Born out of research
Founded by the pioneers of modern AI
Covariant began in a UC Berkeley lab with the world’s premiere researchers, whose work gave rise to modern AI. From our founding to today, we’re committed to applying cutting-edge research to building AI Robotic systems. Warehouse operations is just the beginning.
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Covariant's deep bench of renowned research scientists develops breakthrough technologies that solve the toughest challenges in warehouse automation. With new and novel research applied to practical solutions, our work sets a new standard for the industry.
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Spotlight: Giving robots human-like reasoning capabilities
Our approach of combining the largest and most comprehensive real-world robot dataset and a vast collection of internet data is unlocking new levels of flexibility and reliability in warehouse operations — while opening the door to broader industry applications and robotic form factors.
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Google Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Google Health
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Sequoia Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
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Emeritus Prof. Comp Sci, U.Toronto & Engineering Fellow, Google
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VP and Chief AI Scientist, Facebook
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Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, EECS, Berkeley
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Director of the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
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Executive Vice President, Chief Scientist at Salesforce
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Professor, EECS, Berkeley
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Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
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Associate Professor, EECS, Berkeley
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Professor Emeritus, Professor in the Graduate School, EECS
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Professor, University of Toronto; Founder & CEO, Waabi; Co-Founder, the Vector Institute for AI
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Professor, Computer Science, Berkeley
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Founding Co-Director, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), Berkeley Deep Drive (BDD), & BAIR Commons