Ex-Google Brain robotics veteran opens DMs as frontier labs and VCs pile into robotics
shaneguML · x · 2026-09-17
Researcher Shan Gu, a founding intern at Google Brain Robotics who co-led a robot dexterity moonshot in 2019 and won Best Paper at CoRL 2019, says he's happy to offer alternative perspectives as frontier lab folks, VCs, and startups rush into robotics. He cites his MuJoCo/Brax background and angel investments in Sunday/Eka, with DMs open.
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