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Pierre Sermanet
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), developing latent world models for humanoid robots. Formerly Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (2014-2025) and founding member of Google Brain Robotics team (2016). PhD with Yann LeCun at NYU (2013); co-authored GoogLeNet/Inception (CVPR 2015 prize), RT-2, PaLM-E, SayCan, and the ASIMOV robot safety benchmark. 100k+ Google Scholar citations.
French · 1 current role
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- Co-Founder & CSO
UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant) is a Paris-based humanoid robotics startup founded in 2025 by former Tesla Autopilot/Optimus engineer Rémi Cadène, Google D
Seed · $40M1 model - Former Founding Member, Robotics Team
AI research lab and subsidiary of Alphabet, headquartered in London with major presence in Mountain View, California.
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- UMA Co-Founder & CSOSecondary-verified
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- Google DeepMind Founding Member, Robotics TeamSecondary-verified
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