Former Google Research Scientist Alex Toshev joins Wayve to lead General Robotics Intelligence
alexgkendall · x · 2026-08-19
Wayve announced that Alex Toshev has joined to lead the new General Robotics Intelligence Effort.
- Background: Alex Toshev was previously a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google, with deep expertise in robotic learning and computer vision (e.g., Spatial-Temporal Transformer).
- Goal: The new team will build on Wayve's foundation models, infrastructure, and decade of experience deploying AI with major OEMs to generalize its AI capabilities beyond autonomous driving into broader robotics.
- Vision: While autonomous driving remains the fastest path to scale frontier Embodied AI, this new initiative aims to explore fresh technical directions.
Wayve is currently hiring for this team.
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