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• [Sep, 2026] Youngwoon joined Seoul National University as an assistant professor in CSE
• [May, 2026] One paper was accepted to ICML 2026
• [Apr, 2026] One paper was accepted to RSS 2026
• [Apr, 2026] We are co-organizing two workshops at RSS 2026 on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation and Lab-to-Production
• [Apr, 2026] Youngwoon serves as an area chair for NeurIPS 2026 and CoRL 2026
• [Jan, 2026] Two papers were accepted to ICLR 2026
• [Nov, 2025] Youngwoon serves as an area chair for ICLR 2026 and ICML 2026
• [Nov, 2025] Junik (Heatz) won the PokeAgent Challenge at NeurIPS 2025
• [Oct, 2025] Youngwoon won 2025 Okawa Foundation Research Grant
• [Aug, 2025] Two papers were accepted to CoRL 2025
• [Jul, 2025] We won two 5-year grants ($150k and $100k per year) on humanoid AI
• [Apr, 2025] Youngwoon will be giving a talk at RSS 2025 workshop on Robot Evaluation for the Real World
• [Mar, 2025] Kwanyoung will join UC Berkeley as a PhD student working with Prof. Sergey Levine and Prof. Pieter Abbeel
• [Mar, 2025] We are co-organizing the workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation at RSS 2025
• [Mar, 2025] We collaborate with Microsoft Research on robot foundation models ($70k)
• [Mar, 2025] Hokyun will start a 6-month research internship at Microsoft Research Asia
• [Feb, 2025] Youngwoon serves as an area chair for NeurIPS 2025
• [Jan, 2025] One paper was accepted to ICLR 2025
• [Dec, 2024] Yonsei AI department won the Brain Korea 21 (BK21) grant ($60k+ per year for each lab)
• [Nov, 2024] Youngwoon will be giving a talk at CoRL 2024 workshop on Learning Robotic Assembly of Industrial and Everyday Objects
• [Oct, 2024] Journal extension of FurnitureBench was accepted to IJRR
• [Sep, 2024] Youngwoon serves as an associate editor for ICRA 2025
• [Sep, 2024] One paper was accepted to CoRL 2024
• [Aug, 2024] We won two 5-year grants ($100k per year), Global AI Frontier Lab and AI Research Center
• [Aug, 2024] We are co-organizing the workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation at CoRL 2024
• [Jun, 2024] One paper was accepted to IROS 2024
• [May, 2024] Open X-Embodiment Datasets and RT-X won the IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award
• [May, 2024] Two papers (HumanoidBench and DROID) were accepted to RSS 2024
• [Apr, 2024] We won the NRF Outstanding Young Scientist grant ($200k for 5 years)
• [Mar, 2024] Youngwoon serves as an area chair for NeurIPS 2024
• [Mar, 2024] We released DROID, a large-scale robotic dataset
• [Mar, 2024] We released HumanoidBench, a simulated humanoid robot benchmark
• [Jan, 2024] One paper was accepted to ICRA 2024
• [Jan, 2024] One paper was accepted to ICLR 2024
• [Jan, 2024] Youngwoon joined Yonsei University as an assistant professor in AI