Jean Oh
Jean Oh is an Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she heads the roBot Intelligence Group (BIG). Her research focuses on AI in robotics, including social robot navigation, multimodal perception, language understanding, and cross-embodiment robot learning. She serves as corresponding author of the RIO framework and is affiliated with Lavoro AI. She holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Columbia University, and a BS from Yonsei University.
“CMU researchers open-sourced a middleware framework that cuts robot-to-robot porting time from weeks to under an hour, directly attacking the infrastructure tax that's slowing down every VLA deployment team in the field.”
Source→“Lavoro AI appears to be commercializing elements of this research direction. Direct connection between the open-source framework and a commercial entity is worth tracking for investors.”
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