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alanz.info is the personal academic homepage of Alan (Jialiang) Zhao / 赵家樑. Based on the content on the site, he currently works on robotics research at OpenAI, and previously completed his PhD research at MIT CSAIL, focusing on areas such as robot learning, tactile sensing, contact-rich manipulation, and embodied AI. The site is essentially a researcher portfolio and academic resource hub, best categorized as a personal academic homepage under “education/courses,” rather than a commercial SaaS or tool website.
The site mainly hosts a personal bio, research experience, news updates, publications, open-source projects, and contact information. The publications section lists projects such as Fabrica, PolyTouch, HPT, T3, PoCo, GelSight Svelte, and FingerSLAM, with external links to arXiv, project websites, YouTube, code, datasets, and pretrained weights. The page also showcases several hardware DIY projects, including an astrophotography equatorial mount, MIDI controller, camera slider, and Raspberry Pi AirPlay HiFi setup, which may also be useful for robotics hardware and maker communities.
The site does not offer paid products or subscription services, and its content can be viewed for free. Papers, code, videos, and datasets on the page mostly link out to external platforms; actual accessibility and licensing depend on the respective platform and project.
Its strengths are high information density and credible credentials, with experience connected to institutions such as MIT, OpenAI, TRI, and CMU. The research links are relatively complete, making it useful for quickly following one researcher’s work in tactile robotics and embodied intelligence. The drawbacks are that it is not a structured course, lacks a guided learning path, Chinese-language explanations, and on-site search; some projects are still marked as coming soon, so the completeness of materials varies.
It is suitable for researchers, students, PhD applicants, and engineers working in robot learning, tactile sensing, robotic arm manipulation, and embodied AI, as well as makers interested in open-source hardware DIY. If users want to learn basic AI or find commercial robotics products, this site is not the best starting point.
The main domain itself is likely directly accessible, but the page depends on external resources such as GitHub, YouTube, Google Scholar, arXiv, and LinkedIn. Among these, YouTube, Google Scholar, and LinkedIn may be restricted in mainland China, and GitHub can also be unstable. Therefore, the overall access experience should be rated as “partially restricted.”
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