Jonathan Francis

Jonathan Francis is a Lead Research Scientist at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) in Pittsburgh, where he leads the Robot Learning Lab focused on multimodal machine learning and robot learning for dexterous manipulation and manufacturing applications. He also serves as a Courtesy Faculty in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and as the Area Expert for Robotics in the Carnegie Bosch Institute at CMU. His research centers on enabling robots to learn robust skill representations for cross-embodiment transfer, general-purpose behavior, and failure-remedial reasoning, with applications including Vision-Language Action models for dexterous robot manipulation and integration of humanoid robots into production environments.