MolmoAct2 lead Duan Jiafei joins NUS with multimillion-dollar robotics grant
DJiafei · x · 2026-10-19
Singaporean roboticist Duan Jiafei, who led MolmoAct2, a fully open robot foundation model, joined NUS Computing in July 2026 as a Presidential Young Professor and leads the MAGIC Lab (named after his magic hobby).
He secured a multimillion-dollar grant under Singapore's National Robotics Programme to build a Singapore dataset and benchmark for embodied AI from real-world robot tasks, in collaboration with the teams of NUS professors Liu Bin and Benjamin Tee, aiming to grow Singapore's embodied AI community.
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