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Jimmy Wu is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and large language models (LLMs), with a focus on enabling robots to perform personalized, real-world manipulation tasks. His most impactful work, *TidyBot* (2023, 189 citations), pioneered the use of LLMs to infer and generalize user preferences for household cleanup, allowing robots to adapt their actions to individual needs—a significant step toward truly assistive home robots. Wu also made foundational contributions to robotic perception with *SegICP* (2017, 151 citations), an integrated deep semantic segmentation and pose estimation system that dramatically improved robots’ ability to quickly and robustly perceive objects in cluttered, realistic environments. His work on *Spatial Action Maps* (2020, 75 citations) redefined navigation by predicting dense action maps from visual input, enabling more efficient mobile manipulation. More recently, Wu co-led the creation of *DROID* (2024, 108 citations), a large-scale, in-the-wild robot manipulation dataset designed to train more generalizable and robust policies. His research on equivariant visuomotor policies (*EquivAct*) and pneumatic non-prehensile manipulation further demonstrates his drive to push the boundaries of robot generalization and dexterity. With over 600 citations, Wu’s work is shaping the future of personalized, perception-driven robotics.