Pete
Wurman
Profile
Pete received his undergraduate degree from MIT in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He spent 6 years as a professor at North Carolina State University before leaving in 2004 to help co-found Kiva Systems, the company that pioneered mobile robots in warehousing. Kiva was acquired by Amazon in 2012 and has deployed hundreds of thousands of robots to Amazon warehouses around the world. For their invention, Pete and his co-founders were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022. While at Amazon, Pete also founded the Amazon Picking Challenge. Pete has over 50 academic papers and 60 patents, and is an IEEE Fellow and AAAI Fellow.
Message
“Throughout my career I've chased challenges at the intersection of AI and real-world applications. For the last 15 years, I've enjoyed building amazing teams of talented people. I take pride in creating a work environment that is fun, productive, and inclusive. At Sony AI, we've hired a fantastic team and are well on our way to building a world class industrial AI research lab.”
Publications
The ability to approach the same problem from different angles is a cornerstone of human intelligence that leads to robust solutions and effective adaptation to problem variations. In contrast, current RL methodologies tend to lead to policies that settle on a single solutio…
Racing autonomous cars faster than the best human drivers has been a longstanding grand challenge for the fields of Artificial Intelligence and robotics. Recently, an end-to-end deep reinforcement learning agent met this challenge in a high-fidelity racing simulator, Gran Tu…
Many potential applications of artificial intelligence involve making real-time decisions in physical systems while interacting with humans. Automobile racing represents an extreme example of these conditions; drivers must execute complex tactical manoeuvres to pass or block…
The year 2020 saw the covid-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history. As a result, governments around the world have been faced with the challenge of protecting public health while keeping the economy running to the greatest extent possible. Epidemiologi…
It has been recently demonstrated that Temporal Convolution Networks (TCNs) provide state-of-the-art results in many problem domains where the input data is a time-series. TCNs typically incorporate information from a long history of inputs (the receptive field) into a singl…
The year 2020 has seen the COVID-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history. As a result, governments around the world are faced with the challenge of protecting public health, while keeping the economy running to the greatest extent possible. Epidemiologi…
Blog
December 5, 2023 | Game AI
RPOSST: Testing an AI Agent for Deployment in the Real World
Bleary-eyed engineers know the anxiety that comes with a deployment, and the importance of testing every aspect of a product before it goes to the “real world.” Will the response time be fast enough? Is there a combination of user…
Bleary-eyed engineers know the anxiety that comes with a deployment, and the importance of testing every aspect of a product befor…
June 14, 2022 | Gaming | GT Sophy
Peeking Under the Hood of GT Sophy
In early 2020, the incredible research and engineering team at Sony AI set out to do something that had never been done before: create an AI agent that could beat the best drivers in the world at the PlayStation® 4 game Gran Turis…
In early 2020, the incredible research and engineering team at Sony AI set out to do something that had never been done before: cr…
News
July 22, 2022 | Press Release
Sony AI’s Pete Wurman to Deliver Keynote at IJCAI on Training the World’s Best G…
Tokyo, Japan – July 22, 2022 -- Sony AI, a leader in human-centric artificial intelligence (AI) established with the mission to unleash human imagination and creativity with AI, t…
May 6, 2022 | Press Release
Sony AI’s Peter Wurman Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Tokyo, Japan — May 6, 2022 — Peter Wurman, Director, Sony AI America, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF). During the 2022 National Inventors Hall of …
February 21, 2022 | Press Release
Sony AI’s Peter Wurman Named 2022 Fellow by the Association for the Advancement …
Tokyo, Japan – February 21, 2022 -- Peter Wurman, Director, Sony AI America, has been named a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Peter…
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