Dieter Fox

Dieter Fox is a roboticist who serves as a Senior Research Director at the Allen Institute for AI, where he leads a robotics effort focused on advancing real-world robots using foundation models and simulation. He is also a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where he heads the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab. He is best known for his contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, including co-authoring the textbook Probabilistic Robotics and his work on projects such as NVIDIA's GR00T N1 foundation model for generalist humanoid robots.