5 robotics accounts that are '6 months ahead': Jim Fan, Physical Intelligence founders lead the list
RemiCadene · x · 2026-10-01
@0xmeden lists five robotics accounts he calls '6 months ahead of the timeline':
- Jim Fan: NVIDIA's Director of Robotics, co-leads the lab behind GR00T, NVIDIA's open humanoid brain
- Chelsea Finn: Stanford professor and Physical Intelligence co-founder, teaches a free RL course
- Sergey Levine: Berkeley professor, PI co-founder, and one of the most-cited names in robot learning
- Tony Zhao: built ALOHA, then left a Stanford PhD to start Sunday Robotics
- Remi Cadene: started LeRobot at Hugging Face, now building robots on top of it at UMA
The author's pitch: follow all five and you'll never be surprised by a robot video again.
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