Manling Li

@ManlingLi_

Assistant Professor@NWU, Amazon Scholar, Postdoc@Stanford, PhD@UIUC #Language+#Vision/#Robotics, #Reasoning, #Planning

Chicago, IL

limanling.github.io

Joined November 2017

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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Sep 18, 2025
Honored to be named as MIT TR 35 Under 35 @techreview. Couldn’t have done this without the best PhD advisor @hengjinlp, my academic home @siebelschool, and the most supportive postdoc mentors @jiajunwu_cs @drfeifei @StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI, my forever mentor Shih-Fu Chang,
MIT Technology Review
@techreview
Sep 8, 2025
Today in The Download, our daily newsletter: Introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025 trib.al/Yz17AtP
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
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Introducing Embodied First Exam: One line of code to run coding agents in 1,090 embodied tasks across 31 simulation suites and 44 robots. Can your agent go far beyond pick-and-place: Puzzles with spatial constraints; Olympic sports with multi-robot collab; Real-time eval, where
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
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Awesome!
Georgia Chalvatzaki
@GeorgiaChal
Oct 17
🚨 Attention, Robot Learning community! For the first time, @corl_conf is introducing a Call for Late-Breaking Results, focusing on Agentic Robotics and Real2Sim2Real! Research is moving fast, and we want to make room for important new results as they emerge! 📅 Deadline:
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Oct 14
Try RoboUse! “pip install robouse” Led by @xdotli 👇
Xiangyi Li
@xdotli
Oct 13
Introducing Robo Use: API to physical worlds for agents One interface, 32 embodiments, 100+ scenarios, and 11 agents and models We aggregated all academic simulator scenarios and ran 2500+ trials with initial results. Preview them or try it yourself 🧵
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Oct 14
RoboEval Diagnostic Bimanual Challenge is live! Deadline is Nov 1st.
Yi Ru (Helen) Wang
@YiruHelenWang
Oct 14
🤖 The RoboEval Diagnostic Bimanual Challenge is live! Track 2 at the #CoRL2026 workshop "From GPU-Accelerated Simulation to Scalable and Generalizable Real Robot Policy Learning". Scored on behavior, not just success. ⏰ Deadline: Nov 1 (AoE) robo-eval.github.io/challenge.html
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