Jim Fan’s robotics work at Nvidia draws praise in a tribute post
A user singles out Fan’s strategy of combining internet-scale, simulation and real-world robot data, and describes him as a co-leader of Nvidia’s Project GR00T.
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A celebratory post describes Jim Fan as Nvidia’s director of AI, a co-founder of the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) Lab and a co-leader of Project GR00T. It describes GR00T as Nvidia’s flagship effort to build foundation models for humanoid robots. Alongside praising his approach to combining different sources of training data, the post says Nvidia used Eureka under his leadership to train a five-fingered robot hand to spin a pen.
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