Advisory Board

Twelve voices, one apprenticeship.

Marc Raibert

Founder, Boston Dynamics

Locomotion

“Engineering is asking 'what if?' and then building the answer.”

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Pieter Abbeel

Professor at UC Berkeley · Co-founder, Covariant

Robot Learning

“A robot that practices a thousand times will beat a robot that's told what to do.”

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Russ Tedrake

Professor at MIT · VP of Robotics, Toyota Research Institute

Control & Motion

“Smooth motion is a thousand quiet decisions per second.”

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Oussama Khatib

Professor at Stanford

Manipulation

“A great robot knows how hard not to grip.”

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Dieter Fox

Professor at UW · Senior Director, NVIDIA Robotics

Perception

“Detect like a scientist. Trust the data more than the guess.”

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Rodney Brooks

Founder, iRobot · Founder, Rethink Robotics

Useful Robot Design

“A robot is only as good as the problem it actually solves.”

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Sebastian Thrun

Founder, Google X · Founder, Udacity

Autonomy

“An autonomous robot makes the next decision before you ask.”

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Sergey Levine

Professor at UC Berkeley

Foundation Models for Robots

“One brain. Many bodies. Practice everywhere.”

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Siddhartha Srinivasa

Professor at UW · Director, Personal Robotics Lab

Assistive Manipulation

“Design for the one person who needs the help most.”

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Fei-Fei Li

Professor at Stanford · Co-founder, AI4ALL

Computer Vision

“Teach the machine the world, and the machine will teach you back.”

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Gill Pratt

CEO, Toyota Research Institute

Industrial Robotics

“Ship a robot that works on Tuesday. Then make it better on Wednesday.”

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Jitendra Malik

Professor at UC Berkeley

Scene Understanding

“See like a whole brain, not a single pixel.”

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