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Yoav Artzi is a leading researcher at the intersection of natural language processing and robotics, dedicated to enabling seamless spoken language interaction between humans and machines. His work focuses on building intelligent agents that can understand and execute complex, high-level natural language instructions in physical environments. Artzi’s major contributions include developing persistent spatial semantic representations that allow robots to ground language in long-term tasks, and pioneering few-shot object grounding methods that enable robots to recognize and map new objects from minimal examples—a critical step toward practical, generalizable robotic assistants. His influential 2021 article on spoken language interaction with robots, which has garnered over 100 citations, provides a foundational roadmap for the field, outlining key challenges and future research directions. Artzi has also advanced programming by demonstration through situated semantic parsing, allowing users to naturally augment robot demonstrations with speech. Through this impactful body of work, Yoav Artzi is shaping the future of how we communicate with and control autonomous systems.