Zhenghao Fei

Researcher in agricultural robotics and automation.

My research focuses on leveraging automation technologies to enhance agricultural productivity and address critical labor challenges — including perception techniques for complex field environments, autonomous navigation of agricultural machinery, and imitation learning for dexterous, plant-level manipulation.

Education

University of California, Davis
Ph.D., Biological Systems Engineering
Zhejiang University
B.Eng., Biological Systems Engineering
B.Mgmt., Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management

Experience

Researcher · 2023 – present
ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2020 – 2021
University of California, Davis

Blog

Is Visual Fruit Detection Solved by Vision-Language Models, and What Remains? — In the GPT-6 Astra Era and Beyond Sep 2026
An Empirical Study of Robot Policies Trained on UMI-Style Data ↗ Aug 2026
Train Robot Policy using LeRobot Framework with UMI Data ↗ Aug 2026

Research

SROI V2: Redesigned UMI-Style Handheld Strawberry Robotics Operation Data-Acquisition Device and Robot End-Effector 2026
GEAR-Seg: Grounded Explainable Agent for Reasoning Segmentation 2026
Learning to Pick: A Visuomotor Policy for Clustered Strawberry Picking 2025
Strawberry Robotic Operation Interface: An Open-Source Device for Collecting Dexterous Manipulation Data in Robotic Strawberry Farming (paper) 2025
Learn from Foundation Model: Fruit Detection Model without Manual Annotation 2025
Optimization-based Motion Planning for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicles Turning in Constrained Headlands 2024
A Robotic Orchard Platform Increases Harvest Throughput by Controlling Worker Vertical Positioning and Platform Speed 2024
Row-sensing Templates: A Generic 3D Sensor-based Approach to Robot Localization with Respect to Orchard Row Centerlines 2022
Enlisting 3D Crop Models and GANs for More Data Efficient and Generalizable Fruit Detection 2021
Estimation of Worker Fruit-picking Rates with an Instrumented Picking Bag 2020