Zeran Su

Hello, I'm Zeran Su (苏泽然)

I am a humanoid robotics researcher at the National Embodied Intelligence Robotics Innovation Center (Humanoid Innovation Department), supervised by Jony Zhang. I earned my M.Sc. in Human and Biological Robotics from Imperial College London and my B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Robotics & Automation from the University of Toronto. Previously, I was a research intern at Tencent Robotics X, mentored by Shuai Wang. My research focuses on humanoid whole-body control, reinforcement learning for locomotion, motion retargeting, and Sim2Real deployment.


Selected Publications & Reports

FlowOp: Morphology-Agnostic Animation-to-Robot Motion Retargeting via Sceneflow-Conditioned Diffusion

Zeyu Gao*, Zeran Su*, Peiran Liu, Zicheng Duan, Zelin Tao, Qiang Zhang, Jiahao Ma
Under Review, 2026

FlowOp uses sceneflow-conditioned diffusion to retarget arbitrary animation character motions to humanoid robots without body correspondence.

RobotPan: A 360° Surround-View Robotic Vision System for Embodied Perception

Jiahao Ma*, Qiang Zhang*, X-Humanoid Team
Under Review, 2026

RobotPan predicts metric-scaled compact 3D Gaussians from sparse surround-view inputs for real-time 360° rendering and reconstruction on humanoid robots.

Heracles: Bridging Precise Tracking and Generative Synthesis for General Humanoid Control

Zelin Tao*, Zeran Su*, X-Humanoid Team
Under Review, 2026

Heracles is a state-conditioned diffusion middleware that bridges precise motion tracking and generative synthesis for general-purpose humanoid control.

MeshMimic: Geometry-Aware Humanoid Motion Learning through 3D Scene Reconstruction

Qiang Zhang*, Jiahao Ma*, Peiran Liu*, Shuai Shi*, X-Humanoid Team
Under Review, 2026

MeshMimic bridges 3D scene reconstruction and embodied intelligence to enable humanoid robots to learn coupled motion-terrain interactions directly from monocular video.


TAIROS

TAIROS: An Embodied AI Platform for Robotics Applications

Tencent Robotics X Team & Futian Laboratory, Shenzhen (Contributor: Zeran Su)
TAIROS Technical Report, 2025

TAIROS is an open embodied-AI platform that provides modular large models, cloud simulation, data tooling, and SDKs to support the full robotics development lifecycle from training to real-world deployment.

* denotes equal contribution, denotes corresponding author.

Projects

The Five

The Five

Tencent Robotics X

A wheel-leg humanoid research prototype for domestic environments, featuring switchable wheeled/legged locomotion, tactile skin, and dexterous hands for elder-care tasks such as assisted mobility and object fetching.

Ollie

Ollie

Tencent Robotics X

A wheel-legged robot that combines efficient wheeled mobility with legged obstacle crossing, dynamic balance control, and tactile sensing for agile locomotion on flat ground and complex terrain.

Perceptive Locomotion

Perceptive Locomotion

Tencent Robotics X · TAIROS

Terrain-aware biped locomotion with visual perception, integrated into the TAIROS embodied-AI platform for simulation, training, and real-world deployment.

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