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.
“His ALOHA platform is the most popular low-cost bimanual teleoperation rig, but the paper explicitly critiques its unilateral nature”
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