Karol Hausman
Karol Hausman is the co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence, a robotics company developing foundation models for general-purpose robot control. He previously served as a Staff Research Scientist and Robot Manipulation Lead at Google Brain and is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, where he teaches deep reinforcement learning. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and is known for his research on deep robotic learning and foundation models for robot decision making.
“Physical Intelligence (Pi / π)... Founded by Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, and Karl Hausman ~March 2024. Valued at over $5 billion within two years.”
Source→“Karl manages many of the company's infrastructure things... Karl is mainly responsible for this. You can think of our company having a very large portion of work that is research, but also a very large portion that is ensuring this research can be carried out efficiently and quickly.”
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