Han Zhang

All for Robotics.

I am a first-year PhD student at Stanford University advised by Prof. Shuran Song and part of the Robotics and Embodied AI Lab (REAL). I am grateful to be supported by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

I was a Co-Founder of Dexta Robotics Inc., where I supported projects aimed at helping patients recover from stroke.

Previously, I obtained my bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, with a solid background in Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, advised by Prof. Huazhe Xu. I’m an operator of the Tsinghua Amateur Radio Club BY1QH and led Team Tinker in RoboCup @Home, building service and assistive robots.

My research interest lies in robotics: design & build novel robots, manipulation, and robot learning.

I’m always excited about designing and building new hardware! In my free time, I love developing open-source projects that bring ideas to life in art, music and K–12 education.

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News

Apr 2026 HoMMI is accepted to RSS 2026.
Sep 2025 DexUMI is nominated as a Best Paper Award Finalist at CoRL 2025.
Sep 2025 Beginning my PhD journey at Stanford 🌲
Aug 2025 DexUMI is accepted to CoRL 2025.
Apr 2025 Honored to be awarded the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
Apr 2025 DOGlove is accepted to RSS 2025, see you in LA! 🎉
Jan 2024 ArrayBot is accepted to ICRA 2024!
Nov 2023 9DTact is accepted to RAL with a presentation at ICRA 2024.
Sep 2022 Start to work with Prof. Huazhe Xu as a research assistant.

Research

* indicates equal contributions.

2026

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    HoMMI: Learning Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation from Human Demonstrations
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2026

2025

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    DexUMI: Using Human Hand as the Universal Manipulation Interface for Dexterous Manipulation
    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025  Best Paper Award Finalist
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    DOGlove: Dexterous Manipulation with a Low-Cost Open-Source Haptic Force Feedback Glove
    Han ZhangSongbo HuZhecheng Yuan, and Huazhe Xu
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025

2024

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    ArrayBot: Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Distributed Manipulation through Touch
    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

2023

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    9DTact: A Compact Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Accurate 3D Shape Reconstruction and Generalizable 6D Force Estimation
    Changyi LinHan ZhangJikai Xu, Lei Wu, and Huazhe Xu
    Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023