PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Eli VanderBilt

Eli VanderBilt contributes to Allen Institute for AI (AI2) projects on simulated worlds, 3D object data, and open multimodal and robot models. He co-authored RoboTHOR, a simulation-to-real embodied AI platform, in a CVPR 2020 paper. ProcTHOR, a framework for procedural generation of embodied AI environments that he co-authored, won a NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award. Later work includes Objaverse, presented at CVPR 2023; Objaverse-XL, a dataset of over 10 million 3D objects, listed for NeurIPS 2023; and Molmo and PixMo, open-weights vision-language models presented as a CVPR 2025 oral. As of October 2026, he is credited with paper writing and figures for MolmoAct2, an action reasoning model from AI2.

Works
16
Citations
1,481
h-index
9

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2020

    RoboTHOR, a simulation-to-real platform

    He co-authors RoboTHOR, an open simulation-to-real embodied AI platform, in a CVPR 2020 paper.

  2. 2022

    A NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper

    He co-authors ProcTHOR, a framework for procedural generation of embodied AI environments, which wins a NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award.

  3. 2023

    Objaverse, annotated 3D objects

    He is among the authors of Objaverse, a universe of annotated 3D objects, which appears at CVPR 2023.

  4. 2023

    Objaverse-XL, over 10 million objects

    Objaverse-XL, a dataset of over 10 million 3D objects that he co-authors, is listed as a NeurIPS 2023 poster.

  5. 2025

    Molmo and PixMo vision-language models

    He co-authors Molmo and PixMo, open-weights vision-language models presented as a CVPR 2025 oral.

  6. February 2026

    Asset work for MolmoSpaces

    In February 2026, MolmoSpaces, an open ecosystem for robot navigation and manipulation, credits him with asset conversion and physical parameter tuning.

  7. As of October 2026

    Paper writing for MolmoAct2

    He is credited with paper writing and figures for MolmoAct2, an action reasoning model paper from the Allen Institute for AI that is posted in May 2026.

Sources and credits

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  1. RoboTHOR: An Open Simulation-to-Real Embodied AI Platform openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. NeurIPS 2022 Awards neurips.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Allen School and AI2 researchers recognized at NeurIPS for outstanding contributions in large-scale embodied AI and next-generation image-text models news.cs.washington.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objects openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Objaverse-XL: A Universe of 10M+ 3D Objects arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. NeurIPS Poster Objaverse-XL: A Universe of 10M+ 3D Objects nips.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. CVPR Oral Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models cvpr.thecvf.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. MolmoSpaces: A Large-Scale Open Ecosystem for Robot Navigation and Manipulation arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-World Deployment arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.