Norihito Naka

New York University

Papers

1

Total Citations

4

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About

Norihito Naka is a rising researcher at the forefront of robotics and embodied AI, whose work is rapidly shaping how robots generalize to unfamiliar environments. His primary contributions lie in developing scalable, data-driven policies for zero-shot robot deployment, enabling machines to perform manipulation and navigation tasks without prior exposure to a specific setting. Naka’s most influential work, "Robot Utility Models: General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments" (2025), has already garnered 4 citations in its early release, signaling its immediate impact on the field. This paper demonstrates that with sufficient training data, robot policies can robustly generalize across diverse real-world scenarios, a critical step toward practical, general-purpose robotics. By bridging the gap between large-scale data and physical action, Naka is helping to define a new paradigm where robots are not just programmed but learned, promising a future where autonomous systems can adapt on the fly. His research is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of machine learning and robotics.

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Papers
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Total Citations
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Robot Utility Models: General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments
4 citations · 2025
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2025 (1 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 9
🏛 Institutions: New York University

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