Co-Founder and CTO at Vayu Robotics; Machine Learning for Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Cupertino, CA
Joined October 2009
Nitish Srivastava retweeted
I’ve been asked several times whether Zhilin Yang, the founder of @Kimi_Moonshot was my PhD student. The answer is yes and he is absolutely brilliant. But I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with so many outstanding PhD students over the years. So I thought I’d brag a little about them and their career paths (of course there are also many MSc and undergraduate students, sorry if I missed anyone): Founders / Founding Team Members Devendra Chaplot @dchaplot PhD, Founding Member Thinking Machines / Mistral Zhilin Yang PhD, Founder & CEO, Moonshot AI Jimmy Ba @jimmybajimmyba MSc/PhD, Co-founder xAI Hubert Tsai PhD, Co-founder Spuree, Apple Nitish Srivastava @nitishsr PhD, Co-founder Perceptual Machines; Co-founder Vayu Robotics Charlie Tang PhD, Co-founder Perceptual Machines, DE Shaw. Professors Paul Liang @pliang279 PhD, MIT Ben Eysenbach @ben_eysenbach PhD, Princeton University Ruosong Wang @RuosongW PhD, Peking University Bhuwan Dhingra @bhuwandhingra PhD, Duke University Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Postdoc, University of Toronto Alexander Schwing Postdoc, UIUC Research Scientists Shuyan Zhou @shuyanzh36, Postdoc, Meta Superintelligence Lab Tiffany Min @SoYeonTiffMin PhD, Microsoft AI Murtaza Dalal @mihdalal PhD, Tesla AI Minji Yoon @MinjiYoon90 , PhD, Microsoft AI Shrimai Prabhumoye PhD, NVIDIA AI, Mistral Haitian Sun @sun_haitian PhD, Google DeepMind Emilio Parisotto PhD, Google DeepMind Lisa Lee PhD @rl_agent, Google DeepMind Manzil Zaheer @ManzilZaheer PhD, Google DeepMind Jamie Kiros PhD, Google Brain, OpenAI Yuri Burda PhD, OpenAI, Anthropic Cody Severinski PhD, Amazon
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Nitish Srivastava retweeted
Big news: We've acquired @VayuRobotics! Vayu’s team of visionary engineers, researchers, and business leaders join Serve with decades of experience developing and commercializing advanced technologies in vehicles and robotics. Full announcement: serverobotics.gcs-web.com/ne…
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Excited to announce that Vayu Robotics is joining Serve Robotics! Special shoutout to our co-founders Anand Gopalan, Mahesh Krishnamurthi, Nitish Srivastava, and our incredible team—you made this possible.
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We chatted with @TechCrunch about our approach to delivery robotics. With support from investors like @khoslaventures we have solved the problems that have plagued delivery robotics and created a solution that can be deployed at scale. techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/fo…
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“The Vayu solution is intended to be a sort of Goldilocks solution for delivery needs: just the right size." @johnkoetsier at @Forbes forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsie…
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“The company stands out with its unique approach. They’ve tapped the power of foundation models to create a delivery system that can navigate autonomously in any environment - without using the complex and expensive tech stack normally required.” - @VentureBeat
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📰 🎉 #VayuRobotics has been named to the 2024 @CBinsights #AI 100 list in recognition of our novel tech developing AI foundation models for mobility & #robotics. We are honored to be on this list of esteemed companies. Congratulations, Team Vayu! vayurobotics.com/press-relea…
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🤖 Attending #MODEX2024? Don't miss hearing from @nitishsr this Wed on a panel with @NVIDIAAI discussing #ai and #lastmiledelivery. See you there! For more info on the session: lnkd.in/gm-nt84c #robotics #ai #lastmiledelivery #materialhandling
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Nitish Srivastava retweeted
Today is the day! CEO Anand Gopalan will be presenting at #ces2024 at the DriveU.auto booth. Come learn about Vayu and our novel approach to autonomous mobility! Today at 1:00 pm West Hall, Booth 3073 #robotics #ai #vayurobotics
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Good morning, #CES2024 ! We’re ready for another great day of demos and networking! #robotics #ai #vayurobotics
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Hello #ces2024! We are excited for a week of meetings and demos with media and customers! #robotics #ai #autonomousmobility
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Congratulations on the new direction. Exciting times!
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📰📣 Big news! #VayuRobotics has closed seed funding led by @khoslaventures + @LockheedMartin Ventures, enabling us to scale product development for #AI #robotics across many markets. Congrats to the Vayu team! vayurobotics.com/press-relea… #artificialintelligence #machinelearning
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Our robot was trained to follow lanes in simulation and was adapted to the real world using only a handful of real world images. Just camera inputs and neural nets for perception and planning. No LiDAR, HD maps, or precise localization needed. youtu.be/JehEWq3EQJQ
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Thrilled to announce a new program designed to help experts in applied fields build ML-powered products and experiences. Introducing the AI/ML residency program: machinelearning.apple.com/up…
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I'm incredibly proud to introduce Apple Scholars: PhD Fellowships in AI and Machine Learning! Congratulations to our first class of awardees. Also, check out the snazzy new website to see Apple's publications and other updates in the research sphere machinelearning.apple.com/up…
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New work on Geometric Capsules: Learning to group 3D points into parts & parts into the whole object in unsupervised way. Each capsule represents a visual entity consisting of a pose & feature representing "where" & ''what'' it is. arxiv.org/abs/1912.03310 w/t @nitishsr & @Hanlin
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