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Publications (16)

cs.RO2025

MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space

Jason Lee, Jiafei Duan, Haoquan Fang +16

Reasoning is central to purposeful action, yet most robotic foundation models map perception and instructions directly to control, which limits adaptability, generalization, and se…

cs.RO2024

Harmonic Mobile Manipulation

Ruihan Yang, Yejin Kim, Rose Hendrix +3

Recent advancements in robotics have enabled robots to navigate complex scenes or manipulate diverse objects independently. However, robots are still impotent in many household tas…

cs.RO2024

SPOC: Imitating Shortest Paths in Simulation Enables Effective Navigation and Manipulation in the Real World

Kiana Ehsani, Tanmay Gupta, Rose Hendrix +11

Reinforcement learning (RL) with dense rewards and imitation learning (IL) with human-generated trajectories are the most widely used approaches for training modern embodied agents…

cs.RO2025

GraspMolmo: Generalizable Task-Oriented Grasping via Large-Scale Synthetic Data Generation

Abhay Deshpande, Yuquan Deng, Arijit Ray +7

We present GrasMolmo, a generalizable open-vocabulary task-oriented grasping (TOG) model. GraspMolmo predicts semantically appropriate, stable grasps conditioned on a natural langu…

cs.RO2026

MolmoB0T: Large-Scale Simulation Enables Zero-Shot Manipulation

Abhay Deshpande, Maya Guru, Rose Hendrix +23

A prevailing view in robot learning is that simulation alone is not enough; effective sim-to-real transfer is widely believed to require at least some real-world data collection or…

cs.RO2019

Toward Ergonomic Risk Prediction via Segmentation of Indoor Object Manipulation Actions Using Spatiotemporal Convolutional Networks

Behnoosh Parsa, Ekta U. Samani, Rose Hendrix +4

Automated real-time prediction of the ergonomic risks of manipulating objects is a key unsolved challenge in developing effective human-robot collaboration systems for logistics an…