Covariant

“Peter Abbeel should be one of the earliest pioneer professors to apply machine learning to robotics. He's now at Berkeley and also simultaneously leads Amazon's research division... He and Sergey, you could say, are the people who really developed and spread reinforcement learning in machine learning for robotics.”

“The competitive landscape affected includes any company building multi-task diffusion policy systems for manipulation (Covariant, Physical Intelligence, Figure, Apptronik) or autonomous flight (Skydio, Joby, Shield AI).”