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Danfei Xu

@danfei_xu on X

Every Robotics Weekly story that cites Danfei Xu (@danfei_xu), newest first. 3 stories since September 2026.

On X: Prof @ICatGT, Research @nvidia | I like robots

  • OM-1 unplugs an Ethernet cable, and the video is 1x speed

    Reward AI's new foundation model drew praise from Chris Paxton for a task most robots fumble.

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  • Michael Black says Astra made his ECCV paper obsolete

    A senior vision researcher argues any paper at this year's conference is two years out of date, and Danfei Xu says robotics is next.

    · The big one

  • Sound like you were at the demo

    One email a day. Under three minutes. The demos, the deployments and the part the press release left out.

  • Huy Ha's Transformer Transformer designs a robot per task

    The CoRL 2026 paper generates a full robot body and its controller from a target motion, and the team says the design was checked on real hardware.

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