Deepak Pathak
Deepak Pathak is the Raj Reddy Associate Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where he leads the LEAP lab focused on computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Skild AI, a Pittsburgh-based company developing a general-purpose AI foundation model for robotics. He is known for his research on curiosity-driven exploration, rapid motor adaptation for legged robots, and learning robot policies from large-scale video data. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley and his 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→“Robotics is a data problem. Unlike language or vision, there is not much data in robotics. There is no internet of robot data. So if that's the scenario, we cannot pick and choose which data we use.”
Source→“At Skild, we are building a general purpose brain. So we call this OmniBodied Intelligence. Any robot, any task, one brain.”
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