# Brian Ichter

> Brian Ichter is a co-founder of Physical Intelligence and a robotics researcher whose work spans motion planning at Stanford, language-guided robots at Google Brain and DeepMind, and generalist robot models at Physical Intelligence.

- **Role:** Co-founder at Physical Intelligence
- **Organizations:** Physical Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Google Brain, Stanford University
- **Education:** BS in Aerospace Engineering and BA in Physics, University of Virginia, MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Received the NDSEG Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, according to his Stanford lab profile., Co-authored PaLM-SayCan research and a Google Research article explaining language grounding for robots., Contributed to the RT-1 and PaLM-E robotics research projects at Google.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Completed undergraduate degrees in aerospace engineering and physics at the University of Virginia.
- **2015** — Completed an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University.
- **2018** — Completed a Stanford PhD on robust and real-time robot motion planning.
- **2018-2024** — Worked as a research scientist at Google Brain and Google DeepMind.
- **2022** — Co-authored Google Research’s explanation of PaLM-SayCan, which grounded language suggestions in robotic affordances.
- **2024** — Co-founded Physical Intelligence and contributed to its first generalist robot policy, π0.
- **2025** — Co-authored Physical Intelligence research on open-world generalization and efficient robot action tokenization.
- **2026** — Appeared among the authors of work on robot memory and the π0.7 steerable model.

## Achievements

- Received the NDSEG Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, according to his Stanford lab profile.
- Co-authored PaLM-SayCan research and a Google Research article explaining language grounding for robots.
- Contributed to the RT-1 and PaLM-E robotics research projects at Google.
- Co-founded Physical Intelligence in 2024 and co-authored its π0, π0.5 and π0.7 research.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Listed as a co-author of Physical Intelligence’s π0.7 steerable generalist robotic model.
- **2026-03** — Co-authored Physical Intelligence research on long- and short-term memory for robot policies.
- **2025-11** — Listed among the authors of π*0.6, a vision-language-action model that learns from experience.

## Links

- Website: https://brianichter.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-ichter-26875978/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/brian_ichter
- GitHub: https://github.com/brianichter/

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Last updated: 2026-09-29