Danny Driess

Researcher, Physical Intelliigence

Joined

May 2021

Names

Danny Driess (Preferred)

Emails

****@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de (Confirmed)

****@campus.tu-berlin.de (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Physical Intelliigence (physicalintelligence.company)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2023 – 2024

PhD student

Technische Universität Berlin (tu-berlin.de)

2021 – 2023

PhD student

Universität Stuttgart (uni-stuttgart.de)

2019 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Russ Tedrake

2020 – 2023

PhD Advisor

Marc Toussaint

2019 – 2023

Expertise

Large Language Models

Vision Language Models

2022 – Present

Neural Radiance Fields

Semantic Fields

2020 – Present

deep learning

transformers

diffusion models

2019 – Present

Robotics

Task and Motion Planning

Optimization

2016 – Present

Publications

Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better
Danny Driess, Jost Tobias Springenberg, brian ichter, LILI YU, Adrian Li-Bell, Karl Pertsch, Allen Z. Ren, Homer Walke, Quan Vuong, Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Sergey Levine
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Training Strategies for Efficient Embodied Reasoning
William Chen, Suneel Belkhale, Suvir Mirchandani, Karl Pertsch, Danny Driess, Oier Mees, Sergey Levine
- CoRL 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
$\pi_{0.5}$: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization
Kevin Black, Noah Brown, James Darpinian, Karan Dhabalia, Danny Driess, Adnan Esmail, Michael Robert Equi, Chelsea Finn, Niccolo Fusai, Manuel Y. Galliker, Dibya Ghosh, Lachy Groom, Karol Hausman, brian ichter, Szymon Jakubczak, Tim Jones, Liyiming Ke, Devin LeBlanc, Sergey Levine, Adrian Li-Bell et al. (15 additional authors not shown)
- CoRL 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models
Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, brian ichter, Michael Robert Equi, Liyiming Ke, Karl Pertsch, Quan Vuong, James Tanner, Anna Walling, Haohuan Wang, Niccolo Fusai, Adrian Li-Bell, Danny Driess, Lachy Groom, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Direct Motion Models for Assessing Generated Videos
Kelsey R Allen, Carl Doersch, Guangyao Zhou, Mohammed Suhail, Danny Driess, Ignacio Rocco, Yulia Rubanova, Thomas Kipf, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi, Kevin Patrick Murphy, Joao Carreira, Sjoerd van Steenkiste
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
RT-Affordance: Reasoning about Robotic Manipulation with Affordances
Soroush Nasiriany, Sean Kirmani, Tianli Ding, Laura Smith, Yuke Zhu, Danny Driess, Dorsa Sadigh, Ted Xiao
- CoRL 2024 Workshop MRM-D Poster
- Readers: Everyone
RT-Affordance: Affordances are Versatile Intermediate Representations for Robot Manipulation
Soroush Nasiriany, Sean Kirmani, Tianli Ding, Laura Smith, Yuke Zhu, Danny Driess, Dorsa Sadigh, Ted Xiao
- CoRL-X-Embodiment-WS 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Vid2Robot: End-to-end Video-conditioned Policy Learning with Cross-Attention Transformers
Vidhi Jain, Maria Attarian, Nikhil J Joshi, Ayzaan Wahid, Danny Driess, Quan Vuong, Pannag R Sanketi, Pierre Sermanet, Stefan Welker, Christine Chan, Igor Gilitschenski, Yonatan Bisk, Debidatta Dwibedi
- Robotics: Science and Systems 2024, Delft, Netherlands
- Readers: Everyone
Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
Yecheng Jason Ma, Joey Hejna, Chuyuan Fu, Dhruv Shah, Jacky Liang, Zhuo Xu, Sean Kirmani, Peng Xu, Danny Driess, Ted Xiao, Osbert Bastani, Dinesh Jayaraman, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang, Dorsa Sadigh, Fei Xia
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
ALOHA Unleashed: A Simple Recipe for Robot Dexterity
Tony Z. Zhao, Jonathan Tompson, Danny Driess, Pete Florence, Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Chelsea Finn, Ayzaan Wahid
- CoRL 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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