# Quan Vuong

> Quan Vuong is a robotics researcher and co-founder of Physical Intelligence. His work from UC San Diego through Google DeepMind and Open X-Embodiment to Physical Intelligence centers on a difficult idea: robot experience should transfer across machines, tasks, and environments.

- **Role:** Co-founder at Physical Intelligence
- **Organizations:** Physical Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Google Brain, Google Research, Microsoft Research, University of California San Diego
- **Education:** PhD research in robotics, computer vision, and deep reinforcement learning, University of California San Diego
- **Known for:** Co-authored Open X-Embodiment research on robot learning across 22 robot types., Co-authored work on RT-1, RT-2, and Physical Intelligence’s π0 model., Undergraduate smart driving assistant team won a UAE national student innovation competition and a $250,000 prize.

## Career timeline

- **Undergraduate years** — Worked on a smart driving assistant whose team won a UAE national student innovation competition.
- **2019** — Research internship at Microsoft Research.
- **2020** — Research internship at Google Research; received a $20,000 Microsoft Azure credits research grant.
- **2021** — Research internship with the Google Brain robotics team.
- **2023** — Co-authored Open X-Embodiment and RT-X research with a 21-institution collaboration spanning 22 robot types.
- **2024** — Co-founded Physical Intelligence.
- **2026-04** — Discussed general robot models and cloud inference on Y Combinator’s The Lightcone.

## Achievements

- Co-authored Open X-Embodiment research on robot learning across 22 robot types.
- Co-authored work on RT-1, RT-2, and Physical Intelligence’s π0 model.
- Undergraduate smart driving assistant team won a UAE national student innovation competition and a $250,000 prize.
- Received a $20,000 Microsoft Azure credits research grant in 2020.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Appeared on Y Combinator’s The Lightcone to discuss Physical Intelligence, robotics data, and cloud-run models.
- **2026-04** — Physical Intelligence published its π0.7 model; Vuong spoke about it at an ETH Zurich robot-learning session.
- **2026-02** — Physical Intelligence described partner deployments of its models for laundry folding and warehouse order packing.

## Links

- Website: https://quanvuong.github.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quan-vuong-0a4a6460
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/QuanVng
- GitHub: https://github.com/quanvuong

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Last updated: 2026-09-29