Shanghai AI Laboratory — Embodied Intelligence
China's most important government AI lab, now investing heavily in embodied intelligence and robot foundation models. Released RoboFlamingo and other open-source robot AI models.
Notable achievements
RoboFlamingo robot foundation model, InternVL vision-language for robots, embodied AI benchmark, $1B+ government funding, 1000+ researchers.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Towards embodied AI in manufacturing: Review, Evaluation, and Future directions
Yexing Zheng, Zhengyang Ling, Qinghua Wang +5 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2027
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Simulation-assisted development and experimental validation of a cobot screwdriving system for automotive assembly
Francisco Cunha, André Gonçalves, Tiago Pereira +13 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
LabVLA: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Models in Scientific Laboratories
Baochang Ren, Xinjie Liu, Xi Chen +15 more
2026
An Embodied Simulation Platform, Benchmark, and Data-Efficient Augmentation Framework for Wet-Lab Robotics
Zhe Liu, Huanbo Jin, Zhaohui Du +8 more
2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026