Sichao Liu

I am an Assistant Professor of Industrial Automation and Intelligent Robotics at the Department of Production Engineering at KTH. Prior to that, I was a Research Fellow of the Swedish Research Council - Vetenskapsrådet and worked as a PI on AI4Robotics at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). Prior to this position, I was a Research Scientist in Robotics, Control, and AI at the ABB Corporate Research Center in Sweden. My research interests focus on Robot Learning, World Models + RL, Autonomous Mobile Robots, Foundation Models, Industrial Automation, Neuroengineering, and Production Engineering.

Projects (ongoing):

1. Learning-based brain robotics, funded by the Swedish Research Council-Vetenskapsrådet, 2023-2026, SEK 3.45 M (PI).

2. Aria4Robot: Egocentric data-driven policy learning for robot manipulation, funded by Meta (Aria Project), 2025-2027 (Collaborator: EPFL Biorobotics Lab) (PI).

3. World model and reinforcement learning-based dexterous manipulation, funded by LinkerBot, 2026-2028 (PI).

4. Robotics foundation models for general-purpose manipulation skills, supported by the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS), NAISS Medium 2026, (PI) (supporting large-scale policy learning).

Infrastructure:

• Robot arms: ABB-120, 1600, UR5, Kinova, PiPER-X, Humanoid robot (Realman), Franka R3, Trossen Robotics (ViperX-300s, WidowX-250s).

• Desktop GPUs: 4090, 5090.

• Cameras: Event, RGBD cameras.

• Hand gripper: LinkerBot - O20; Motion capture gloves.

• Wearable Glass: Aria Gen 1 and Gen 2.

I am looking for PhD students in Automation and Robotics funded by my AP fellowship, long- or short-term RAs, Master's students, and interns who are strongly interested in Embedded AI, Robotics, Robot Learning, and Industrial robotics.

For students interested in the KTH joint PhD program (with SJTU, NTU, HKUST, U Tokyo, IIT Madras, etc), please feel free to contact me!

For master students at KTH interested in the KTH-EPFL  Master Exchange program and would like to do semester projects/master's thesis at EPFL Robotics Labs, please feel free to contact me!

Opportunities for internships and master's theses are available here.

Opportunities for Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPD) funded by The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF). Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in the joint application with a large Swedish Robotics Company.