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▶ 16:25 · $WEAVE · The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
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The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here

2026-04-16 · 3 company · 4 thematic
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qiong wang

Co-founder of Physical Intelligence (Pi), a robotics AI lab building general-purpose foundation models for cross-embodiment robot control. Previously worked on robotics at Google (RT-2, Palm-E, Open X-Embodiment). Leads a 6-person founding team including Brian, Chelsea, Sergey, Lucky, and Adnan.

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“What you're seeing in this video is a system that we built together folding really diverse item of laundry in a real laundromat in the mission. You can see, you know, people walking outside. And why this task is difficult is because there'…”
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