Academic seminars, system demonstrations, milestone reviews, and team collaboration sessions.
Prof. Zhang gives the talk “Embodied Physical Intelligence for Smart Manufacturing: Challenges, Pathways and Applications” at the AI-Empowered Industrial Manufacturing and Robotics Forum, covering real-world data, skill learning and deployment on the factory floor.
At the Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Center, Prof. Zhang discusses field data, process know-how, human-robot collaboration and robot execution with partners from the intelligent driving and embodied AI industry.
Live demonstrations of embodied AI systems, robot teleoperation and data collection, and tactile-vision manipulation for academic visitors and industry partners.
Weekly technical discussions focused on Vision-Language-Action foundation models, diffusion policies, reinforcement learning, and sim-to-real transfer methodologies.
Regular project sprint reviews, annual group photo sessions, cross-institutional collaborations, and team retreats celebrating lab achievements.