AGENTIC ROBOTS · WORLD MODELS · VLA

Xiaobao Wei

PhD researcher building intelligent systems for the physical world.

I am a PhD student (expected June 2028) at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University, co-advised by Prof. Hui Chen and Prof. Shanghang Zhang. I received my B.S. in Robotics Engineering from Beihang University.

My research focuses on agentic robotics, especially world-model scaling and the robot data and infrastructure needed to close the agentic loop.

30+ papers 15 CCF-A first/co-first 800+ GitHub stars 1,000+ citations

Open to research collaborations and internship opportunities in agentic robotics.

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FROM RESEARCH TO DEPLOYMENT
Experience
2026.02–2026.10

Beijing Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Research Institute

北人–北大联合实验室 · Data / Infra Lead

4D priors for world models, unified-model scaling, embodied benchmarks, robot and ego data pipelines, and deployment infrastructure for humanoid platforms.

2025.12–2026.02

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Embodied intelligence · Multimodal research

Improved visual representations in VLA models for spatial understanding, then transferred the work to VLN and quadruped-robot deployment.

2024.06–2025.12

Xiaomi Motors

Autonomous driving VLA · Future Star intern

Planning models, controllable video synthesis, automatic labeling, large-scale clips, FP8 quantization, and SIL release workflows.

2024.01–2024.06

NIO

Autonomous driving world models

Street-scene 4D reconstruction and generative world models, including EMD, S3Gaussian, SparseStreet, and a 4,000+ clip corner-case pipeline.

2023.07–2024.01

AMD

End-to-end autonomous driving

Cross-domain and open-world 3D detection, with research integrated into production-facing autonomous-driving pipelines.

A RESEARCHER'S NOTE
Train the loop, not the module.

The hard part of an agentic robot is not adding another module. It is giving perception, memory, prediction, and action a shared clock.

I study the interfaces that make this loop trainable: data with state, world models with foresight, and policies that turn uncertainty into action.

01 Data with state 02 Models with foresight 03 Action under uncertainty
Johannes Vermeer, The Astronomer, 1668
Johannes Vermeer · The Astronomer, 1668
Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man
Leonardo da Vinci · Vitruvian Man
Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768
Joseph Wright · An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Research
LAW progress-aware agentic robot pipeline
ICLR 2026 · AGENTIC PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE

LAW

Language, action, and world modeling in one progress-aware loop for agentic physical intelligence.

WAM4D world action model pipeline
WORLD ACTION MODEL · 4D ROBOTICS

WAM4D

A fast 4D world action model with spatial register tokens for future video, geometry, and action.

IOI interactive world model pipeline
AAAI 2026 · INTERACTIVE WORLD MODEL

IOI

Interactive world modeling that separates deterministic robot kinematics from stochastic scene dynamics.

VEGA spatial alignment VLA pipeline
NEURIPS · VLA

VEGA

Spatially grounded VLA training through visual encoder alignment with 3D-aware features.

GraspFoM robotic grasping pipeline
ACM MM 2026 · ROBOTIC GRASPING

GraspFoM

3D foundation priors connect shape reconstruction, pose reasoning, and robust robotic grasping.

EvoDriveVLA driving VLA pipeline
VLA · AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

EvoDriveVLA

Collaborative perception-planning distillation for stronger driving VLA models.

ManipDreamer3D pipeline
AAAI 2026 · WORLD MODEL

ManipDreamer3D

Synthesizing plausible robotic manipulation videos with occupancy-aware 3D trajectories.

ManipDreamer pipeline
ICASSP 2026 · ROBOTIC MANIPULATION

ManipDreamer

Boosting manipulation world models with action trees and visual guidance.

FastDriveVLA pipeline
AAAI 2026 · VLA

FastDriveVLA

Efficient end-to-end driving through reconstruction-based vision-token pruning.

OmniIndoor3D pipeline
3D RECONSTRUCTION

OmniIndoor3D

Comprehensive indoor 3D reconstruction from consumer RGB-D cameras.

EMD pipeline
ICCV 2025 · 4D PERCEPTION

EMD

Explicit motion modeling for high-quality street Gaussian splatting.

S3Gaussian pipeline
ICRA 2026 · AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

S3Gaussian

Self-supervised street Gaussians for decomposing dynamic and static driving scenes.

GazeGaussian pipeline
ICCV 2025 HIGHLIGHT · 3D VISION

GazeGaussian

High-fidelity gaze redirection with 3D Gaussian splatting.

EmbodiedOcc++ pipeline
ACM MM 2025 ORAL · EMBODIED PERCEPTION

EmbodiedOcc++

Geometry-aware and uncertainty-aware 3D occupancy prediction for embodied agents.

GraphAvatar pipeline
AAAI 2025 · 3D AVATAR

GraphAvatar

Compact head avatars with GNN-generated 3D Gaussians.

NTO3D pipeline
CVPR 2024 · 3D RECONSTRUCTION

NTO3D

Neural target object 3D reconstruction with Segment Anything.

I-MedSAM pipeline
ECCV 2024 · MEDICAL VISION

I-MedSAM

Implicit medical image segmentation with Segment Anything.

MedSegX pipeline
NATURE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2025 · MEDICAL VISION

MedSegX

A generalist foundation model and database for open-world medical image segmentation.

PLGS pipeline
IEEE TIP 2025 · 3D VISION

PLGS

Robust panoptic lifting with 3D Gaussian splatting.

MFS-Seg pipeline
NEURAL NETWORKS 2024 · SEGMENTATION

MFS-Seg

Multi-scale full spike pattern for semantic segmentation.

MTTrans pipeline
ECCV 2022 · DOMAIN ADAPTATION

MTTrans

Cross-domain object detection with a mean-teacher transformer.


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