Yunze Man

@yunzeman

Research Scientist, NVIDIA GEAR. Training robotics foundation model. Ph.D in UIUC

Santa Clara, CA

yunzeman.github.io

Joined October 2019

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Yunze Man
@yunzeman
Oct 20
Introducing Flora, an open model suite for scaling robotics data engines. It watches robot and human video and annotate what happened (timestamped instructions) and how well it went (rewards and failure reasons). 🔗 research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/flor… We use it to train NVIDIA GR00T. 🧵
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Yunze Man
@yunzeman
Oct 14
Gemini 4 is catching up?
Embodied Analysis
@embodianalysis
Oct 14
Gemini 4 Argon “closely follows” GPT 6 Astra on our Physical Agents Index. As of October 14, Argon ranks second of 18 models at 1,324 points, 25 behind Astra's 1,349. Here's an example run on the same task: put four bottles into the bin, using handovers when needed. Both runs
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Yunze Man
@yunzeman
Oct 13
Congrats on the robotics API! You have to be really confident about your data, deployment, and continuous improvement to rollout post-training-as-a-service. we are gradually getting to the deployment era of robots. 🤖
Physical Intelligence
@physical_int
Oct 13
Announcing the beta release of the Pi API. We’ve partnered with companies across diverse industries to adapt our models to their robots and applications, from harvesting strawberries to assembling servers. Now we’re opening access to more teams.
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Yunze Man
@yunzeman
Oct 9
Yesterday I asked an agent to analyze my bottlenecks: GPUs, robots, or data? Trying to optimize my workflow. I expected compute or robot hours. It answered: your attention. It was right. Agents scale. My attention doesn’t. A little taste of the agent era's bitter truth.
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Yunze Man
@yunzeman
Oct 8
It's a pleasure to see Vesta in the @stateofai report 2026! 🎉 Vesta is our generalist embodied reasoning model: a System-2 planner that uses memory to guide robots through long-horizon tasks. A lot more cool things happening in @NVIDIARobotics meanwhile. Stay tuned!
Nathan Benaich
@nathanbenaich
Oct 8
33:38
welcome to the 9th annual @stateofai report! ai building better ai, world models, physical ai, geopolitics, cyber defense and 12-month predictions. read it at stateof(dot)ai or watch my editor’s cut here. a few of this year’s biggest findings follow:
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