Nikola Kang | 康雷
I received my M.S. from
Peking University,
advised by
Prof. Yunfeng Xiao.
I received my B.S. in Computer Science from
Beijing Jiaotong University.
My research focuses on scalable embodied learning, with the goal of enabling robots to
acquire general-purpose skills through large-scale interaction. I investigate the complete
embodied learning pipeline, including realistic simulation environments, scalable interaction
data generation, vision-language-action (VLA) learning, and systematic evaluation. Through this
line of research, I seek to understand how better environments, richer data, and more effective
learning algorithms can jointly improve the capability and generalization of embodied agents in
complex physical worlds.
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News
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2026:
UseAppliance is accepted to ACMMM 2026.
Project page is available
here.
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Jun 2026:
Our paper JoyAI-Sim is available on arXiv.
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2026:
RealAppliance is accepted to CVPR 2026 as a Highlight.
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2026:
NavSpace is accepted to ICRA 2026.
Selected Publications
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Scaling Manual-Grounded Appliance Manipulation with Data Synthesis and Unified Planning
Yuxing Long*, Lei Kang*, Ziyan Yu, Yuzheng Gao, Bin Cheng,
Jiyao Zhang, Xiaoqi Li, Haolin Yang, Dongjiang Li, Hui Shen, Hao Dong
ACMMM 2026
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Project
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Code (soon)
ACMMM
Appliance Manipulation
Data Synthesis
VLA Planning
MAGE synthesizes grounding, planning, and closed-loop recovery data from manuals;
UseAppliance trains AppliancePlan, a unified 7B planner that leads RealAppliance-Bench
and transfers to real robots.
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RealAppliance: Let High-fidelity Appliance Assets Controllable and Workable as Aligned Real Manuals
Yuzheng Gao*, Yuxing Long*, Lei Kang, Yuchong Guo, Ziyan Yu,
Shangqing Mao, Jiyao Zhang, Ruihai Wu, Dongjiang Li, Hui Shen, Hao Dong
CVPR 2026, Highlight
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Project
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Code
CVPR Highlight
Embodied AI
Appliance Digital Twins
Simulation
High-fidelity controllable appliance digital twins aligned with real manuals for embodied interaction,
instruction following, state-aware operation, and realistic appliance evaluation.
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JoyAI-Sim: A Simulation-Enabled Interconversion Toolchain for the Embodied Data Pyramid
Peidong Liu, Yongce Liu, Songyan Guo, Fuyuan Ma, Zhihao Yuan, Ao Li, ...,
Lei Kang, Junwu Xiong, Jiawei Li, Hui Shen, Yicheng Gong,
Nan Duan, Liang Lin
arXiv, 2026
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Project
Embodied Simulation
Robot Data
Digital Twin
Evaluation
A simulation-enabled interconversion toolchain for human-robot aligned model evaluation and data generation,
connecting robot trials, simulation, and human demonstrations through reusable cloud-based infrastructure.
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NavSpace: How Navigation Agents Follow Spatial Intelligence Instructions
Haolin Yang*, Yuxing Long*, Zhuoyuan Yu, Zihan Yang, Minghan Wang,
Jiapeng Xu, Yihan Wang, Ziyan Yu, Wenzhe Cai,
Lei Kang, Hao Dong
ICRA 2026
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Project
ICRA
Navigation
Spatial Intelligence
Embodied Agents
A benchmark and model for evaluating how navigation agents understand and follow spatial intelligence instructions.
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Internships
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Jul 2025 - Present,
JD Technology
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Apr 2025 - Jul 2025,
Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University
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Selected Awards and Honors
- Siyuan Times Special Scholarship of Beijing Jiaotong University, 2019
- First-Class Scholarship, 2019, 2020
- Merit Student of Beijing Jiaotong University, 2019, 2020
Last updated: September 2026.
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