Karl Pertsch

Google (United States), Institute of Occupational Medicine, University of Southern California, Berkeley College

Papers

24

Total Citations

1,348

H-Index

13

About

No biography available yet.

Research Focus

Robot19 · 1,240 citations
Computer science21 · 1,191 citations
Artificial intelligence20 · 1,185 citations
Cartography3 · 623 citations
Geography3 · 623 citations
Scale (ratio)3 · 623 citations
Engineering5 · 576 citations
Transformer3 · 566 citations
Robotics3 · 552 citations
Voltage2 · 528 citations
Electrical engineering1 · 512 citations
Control engineering1 · 512 citations

Key Achievements

13
H-Index
24
Papers
1,348
Total Citations
56
Avg Citations/Paper
🏆 Most Cited Paper
RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale
512 citations · 2023
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2024 (9 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 242
🏛 Institutions: Google (United States), Institute of Occupational Medicine, University of Southern California, Berkeley College

Top Papers

  1. 1
    RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale
    512 citations · 2023
  2. 2
    RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control
    267 citations · 2023
  3. 3
    π₀: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control
    127 citations · 2025
  4. 4
    DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
    108 citations · 2024
  5. 5
    Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy
    66 citations · 2024
  6. 6
    OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model
    39 citations · 2024
  7. 7
    RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale
    38 citations · 2022
  8. 8
    Yell At Your Robot: Improving On-the-Fly from Language Corrections
    34 citations · 2024
  9. 9
    FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models
    28 citations · 2025
  10. 10
    Accelerating Reinforcement Learning with Learned Skill Priors
    19 citations · 2020

Key Collaborators

CFChelsea Finn15 shared papersSLSergey Levine15 shared papersQVQuan Vuong14 shared papersJJJoseph J. Lim10 shared papersPSPannag Sanketi8 shared papersTXTed Xiao7 shared papersBIBrian Ichter7 shared papersKBKevin Black7 shared papersYLYoungwoon Lee7 shared papersKHKarol Hausman7 shared papersDSDorsa Sadigh6 shared papersHWHomer Walke6 shared papersNBNoah Brown5 shared papersSNSuraj Nair5 shared papersDDDanny Driess5 shared papersSSSumedh Sontakke4 shared papersGSGrecia Salazar4 shared papersAIAlex Irpan4 shared papersYCYevgen Chebotar4 shared papersKRKanishka Rao4 shared papers
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