Last updated: July 2026
I am a Computer Engineering student at the University of Illinois (UIUC). My interests include robot learning, computer vision, dexterous manipulation, and software engineering. My goal is to build robots that can work reliably in the messy real world. I'm currently doing robotics research under Lana Lazebnik and Shivansh Patel. I just wrapped up a robotics software engineer co-op at Amazon Robotics (Innovation Lab) under Prof. Taskin Padir.
Last summer, I interned at K-Scale Labs, training humanoid robots for manipulation with VLMs and action diffusion models, and writing infrastructure for data collection. Before that, I worked on robot calibration software at Robnux, and did research on robot arms, teleoperation, and computer vision through NSF REU and labs at UIUC.
At UIUC, I was a co-chair for SIGRobotics, a special interest group under ACM@UIUC, where I led the embodied AI hackathon team and humanoid project team. I'm a 3x robot hackathon winner, including 1st place locally at the LeRobot global hackathon and a dual-arm ninja shirt folding robot at Robot Hackathon NYC.
I'm graduating in December 2026 and looking for full-time roles in robotics. Feel free to contact me via email (leolinw07 at gmail dot com) or through any of the following links: LinkedIn, GitHub, Resume.
[NEW]CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Hard-Soft Compliance
RSS 2026
Best Paper Award — RSS 2026 Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation
paper | project | BOM | code | bibtex
@misc{lin2026crafttendondrivenhandhybrid,
title={CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Hard-Soft Compliance},
author={Leo Lin and Shivansh Patel and Jay Moon and Svetlana Lazebnik and Unnat Jain},
year={2026},
eprint={2603.12120},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.RO},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12120},
}