- Co-founder and CTO, Persona AI since 202423
Jerry Pratt is co-founder and CTO of Persona AI, a commercial humanoid robotics startup. He previously served as CTO of Figure AI after roughly two decades at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), where his team finished second in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. IEEE Spectrum and TechCrunch cover his move with Nic Radford from Figure to Persona.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and CTO
- Company
- Persona AI
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
IHMC and DARPA Robotics Challenge
Pratt's IHMC page documents long-running leadership of humanoid robotics research, including the team that placed second in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals with the Running Man / Atlas-class platforms.1
Figure and Persona AI
TechCrunch reported Pratt joining Figure as CTO to help develop its humanoid robots, then leaving in 2024 with Nic Radford to found Persona AI, where he is CTO focused on industrial humanoids.23
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Other documented roles
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Where they work
- Persona AI 1 person in the wiki
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026