microagi hires robotics researcher Animesh Garg as Chief Research Officer
k7agar · x · 2026-09-30
microagi announced Animesh Garg as its new Chief Research Officer, with the Usable Robots team joining him. The company argues frontier AI works, hardware is cheap, and robot data collection is scaling — what's missing is post-training: teaching general-purpose models one specific job in one environment until companies can depend on them, a layer that barely exists in robotics.
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