Physical Intelligence

robotics · San Francisco, US · physicalintelligence.company

Builds general-purpose software to power many types of robots.

Founders

Karol Hausman (Poland · ♂) — A robot-learning researcher who spent over a decade at Google DeepMind and Stanford on transferable robot skills, then co-founded Physical Intelligence in 2024 as CEO to build foundation models for the physical world.
Sergey Levine (United States · ♂) — A leading deep-reinforcement-learning professor at UC Berkeley whose lab pioneered robotic manipulation methods, joining Physical Intelligence as co-founder and Chief Scientist.
Chelsea Finn (United States · ♀) — A Stanford professor known for meta-learning and robot learning research who co-founded Physical Intelligence to build general-purpose robot foundation models.
Brian Ichter (United States · ♂) — A DeepMind robotics research scientist who co-founded Physical Intelligence in 2024 to build hardware-agnostic robot intelligence.
Lachy Groom (Australia · ♂) — A former early Stripe executive turned investor who co-founded and helped finance Physical Intelligence to commercialize robot foundation models.
Adnan Esmail (United States · ♂) — Co-founded Physical Intelligence in 2024 as part of the founding team building AI software for general-purpose robots.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Nov 2024	Funding round San Francisco-based Physical Intelligence raised 400M USD at a 2B USD valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital and Lux Capital, to build cross-robot software.	$400M

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