About

About

I’m the Co-Founder of Origami Robotics, where we’re building hardware and learning systems to bring human dexterity to robots.

Previously, I was a PhD student at the CLAW Lab at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Prof. Yonatan Bisk. I also had the opportunity to closely work with Prof. Matthew Johnson-Roberson and Prof. Chris Atkeson.

I work on robot manipulation and novel hardware to reduce the embodiment gap and sim-to-real gaps in dexterous manipulation. Previously, I worked on LLM spatial reasoning.

News and Olds

• Feb 2026: New Paper accepted to CVPR 2026! See: M²SeR: Multimodal Self-Refinement for Lightweight Image Captioning

• Oct 2025: New Paper accepted to WACV! See: Unsupervised Discovery of Long-Term Spatiotemporal Periodic Workflows in Human Activities

• Sept 2025: New Paper Released on ArXiv on Axial Flux PCB Motor Design! See: High Torque Density PCB Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Motor for Micro Robots

• Dec 2025: New Paper accepted to RA-L! See: Affordance RAG: Hierarchical Multimodal Retrieval with Affordance-Aware Embodied Memory for Mobile Manipulation

Research

M²SeR: Multimodal Self-Refinement for Lightweight Image Captioning

Junha Song, Yongsik Jo, So Yeon Min, Quanting Xie, Taehwan Kim, Yonatan Bisk, Jaegul Choo

CVPR 2026 , 2026

PDF / Project

The Dexterity Deadlock

Quanting Xie, Tongzhou Liao, Yonatan Bisk

Origami Robotics Blog , 2026

Project

Affordance RAG: Hierarchical Multimodal Retrieval with Affordance-Aware Embodied Memory for Mobile Manipulation

Ryosuke Korekata, Quanting Xie, Yonatan Bisk, Katuhito Sugiura

RA-L , 2025

PDF

Unsupervised Discovery of Long-Term Spatiotemporal Periodic Workflows in Human Activities

Fan Yang, Quanting Xie, Atsunori Moteki, Shoichi Masui, Shan Jiang, Kanji Uchino, Yonatan Bisk, Graham Neubig

WACV, Oral (top 2%) , 2025

PDF / Demo

High Torque Density PCB Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Motor for Micro Robots

Quanting Xie, Jianren Wang, Jie Han, Yang Zhang, Christopher G. Atkeson, Abhinav Gupta, Deepak Pathak, Yonatan Bisk

IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo 2025 , 2025

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Embodied-RAG: General non-parametric Embodied Memory for Retrieval and Generation

Quanting Xie, So Yeon Tiffany Min, Tianyi Zhang, Aarav Bajaj, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Yonatan Bisk

2024

PDF / BibTeX / Project

Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis

Quanting Xie, Yafei Hu, Vidhi Jain, Jay Patrikar, Nikhil Keetha, Jonathan Francis, Yaqi Xie, Seungchan Kim, Tianyi Zhang, Shibo Zhao, Yu-Quan Chong, Zsolt Kira, Dhruv Batra, Xiaolong Wang, Chen Wang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Katia Sycara, Sebastian Scherer, Fei Xia, Yonatan Bisk

2023

PDF / BibTeX / Code

Reasoning about the Unseen for Efficient Outdoor Object Navigation

Quanting Xie, Tianyi Zhang, Kedi Xu, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Yonatan Bisk

2023

PDF / BibTeX / Code

Experience

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

PhD Student, Robotics Institute, 2024-Present

Apple, Cupertino, CA

Manufacturing Design Engineering Intern, 2022

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering - Research, 2023

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2021

Professional Service

• Reviewer for CoRL, ICRA, RA-L, IROS

☕ Misc

• I am a professional Ping Pong player and an avid fan of racket sports (Tennis, Badminton, and Pickleball).

• I enjoy being outdoors—you can often find me on the golf course or hitting the slopes for skiing and snowboarding.

• I train in Mixed Martial Arts, specifically practicing Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) whenever I have the time.

• I have a passion for precision engineering and enjoy assembling mechanical watches from scratch.