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.

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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