Sensing on Humanoid Robots
- NeurIPS (T1)Tactile DreamFusion: Exploiting Tactile Sensing for 3D Generation
- Nature Communications engineeringVision-Based Tactile Sensor Design Using Physically Based Rendering
20245 papers
- Advanced Materials TechnologiesA Novel Parylene C Waveguide-Based High-Resolution Photonic Tactile Array Sensor
- IROS (T1)An Intelligent Robotic System for Perceptive Pancake Batter Stirring and Precise Pouring
- ICRA (T1)Kitchen Artist: Precise Control of Liquid Dispensing for Gourmet Plating
- RA-LNormalFlow: Fast, Robust, and Accurate Contact-based Object 6DoF Pose Tracking with Vision-based Tactile Sensors
- IEEE International Conference on Soft RoboticsScalable Simulation-Guided Compliant Tactile Finger Design
20236 papers
- ICRA (T1)Cable Routing and Assembly using Tactile-driven Motion Primitives
- ICCV (T1)Controllable Visual-tactile Synthesis
- IROS (T1)Estimating Properties of Solid Particles Inside Container Using Touch Sensing
- IROS (T1)Robotic Defect Inspection with Visual and Tactile Perception for Large-Scale Components
- ICRA (T1)RobotSweater: Scalable, generalizable, and customizable machine-knitted tactile skins for robots
- ICRA (T1)Toward zero-shot sim-to-real transfer learning for pneumatic soft robot 3d proprioceptive sensing
Where alumni went39 listed
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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- Single round
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- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL iBT / IELTS
- Fee
- USD 90
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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