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Name Sumit Patidar
Professional Title Senior Robotics Engineer

Professional Summary

Robotics Engineer specializing in robot manipulation, perception, imitation learning, robotics software, and 3D reconstruction. Experienced across the robotics stack, from system design and prototyping to experimentation and real-world deployment.

Experience

  • 2026 - Present

    Singapore

    Senior Robotics Engineer, Upstream Robotics (NPI)
    Dyson
    Developing perception and 3D reconstruction systems for autonomous robotics.
    • Developing large-scale 3D scene reconstruction using SfM and Gaussian Splatting
  • 2023 - 2025

    Singapore

    Robotics Engineer, Upstream Robotics (NPI)
    Dyson
    Developed robot learning, perception, motion planning, and mechatronics systems.
    • Built teleoperation, data collection, and evaluation infrastructure on Franka Panda
    • Designed manipulation tasks, collected 2,000+ demonstrations, and conducted 10,000+ robot trials
    • Developed ACT and Diffusion Policy-based manipulation systems
    • Developed perception pipelines using Grounding DINO, SAM, and iToF sensing
    • Developed ROS-based motion planning and behaviors for articulated systems
    • Designed and prototyped robotic mechanisms using CAD, 3D printing, motors, and embedded controllers
    • Presented robotic systems to senior leadership and at James Dyson Foundation events
  • 2022 - 2023

    Berlin, Germany

    Robotics Engineer Intern
    Corning
    • Migrated an industrial robotics codebase from ROS 1 to ROS 2
    • Developed OpenCV-based vision for optical filter detection and height estimation
    • Integrated robot control, vision, and Behavior Trees for automated assembly on Meca500
  • 2021 - 2021

    Pune, India (remote)

    Robotics Engineer Intern
    Technoyantra
    • Developed LiDAR-camera fusion and 3D object detection pipelines using Autoware.AI
    • Calibrated Velodyne LiDAR and monocular camera systems
    • Iterated on perception systems with clients based on project requirements
  • 2018 - 2018

    Noida, India

    Robotics Engineer Intern
    Tata Consultancy Services
    • Built an autonomous image acquisition system using servo motors, Arduino, and cameras
    • Developed ROS 1 perception pipelines using Mask R-CNN
    • Automated robotic image capture for training dataset generation

Education

  • 2019 - 2022

    Stockholm – Berlin

    M.Sc. Information and Communication Technology Innovation (EIT Digital)
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Technical University of Berlin
    Autonomous Systems
    • Merit Scholarship, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    • Master’s Thesis: In-Hand Manipulation via Constraint Exploitation and Wrist-Movements
  • 2015 - 2019

    India

    B.Tech. Electrical Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    Electrical Engineering
    • Institute Silver Medal
    • Semester Exchange Program, Technical University of Munich
    • MIT-IIT Entrepreneurship BootCamp, Top 48 Participants Worldwide

Publications

  • 2024
    Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Kinematics-Aware Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
    CVPR
  • 2024
    Green Screen Augmentation Enables Scene Generalisation in Robotic Manipulation
    arXiv
  • 2023
    In-Hand Cube Reconfiguration: Simplified
    IROS

Academic Service

Reviewer: CVPR and NeurIPS

Patents

Patent Pending: Dyson Robot Floor Cleaner. Co-inventor; contributed to algorithm design and development of a robotic floor-cleaning system.

Skills

Programming: Python, C++
Robotics: ROS 1/2, MoveIt, Nav2
Perception: OpenCV, Object Detection, Image Segmentation, 3D Reconstruction, Gaussian Splatting
Robot Learning: PyTorch, ACT, Diffusion Policies
Simulation: MuJoCo, Gazebo, PyBullet
Robotics Infrastructure: Demonstration Collection, Evaluation Pipelines
CAD & Mechatronics: Siemens NX, Fusion 360, 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, Embedded Systems
Developer Tools: Git, Docker, Linux

Interests

Activities: Sports, Hiking, Travel, Reading