Learning to Walk in the Real World in 1 Hour (DayDreamer) · Danijar Hafner / YouTube
Known for
Co-founded Embo, world-model agents, 2026.
Why chosen
He works where world models meet agents that act. During a PhD at Toronto, with stints at Berkeley and DeepMind, he created Dreamer, an agent that learns by imagining outcomes, and its successors DreamerV2 and V3. With DayDreamer he showed a real robot learning to walk in about an hour with no simulator. In 2026 he co-founded Embo with Wilson Yan to build agents that plan ahead. Dream, then do.
Worked with
Wilson Yan, Co-founder, EmboTimothy Lillicrap, Co-author, Dreamer, DeepMindJimmy Ba, PhD advisor / co-author, Dreamer, University of Toronto
Learning to Walk in the Real World in 1 Hour (DayDreamer) · Danijar Hafner / YouTube
Role
Co-founder, Embo
Status
Co-foundedCo-founded Embo, a world-model agents company, in 2026.