ORA: Open Robot-Use Agents
2026
ORA lets open-weight LLMs operate robots zero-shot through perception and motion tools, with no VLA and no robot training.
Yuanbo Yang 杨渊博
Bringing LLMs into the physical world
I'm a first-year PhD student at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Hao Zhang. I work on getting LLMs to act in the physical world. Right now I'm building ORA, an open harness that lets language models operate robots.
Two things I want to build:
- real-time, LLM-centric robot agents that people can talk to, interrupt and play with;
- robot-use agents that pick up new skills on their own and keep improving in the physical world.
Before UCSD, I did my Master's at Zhejiang University with Prof. Yiyi Liao, working on 3D and video generation, and collaborated with Prof. Andreas Geiger. I was also a research intern with Prof. Jun Gao at the University of Michigan, and got my B.Eng. from Hangzhou Dianzi University in 2022.
