Toyota Professor of AI & Robotics Jason Corso joined Outonomous

Prof. Jason Corso is the Toyota Motor Corporation Professor of AI & Robotics, and one of the sharpest minds in the world in Physical & Visual AI.

He is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Voxel51, a leading visual and multi-modal learning platform used by the best companies in the world: Google, Microsoft, Hyundai Motor Company, Medtronic, and G42.

He also previously served as CEO of Voxel51 for many years, building not only breakthrough technology, but a real company in one of the most important layers of modern AI.

He has also held leadership roles across the field’s premier computer vision venues, including CVPR.

For Outonomous, this is also deeply personal.

Prof. Jason Corso taught our founder Omar Mukhtar Visual AI almost 18 years ago.

In recent years has been actively advising behind the scenes as Outonomous has taken shape.

His advice, technical clarity, and ability to connect deep AI research to real-world human impact have helped shape how we think about the future of autonomy.

Omar still remembers Prof. Corso’s AI course and still has the slides.

That lesson has shaped how we think about Outonomous.

Physical AI depends on the highest-quality real-world data.

The world does not need autonomy for only a few thousand custom robotaxis.

The world needs Physical AI for every vehicle.

There are 1.6 billion vehicles globally and roughly 297 million vehicles in America. If autonomy is going to scale, it has to learn from the real world, across vehicle types, roads, weather, edge cases, and human environments.

That is why Outonomous is building a modular autonomy platform for the vehicles already on the road. Visual AI and LiDAR-based real-world data are central to that future.

And who better to have onboard than one of the premier Visual AI pioneers, researchers, teachers, and company builders in the world?

One of our deepest shared missions is expanding access through Physical AI.

For many years, our founder got medicine for his mother. That experience shaped how he thinks about access, dignity, mobility, and technology.

Prof. Corso is PI on a new ARPA-H project to build AI-powered mobile clinics that provide more advanced medical services in rural settings.

Outonomous is not a partner on that project, but the values alignment is clear: technology not for technology’s sake, but technology that brings access, care, and dignity to people in rural America, urban America, and around the world.

Outonomous: For All Humans. For All Life.

Prof. Corso now joins the growing Outonomous team, alongside Prof. Shuguang Zhang from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation medal winner, and founder of unicorn 3-D Matrix North America Medical Technology Pty Ltd; Robert Hulse at Fenwick & West, who has built some of the most important patent portfolios in technology; and our mission-driven team.