Pieter Abbeel — Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-founder, Covariant; Pioneer in Robot Learning

**Pieter Abbeel** is a professor at the **University of California, Berkeley**, the Director of the **Berkeley Robot Learning Lab**, and the co-founder of **Covariant** (AI for robotic manipulation). He is one of the most influential researchers in the field of robot learning — teaching robots to learn from demonstration, reinforcement learning, and large-scale data rather than being explicitly programmed.