Hai Zhang

Ph.D. Student MMLab @HKU & @OpenDriveLab | Embodied AI | Reinforcement Learning

[Hai Zhang @2318hhhz]

@robotics_biz Huge Thanks! We're excited about this direction and hope it opens up new possibilities for embodied navigation. Looking forward to sharing more details and discussing with the community!

[Hai Zhang @2318hhhz]

Our paper has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026!

Paris, it is less goo ! 🥐🥖

The first VA based navigation model — SparseVideoNav🔮🤖

Details: https://t.co/7451cFtcQB

See you in December ! 🇫🇷✨
#NeurIPS2026 #VLN #EmbodiedAI #Robotics

[Hai Zhang @2318hhhz]

🚀 Excited to announce our real world VLN dataset !
📦 Human first-person collected indoor & outdoor & night.
🏆 LARGEST to date.
Check it out now on Hugging Face and accelerate your real world navigation research!
👇 🔗 https://t.co/qo7cgrGT7S

#EmbodiedAI #VLN

[OpenDriveLab @OpenDriveLab]

Sydney-bound for #RSS2026, and not gonna lie, we’re buzzing! 🔥
On our slate:
https://t.co/2UsSCILPcw

🎤 Dr. Hongyang Li — Early Career Spotlight
📄 Two papers we're proud of: RISE & EgoHumanoid
🤖 A humanoid doing real work on the floor - July 13th Morning Workshop
Full rundown + where to find us 👇
https://t.co/H7sMKj9jTJ

Come have a yarn.
#EmbodiedAI #WholebodyIntelligence #VLA #WorldModels #Sydney #ICC

[OpenDriveLab @OpenDriveLab]

Sydney, come sundown. 🌃

OpenDriveLab x @archon_robotics are throwing an afterparty!
TopTalents for Embodied AI, a social mixer at W Sydney, harbour views, golden hour, and the people building the next gen of Embodied Intelligence.

📅 Jul 14 · 7–10PM
📍 W Sydney
🎟️ Apply: https://t.co/zihfBy0E9e

#RSS2026 #EmbodiedAI #Sydney #WorldModel #FoundationModel

[Hai Zhang @2318hhhz]

Thrilled to receive the 2026 @HKUniversity CC TIA Award 🏆and 🎉 Proud to be the only student recipient. Massive thanks to our course coordinators @francislee2020, Prof. Ping Luo, and @YiMaTweets , plus our stellar TA teams. We did it together! 🚀 #HKU #CCTIA #HKUIDS