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Career

· Director, UK Cyber Security Forum CIC2018–2022
· Research Director, E RADAR2012–2018
· Consulting Research Analyst, The Dresner Associates (Current)2011–
· Cofounder And Director Of Research, The IASME Consortium2009–2021
· Professor Of Cyber Security, University of Manchester2004–

Publications (50)

PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2023
2,284
cited
RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control
Conference on Robot Learning · 2023
2,268
cited
Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
arXiv.org · 2025
1,636
cited
π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control
arXiv.org · 2024
1,025
cited
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models : Open X-Embodiment Collaboration0
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2023
785
cited
SpatialVLM: Endowing Vision-Language Models with Spatial Reasoning Capabilities
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2024
567
cited
π0.5: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization
arXiv.org · 2025
431
cited
Towards Generalist Biomedical AI
NEJM AI · 2023
421
cited
Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future
Int. J. Robotics Res. · 2023
294
cited
FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Robotics · 2025
285
cited
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models : Open X-Embodiment Collaboration
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2024
282
cited
Large Language Models as General Pattern Machines
Conference on Robot Learning · 2023
262
cited
Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World
arXiv.org · 2025
222
cited
PIVOT: Iterative Visual Prompting Elicits Actionable Knowledge for VLMs
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2024
185
cited
ALOHA Unleashed: A Simple Recipe for Robot Dexterity
Conference on Robot Learning · 2024
162
cited
Grounded Decoding: Guiding Text Generation with Grounded Models for Robot Control
arXiv.org · 2023
116
cited
Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2025
115
cited
Learning Multi-Object Dynamics with Compositional Neural Radiance Fields
Conference on Robot Learning · 2022
92
cited
Grounded Decoding: Guiding Text Generation with Grounded Models for Embodied Agents
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2023
79
cited
Learning Models as Functionals of Signed-Distance Fields for Manipulation Planning
Conference on Robot Learning · 2021
70
cited
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