Mengchen Ma

Embodied AI & Reinforcement Learning

Mengchen Ma

M.S. in Robotics Engineering

Southeast University

Shanghai, China

Hi, I am Mengchen Ma (马孟晨), a Master’s student in Robotics Engineering at Southeast University, advised by Prof. Kaihua Zhang. I am currently a robotics algorithm intern at Horizon Robotics. Before that, I was a research intern at Shanghai AI Laboratory, working with Dr. Hanqing Wang, and at the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, HIT, with Prof. Liang Ding.

My research interests lie in Embodied AI and Reinforcement Learning, with a focus on vision-language-action models and embodied agents.

I am always happy to discuss research or collaboration — feel free to drop me an email.

Experience

  • 2026 — Horizon Robotics · Robotics Algorithm InternVLA pre-training, memory mechanisms, and simulation benchmark construction.
  • 2025 — 2026 Shanghai AI Laboratory · Research InternPost-training of VLA models and algorithms for embodied agents.
  • 2024 — 2025 State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology · Research InternQuadruped robot control algorithms and a Mars rover prototype.

Selected Publications

  1. InstructMove
    Tech Report 2026
    InstructMove: A Text-Indispensable Benchmark for Instruction-Following Manipulation
    Mengao Zhao*, Ziang Li*, Chaodong Huang*, Mengchen Ma*, Haoyi Jiang, Yiwei Jin, Xinjie Wang, Yun Du, Xuewu Lin, Taojun Ding, Hongyu Xie, Jackson Jiang, Chunlei Yu, Kaihua Zhang, Lichao Huang, Liu Liu, Tianwei Lin, Zhizhong Su
    * Equal contribution.
    Technical Report, arXiv:2608.22990, 2026
    arXiv Code
  2. REAL
    ECCV 2026
    Exploratory, Communicative, and Deployable: Vision-Driven Embodied Agents for Open-World Mobile Manipulation
    Boyu Mi*, Mengchen Ma*, Yifei Yao*, Xing Gao, Junting Chen, Yangzi Li, Zihou Zhu, Guohao Li, Zhenfei Yin, Tai Wang, Yao Mu, Jiangmiao Pang, Hanqing Wang
    * Equal contribution.
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
    arXiv Website Code