Introducing the key researchers, engineers, and founders leading the Physical AI field.
People
Chelsea Finn
Stanford Professor, Physical Intelligence Co-founder. Revolutionized few-shot learning with MAML, democratized robot learning with ACT/ALOHA.
Cheng Chi
Stanford PhD, Diffusion Policy First Author. Developed UMI and 3D Diffusion Policy.
Fei-Fei Li
Stanford Professor, ImageNet Creator, World Labs Founder. The godmother of computer vision.
Jim Fan
NVIDIA Senior Research Manager, GEAR Lab Co-Lead. Leading Voyager, Eureka, and GR00T research.
Karol Hausman
Physical Intelligence Co-founder, Former Google DeepMind. Led RT series, SayCan, PaLM-E.
Pete Florence
Physical Intelligence Co-founder, Former Google DeepMind. Developed Dense Object Nets.
Pieter Abbeel
UC Berkeley Professor, Covariant Founder. Pioneer of robot RL, advisor to Chelsea Finn/Sergey Levine.
Sergey Levine
UC Berkeley Professor, Physical Intelligence Co-founder. Developed SAC, key role in RT series, led OpenVLA/Octo.
Shuran Song
Stanford Professor, Diffusion Policy Creator. Innovated universal data collection with UMI.
Tony Zhao
Physical Intelligence, Former Stanford PhD. First author of ACT, designer of ALOHA/Mobile ALOHA.
Vincent Vanhoucke
Google DeepMind Distinguished Scientist, Robotics Lead. Oversaw RT series and Gemini Robotics development.
Yuke Zhu
UT Austin Associate Professor, NVIDIA GEAR Lab Co-Lead. Leads GR00T project, developed robosuite/MimicGen/RoboCasa.