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Yi Xu

ROLE AUTHORAT MIDEA GROUPMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN JULY 26, 2026
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Yi Xu is a researcher affiliated with the Midea AI Research Center (Midea-AIRC), the artificial intelligence research division of Midea Group, with academic ties to Tongji University. They are a co-author of DeMaVLA, a Vision-Language-Action model designed for robotic garment manipulation tasks including folding shirts, skirts, pants, and towels from random initial states. Their research appears in the domain of embodied AI and robotic manipulation.

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product·arXiv Physical AI·JULY 26, 2026

DeMaVLA introduces a single Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model capable of folding multiple types of garments (shirts, skirts, pants, towels) from random initial states

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hire·arXiv Physical AI·JULY 26, 2026

Taiyi Su... Jian Zhu... Yi Xu... AIRC, Midea Group, Tongji University (Author affiliations)

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Yi Xu · Author at Midea Group — 2 mentions on Teahose