Jenai Xuning Yang

@xuningy

Senior Research Scientist @ NVIDIA | PhD in Robotics @ CMU

Seattle, WA

Joined March 2009

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Jenai Xuning Yang
@xuningy
Apr 20
When every generalist robot model scores 95%+ on a benchmark, the numbers become meaningless. What if we built a photorealistic benchmark that never saturates and can generate new scenes and tasks with AI Workflows in minutes? We introduce RoboLab! 🧵(1/6)
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Jenai Xuning Yang
@xuningy
Oct 14
Can and should a general-purpose model serve as a robot policy? In Astranomy, we study GPT-6 Astra for general pick-and-place manipulation. Astra sets a new SOTA on RoboLab-120, but real-time robot control remains an open challenge. Full tech report: research.nvidia.com/labs/srl/proje…
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Jenai Xuning Yang
@xuningy
Oct 9
Native VLA/WAMs have very weak language-grounding and reasoning capabilities. With ARC, we uplift existing VLA/WAMs to gain ~30pp performance with no new robot action data. The capability is already in these models; we just haven’t fully unlocked it yet. arc-robot-reasoning.github.io
gokul@CoRL2026
@gokulp01
Oct 9
Today we are introducing ARC, a reasoning recipe for robot foundation models that sets a new state of the art on RoboLab-120 and MolmoSpaces. The prevailing way to improve robot foundation models is brute force: larger models, more robot demonstrations, costly training at scale.
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Jenai Xuning Yang
@xuningy
Aug 25
We released DROID+, a new and improved DROID control stack from SRL. We believe robots (and hardware) should be easy to setup and easy to use, and so we updated the DROID stack to be the same. @HugoHadfield1 github.com/nvlabs/droidpl… Here's pi0.5 doing our "hello world" task:
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Jenai Xuning Yang
@xuningy
Aug 5
Our team at SRL is hiring! We're looking for people who dive deep, think systematically, and care deeply about doing rigorous work. If you're excited about understanding the science behind building foundation models, please apply!
Elie Aljalbout
@EliJalbout
Aug 5
We're hiring! The Seattle Robotics Lab (SRL) at NVIDIA is hiring a research scientist to work on robot foundation models. The focus will be on investigating the science behind building VLAs, WAMs, and world models for robotics, and leveraging the findings to propose the next
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