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Teaching robots to learn for themselves

Pieter Abbeel — Berkeley professor pushing the frontier of robot learning. Key achievements:

  • Professor at UC Berkeley specialising in deep reinforcement learning
  • Co-founded Covariant, applying AI to industrial robotics
  • Co-founded Gradescope, later acquired by Turnitin
  • Advanced imitation learning and robot manipulation research
  • Mentored a generation of leading AI and robotics researchers

Read more: UC Berkeley faculty profile · Covariant — About

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