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Travis Armstrong is a leading researcher at the frontier of interactive robotics and real-world human-robot collaboration. His primary research areas include natural language instruction following, visuomotor control, and low-cost robotic teleoperation. Armstrong’s most impactful contribution is the development of a framework for building interactive, real-time, language-instructable robots, detailed in his highly cited 2024 paper (81 citations), for which he also open-sourced datasets, environments, and benchmarks to accelerate the field. His earlier 2022 work (20 citations) laid the groundwork for this interactive paradigm. Armstrong has also advanced robotic perception through object-aware representations for visuomotor control in complex scenes (8 citations). Notably, he co-developed ALOHA 2, an enhanced, low-cost hardware platform for bimanual teleoperation (8 citations), making dexterous robotic data collection more accessible and robust. By combining scalable hardware with interactive language interfaces, Armstrong is pioneering a future where robots can understand and act on natural human commands in real-world settings.