Tony Z. Zhao

Tony Z. Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Sunday Robotics (sunday.ai). He is best known for creating ALOHA, a low-cost open-source bimanual teleoperation system, and the ACT (Action Chunking with Transformers) imitation learning algorithm, both developed during his PhD research at Stanford University under Chelsea Finn. He previously worked as a student researcher at Google DeepMind and interned at Tesla Autopilot and Google X Intrinsic before leaving his Stanford PhD program to found Sunday Robotics.