Yichu (Bill) Yang

Yichu (Bill) Yang

Robotics Researcher at NVIDIA

Yichu (Bill) Yang — Robotics Researcher at NVIDIA

I am a robotics researcher at NVIDIA, working on physical AI, world models, and robot learning. Previously, I worked at Seed Robotics, ByteDance, and Xiaomi Robotics Lab.

I received my MS in Robotics from Northeastern University, with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering, and my BS in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

My research spans robot learning, control, mechanical design, and rapid prototyping, with an emphasis on building robust systems that transfer from research to real-world deployment.

🔥 News

  • 2026.05:  🎉 Cosmos 3 released—an open omnimodal world foundation model for physical AI reasoning, generation, and action.
  • 2025.07:  🎉 GR-3 released—a large-scale VLA model designed for generalization, long-horizon tasks, and dexterous manipulation.
  • 2024.09:  🎉 GR-2 released—a generative VLA model achieving a 97.7% average success rate across more than 100 tasks.
  • 2023.06:  🎉 CyberDog 2 released with AI-powered autonomous fall recovery.

📝 Publications

Technical Report 2026

NVIDIA et al., Yichu Yang

Project Paper Code

  • The first fully open omnimodel that unifies physical reasoning, world generation, and action generation
  • A Mixture-of-Transformers architecture supporting language, image, video, audio, and action in one model
  • Released as Cosmos 3 Super (64B), Nano (16B), and Edge (4B), covering large-scale generation through real-time deployment
Tech Report 2025
GR-3 performing long-horizon robot manipulation tasks

Chilam Cheang, Sijin Chen, Zhongren Cui, Yingdong Hu, Liqun Huang, Tao Kong, Hang Li, Yifeng Li, Yuxiao Liu, Xiao Ma, Hao Niu, Wenxuan Ou, Wanli Peng, Zeyu Ren, Haixin Shi, Jiawen Tian, Hongtao Wu, Xin Xiao, Yuyang Xiao, Jiafeng Xu, Yichu Yang

Project Paper

  • GR-3 showcases exceptional capabilities in generalizing to novel objects, environments, and instructions involving abstract concepts.
  • GR-3 also excels in handling long-horizon and dexterous tasks
Tech Report 2024
GR-2 generative video-language-action model overview

Chi-Lam Cheang, Guangzeng Chen, Ya Jing, Tao Kong, Hang Li, Yifeng Li, Yuxiao Liu, Hongtao Wu, Jiafeng Xu, Yichu Yang, Hanbo Zhang, Minzhao Zhu

Project Paper

  • GR-2 achieves a 97.7% success rate across 100+ tasks
  • GR-2 excels in industrial scenarios like end-to-end picking and adapts well to unseen environments.
IROS 2024 / Deployable@CoRL 2023
CyberDog 2 executing an agile side flip

Chen Yu, Yichu Yang, Tianlin Liu, Yangwei You, Mingliang Zhou, Diyun Xiang

Video Paper

  • Accepted by IROS 2024
  • Best Paper Runner-Up at Deployable@CoRL2023
  • The policy was successfully deployed on Cyberdog2, enabling it to execute agile maneuvers such as running jumps, running backflips, and running sideflips

🔍 Research and Projects

R&D

Xiaomi Product-Level Robust Fall Recovery Across Diverse Terrains

Quadruped robot demonstrating fall recovery Quadruped robot recovering on uneven terrain Robot recovery controller resetting posture Robot returning to a stable standing posture
R&D

Xiaomi Learning Agile Locomotion and Acrobatic Motions

Quadruped robot performing a backflip Quadruped robot performing an agile flip
Patent

Xiaomi Hall-Effect Foot Contact Sensor for Quadruped Robots

Quadruped foot contact sensor demonstration Patent illustration for the Hall-effect foot contact sensor
Thesis

SJTU logo Biomechanical Simulation-Guided Soft Exoskeleton Design

Soft exoskeleton biomechanical simulation Soft exoskeleton prototype and actuator design Soft exoskeleton gait assistance evaluation

💼 Work Experience

  • Present, Robotics Researcher, NVIDIA.
  • Previously, Researcher, Seed Robotics, ByteDance.
  • 2022.07 - 2024.01, Researcher, Xiaomi Robotics Lab, Xiaomi.
  • 2021.06 - 2022.03, RA, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University.
  • 2019.05 - 2019.12, Mechatronics Engineer, Qlibrium (previously CamMed)

📖 Education

  • 2018.09 - 2021.06, Robotics, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University.
  • 2014.09 - 2018.06, Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.