Yikai Tang

MS in Robotics (MSR) student at Carnegie Mellon University · Co-Founder of Axis Robotics · B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University · previously Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley

About

Hi there! 👋 I am Yikai Tang, a Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Katerina Fragkiadaki. Before that, I co-founded Axis Robotics, received my B.E. in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and was a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley (BAIR). During my undergrad years, I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jitendra Malik and Prof. Yunbo Wang. My research interests mainly lie in Robot Learning, where I focus on building reliable, generalizable and modality-rich robot policies that can be applied to real-world scenarios.

Publications

TUCO: Curating Simulation Demonstrations for Sim-to-Real Robot Policy Co-Training

Ning Zhu^*, Mengfei Zhao^*, Yikai Tang^*, Zhangyujie Sun, Peihao Li, Dongyue Ni, Jindou Jia^†, Jianfei Yang^†
^* equal contribution, ^† corresponding author

arXiv PDF Project Code

AXIS: A Growable Community-Driven Data Engine for Scalable Robot Manipulation

Mengfei Zhao^*, Dihong Huang^*, Yikai Tang^*, Peihao Li^*, Mingxuan Yan^*, Ruiqi Zhuang^*, Yanjia Huang^*, Jie Wang, Hai Zhai, Tony Zhou, Rui Zhang, Zhexi Luo, Yuchen Huang, Jianfei Yang^†, Jiachen Li^†
^* equal contribution, ^† corresponding author

arXiv PDF Project Dataset Code

What Matters in Quality-Aware VLA Pretraining: A Benchmark and Empirical Study

Mingxuan Yan, Litian Gong, Dihong Huang, Zhixu Li, Tianyu Zhang, Wenqian Zhang, Hefeifei Jiang, Peihao Li, Jian Zhang, Mengfei Zhao, Yikai Tang, Hai Zhai, Zehao Wang, Ruijian Liang, Yanjia Huang, Lin Shao, Changliu Liu, Kaiyu Hang, Zhiwen Fan, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Jianfei Yang, Jiachen Li^†
^† corresponding author

arXiv PDF Project

DIPOLE: Fusing Vision and Geometry for Robust Visuomotor Generalization

Yikai Tang^*, Haoran Geng^*, Jindou Jia, Yuxuan Hu, Sheng Zang, Jianfei Yang^†, Pieter Abbeel^†, Jitendra Malik^†
^* equal contribution, ^† equal advising

arXiv PDF Code Project

ISF-VLA: An Implicit 3D Vision-Language-Action Model Capitalizing on 3D-Aware Vision Foundation Models through Implicit Spatial Fusion

Sheng Zang, Songlin Wei, Haoran Geng, Yikai Tang, Bo An^†, Senthilnath Jayavelu^†, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik
^† corresponding author

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RoST3R: Robot-Aware Dynamic 3D Reconstruction from RGB Input for Robotic Manipulation

Yanbing Han, Haoran Geng, Junyi Zhang, Ziyu Chen, Yikai Tang, Charlie Cheng, Peihao Li, Trevor Darrell, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik, YUE WANG

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