Edmond Tong

I recently graduated from the University of Michigan with an MS in Robotics (2024). I received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2018. I am currently looking for research and PhD positions.

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Research

I'm interested in utilizing LLM and VLM to enbale robots to understand the open world.

OVAL-Prompt OVAL-Prompt: Open-Vocabulary Affordance Localization for Robot Manipulation through LLM Affordance-Grounding
Edmond Tong, Anthony Opipari, Stanley Lewis, Zhen Zeng, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
ICRA VLMNM Workshop, 2024
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Utilizing large language models to associate affordances with specific parts of objects, thereby localizing them to facilitate manipulation