Weize Li

I am an AI Research Engineer on the founding team of a stealth-mode robotics startup, where I work on full-stack robot learning for manipulation, touching the whole system of the data collection, model/policy post-training, and inference deployment.

Previously, I was Research Engineer at TARS Robotics, and spent several years as a Research Assistant/Intern at AIR, Tsinghua University and HKUST, working with exceptional mentors to dive into 3D vision and graphics. And I am broadly interested in robotics, 3D vision, and multimodal learning, with a focus on foundation models for robotics, bimanual manipulation, and human-centric cross-embodiment transfer.

Weize Li

News

05.2026

I co-organized the IEEE ICRA 2026 WBCD Challenge in Vienna, Silicon Valley, and Shanghai.

02.2026

Our paper VistaBot was accepted to ICRA 2026; LiteVGGT was accepted to CVPR 2026.

10.2025

Our paper RoboGEM won the Best Paper Award at ACM MM RoboSoft'25 Workshop.

05.2025

We won the Champion Award at the IEEE ICRA 2025 WBCD Challenge (Table Services Track).

Publications

* equal contribution

2026
2025
World in Your Hands

World in Your Hands: A Large-Scale and Open-source Ecosystem for Learning Human-centric Manipulation in the Wild

Yupeng Zheng*, Jichao Peng*, Weize Li*, Yuhang Zheng, Xiang Li, Yujie Jin, Julong Wei, Guanhua Zhang, Ruiling Zheng, Ming Cao, Songen Gu, Zhenhong Zou, Kaige Li, Ke Wu, Mingmin Yang, Jiahao Liu, Pengfei Li, Hengjie Si, Feiyu Zhu, Wang Fu, Likun Wang, Ruiwen Yao, Jieru Zhao, Yilun Chen, Wenchao Ding
In Submission, 2025
Webpage  •   Paper  •   Code

PokéVLA

PokéVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance

Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Shuai Tian, Weize Li, Linbo Wang, Senyu Fei, Pengfei Li, YinFeng Gao, Zebin Xing, Qichao Zhang, Yilun Chen, Wenchao Ding, Haoran Li
In Submission, 2025
Paper (coming soon)

WBCD

Taming VR Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration for Multi-Task Bimanual Table Service Manipulation

Weize Li, Zhengxiao Han, Lixin Xu, Xiangyu Chen, Harrison Bounds, Chenrui Zhang, Yifan Xu
Technical Report, 2025 · IEEE ICRA WBCD 2025 Challenge · 1st Place (Table Service Track)
Webpage  •   Paper

PosePilot

PosePilot: Steering Camera Pose for Generative World Models with Self-supervised Depth

Bu Jin*, Weize Li*, Baihan Yang, Zhenxin Zhu, Junpeng Jiang, Huan-ang Gao, Haiyang Sun, Kun Zhan, Hengtong Hu, Xueyang Zhang, Peng Jia, Hao Zhao
IROS 2025
Paper

2024
2023
IRFLMDNN

IRFLMDNN: Hybrid Model for PMU Data Anomaly Detection and Re-filling

Miao Yu, Chenyu Yang*, Weize Li*, Weijie Du, Jinglin Li
Neural Computing and Applications, 2023
Paper

Experience

TARS Robotics | AWE Research Team

Research Engineer

Mentors: Prof. Wenchao Ding, Prof. Yilun Chen

Mar 2025 – June 2026

Tsinghua University | AIR Innovation Center

Research Assistant

Mentor: Prof. Yilun Chen

Jan 2025 – May 2025

HKUST | LightIllusions

Research Intern

Mentors: Prof. Xiao-xiao Long, Prof. Ping Tan

Apr 2024 – Oct 2024

Tsinghua University | AIR

Research Intern

Mentors: Prof. Hao Zhao, Prof. Shanghang Zhang, Prof. Yilun Chen

Aug 2022 – Dec 2024

Service

Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS'23, CVPR'24, ICRA'24, ICLR'25, IROS'25, CVPR'26

Journal Reviewer: IJCV, R-AL

Organizer: 2nd What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) Competition, IEEE ICRA 2026

Misc

Outside of research, I enjoy photography, fitness, and ball sports (football, basketball, tennis, badminton). I am also a registered referee with the Chinese Football Association.