Zicheng Teng

I am a senior year CS undergraduate student at the CILVR (Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision and Robotics) group at the NYU. Currently, I work with Jeff Cui under the supervision of Prof. Lerrel Pinto.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Robotics and Machine Learning, with a specific focus on robot learning, decision making, and large-scale learning for robotic systems.

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Research

Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models
Zichen Jeff Cui, Omar Rayyan, […], Zicheng Teng, […], Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah (19 Authors)
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2026
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We introduce Contact-Anchored Policies (CAP), a new class of general robotic behavior models, which replace language conditioning with points of physical contact in space.


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