Anqi Li 李安齐

Hi, I am a senior undergraduate student at Yuanpei College, Peking University, majoring in AI. I work closely with Prof. Leonidas Guibas at Stanford University, Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka at UC Berkeley, Prof. Dhruv Shah at Princeton University, and Prof. He Wang at Peking University.

My research focuses on Embodied AI. I have spent two years studying VLA models for embodied navigation and whole-body intelligence. Currently, I am actively exploring agentic robotics. My goal is to build robot intelligence with generalizable high-level reasoning and planning, as well as robust, agile low-level control.

I am applying for a PhD position in the 2027 fall cycle. Please feel free to reach out to me, and I'm happy to discuss research or life topics.

News

  • 2026.09•🎉 TANGO💃🏻 is selected as a Spotlight (Top 3.4%) at CoRL 2026.
  • 2026.09•🎉 TANGO💃🏻 and SPAN-Nav get accepted to CoRL 2026.
  • 2026.01•🎉 UrbanVLA gets accepted to ICRA 2026.
  • 2026.01•🎉 NavFoM gets accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • 2025.11•I gave an invited talk at Yuanpei College, Peking University, introducing my work on urban micromobility.
  • 2025.08•🎉 TrackVLA gets accepted to CoRL 2025.

Research

TANGO teaser
TANGO full demos at 4× playback: navigation, obstacle avoidance, sidestepping, crouching, and stepping over obstacles

TANGO💃🏻: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model

Anqi Li*, Yuxin Chen*‡, Zhaobo Li*, Zhuo Cao*, Junli Ren, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Dhruv Shah†
CoRL 2026 Spotlight (Top 3.4%)
RSS@WBCM Oral

TANGO is a whole-body vision-language-action framework for language-conditioned humanoid traversal in cluttered indoor environments.

SpanNav static
SPAN-Nav complete long-route navigation at 8× and short-route navigation at 4× with live occupancy maps

SPAN-Nav: Generalized Spatial Awareness for Embodied Navigation

Jiahang Liu*, Tianyu Xu*, Jiawei Chen*, Lu Yue*, Jiazhao Zhang*, Zhiyong Wang*, Minghan Li, Qisheng Zhao, Anqi Li, Qi Su, Zhizheng Zhang†, He Wang†
CoRL 2026

SPAN-Nav is an end-to-end navigation model with universal 3D spatial awareness. It utilizes a single spatial token extracted from RGB video and a Spatial Chain-of-Thought mechanism to achieve robust path planning and obstacle avoidance in complex environments.

UrbanVLA static
UrbanVLA animation

UrbanVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Urban Micromobility

Anqi Li*, Zhiyong Wang*, Jiazhao Zhang*, Minghan Li, Yunpeng Qi, Zhibo Chen, Zhizheng Zhang†, He Wang†
ICRA 2026

UrbanVLA is a route-conditioned vision-language-action model for urban micromobility. It aligns high-level navigation routes with visual observations to enable scalable, long-horizon navigation.

NavFOM static
NavFOM animation

Embodied Navigation Foundation Model

Jiazhao Zhang*, Anqi Li*, Yunpeng Qi*, Minghan Li*, Jiahang Liu, Shaoan Wang, Haoran Liu, Gengze Zhou, Yuze Wu, Xingxing Li, Yuxin Fan, Wenjun Li, Zhibo Chen, Fei Gao, Qi Wu, Zhizheng Zhang†, He Wang†
ICLR 2026

NavFoM is a cross-embodiment and cross-task navigation model trained on 8 million samples encompassing quadrupeds, drones, wheeled robots, and vehicles, spanning tasks including vision-and-language navigation, object searching, target tracking, and autonomous driving.

TrackVLA static
TrackVLA animation

TrackVLA: Embodied Visual Tracking in the Wild

Shaoan Wang*, Jiazhao Zhang*, Minghan Li, Jiahang Liu, Anqi Li, Kui Wu, Fangwei Zhong, Junzhi Yu, Zhizheng Zhang†, He Wang†
CoRL 2025

TrackVLA is a vision-language-action model capable of simultaneous object recognition and visual tracking. It demonstrates robust tracking, long-horizon tracking, and cross-domain generalization across diverse challenging environments.

Experience

MirroS

MirroS

2026.10 - Present

Research Intern

Stanford University

Stanford University

2026.06 - 2026.09

Visiting Researcher through the UGVR program

Research Advisor: Prof. Leonidas Guibas

UC Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

2026.01 - 2026.06

Visiting Student through the BGA program

Research Advisor: Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka

Galbot

Galbot

2024.09 - 2026.01

Research Intern

Research Advisor: Prof. He Wang

Peking University

Peking University

2023.09 - Present

Undergraduate Student

Major: Intelligence Science and Technology @ Yuanpei College
Minor: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management @ Guanghua School of Management

Selected Awards

  • 2026: First Prize, Academic Rising Star, Yuanpei College, Peking University

Miscellaneous

Outside of research, I have several hobbies.

  • I enjoy playing basketball, and I am a huge fan of the NBA. My favorite player is Luka Dončić.
  • I love performing on the trombone. I am an active member of the Symphony Orchestra at my high school, Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal University. Check out our recent performance.
  • I am a speedcuber. I participated in several speedcubing competitions held by the World Cube Association (WCA). Check out my WCA personal profile.
  • I enjoy spending time behind the wheel. If you are new to California, you might enjoy this four-day California Loop I put together. See you down the road!

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