About Me
I am Wadhah Zai El Amri, a PhD researcher at the L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. My work lies at the intersection of robotic perception, tactile sensing, and machine learning, with a particular focus on enabling robots to perceive and understand physical contact with the world.
I received my M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems from Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2022, and my B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany, in 2020.
Research Interests:
- Tactile sensing for robotics
- Transfer learning across sensor modalities
- Vibro-acoustic perception
- Deep reinforcement learning
- Sim-to-real transfer
Feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaborating or discussing any of these topics.
News
- Jul 2026 Paper published in Springer Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (Q1): Do Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands? A Comparison of Human and Robotic Hands
- Jun 2026 Two Extended Abstracts accepted to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop: AI-Based Humanoid Robot Design and Control Through the Lens of HRI, Evolution, and Biomechanics
- Apr 2026 Paper published in Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Q1): SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors
- Jan 2026 Preprint submitted: Vibro-Sense: Robust Vibration-based Impulse Response Localization and Trajectory Tracking for Robotic Hands
- May 2025 Paper accepted to ICRA 2025 (A*): ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception
Recent Publications
Projects
ROS 2 Dual Arm Teleoperation
Markerless real-time teleoperation of dual UR5e robotic arms using a standard webcam and MediaPipe hand tracking. Built for fun with ROS 2 Humble, MoveIt, and MoveIt Servo.
- ROS 2
- MoveIt
- MediaPipe
- OpenCV