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Zhengtong Xu

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Early career · publishing since 2019Rising activity
Robot Manipulation and LearningAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsTactile and Sensory InteractionsReinforcement Learning in RoboticsMultimodal Machine Learning Applications

Publications

42

Citations

59

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

8

Publishing since 2019

Research summary
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Zhengtong Xu's research focuses on robot manipulation, particularly how robots can use touch (tactile) and multiple types of sensory information (multimodal learning) together with vision to grasp and handle objects, including delicate or irregular items. Recent work explores combining tactile sensing with language-guided robot control, contact-aware policies for dexterous manipulation, and learning-based methods for tasks involving physical contact, such as teleoperation and quadrupedal robots interacting with their environment.

Robot manipulation and graspingTactile and multimodal sensingImitation and reinforcement learning for roboticsContact-rich and dexterous manipulation policiesVision-language-action models for robots

Publication output has grown sharply in recent years, rising from occasional single papers before 2023 to a large cluster of outputs concentrated in 2024-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 8.4/year recently
17182019: 1 publication192021222023: 1 publication232024: 6 publications242025: 8 publications252026: 27 publications2726
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×22
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×4
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics×3
  • Open MIND×3
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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