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SUMMARY:Vision-Language-Action Models for Self-working Humanoid Robots
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang\nRecent advances in foundation models 
 are extending AI beyond perception and language understanding toward embod
 ied systems that can perceive\, reason\, and act in the physical world. Th
 is transition is accelerating the development of vision-language-action (V
 LA) models and robot foundation models that aim to provide robots with mor
 e general\, adaptive\, and deployable intelligence.\nThis talk presents re
 cent progress toward self-working humanoid robots\, covering key ideas in 
 embodied AI such as multimodal understanding\, long-horizon planning\, act
 ion generation\, and real-world deployment. It also introduces recent rese
 arch from Seoul National University BI Lab and AI Institute on human-robot
  interaction\, personalization\, continual adaptation\, and language-condi
 tioned robot learning\, together with the Habilis framework developed at T
 ommoro Robotics for deployable humanoid intelligence.\nFinally\, the talk 
 discusses a future architecture for self-working humanoids that integrates
  perception\, memory\, reasoning\, planning\, and action into a unified le
 arning system. The central theme is that while large language models enabl
 ed machines to communicate\, vision-language-action models will enable mac
 hines to work autonomously in the real world.\n\nByoung-Tak Zhang's biogra
 phy\nPresent:         \nProfessor of Computer Science\, Seoul Nationa
 l University\,\nDirector of the Humanoid AI Robot Center (HARC)\,\nChairma
 n of the K-Humanoid Alliance (Korean Government)\n2019-2025:     \nFoun
 ding Director of SNU AI Institute (AIIS)\n2007-2008:     \nVisiting Pro
 fessor\, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology\n2003-2004:     \nVis
 iting Professor\, MIT CS&AI Lab (CSAIL)\n1992-1995:     \nResearch Asso
 ciate\, German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)\n1988-1
 992:     \nPhD in Computer Science\, University of Bonn\n1982-1988:  
    \nBS and MS in Computer Science\, Seoul National University\n 
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