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Tony Z. Zhao

ROLE RESEARCHER (ACT PAPER)MENTIONS 3LAST SEEN AUGUST 11, 2026
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Tony Z. Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Sunday Robotics (sunday.ai). He previously worked on the ALOHA and ACT projects as a Stanford CS PhD student advised by Chelsea Finn, before leaving the program. He is best known for developing ACT (Action Chunking with Transformers) and ALOHA, a low-cost open-source bimanual teleoperation hardware system for robotic manipulation.

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product·arXiv Physical AI·AUGUST 11, 2026

Mobile ALOHA (Fu, Zhao, and Finn 2024) platform... In real-world experiments, we design three tasks covering single-arm placement, precision bimanual stacking, and long-horizon sequential coordination

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·AUGUST 11, 2026

In real-world experiments, we design three tasks covering single-arm placement, precision bimanual stacking, and long-horizon sequential coordination, where XS-VLA improves average task success from 21.7% to 65.0%

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mention·University of Tokyo, NABLAS Research·MAY 26, 2026

We evaluate our representations using an Action Chunking Transformer (ACT) architecture

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