BotsGenius
ENNL
← Back to all companies
United StatesResearch labsResearch only

UC Berkeley

A world-leading hub for robot learning and embodied AI

UC Berkeley's Berkeley AI Research lab (BAIR) is one of the most influential robot-learning groups in the world and forms part of the research lineage behind Physical Intelligence, a leading humanoid-robotics startup.

BAIR has been at the forefront of combining deep learning with robotic manipulation, locomotion, and multi-task generalization — capabilities central to the next generation of humanoid robots. Researchers at Berkeley have pioneered imitation learning, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and scalable robot-learning frameworks that are now widely adopted across the field. UC Berkeley's culture of open publication and spin-out formation has seeded multiple influential robotics companies, most notably Physical Intelligence. The lab's ongoing work on robot foundation models and dexterous manipulation continues to set the research agenda for humanoid systems worldwide.