Physical
Superintelligence
(PSI) Lab

The Physical Superintelligence (PSI) Lab at USC develops next-generation robotic systems to solve robotics and thereby address societal challenges.

We build multimodal data engines, efficient learning pipelines, and robust deployment systems that enable humanoids and other mobile platforms to perform contact-rich and highly dexterous tasks. Our work spans 3D scene understanding, whole-body humanoid control, and dexterous manipulation, tightly linking ML algorithms with real hardware.

Our goal is to create physical AI agents that can operate safely and autonomously in everyday human environments.

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News

Dec, 2025
Jiageng Mao is awarded the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship 2026.
Nov, 2025
We received funding from Toyota Research Institute for two thrusts: "Reasoning in Motion: Dynamic Adaptation and Intelligent Execution of Large Behavior Models" and "World Models for Next-Generation Autonomous Driving Policy Learning".
Oct, 2025
Our research on "Embodied Intelligence through Generative Simulation for Autonomous Driving and Robotics" is now supported by Bosch.
Sep, 2025
Siheng Zhao is awarded the Amazon ML Fellowship 2026.
Aug, 2025
One paper accepted to Humanoid 2025.
Aug, 2025
Two papers accepted to CoRL 2025.
Oct, 2025
The NSF has awarded funding for our research on "Latent Representation Learning for Verifiable Sensor-Rich Systems".
June, 2025
Three papers accepted to ICCV 2025.
May, 2025
One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025.
Apr, 2025
One paper accepted to RSS 2025.
Jan, 2025
Two papers accepted to ICRA 2025.
Jan, 2025
Eight papers accepted to ICLR 2025.
Dec, 2024
Oct, 2024
Prof. Wang will serve as Area Chairs for 3DV 2025, ICLR 2025, CVPR 2025, and a Presentation Chair for RSS 2025.
Oct, 2024
Sep, 2024
Three papers (including one Spotlight) accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
Sep, 2024
Three papers accepted to CoRL 2024. RAM is selected as an oral presentation.
Sep, 2024
Prof. Wang receives the Powell Faculty Research Award.
Aug, 2024
Two papers accepted to ECCV 2024. DVT is selected as an oral presentation.
Aug, 2024
Prof. Wang is awarded the Toyota Research Young Faculty Researcher.
Jul, 2024
Agent-Driver is accepted to COLM 2024.
Apr, 2024
James (Yuxi) Qian receives Honorable Mention for Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers awarded by CRA.