Sumit Patidar

Hey, I’m Sumit 👋

I’m a Senior Robotics Engineer at Dyson Robotics Research Lab (DRRL) in Singapore 🇸🇬, where I work on building autonomous robots that have to deal with the inconvenient fact that the real world is messy.

My work spans robot manipulation, robot learning, classical robotics, and software engineering, with a focus on combining perception, kinematics, dynamics, control and robot learning to build robust robotic systems 🤖.

I use this site to share projects, research, technical notes, and tutorials on robotics, machine learning, and software engineering — mostly things I’ve learned while building robots and occasionally breaking them.

Outside robotics, I enjoy sports, chess ♟️, hiking 🥾, reading 📚, and traveling ✈️. I also spend more time than I’d like tweaking Vim, development environments, and workflows.

news

Feb 19, 2026	Empowering Future Inventors: Rapid Prototyping Workshop at TMJC STEM Week 2026
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 🚀

latest posts

Aug 09, 2026	3D Reconstruction: From Pixels to Radiance Fields
Jun 25, 2026	Numerically Stable Softmax and Cross-Entropy
May 20, 2026	Unlimited Zotero PDF Sync with Google Drive or OneDrive Using ZotMoov

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},
}