Zhixiang Duan

Zhixiang Duan is a robotics researcher at Xiaomi EV, where he has been part of the robotics team since 2021. He is best known for his work on vision-language-action models for robotic manipulation, including FPC-VLA, a framework integrating VLA with a supervisor for failure prediction and correction, and VLA-IN-THE-LOOP, an online policy correction approach using world models for robust robotic grasping. His earlier work includes contributions to self-supervised depth and egomotion estimation, notably the feature-metric loss method accepted at ECCV 2020. He is affiliated with Xidian University and has collaborated with researchers there and at Xiaomi's robotics division.