Community vote crowns Physical Intelligence as the robotics lab with top talent density
ZeYanjie · x · 2026-09-25
A community poll asked which robotics labs and startups have the highest talent density. Results: Physical Intelligence led with 28 votes (Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn et al.), followed by Generalist at 18 (Pete Florence, Andrew Barry), Sunday 9, Skild AI 6, and Dyna 4. Bracket Bot and OpenAI Robotics got 3 votes each, while 1X, The Bot Company, Figure, Genesis, Prometheus (including Jeff Bezos and Alex Graves), and Tesla received 2 votes apiece — a snapshot of where top embodied-AI talent is concentrated.
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