From Tesla Optimus to Anthropic. Bingjie Tang has joined Anthropic as a Member of Technical Staff. At Tesla, she worked on dexterous manipulation for the Optimus humanoid robot, covering data collection, policy training, evaluation, and real-world deployment. Before that, three years at NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab with Yashraj Narang and Dieter Fox. Her research focused on contact-rich manipulation and sim-to-real transfer. A few of her projects: • IndustReal (RSS '23): Transferring contact-rich assembly skills from simulation to the real world. • AutoMate (RSS '24): A dataset of 100 assemblies, with specialist and generalist policies that transfer from simulation to real robots. • SRSA (ICLR '25 Spotlight): Retrieving and adapting existing robotic skills for new assembly tasks. Her academic path: HUST (BS) → Brown (MS) → USC (PhD), advised by Gaurav Sukhatme.