Anxing Xiao (čåēļæ), Robotics Researcher & Engineer
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, advised by Prof. David Hsu. My research primarily focuses on designing systems and algorithms for service robots to adaptively perform assistive tasks in the dynamic and open human-centered environments.
Previously, I worked with Prof. Max Q.-H. Meng as a Research Assistant. I received my B.E. in Automation from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Campus in 2021. During my junior year, I was a visiting exchange student at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Koushil Sreenath.
I love playing basketball ð and table tennis ð in my free time. I am also open to collaborating with people to explore the possibilities of service robots in various fields.
If you are interested in join our lab and work with me, check out Join Us.
Seeking for Research Scientist Intern Opportunities (US Remote / Europe Onsite) starting after Mar. 2026.
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News
- 08/2025: Our recent work on Robot Appliances Operation, Learning Tool Manipulation, and Coupled Hierarchical Diffusion are accepted to CoRL'25.
- 07/2025: Our recent work on Social Robot Navigation was accepted to RA-L. Collaborative work with Tsinghua SIGS.
- 01/2025: Our work on Multimodal Remote Interaction was accepted to ICRA'25. See you at Atlanta!
- 05/2024: Our work on Tactile-Language Models was accepted to RSS'24. Collaborative work with NUS CLeAR Lab and UW.
- 06/2023: I'm glad to join Adaptive Computing Laboratory led by Prof. David Hsu.
- 06/2023: Our extended work on Collaborative Trolley Transportation was accepted to IROS'23. Collaborative work with SUSTech.
- 01/2023: I join National University of Singapore as a CS PhD student.
- 01/2023: Our work on Quadruped Comfortable Guidance was accepted to ICRA'23. Collaborative work with Tsinghua SIGS.
- 09/2022: Our work on Uneven Terrain Navigation is accepted to IROS'22. Collaborative work with Tsinghua SIGS.
- 02/2022: Our work on Autonomous Trolley Collection Robot is accepted to ICRA'22.
- 07/2021: I graduate from HIT Shenzhen Campus with Dean's Award and join Prof. Max Q.-H. Meng's group as a research assistant.
- 06/2021: Our work on Robotic Guide Dog is selected to Best Service Robot Paper Finalist at ICRA'21.
- 06/2021: Our work on Optimal Quadruped Jumping is accepted to CASE'21.
- 08/2019: I am enrolled as a visiting student at UC Berkeley.
Representative Systems
Robi Butler: Multimodal Remote Interactions with a Household Robot Assistant
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025.
Anxing Xiao, Nuwan Janaka, Tianrun Hu, Anshul Gupta, Kaixin Li, Cunjun Yu, David Hsu
Wearing a smart glass, you can remotely interact with the household robots using both language and gesture.
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Robotic Autonomous Trolley Collection with Progressive Perception and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022.
Anxing Xiao*, Hao Luan*, Ziqi Zhao*, Yue Hong, Jieting Zhao, Jiankun Wang, Max Q-H Meng
We design a compact mobile robot capable of collecting unmarked trolleys in human-centric environments.
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Robotic Guide Dog: Leading a Human with Leash-Guided Hybrid Physical Interactions
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021.
Anxing Xiao*, Wenzhe Tong*, Lizhi Yang*, Jun Zeng, Zhongyu Li and Koushil Sreenath
We build the world's first robotic guide dog that can lead visually impaired to safely travel in a confined space.
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Honors and Awards
- Best Service Robot Paper Finalist in ICRA 2021
- Dean's Award at HIT Shenzhen, 2021.4
- National Scholarship, 2018.10
- First-class Undergraduate Academic Scholarship at HIT Shenzhen, 2018-2021
Academic Services
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2021~2024
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2022~2025
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), 2024~2025
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), 2024
- Advanced Robotics, 2024
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022, 2024
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
- NUS CS6244 Advanced Topics in Robotics (25 Spring)
- NUS CS2109S Introduction to AI and Machine Learning (24 Spring)