- Member of technical staff, Physical Intelligence1
Karl Pertsch is a member of technical staff at Physical Intelligence working on robot foundation models. He was a postdoc at UC Berkeley and Stanford with Sergey Levine and Chelsea Finn after a PhD at USC. He co-led Open X-Embodiment and coauthored OpenVLA, Octo, DROID, and related generalist robot policy work.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Member of technical staff
- Company
- Physical Intelligence
- Fields
- Robotics, Computer vision, Agents
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Robot foundation models
Pertsch's homepage lists OpenVLA, Octo, DROID, Open X-Embodiment, FAST action tokenization, and RoboArena among projects aimed at diverse datasets, large robot policies, and scalable real-world evaluation.123
Timeline
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
- Postdoc (former), UC Berkeley1
Where they work
- Physical Intelligence 5 people in the wiki
Related people
- Kevin BlackAlso at Physical Intelligence
- Karol HausmanAlso at Physical Intelligence
- Chelsea FinnAlso at Physical Intelligence
- Brian IchterAlso at Physical Intelligence
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- Jim FanRobotics · Agents
- Moo Jin KimRobotics · Computer vision
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026