Jiafei Duan

Jiafei Duan is a Presidential Young Professor at the National University of Singapore, where he works on robotics foundation models, including scalable data collection, robotic reasoning, and robust generalization. He co-led the open-source MolmoAct and MolmoAct2 models, which aim to make robot action reasoning more transparent and reproducible.

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University of Washington

Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engineering)

University of Washington

M.S. (Computer Science & Engineering)

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)

B.Eng. (Electrical & Electronic Engineering)

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MolmoAct 2: An Open Foundation for Robots That Work in the Real World

A RoboPapers conversation with Jiafei Duan and Haoquan Fang about MolmoAct2, its open models and datasets, and deploying robot learning in real-world settings.

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Why Robotics Hasn't Had Its ChatGPT Moment Yet

A conversation about open robotics research, MolmoAct, and the challenges of building general-purpose robot systems.

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Jiafei Duan

University of Washington

University of Washington

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)

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MolmoAct 2: An Open Foundation for Robots That Work in the Real World

Why Robotics Hasn't Had Its ChatGPT Moment Yet

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