Work — Xixi Li

4D Fabrication · Wearable · Soft Robotics · 2025

AirSole: Pneumatic TPU Footwear for Rehabilitation

Pneumatically actuated TPU layer and lattice-structured insole that encodes patient-specific deformation. 4D printing and Arduino-driven pressure control for adaptive gait rehabilitation.

Wearable Systems · Physical Intelligence · Biosensing 2026

SIXTH: Physical Intelligence Wearable

An exoskin biosensing system that translates physiological data into pre-conscious real-time risk guidance for extreme environment operators, proposing a new paradigm of embodied physical intelligence.

Biomechanics · Wearable Systems · Research · 2026

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) for Lower Limb Coordination

A within-subject study demonstrating that cognitive-load-driven calf EMS selectively restores joint coordination during dual-task locomotion without impairing cognitive performance.

Computing Fabrics · E-Textile · Edge AI · 2026

Tactiq: AI trained Pressure Sensing Textile

Cross-scale woven E-textile design with 85.7% real-time posture classification, ~1 ms on-device inference, deployed on ESP32.

BCI· BioDesign · HCI · 2025

Algorithmic Morphogenesis

A hybrid Brain-Computer Interface that inscribes human EEG, memory, and emotion into algae growth patterns through a 2-DOF robotic plotting and affective computing.

Multimodal AI · Affective Computing · Olfactory Interfaces · Research · 2025

AI-Generated Affective Scent

LLM inspired AI Olfactory and Computational Scent Generation for Racing Simulation Performance with Personalization in Real Time.

Smart Textile · Physical AI · Wearable2026

ConnectQ:Embodied AI Textile Interface

MIT Hackathon Winner. A knitted biosensing wearable with haptic actuation and LLM-driven affective inference, designed to bridge isolated people to social connection through tangible interface.