- Researcher, Physical Intelligence12
- PhD student, UC Berkeley1
Kevin Black is a researcher at Physical Intelligence and a PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Sergey Levine. He is a lead coauthor of π0, a vision-language-action flow model for general robot control, and coauthored Octo, BridgeData V2, and diffusion-model RL work including DDPO.123
At a glance
- Current roles
- Researcher +1 more
- Company
- Physical Intelligence
- Fields
- Robotics, Computer vision, Agents
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
π0 and robot policies
Physical Intelligence's π0 blog and paper credit Black with major roles in the VLA flow model combining pretrained vision-language models with flow matching for high-frequency robot control. His site also lists Octo and related open robot datasets and policies.213
Timeline
Where they work
- Physical Intelligence 5 people in the wiki
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026