Ningquan Gu

I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student in Robotics at Tohoku University, advised by Prof. Mitsuhiro Hayashibe.
Before joining academia, I worked as an automotive manufacturing engineer. I am now conducting research in robotics.
My research interests include embodied AI, robotic manipulation, multimodal learning in robotics, deformable object manipulation, and the industrial applications of robotics. My long-term goal is to enable human-like perception and manipulation in robots to contribute to a better world.

Email: gu.ningquan.t1@dc.tohoku.ac.jp
Office: 503, Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Joint Building (A15), Aoba-ku Sendai, Japan.

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Publications

TactileAloha: Learning Bimanual Manipulation With Tactile Sensing

Ningquan Gu; Kazuhiro Kosuge; Mitsuhiro Hayashibe
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2025
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Learning to Unfold Garment Effectively Into Oriented Direction

Ningquan Gu; Ruhan He; Lianqing Yu
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024
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ShakingBot ShakingBot: Dynamic Manipulation for Bagging

Ningquan Gu; Zhizhong Zhang; Ruhan He; Lianqing Yu
Robotica (Cover Article) 2024
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Under Review

Hierarchical LLM-Guided Multi-Task Manipulation with Multimodal Learning and Action-Mask Policy

Ningquan Gu; Yuquan Li; Kazuhiro Kosuge; Mitsuhiro Hayashibe
Under review by the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)
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SonicAloha: Learning Auditory-enhanced Bimanual Manipulation with Audio-Visual Transformer

Ningquan Gu; Kazuhiro Kosuge; Mitsuhiro Hayashibe
Under review by the Transactions on Industrial Informatics
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