Haodong Zhu 朱昊东

I am a third-year undergraduate student in the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. Currently, I work as a research intern at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yang Gao.

Research Interests

My research interests lie at the Humanoid Loco-Manipulation, where I am driven to explore how intelligent systems perceive, learn, and interact with the world.

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Publications (* indicates equal contribution)

Humanoid Manipulation Interface: Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation from Robot-Free Demonstrations
Ruiqian Nai*, Boyuan Zheng*, Junming Zhao*, Haodong Zhu, Sicong Dai, Zunhao Chen, Yihang Hu, Yingdong Hu, Tong Zhang, Chuan Wen, Yang Gao
In submission, 2026
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We present HuMI (Humanoid Manipulation Interface), the first robot-free πŸš«πŸ€– framework for learning diverse humanoid whole-body manipulation tasks across various environments 🏠.

OpenHLM: An Empirical Recipe for Whole-Body Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Yingdong Hu*, Haodong Zhu*, Boyuan Zheng*, Yihang Hu*, Tong Zhang*, Zunhao Chen, Junming Zhao, Ruiqian Nai, Yang Gao
In submission, 2026
project page

We present OpenHLM, an empirical recipe for naive whole-body humanoid loco-manipulation πŸ¦ΏπŸ‘. With controlled studies on teleoperation, VLA design, and heterogeneous co-training, OpenHLM tackles diverse language-conditioned tasks πŸ“• β€” and even goes fully autonomous in the wild 🌳, no

mocap required.


Modified from Jon Barron's website.