Xuning Yang

Xuning Yang is a senior research scientist at NVIDIA's Seattle Research Lab. Her research interests include robot foundation models, particularly on evaluation methods, and generalization capabilities, as well as a broad range of application scenarios from field robotics, indoor navigation, and robot manipulation. Prior to NVIDIA, she received her Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Posts by Xuning Yang

Robotics Jul 11, 2026

How to Evaluate General-Purpose Robot Policies for Real-World Deployment

Robotics foundation models have made remarkable progress. Today's best systems can follow natural language instructions to pick, place, sort, and manipulate a... 15 MIN READ
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Robotics May 06, 2024

Automating Smart Pick-and-Place with Intrinsic Flowstate and NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator

We are announcing our collaboration with Intrinsic.ai on learning foundation skill models for industrial robotics tasks. Many pick-and-place problems in... 4 MIN READ