Genki Sano
Genki Sano is the Co-founder and CTO of Telexistence Inc., a Tokyo-based AI robotics company he helped establish in 2017 to commercialize telexistence technology originated by Professor Susumi Tachi of the University of Tokyo. He leads end-to-end development across the full robotics stack, from hardware and control to autonomy software, with a recent focus on building robotics foundation models and Vision-Language-Action systems for real-world retail deployment. He also serves as a board member of the AI Robot Association (AIRoA) and was previously an engineer at Sony Corporation.
“A deceptively simple fix — redefining a robot's starting position as 'zero' at the beginning of each episode — delivers a 15x improvement in task success rates over standard absolute state encoding”
Source→“Genki Sano... Senior author and appears on both this paper and FTACT. Likely leads the Foundation Model Division's applied research agenda.”
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