Zhuo Chen

I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Robot Perception Lab (RPL), supervised by Prof. Shan Luo at King’s College London. I am also a Research Scientist Intern at the Nvidia Seattle Robotics Lab, hosted by Yashraj Narang and Iretiayo Akinola. I collaborate closely with Prof. Jiankang Deng at Imperial College London on embodied AI. My research is driven by a passion to advance robot dexterity with human-level tactile intelligence. My Ph.D. work primarily focuses on: (1) robot tactile/force sensing and control; (2) foundation models across diverse tactile sensors, including vision-based sensors and electronic skins; and (3) vision-tactile-language-action (VTLA) models for contact-rich robot grasping and manipulation tasks. I contribute to above areas by designing/fabricating new sensor/skins, leveraging physical simulation techniques, sim-to-real transfer, and deep learning-based methods, including generative learning, transfer learning, and imitation learning.

Beyond my research, I actively serve the academic community as a reviewer for T-RO, RA-L, RSS, ICRA, IROS, et.al. I am honored to be selected for the 2026 cohort of RSS Pioneers. Additionally, I serve as the Program Chair for the 7th ViTac workshop at ICRA and the Local Arrangements Chair for the 6th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop.

Nvidia

Research Scientist Intern

Jun.26 -

Imperial College London

Research Intern

Oct. 24 - June. 26

King's College London

PhD & Research Assistant

Oct. 23 - Present

NUS

Visiting Student Researcher

Jan. 22 - Jan. 23