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Our mission is to enable embodied AI agents to perform long-horizon tasks in home environments while seamlessly interacting with humans... Future artificial intelligence (AI) assistive robots will need to autonomously accomplish household tasks and naturally interact with humans. Research in AI and robotics has accomplished significant results in mobile robot navigation and in fixed base manipulation, but is still limited to specific installations and specialized to single tasks. We believe it is time to build on these significant progresses to finally achieve the vision of embodied AI systems that support humans in everyday tasks. Mobile manipulator robots are the most promising candidates for this role, as they combine the advantages of mobile platforms and manipulator arms. Current approaches in mobile manipulation propose solutions for semi-structured settings and repetitive scenarios, but lack intelligent behavior for generalizing to various problems, and for addressing the..