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

News

• [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.
• [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.