Yiyang Cai

stevencaiyiyang at gmail dot com

I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Technology at Fudan University, expected to graduate in June 2027. I am currently looking for research collaborations and PhD opportunities.

My research focuses on robot learning from human experience, particularly generalization and adaptation across tasks, environments, and embodiments.

Research experience:

Jun 2026 - Present: Research Assistant, MoCAP: Zero-Shot Mobile Manipulation from Passive Human Videos, NYU Courant. Advisor: Prof. Sherry Yang.
Dec 2025 - May 2026: Research Assistant, The Imitator Game: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction, TranscEngram. Advisor: Prof. Yanchao Yang.
Mar 2025 - Sep 2025: Research Assistant, RoboInF: Scaling Robot Manipulation Data in Simulation, The University of Hong Kong. Advisor: Prof. Tao Yu.

Outside research, I enjoy playing football and am a member of the Fudan University football team, playing as a striker (ST) and left winger (LW).

Publications

arXiv

MoCaP: Mobile Code-as-Policies for Zero-Shot Mobile Manipulation from Passive Human Videos

Yiyang Cai^*, Tatsuya Kamijo^*, Ninghao Lu, Zijin Hu, and Sherry Yang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.20998, 2026

* Equal contribution

arXiv Bib PDF Code Website

@article{cai2026mocap,
  title = {{MoCaP}: Mobile Code-as-Policies for Zero-Shot Mobile Manipulation from Passive Human Videos},
  author = {Cai, Yiyang and Kamijo, Tatsuya and Lu, Ninghao and Hu, Zijin and Yang, Sherry},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.20998},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20998},
  note = {* Equal contribution},
}

CoRL

The Imitator Game: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction

Xunzhe Zhou^*, Yiyang Cai^*, Fengyi Wang^*, Ran Ju^*, Hanxiang Ren, Ruizhe Liu, Yu Zhang, Qian Luo, Feng Chen, Pei Zhou, Yi Ma, and Yanchao Yang

In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on On-Device Intelligence — Oral (1 of 4 oral presentations)

* Equal contribution

arXiv Bib PDF Code Website

@inproceedings{zhou2026imitator,
  title = {{The Imitator Game}: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction},
  author = {Zhou, Xunzhe and Cai, Yiyang and Wang, Fengyi and Ju, Ran and Ren, Hanxiang and Liu, Ruizhe and Zhang, Yu and Luo, Qian and Chen, Feng and Zhou, Pei and Ma, Yi and Yang, Yanchao},
  booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning ({CoRL})},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22301},
  note = {* Equal contribution},
}