Qi Wu (吴奇)

I am a master's student in Mechanical Engineering, at Stanford University. I'm currently a Research Assistant at Stanford IRIS Lab, advised by Professor Chelsea Finn. I completed my bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University. My research goal is to investigate the underlying dynamics of legged robots and design learning based locomotion controllers that can adapt to different environments and tasks.

I am seeking PhD positions for the Fall 2025 term.

Email  /  GitHub  /  CV

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Research
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Helpful DoggyBot: Open-World Object Fetching using Legged Robots and Vision-Language Models


Qi Wu, Zipeng Fu, Xuxin Cheng, Xiaolong Wang, Chelsea Finn
Submitted to ICRA 2025
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HumanPlus: Humanoid Shadowing and Imitation from Humans


Zipeng Fu*, Qingqing Zhao*, Qi Wu*, Gordon Wetzstein, Chelsea Finn
Conference on Robot Learning, 2024 (Outstanding Paper Award Finalist (top 6))
arxiv / code / website / youtube /

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Custom Sine Waves Are Enough for Imitation Learning of Bipedal Gaits with Different Styles


Qi Wu*, Chong Zhang*, Yanchen Liu
IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA) (Oral), 2022
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Applied deep reinforcement learning on the walking of the robot Cassie with simple sine wave references.



Projects

These include some of my coursework, side projects and unpublished research work.

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RoboCup 2023


2023-07
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We built a kid-size humanoid soccer robot and won the Fourth place in RoboCup in France. I was fortunate to be the team leader.
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Space Station Robotic Arm Model for Science Exhibition


2022-10
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We built a model displaying how robot arms on space stations can transport among adaptors on the station surface. Our work was later exhibited at China Science and Technology Museum and our exhibition was covered by major national press.

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website and Leonid Keselman's website