Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.
What if robots could dream inside a video generative model? Introducing DreamGen, a new engine that scales up robot learning not with fleets of human operators, but with digital dreams in pixels. DreamGen produces massive volumes of neural trajectories - photorealistic robot…
My bar for AGI is far simpler: an AI cooking a nice dinner at anyone’s house for any cuisine. The Physical Turing Test is very likely harder than the Nobel Prize. Moravec’s paradox will continue to haunt us, looming larger and darker, for the decade to come.
My bar for AGI is an AI winning a Nobel Prize for a new theory it originated.
I've been a bit quiet on X recently. The past year has been a transformational experience. Grok-4 and Kimi K2 are awesome, but the world of robotics is a wondrous wild west. It feels like NLP in 2018 when GPT-1 was published, along with BERT and a thousand other flowers that…
Attending CVPR at Nashville! Email or DM me. I’ll float around the venue like brownian motion. Recruiting!
The Physical Turing Test: your house is a complete mess after a Sunday hackathon. On Monday night, you come home to an immaculate living room and a candlelight dinner. And you couldn't tell whether a human or a machine had been there. Deceptively simple, insanely hard. It is the…
Some day in the next decade, we will have robots in every home, every hospital and factory, doing every dull and dangerous jobs with superhuman dexterity. That day will be known as “Thursday”. Not even Turing would dare to dream up our lifetime in his wildest dreams.
we crossed the turing test & no one gave a shit. no parades. no front page headlines. just… a casual shrug. like “oh yeah, the machines are smart enough to fool us now. anyway, what’s for lunch?” that silence tells you everything about the pace we’re moving at. back in my cs…
We got lots of great community feedback on our open-source GR00T N1! Check out our Github, star, fork, contribute back! Let's solve generally intelligent robots together, one commit at a time. github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-G…
Excited to announce GR00T N1, the world’s first open foundation model for humanoid robots! We are on a mission to democratize Physical AI. The power of general robot brain, in the palm of your hand - with only 2B parameters, N1 learns from the most diverse physical action dataset…
Agents in the world of bits (computer use) and world of atoms (robotics) are the future. Stephanie gives a great talk, check it out!
🔴Excited to share my TED AI talk! How we advance AI into an era of superintelligence, with true *practical* impact in our world. ❓I ask: For all the groundbreaking milestones we’ve reached, all the intelligence benchmarks we’ve shattered, for the $53B invested in generative…