Pieter Abbeel is Professor and Director of the Robot Learning Lab at UC Berkeley [2008], Co-Director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, Co-Founder of covariant.ai [2017], Co-Founder of Gradescope [2014], Advisor to OpenAI, Investment Partner at AIX Ventures, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machine learning and robotics. In particular his research focuses on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning), how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning), and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation.
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Seed stage venture firm led by the world's foremost thought leaders in AI with a mission to fund generations of AI-focused entrepreneurs. They invest in companies where AI is a core component and are looking for an amazing founding team who has insight on how to disrupt an industry with signs of product-market fit for their initial product, including revenue traction.
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