Sumit Patidar

Singapore

Hello and welcome! 🤖✨ I’m a Robotics Engineer at the Dyson Robotics Research Lab in Singapore 🇸🇬, where I currently work on robot vacuums. Previously, I worked on robot manipulation, focusing on imitation learning and reinforcement learning .

Outside of work, I like staying active 💪 and playing multiple sports 🏀⚽. I also enjoy chess ♟️, movies and TV shows 🎬, playing guitar 🎸, and keeping up with the latest tech 🚀.

Robotics is a field I care deeply about, and I’m always excited by opportunities to build useful systems and collaborate with others 🤝

news

Jan 16, 2026	Judging TECH NGO’s AI-Powered Search & Rescue Challenge at SUTD 🌏🤖
Dec 11, 2025	Judging Intelligent Robotics (30.119) at SUTD 🤖
Oct 29, 2025	Attended ROSCon25 in Singapore!
Aug 15, 2025	Judging the SUTD 30.007 Engineering Design Innovation Showcase 🚀
May 28, 2025	Inspiring Next Generations of Engineers at Linhua Primary School 💫

latest posts

Oct 29, 2025	Reflections from ROSCon 2025 – Singapore 🇸🇬
Jan 01, 2025	Gears in Motion - Unlocking Mechanical Marvels
Oct 08, 2024	Learning Resources

selected publications

Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Kinematics-Aware Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation

Xiao Ma, Sumit Patidar, Iain Haughton, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Project page , Jun 2024

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{Ma_2024_CVPR,
  author = {Ma, Xiao and Patidar, Sumit and Haughton, Iain and James, Stephen},
  title = {Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Kinematics-Aware Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  month = jun,
  year = {2024},
  pages = {18081-18090},
}

Green Screen Augmentation Enables Scene Generalisation in Robotic Manipulation

Eugene Teoh, Sumit Patidar, Xiao Ma, and 1 more author

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.07868. Project page , 2024

Bib HTML

@article{teoh2024green,
  title = {Green Screen Augmentation Enables Scene Generalisation in Robotic Manipulation},
  author = {Teoh, Eugene and Patidar, Sumit and Ma, Xiao and James, Stephen},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.07868},
  year = {2024},
}

In-Hand Cube Reconfiguration: Simplified

Sumit Patidar, Adrian Sieler, and Oliver Brock

In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Project page , 2023

DOI Bib HTML

@inproceedings{10341521,
  author = {Patidar, Sumit and Sieler, Adrian and Brock, Oliver},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  title = {In-Hand Cube Reconfiguration: Simplified},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {8751-8756},
  keywords = {Deep learning;Dynamics;Robustness;End effectors;Planning;Complexity theory;Complex systems},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341521},
}