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Oct 28, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

UW PhD Joins NUS, CoRL 2026 Spotlight: $6K Robot Achieves Embodied Reasoning

University of Washington PhD Jianfei Duan joins NUS as Presidential Young Professor, founding MAGIC Lab; his CoRL 2026 Spotlight paper MolmoAct2 and Oral paper MolmoB0T demonstrate low-cost robots ($6K) performing embodied reasoning, building on prior work in robot learning, failure diagnosis, and generalization benchmarks.