Zhuo Chen
King's College London, London, UK.

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! |
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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
- under reviewTraining Tactile Sensors to Learn Force Sensing from Each OtherUnder Review @ Nature Communications, 2025
- IROS 2025
- ICRA 2025TransForce: Transferable Force Prediction for Vision-based Tactile Sensors with Sequential Image TranslationICRA, 2024
- IROS 2024
- RA-L/ICRA2025Marker or markerless? mode-switchable optical tactile sensing for diverse robot tasksIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024
- ACS amiLaser-sculptured hierarchical spinous structures for ultra-high-sensitivity iontronic sensors with a broad operation rangeACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022
- NanotechnologyA flexible tactile sensor that uses polyimide/graphene oxide nanofiber as dielectric membrane for vertical and lateral force detectionNanotechnology, 2022