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Josh Abramson is a leading researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, whose work is bringing the science-fiction dream of intuitive human-robot interaction closer to reality. His primary focus is on developing artificial agents that can perceive the world, assist with physical tasks, and communicate through natural language. Abramson’s major contributions center on imitation learning and self-supervised learning as scalable pathways to create these interactive, multimodal agents. His seminal 2020 paper, “Imitating Interactive Intelligence” (43 citations), laid the groundwork for designing agents that learn complex social behaviors by mimicking human demonstrators. He advanced this vision in his highly influential 2021 work, “Creating Multimodal Interactive Agents with Imitation and Self-Supervised Learning” (32 citations), which demonstrated how combining these techniques can produce agents capable of rich, real-world interaction without explicit programming. Together, these papers have helped define a new paradigm in embodied AI, showing that the key to generalist robots lies not in hand-coded rules, but in learning from the natural flow of human activity.