Dieter Fox
UW Allen School professor who leads Ai2's Robotics team; started NVIDIA's robotics research lab in 2017
- Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; head of the RSE-Lab, University of Washington12
- Leads Ai2's Robotics team, Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)341
Dieter Fox is a Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where Fox heads the Robotics and State Estimation Lab (RSE-Lab), and now shares time between UW and Ai2, whose Robotics team Fox leads. Fox's research covers robotics, artificial intelligence and state estimation, with much of it on perception and its connection to control. In 2017 Fox joined NVIDIA Research to start a robotics research lab aimed at robots that manipulate the physical world and interact naturally with people. Fox is a co-author of NVIDIA's 2025 GR00T N1 and Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform papers, and is a Fellow of the AAAI, ACM and IEEE.123567
Work
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1Published research
Listed among the authors of "GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots" (March 2025).6
NVIDIA CosmosOpen weights
Listed among the authors of "Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI" (January 2025), whose abstract states that Cosmos is open-source with open-weight models under permissive licenses.7
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