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Jake Bruce is an artificial intelligence researcher whose work spans robotics, reinforcement learning, and embodied AI. He is perhaps best known as a co-author of "A Generalist Agent" (2022, 66 citations), which introduced Gato — DeepMind's landmark multi-modal, multi-task generalist policy capable of performing hundreds of diverse tasks within a single network, representing a significant milestone in the pursuit of general-purpose AI systems. His broader research consistently tackles one of robotics' most persistent challenges: enabling agents to learn effective navigation and interaction policies without prohibitive real-world data collection, as demonstrated in his work on one-shot reinforcement learning and kilometer-scale deployable navigation policies. Bruce also made early contributions to vision-and-language navigation, helping bridge natural language instruction-following with real-world robotic environments (62 citations). His human-robot interaction research — including gesture-based UAV control and robust multimodal sensor fusion in crowds — reflects a commitment to making autonomous systems genuinely responsive to uninstrumented humans. Additional work on training stability through "Ctrl-Z" and sim-to-real transfer underscores his attention to the practical safety and reliability demands of deploying learned policies beyond the laboratory.