person
Sergey Levine
UC Berkeley; robot learning, deep RL
UC Berkeley professor whose group has produced foundational work on robot learning, offline RL, and, since 2023, generalist robot foundation models like RT-2 and Open X-Embodiment.
current Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley
Strategy positions
Accelerationmixed
Build faster; delay costs more than capabilityArgues physical-world robotics is the bottleneck to general AI usefulness; less explicit on x-risk strategy but views capability progress as the priority.
If we want machines that can do useful things in the physical world, we need to scale up real-world data and self-supervision. Internet text gets you far, but not into a kitchen.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.