Shanghai AI Laboratory — Embodied Intelligence
China's most important government AI lab, now investing heavily in embodied intelligence and robot foundation models. Released RoboFlamingo and other open-source robot AI models.
Notable achievements
RoboFlamingo robot foundation model, InternVL vision-language for robots, embodied AI benchmark, $1B+ government funding, 1000+ researchers.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Simulation-assisted development and experimental validation of a cobot screwdriving system for automotive assembly
Francisco Cunha, André Gonçalves, Tiago Pereira +13 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Container Unloading via Reinforcement Learning: Picking Order, Deadlock Avoidance, and Proof-of-Concept Simulation
Jan Rüdiger, Max Schenke, Daniel Weber
2026
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
Colosseum V2: Benchmarking Generalization for Vision Language Action Models
Jeremy Morgan, Prajwal Vijay, Hyeonho Oh +6 more
2026