Research Lead, Advisor: Prof. Yu Hao — WALL-X Based SO-101 Robotic Arm Imitation Learning System
Built a WALL-X based imitation learning system for a robotic arm that uses teleoperation-derived datasets to fine-tune a vision-language-action model. Assembled and debugged the SO-101 robotic arm hardware and integrated a leader-follower bilateral teleoperation setup with the LeRobot ecosystem to gather training data. Deployed WALL-X (WALL-OSS) using a Qwen2.5-VL backbone with a Flow Matching action prediction head and performed LoRA fine-tuning on self-collected teleoperation datasets. • Established a full imitation learning workflow from teleoperation data collection to hardware validation. • Deployed and fine-tuned the WALL-X model on self-collected datasets for precise object placement. • Validated the learned policy on real SO-101 hardware for end-to-end robotic tasks. • Achieved vision-language-action imitation learning using LeRobot and HuggingFace tooling.