Zhuo Chen

King's College London, London, UK.

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Robot Perception Lab(RPL), supervised by Prof. Shan Luo. I am also a research intern at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, London, supervised by Dr. Jiankang Deng. My passion lies in endowing robots with tactile sensing abilities akin to skin of humans. My Ph.D. research primarily focuses on overcoming challenges in vision-based tactile sensors and contact-rich robot grasping and manipulation tasks using learning-based methods, including generative learning, transfer learning, and reinforcement learning.

Before starting my Ph.D., I spent a year as a fully-funded visiting student at the National University of Singapore, conducting research on Manta Ray robots, supervised by Prof. Chew Chee-Meng. I obtained my master’s degree from Xiamen University, where my research interests included the simulation, fabrication, and verification of flexible tactile sensors and their applications in robotics.

news

Jun 30, 2025 One paper is accepted to IROS 2025 as oral presentation!
Jan 30, 2025 One paper is accepted to ICRA 2025 as oral presentation!
Jan 08, 2025 I am honored to be one of the organizer of the 6th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop. More than 300 attendees from academia, industry and tech-company are hosted at King’s!
Nov 15, 2024 I am starting a new position as AI research intern at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, London!
Oct 30, 2024 I gave a talk at the workshop of “Collecting, Managing, and Utilizing Data through Embodied Robots” in IROS 2025!
Aug 19, 2024 One paper is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL)!
Jun 30, 2024 I am honored to host K+ academic workshop and robotics year-8 session at King’s in this summer. More than 60 high school students played fun during the fabrication and application of GelSight sensor.
Jun 30, 2024 One paper is accepted to IROS 2024 as oral presentation!
Oct 01, 2023 I start my Phd at robot perception lab at King’s College London under supervision by Prof. Shan Luo!
Feb 10, 2023 I receive fullly-funded offer for Phd program in King’s College London and International Max Plank Research School for Intelligent System (IMPRS-IS) .
Oct 15, 2022 I am awarded National Scholarship (Top 1%) for Postgraduate from Ministry of Education, China!

selected publications

  1. under review
    Training Tactile Sensors to Learn Force Sensing from Each Other
    Zhuo Chen, Ni Ou, Xuyang Zhang, and 7 more authors
    Under Review @ Nature Communications, 2025
  2. IROS 2025
    Iterative Camera-LiDAR Extrinsic Optimization via Surrogate Diffusion
    Ni Ou, Zhuo Chen, Xinru Zhang, and 1 more author
    IROS, 2025
  3. ICRA 2025
    TransForce: Transferable Force Prediction for Vision-based Tactile Sensors with Sequential Image Translation
    Zhuo Chen, Ni Ou, Xuyang Zhang, and 1 more author
    ICRA, 2024
  4. IROS 2024
    Deep domain adaptation regression for force calibration of optical tactile sensors
    Zhuo Chen, Ni Ou, Jiaqi Jiang, and 1 more author
    IROS, 2024
  5. RA-L/ICRA2025
    Marker or markerless? mode-switchable optical tactile sensing for diverse robot tasks
    Ni Ou, Zhuo Chen, and Shan Luo
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024
  6. ACS ami
    Laser-sculptured hierarchical spinous structures for ultra-high-sensitivity iontronic sensors with a broad operation range
    Zhuo Chen, Yang Zhang, Bin Zhu, and 4 more authors
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022
  7. Nanotechnology
    A flexible tactile sensor that uses polyimide/graphene oxide nanofiber as dielectric membrane for vertical and lateral force detection
    Xianshu Cheng, Zhuo Chen, Zhenjin Xu, and 5 more authors
    Nanotechnology, 2022