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Yunzhu Li

ROLE PI / LAB DIRECTORAT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ROBOPIL LABMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN APRIL 30, 2026
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PI of Columbia's RoboPIL Lab working on tactile hardware, visuo-tactile learning, and sim-to-real pipelines.

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2 SIGNALS
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product·arXiv Physical AI·APRIL 30, 2026

FlexiTac is an open-source, $30-per-unit tactile sensing system that can be bolted onto virtually any commercial gripper in minutes — and it's already been validated in sim-to-real pipelines, cross-embodiment transfer, and VLA-style learning stacks.

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·APRIL 30, 2026

Li's group is consistently publishing across tactile hardware, visuo-tactile learning, and sim-to-real pipelines, suggesting a sustained research agenda in contact-aware manipulation

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