Tian Nian (粘天)

Algorithm Engineer Xspark AI (无界智航) B.Eng. Shenzhen University Creator control_your_robot

Bringing Robot Learning into the Real World

Algorithm Engineer at Xspark AI (无界智航), Shenzhen. B.Eng. in Software Engineering (Tencent Class) from Shenzhen University. Research on real-robot Embodied AI, covering robot control, data collection, and policy deployment on physical hardware. Creator of control_your_robot, core lead author of XPolicyLab (IROS 2026 Best Tool Paper Award), and contributor to RoboTwin 2.0 (ICML 2026).

Real-Robot Manipulation Teleoperation & Data Collection VLA Deployment Sim2Real
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Hi! I am Tian Nian (Chinese name: 粘天), an Algorithm Engineer at Xspark AI (无界智航) in Shenzhen. I received my B.Eng. in Software Engineering (Tencent Class) from Shenzhen University in 2025, and was a research intern at Shanghai AI Laboratory from Mar. 2025 to Sep. 2025. My work focuses on real-robot Embodied AI: building the systems that connect robot hardware, teleoperation, data pipelines, and learned policies, so that research models can actually run on physical robots.

I created control_your_robot, an open-source pipeline covering robotic arm control, data collection, and VLA training and deployment. I am a core lead author of XPolicyLab, which received the Best Tool Paper Award at the IROS 2026 ScaleInfra Workshop, and a contributor to RoboTwin 2.0 (ICML 2026).

你好！我是粘天 (English name: Tian Nian)，2025 年本科毕业于深圳大学软件工程（腾讯班）， 曾于 2025.03—2025.09 在上海人工智能实验室实习，现任无界智航 (Xspark AI) 算法工程师，研究方向为具身智能真机方向，关注机器人控制、遥操作数据采集与策略的真机部署。 我是开源项目 control_your_robot 的作者， XPolicyLab 核心作者之一（IROS 2026 ScaleInfra Workshop 最佳工具论文奖）， 并参与了 RoboTwin 2.0（ICML 2026）的研发。

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Publications

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Accepted Papers
Awards
  • Best Tool Paper XPolicyLab @ IROS 2026 ScaleInfra
  • Best Poster RoboTwin 2.0 @ IROS 2025 RoDGE; ChinaSI 2025 Outstanding Poster (rk 1st)
XPolicyLab (IROS 2026 Best Tool Paper)
RoboTwin 2.0 (ICML 2026)
Control Your Robot (First Author)

Real-Robot Systems & Infra

First / Core Lead Author
  • Control Your Robot
    Control Your Robot: A Unified System for Robot Control and Policy Deployment
    Tian Nian, Weijie Ke, Shaolong Zhu, Bingshan Hu
    arXiv 2025 · Preprint
    Paper arXiv Code
  • XPolicyLab: A Unified Standard and Open Ecosystem for Robot Policy Evaluation and Deployment
    Tianxing Chen*§, Yue Chen*, Tian Nian*, Zijian Cai*, Guangyu Chen*, Wenwei Lin*, Qiwei Liang*, Zanxin Chen*, Peicheng Xiang, Kailun Su, Zixuan Li, Junyuan Tang, Yan Qin, Qiangyu Chen, Shaolong Zhu, Tengyue Jiang, Yiqing Wang, Xiang Li, Jiahao Zhang, Weijie Wan, Baijun Chen, Honghao Su, Kehe Ye, Shujia Liu, Kaixuan Wang, Haotian Liang, Yunze Liu, Mingleyang Li, Yuran Wang, Boyu Chen, Hongzhe Bi, Shuhe Huang, Hengkai Tan, Jisong Cai, Yao Mu, Jun Guo, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu, Weijie Ke, Hengtao Li, Yuhang Tang, Xiaofan Li, Ganlin Yang, Zhangzheng Tu, Shuai Yang, Wenxuan Song, Pengxiang Ding, Kaidong Zhang, Yu Sun, Junliang Guo, Tong Zhang, Yixing Chen, Rongxu Cui, Zongzheng Zhang, Haoxiang Ma, Junhao Cai, Haoyu Zhang, Senqiao Yang, Jinhui Ye, Pengguang Chen, Shu Liu, Xiu Su, Wenhan Fang, Wenhao Li, Yichao Cao, Chengyao Wang, Qiang Chen, Ping Luo†, Wenbo Ding†
    IEEE IROS 2026 ScaleInfra Workshop Best Tool Paper Award
    Project Page Paper arXiv Code

Benchmarks & Policies

Co-author
  • RoboTwin 2.0: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark with Strong Domain Randomization for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
    Tianxing Chen*, Zanxin Chen*, Baijun Chen*, Zijian Cai*, Yibin Liu*, Zixuan Li*, Qiwei Liang, Xianliang Lin, Yiheng Ge, Zhenyu Gu, Weiliang Deng, Yubin Guo, Tian Nian, Xuanbing Xie, Qiangyu Chen, Kailun Su, Tianling Xu, Guodong Liu, Mengkang Hu, Huan-ang Gao, Kaixuan Wang, Zhixuan Liang, Yusen Qin, Xiaokang Yang, Ping Luo†, Yao Mu†
    ICML 2026 CCF-A
    ModelScope Top 10 Open-Source Project of 2025 · IROS 2025 RoboGen Workshop Best Paper Finalist · RoDGE Workshop Best Poster Award
    Project Page Leaderboard arXiv Code Document
  • Discrete Diffusion VLA
    Discrete Diffusion VLA: Bringing Discrete Diffusion to Action Decoding in Vision-Language-Action Policies
    Zhixuan Liang, Yizhuo Li, Tianshuo Yang, Chengyue Wu, Sitong Mao, Liuao Pei, Tian Nian, Shunbo Zhou, Xiaokang Yang, Jiangmiao Pang, Yao Mu, Ping Luo
    ICML 2026 CCF-A
    Paper arXiv
  • AdaMoE
    Expertise need not monopolize: Action-Specialized Mixture of Experts for Vision-Language-Action Learning
    Weijie Shen, Yitian Liu, Yuhao Wu, Zhixuan Liang, Sijia Gu, Dehui Wang, Tian Nian, Lei Xu, Yusen Qin, Jiangmiao Pang, Xinping Guan, Xiaokang Yang, Yao Mu
    arXiv 2025 · Preprint
    Paper arXiv
  • RoboTwin Challenge
    Benchmarking Generalizable Bimanual Manipulation: RoboTwin Dual-Arm Collaboration Challenge at CVPR 2025 MEIS Workshop
    Tianxing Chen*, Kaixuan Wang*, Zhaohui Yang*, Yuhao Zhang*, Zanxin Chen*, Baijun Chen*, Wanxi Dong*, Ziyuan Liu, Dong Chen, Tianshuo Yang, Haibao Yu, Xiaokang Yang, Yusen Qin, Zhiqiang Xie, Yao Mu†, Ping Luo†, Tian Nian, Weiliang Deng, Yiheng Ge, Yibin Liu, Zixuan Li, Dehui Wang, Zhixuan Liang, and All Competition Volunteers and Participants
    Technical Report · CVPR 2025 MEIS Workshop
    Project Page arXiv

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