The 2018 18th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2018) was held at Beijing Friendship Hotel in Beijing, China on 6-9 November 2018. Kailun Yang presented the spotlight paper “Predicting polarization beyond semantics for wearable robotics”. This paper was in collaboration with College of Optical Science and Engineering of Zhejiang University (China), Department of Electronics of University of Alcalá (Spain), and College of Optical Sciences of University of Arizona (USA). During this conference, Kailun Yang had a tour to the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Control and Decision of Complex Systems, Beijing Institute of Technology. Kailun Yang also paid a visit to Professor Yao Hu at School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology.