For decades, the biggest advances in robotics came out of university labs. Now, as billions pour into physical AI, the researchers behind that work are launching and joining startups.
The latest to recruit from academia is the German company Microagi. The startup has hired Animesh Garg, a Georgia Tech professor and former Nvidia researcher, as chief research officer, the company exclusively told Business Insider.
Garg will lead its work on post-training, adapting general-purpose robotics models into systems capable of performing specific tasks. He is bringing seven members of his research group with him through Microagi’s acquisition of a…
