Yuzhi Lai

Background

Since 2024
PhD student at the Department of Cognitive Systems
2019-2023
Diplom Ingenieur: TU Dresden

Current Project

Multi-modal human robot Interaction 

Research Interests

Human-Robot-Interaction

Robot Manipulation

Task Planning

Teaching

Publications

[1] Lai, Yuzhi and Radke, Mario, et al. (2024). Intuitive Multi-modal Human-Robot Interaction via Posture and Voice. In: Filipe, J., Röning, J. (eds) Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems. ROBOVIS 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2077. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59057-3_28

[2] Lai, Yuzhi, et al. "NVP-HRI: Zero shot natural voice and posture-based human-robot interaction via large language model." Expert Systems with Applications (2025): 126360.

[3] Lai, Yuzhi, et al. "Natural multimodal fusion-based human–robot interaction: Application with voice and deictic posture via large language model." IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (2025). 

[4] Y. Lai et al., "FAM-HRI: Foundation-Model Assisted Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction Combining Gaze and Speech," in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 23, pp. 10521-10534, 2026, doi: 10.1109/TASE.2026.3695438.