Boce Hu 胡博策

I am a PhD student at Northeastern, advised by Prof. Robert Platt and Robin Walters. I'm a full-stack roboticist working toward general-purpose robotic systems, spanning the model, controller, and data layers of the stack. The journey toward the ultimate principles of intelligence remains long.

I will be graduating in 2027 and am on the job market this cycle, looking for positions in industry. If you see a potential fit, please feel free to reach out!

News

Sep 2026: Scale Up Strategically has been accepted by CoRL 2026.
May 2026: BEAR has been accepted by ICML 2026.
May 2026: EquiTac has been accepted by RAL.
Feb 2026: GSL has been accepted by RAL.
Feb 2026: Equidiff has been accepted by IJRR!
Jan 2026: RAVEN has been accepted by ICLR 2026! See you in Brazil!
Sep 2025: ISP has been accepted by NeurIPS 2025 as a Spotlight (3%)! See you in SD!
Sep 2025: Symmetry Guidance in DiffPo has been accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
Aug 2025: EPG has been accepted by RAL.
Sep 2024: OrbitGrasp has been accepted by CoRL.
Sep 2023: I started my Ph.D. study at Northeastern University.

Publications

* indicates equal contribution, † indicates equal advising

Scale Up Strategically: Learning Compositional Generalization via Bias-Aware Evaluation and Data Collection for Robotic Manipulation

Yu Qi, Zhang Ye, Xinyi Xu, Yuxuan Lu, Amitoj Sandhu, Boce Hu, Haojie Huang, Jonathan Tremblay, Lawson L.S. Wong.

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

[arxiv]

Pix2Act: Image-Space Manipulation Policies with Equivariant Augmentation

Haojie Huang, Linfeng Zhao, Haotian Liu, Zhang Ye, Si-Yuan Huang, Mingxi Jia, Boce Hu, Fangzhou Lin, Yu Qi, Dian Wang, Robin Walters, Robert Platt.

Preprint

[arxiv] [website]

Action Map Policy: Learning 3D Closed-loop Manipulation via Pixel Classification

Haojie Huang, Zhang Ye, Linfeng Zhao, Boce Hu, Mingxi Jia, Yu Qi, Ahmed Agha, Dian Wang, Robert Platt, Robin Walters.

Preprint

[arxiv] [website]

BEAR: Benchmarking and Enhancing Multimodal Language Models for Atomic Embodied Capabilities

Yu Qi, Haibo Zhao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Ma, Ziyan Chen, Yaokun Han, Renrui Zhang, Zitiantao Lin, Yizhe Zhu, Shiji Xin, Yijian Huang, Boce Hu, Kai Cheng, Peiheng Wang, Jiazheng Liu, Jiayi Zhang, Yizhe Zhu, Wenqing Wang, Yiran Qin, Haojie Huang, Lawson L.S. Wong.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

[arxiv] [openreview] [website] [code]

Equivariant Diffusion Policy for Sample-Efficient Robotic Manipulation

Dian Wang, Stephen Hart, David Surovik, Tarik Kelestemur, Haojie Huang, Haibo Zhao, Mark Yeatman, Xupeng Zhu, Boce Hu, Mingxi Jia, Jiuguang Wang, Robin Walters, Robert Platt

The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2026

[Paper]

RAVEN: End-to-end Equivariant Robot Learning with RGB Cameras

David Klee*, Boce Hu*, Andrew Cole, Heng Tian, Dian Wang, Robert Platt^†, Robin Walters^†.

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

[openreview] [website]

Residual Rotation Correction using Tactile Equivariance

Yizhe Zhu, Zhang Ye, Boce Hu, Haibo Zhao, Yu Qi, Dian Wang, Robert Platt.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2026

[arxiv] [website]

Generalizable Hierarchical Skill Learning via Object-Centric Representation

Haibo Zhao, Yu Qi, Boce Hu, Yizhe Zhu, Ziyan Chen, Heng Tian, Xupeng Zhu, Owen Howell, Haojie Huang, Robin Walters, Dian Wang^†, Robert Platt^†.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2026

[arxiv] [website]

3D Equivariant Visuomotor Policy Learning via Spherical Projection

Boce Hu, Dian Wang, David Klee, Heng Tian, Xupeng Zhu, Haojie Huang, Robert Platt^†, Robin Walters^†.

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025, Spotlight (3%)

[arxiv] [openreview] [website] [summarization video]

A Practical Guide for Incorporating Symmetry in Diffusion Policy

Dian Wang, Boce Hu, Shuran Song, Robin Walters^†, Robert Platt^†.

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

[arxiv] [website]

Push-Grasp Policy Learning Using Equivariant Models and Grasp Score Optimization

Boce Hu*, Heng Tian*, Dian Wang, Haojie Huang, Xupeng Zhu, Robin Walters^†, Robert Platt^†.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2025

[arxiv] [website]

OrbitGrasp: SE(3)-Equivariant Grasp Learning

Boce Hu, Xupeng Zhu*, Dian Wang*, Zihao Dong*, Haojie Huang*, Chenghao Wang*, Robin Walters^†, Robert Platt^†.

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024

[arxiv] [website] [video] [twitter] [code]

Coarse-to-Fine 3D Keyframe Transporter

Xupeng Zhu, David Klee*, Dian Wang*, Boce Hu, Haojie Huang, Arsh Tangri, Robin Walters, Robert Platt.

Preprint

[arxiv]

Service

Reviewer: CoRL, ICRA, IROS, ICLR, ICML, RAL, NeurIPS, TMLR, RCIM

Teaching

Fall 2024: CS5180 - Reinforcement Learning.
Teaching Assistant. Northeastern University
Spring 2023: MECE6614 - Advanced Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control in Robotics.
Course Assistant. Columbia University
Fall 2022: MECE4520 - Data Science for Mechanical Systems.
Course Assistant. Columbia University