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Kun Li

Publications 6

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Talk, Render, Act: Integrating Social Gesture and Digital Face with Synchronized Speech for Conversational Humanoid Robot

Jin Jiang, Kun Li, Jiancong Ma et al. · 2026

Expressive humanoid interaction requires speech, facial animation, and body gestures to form a coherent response. However, many full-body humanoid robots produce speech and gestures without a visually expressive face, while talking-face animation and robot gesture generation are typically developed separately. We prese …

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Humanoid Loco-Manipulation With Discrete VLA Model

Wenxin Shao, Siqi Chai, Kun Li et al. · 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models using discrete action tokens have proven effective for controling robotic arms on manipulation tasks. For a humanoid, however, the whole-body action space -- legs, torso, arms, and hands -- is far higher-dimensional and heterogeneous, raising tokenization, training, and real-time inf …

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