Peter Wurman
Peter Wurman left an academic position in 2004 to help co-found Kiva Systems. Kiva Systems developed mobile warehouse robots, and Amazon acquired it in 2012. Wurman coauthored the Nature paper Outracing Champion Gran Turismo Drivers with Deep Reinforcement Learning. The paper reports the team’s work on an autonomous racing agent in a game simulator. Wurman has served as deputy president of Sony AI and leader of its Gaming and Interactive Agents Flagship. He said warehouse path planning and game research required practical systems and repeated testing.
Timeline
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2004–2012
Warehouse robots
Peter Wurman left an academic position in 2004 to help co-found Kiva Systems. Kiva Systems developed mobile warehouse robots, and Amazon acquired it in 2012.
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2022
Learning to race
Wurman coauthored the Nature paper Outracing Champion Gran Turismo Drivers with Deep Reinforcement Learning. The paper examines the team’s autonomous racing agent in a game simulator.
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February 2025
Gaming research leadership
Wurman has served as deputy president of Sony AI and leader of its Gaming and Interactive Agents Flagship. He said warehouse path planning and game research both required practical systems and repeated testing.
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