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

News

• March 26 Speaking on a panel at GTC 2026 on building AI systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world - with folks working on humanoids, embodied agents, and physical AI (thread).
• March 26 Joined the AI Circle - a community of researchers and builders pushing the frontiers of AI.
• Jan 26 DreamControl accepted to ICRA’26! Teaching humanoids to interact with scenes like humans do - diffusion meets whole-body control (thread).
• 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.
• Dec 24 Co-developed GRID’s Isaac Sim integration - now powering 3000+ active users and multiple enterprise clients. Turns out robots need a playground too (announcement).
• 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.
• Dec 18 Research intern at Medical Mechatronics Lab & Advanced Robotics Center, NUS with Dr. Hongliang Ren.
• 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.

How I Got Here

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