Yan Ding

Yan Ding

Robotics researcher working on embodied AI.

I work on robot learning and mobile manipulation, connecting scalable data collection, vision-language-action models, task and motion planning, and real-world deployment. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Previously, I was CTO at Lumos Robotics (until August 2026) and One Star Robotics, and a researcher at Shanghai AI Laboratory. FastUMI is one of my key efforts in connecting data collection, model training, and deployment for embodied manipulation.

Part-time Researcher, Fudan University Visiting Scholar, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Recruiting interns and prospective Master's / Ph.D. students.
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Robotic Demos

Short robot demos and project updates from my social channel and FastUMI.

Social

Xiaohongshu

Short robot demos and project updates.

Open Channel
Project

FastUMI Videos

Selected data collection, robot learning, and deployment videos from FastUMI.

Open Site

Publications

Selected papers, preprints, and manuscripts with publication details, links, and project summaries.

Adding new papers: edit the embedded publicationDataJson block in index.html. Use category data-pipelines, embodied-models, or deployment. Images and headshots stay together in img/.