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Acorn Pooley is a leading researcher at the forefront of robotic learning and embodied AI, whose work is fundamentally reshaping how robots acquire and generalize skills. Pooley’s key contributions center on scaling robotic intelligence through massive, diverse datasets and large, cross-embodiment models. As a core contributor to the landmark **Open X-Embodiment** project, Pooley helped create the largest open-source dataset of robotic demonstrations and the accompanying RT-X models. This work, cited over 220 times, demonstrated that training a single model across 22 different robot embodiments dramatically improves generalization and task success, establishing a new paradigm for robot learning that mirrors the foundation model approach in NLP and vision. Most recently, Pooley has advanced this vision with **Gemini Robotics**, a family of multimodal models designed to bridge the gap between digital AI capabilities and physical action. By integrating vision, language, and action into a unified architecture, this work tackles the critical challenge of bringing generalist AI into the physical world. Pooley’s research is not only highly cited but is also defining the trajectory of general-purpose robotics, making complex, multi-task manipulation a tangible reality.