Lerrel Pinto

Lerrel Pinto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University. His research interests include robot learning, robotic manipulation, reinforcement learning, and machine learning. Pinto is affiliated with Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), where he leads efforts in building frontier robotics models. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), which was acquired by Meta in May 2026. Pinto runs the General Robotics & AI Lab (GRAIL) at NYU, focusing on robot learning and the development of affordable, open-source robots. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Samsung AI researcher of the year award and the TR35.

Lerrel Pinto is a researcher at New York University with expertise in Robotics and Machine Learning. His work focuses on advancing robotic learning through self-supervised methods, data augmentation, and reinforcement learning. Pinto's research includes developing datasets and models for robotic learning, such as Open X-Embodiment and RT-X models. He explores techniques like asymmetric actor critic, behavior transformers, and self-supervised policy adaptation. His publications highlight the use of visual representations, predictive models, and adversarial reinforcement learning to improve robotic manipulation and control. Pinto's contributions emphasize the integration of open-knowledge models and the development of benchmarks for unsupervised reinforcement learning.