Abhinav Gupta
Abhinav Gupta is the Co-founder and President of Skild AI, a robotics company building general-purpose robotic intelligence, and a professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his research in scaling visual and robot learning, self-supervised learning, and lifelong learning systems. He previously served as a research manager and lead at Facebook AI Research, where he founded the Pittsburgh research lab and established the FAIR robotics group. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BTech from IIT Kanpur.
“Skild is also hardware-agnostic, but they have more exploration of legged humanoids and quadrupeds. Both Pi and Skild have pretty similar slogans — they want to make a universal foundation model brain for embodied intelligence.”
Source→“Deepak is more classified as one of the famous scholars doing reinforcement learning... he and Abhinav now jointly founded Skild, also a very influential robotics company in Silicon Valley, also doing embodied intelligence brain.”
Source→“Language also before this whole came in was very verticalized. There were some different companies building chatbots. There were different companies building search engines. But once LLM came in, they became the horizontal platform. And now everyone is building on top of that horizontal LLM platform. That is exactly how we are now thinking about robotics.”
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