Nathan F. Lepora

Full Professor, Engineering, University of Bristol

Joined

July 2019

Names

Nathan F. Lepora (Preferred)

Emails

****@bristol.ac.uk (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

Engineering, University of Bristol (bristol.ac.uk)

2014 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisee

Moses Guran

2025 – 2030

Expertise

tactile sensing

Present

Publications

ViTacGen: Robotic Pushing with Vision-to-Touch Generation
Zhiyuan Wu, Yijiong Lin, Yongqiang Zhao, Xuyang Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Nathan F. Lepora, Shan Luo
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Readers: Everyone
SimShear: Sim-to-Real Shear-based Tactile Servoing
Yijiong Lin, Kipp McAdam Freud, Nathan F. Lepora
- IROS 2025 Workshop Tactile Sensing Poster
- Readers: Everyone
NeuralTouch: Leveraging Implicit Neural Descriptor for Precise Sim-to-Real Tactile Robot Control
Yijiong Lin, Bowen Deng, chenghua lu, Max Yang, John Lloyd, Efi Psomopoulou, Nathan F. Lepora
- IROS 2025 Workshop Tactile Sensing OralPoster
- Readers: Everyone
Text2Touch: Tactile In-Hand Manipulation with LLM-Designed Reward Functions
Harrison Field, Max Yang, Yijiong Lin, Efi Psomopoulou, David A.W. Barton, Nathan F. Lepora
- CoRL 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SimShear: Sim-to-Real Shear-based Tactile Servoing
Kipp Freud, Yijiong Lin, Nathan F. Lepora
- CoRL 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it: Tactile-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstructing Challenging Surfaces
Mauro Comi, Alessio Tonioni, Max Yang, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis, Yijiong Lin, Nathan F. Lepora, Laurence Aitchison
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Touchsdf: A deepsdf approach for 3d shape reconstruction using vision-based tactile sensing
Mauro Comi, Yijiong Lin, Alex Church, Alessio Tonioni, Laurence Aitchison, Nathan F. Lepora
- RAL
- Readers: Everyone
AnyRotate: Gravity-Invariant In-Hand Object Rotation with Sim-to-Real Touch
Max Yang, chenghua lu, Alex Church, Yijiong Lin, Christopher J. Ford, Haoran Li, Efi Psomopoulou, David A.W. Barton, Nathan F. Lepora
- LFDM
- Readers: Everyone
DexiTac: Soft Dexterous Tactile Gripping
chenghua lu, Kailuan Tang, Max Yang, Haoran Li, Tianqi Yue, Nathan F. Lepora
- LFDM
- Readers: Everyone
Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it: Tactile-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstructing Challenging Surfaces
Mauro Comi, Alessio Tonioni, Jonathan Tremblay, Max Yang, Valts Blukis, Yijiong Lin, Nathan F. Lepora, Laurence Aitchison
- 3DV 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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