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Pieter Abbeel
Co-founder of Covariant and professor at UC Berkeley; joined Amazon in August 2024 when Amazon licensed Covariant's models and hired several of its founders. PhD from Stanford.
Belgian · 2 current roles · 1 founding
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- Joined via Covariant license-and-hire (2024)
Amazon is the largest deployer of physical-AI robotics in the world by fleet count, with more than 1 million robots deployed across its global fulfillment netwo
- Co-Founder; President and Chief Scientist
AI robotics company based in [Emeryville, CA](/companies/embodied-intelligence), developing foundation models for robot control.
- Founder
Robotics-AI company (Berkeley area; founded 2017) behind RFM-1, a robotics [Foundation](/companies/foundation) model that powered warehouse pick-and-place robot
Series C extension · $75M
Current roles (2)
- Amazon Joined via Covariant license-and-hire (2024)Secondary-verified
- Embodied Intelligence Co-Founder; President and Chief ScientistSecondary-verified
Foundings (1)
- Covariantfounded 2017-01-01cofounderno longer at company
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Co-founders (3)
- Peter Chen co-founded Covariant2017-01-01
- Rocky Duan co-founded Covariant2017-01-01
- Tianhao Zhang co-founded Covariant2017-01-01
Former / Previously (1)
- Covariant Co-founderSecondary-verified
Education (1)
- Stanford University PhD, Computer Science
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People (3)
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