๐งโโ๏ธ Biography
Iโm currently a Senior Researcher at Tencent Robotics X, focusing on Foundation Models for Embodied AI.
I received my Ph.D degree from Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof. Yue Wang, Yiyi Liao, and Rong Xiong. In my Ph.D. study, I also spent wonderful internship time at DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group. Before that, I received my B.Eng degree at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen.
๐ฅ News
- 2026.07: ๐ RxBrain, an embodied cognition foundation model with joint languageโvisual reasoning and imagination, is released! [Website]
- 2026.02: ๐ RynnBrain released with code, demo and models. [RynnBrain]
- 2026.01: ๐ UnIRe is accepted to ICRA 2026.
- 2026.01: ๐ $\pi$-BA is accepted to RAL 2026.
- 2025.08: ๐ RynnEC: Bringing MLLMs into Embodied World is released. [RynnEC].
- 2024.05: ๐ Ngel-SLAM wins the ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award in Robot Vision.
๐ Publications


Direction Matters: Learning Force Direction Enables Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yifei Yang, Anzhe Chen, Zhenjie Zhu, Kechun Xu, Yunxuan Mao, Yufei Wei, Lu Chen, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang

RynnBrain: Open Embodied Foundation Models
Ronghao Dang*, Jiayan Guo*, Bohan Hou*, Sicong Leng*, Kehan Li*, Xin Li*, Jiangping Liu*, Yunxuan Mao*, Zhikai Wang*, Yuqian Yuan*, Minghao Zhu*, Xiao Lin, Yang Bai, Qian Jiang, Yaxi Zhao, Minghua Zeng, Junlong Gao, Yuming Jiang, Jun Cen, Siteng Huang, Liuyi Wang, Wenqiao Zhang, Chengju Liu, Jianfei Yang, Shijian Lu, Deli Zhao (*Equal contribution)

RynnEC: Bringing MLLMs into Embodied World
Ronghao Dang*, Yuqian Yuan*, Yunxuan Mao*, Kehan Li*, Jiangpin Liu, Zhikai Wang, Xin Li, Fan Wang, Deli Zhao (*Equal contribution)





$\nu$-DBA: Neural Implicit Dense Bundle Adjustment Enables Image-Only Driving Scene Reconstruction
Yunxuan Mao, Bingqi Shen, Yifei Yang, Kai Wang, Rong Xiong, Yiyi Liao, Yue Wang
๐ Honors and Awards
- 2024.05: ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award in Robot Vision
- 2018.12: National Scholarship
๐ป Internships
- 2025.05 - 2026.02, Alibaba Damo Academy, China.
- 2024.05 - 2024.12, Embodied Intelligence Group, 2012 Lab., Huawei, China.