Good morning everyone,
Further to the scheduled seminar by Associate Professor Zac Manchester at 10am, we have an additional seminar scheduled to begin at 11am.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Sabrina
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From: William Zhi weiming.zhi@sydney.edu.au Sent: Monday, July 20, 2026 1:07 AM To: everybody everybody@acfr.usyd.edu.au Subject: [Everybody at ACFR] Monday 11am -- Xuning Yang (Nvidia) talk
Hi folks,
We have Xuning Yang from Nvidia visiting. She'll be giving a talk after Zac's talk. Her talk is from 11am-12 on Monday the 20th of July.
Cheers, William
Below are the details:
Talk: How to Evaluate Real Robot Generalist Policies
Abstract: Evaluating general-purpose robot policies rigorously remains one of robotics' hardest challenges, given that real-world evaluation is slow and costly while existing simulation benchmarks suffer from high setup overhead and a persistent sim2real gap. In this talk, we discuss how to rigorously evaluate real-world generalist robot policies at scale, covering the key pitfalls in current benchmarking practice and our approach to addressing them. We introduce principles for future-proofing evaluation, including embodiment-agnostic task design, scalable task generation, and diagnostic analysis tools, which are needed to build evaluations that keep pace with increasingly capable models.
Bio: Xuning Yang is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA's Seattle Research Lab. Her research interests include robot foundation models, particularly on evaluation methods, and generalization capabilities, as well as a broad range of application scenarios from field robotics, indoor navigation, and robot manipulation. Prior to NVIDIA, she received her Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University,
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