Karol Hausman
Co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence, previously at Google, where he co-authored RT-1, SayCan, and Code as Policies.
Physical Intelligence · United States
- Rank
- #149
- Score
- 37.7
- Citations
- 7,453
- h-index
- 32
- Robotics papers 2023–2025
- 7
Source: OpenAlex author record, as of 2026-10-19. How we rank
About
Karol Hausman co-authored RT-1, SayCan, and Code as Policies at Google, early work on using large models to control real robots. He co-founded Physical Intelligence, which builds general-purpose robot foundation models.
Representative work
Selected highly cited papers, linked to their publisher or arXiv versions:
- RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale (2023)
- Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control (2023)
- Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances (2022)
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Who is Karol Hausman?
Karol Hausman is the co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence, previously at Google, where he co-authored RT-1, SayCan, and Code as Policies.







