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Karol Hausman
Physical IntelligenceCo-founder and CEO
Hausman helped connect language AI with real-world robot control. He co-developed SayCan, which turns everyday requests into tasks a robot can carry out,[1] and co-authored RT-2, which lets robots draw on knowledge learned from web text and images.[2] He co-founded Physical Intelligence to build AI that works across robots and tasks.
Career & education
Current rolePhysical IntelligenceMar 2024-presentCo-founder and CEO
Physical IntelligenceMar 2024-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2023-2024Staff Research Scientist
Google Brain2018-2023Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2023-2024Google Brain2018-2023Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations50,259As of Oct 26, '26
citations+13,442Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
References
- SayCan: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordancessay-can.github.io
Hausman and his co-authors show how a language model can plan a task by choosing among skills the robot already knows.
- RT-2: Translating vision and language into actiondeepmind.google
Google DeepMind describes how RT-2 uses learning from web images and text to guide robot actions.
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