# Yilun Du Gives Robots a Visual Imagination

- slug: yilun-du-gives-robots-a-visual-imagination
- date: 2026-03-26
- category: Robotics

What if a robot could watch a video of someone doing a task, imagine how to do it itself, and then just do it? That is the idea behind Large Video Planner, a new robot foundation model from researchers at Harvard's Kempner Institute, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

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