Research Engineer
1x Technologies
sarthak.bhagat@1x.tech
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News

  • [Dec 25] Went back to where it all started - gave an AMA on robotics at IIIT Delhi. Full circle moment.
  • [Nov 25] Joined 1x to work on robot manipulation with NEO. Excited to be building the future of humanoids.
  • [Sept 25] Presented our General Robotics work at the Scaleup Summit in SF.
  • [Aug 25] Teaching robots at SIGGRAPH’25 in Vancouver via NVIDIA DLI. The irony of teaching humans to teach machines.
  • [May 25] Our paper won best paper at NoC Workshop, ICRA’25! The reviewers were kind.
  • [April 25] Got into Y Combinator Startup School. Learning from the best in the game.
  • [March 25] At ICRA’25 in Atlanta - presenting work on predicting what humans will do before they do it.
  • [Feb 25] GTC’25 in San Jose - where GPU nerds unite.
  • [Aug 24] Serving as a Program Committee Member at AAAI’25.
  • [July 24] Paper on zero-shot task-oriented grasping via LLM-guided semantic part segmentation accepted as oral at IROS’24.
  • [June 24] Joined General Robotics as employee #6. Building safe general robot intelligence from the ground up.
  • [June 24] Officially a CMU Robotics grad! Two years flew by.
  • [June 24] Work on predicting human actions for robot collaboration accepted to RA-L’24.
  • [Dec 23] Reviewing papers for ICML’24, ICLR’24, and CoLLAs’24.
  • [Sept 23] Two papers at ICCV’23 CVEU workshop - one on predicting actions, one on making faces talk. Also got to see Paris!
  • [Sept 23] Student volunteer at ICCV’23.
  • [May 23] Selected among 200 researchers for Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Got to meet Turing and Fields Medal winners!
  • [May 23] Oral presentation at CoLLAs’23 - 12 orals out of all submissions. Teaching robots to learn concepts like humans do.
  • [Dec 22] Best Demo Paper at ACM MM Asia’23 for our talking face generation work. The judges liked our digital puppets.
  • [Sept 22] Started research at AART Lab, CMU. Teaching robots to understand humans better.
  • [Aug 22] Landed at CMU Robotics Institute. Dream school, dream program.
  • [Jan 22] Joined Preimage - reconstructing 3D scenes from just a handful of drone images.
  • [Oct 20] Started at CLVR Lab, USC with Joseph Lim. Robots that don’t forget old tricks when learning new ones.
  • [Aug 20] Research assistant at DeCLaRe Lab, SUTD - teaching machines to see and read at the same time.
  • [Aug 20] Graduated from IIIT-Delhi with Honors. Four years, many all-nighters, worth it.
  • [Aug 19] Dean’s Award for Academic Performance - 4 semesters in a row.
  • [Aug 19] Dean’s Award for Innovation, R&D for my Bachelor’s thesis.
  • [May 19] Summer at SUTD Brain Lab in Singapore - untangling the mess inside video data with Gaussian processes.
  • [May 19] INAE Fellowship from IISc.
  • [Aug 18] 6th out of 70 international teams at AUVSI SUAS in Maryland. Our drone didn’t crash!
  • [Aug 16] Chairman’s Merit Scholarship - top 4 out of 278 students.
  • [May 15] KVPY Fellowship - top 0.3% of applicants. The exam that started it all.

Bio


Research Engineer, 1x Technologies

• Robot learning for manipulation with NEO
• Building Redwood AI (blog) - our end-to-end VLA-driven mobile manipulation stack

Founding Research Engineer, General Robotics

• Employee #6, first hire for the robotics team
• Led sim2real RL efforts (blog) - getting policies from simulation to the real world
• Co-led Isaac Sim integration into GRID - now used by 3000+ users and 10+ enterprise clients (post)
• Humanoids (blog), quadrupeds, arms (post), agents (blog)

Master's in Robotics, CMU

• Improving robotic perception and interaction using structured domain knowledge (thesis)
• Advised by Dr. Katia Sycara

Deep Learning Research Engineer, Preimage

• Reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse drone images

CLVR Lab, USC

• Adapting robot policies to new environments without forgetting old skills
• Advised by Dr. Joseph Lim

SUTD Brain Lab

• Disentangling video sequences using Gaussian processes (paper)

B.Tech (with honors), IIIT Delhi

• Disentangling factors of variation in images (thesis)
• Advised by Dr. Saket Anand and Dr. Pavan Turaga
• Target tracking with deep RL (paper)
• Part of autonomous driving team ALIVE (demo)


Interested in collaborating, advice, or chatting? Drop me an email at sarthakbhagatoutreach@gmail.com.