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Contact Information

Name Sumit Patidar
Professional Title Senior Robotics Engineer
Email patidarsumit@rocketmail.com

Professional Summary

Robotics Engineer specializing in robot manipulation, imitation learning, and perception systems. Experienced in building and deploying intelligent robotic systems using Python, C++, ROS, and deep learning frameworks. Passionate about scalable infrastructure, efficient workflows, and applied robotics research.

Experience

  • 2026 - Present

    Singapore

    Senior Robotics Engineer
    Dyson
  • 2023 - 2025

    Singapore

    Robotics Engineer
    Dyson
    Contributed to the development of the Dyson Robot Learning Lab, focusing on robot manipulation, perception systems, and infrastructure for large-scale data collection.
    • Developed scalable infrastructure for collecting human demonstrations using Franka Panda and UR5 robots
    • Worked on hierarchical diffusion policy for multi-task robotic manipulation (featured on CNBC)
    • Designed manipulation tasks, collected 1500+ demonstrations, and ran 10,000+ robot trials
    • Developed perception pipelines using Grounding DINO and SAM
    • Integrated classical vision with ToF sensors for robust perception
    • Designed robotic cleaning mechanisms using embedded systems, stepper and dc motors
  • 2022 - 2023

    Berlin, Germany

    Robotics Engineer Intern
    Corning
    Worked on automation and precision robotics for optical filter assembly.
    • Migrated ROS1 Python codebase to ROS2
    • Programmed Meca500 robot for automated assembly
    • Built OpenCV-based system for detecting and measuring miniature optical filters
  • 2021 - 2021

    Remote

    ROS Developer Intern
    TechnoYantra
    Worked on 3D perception and sensor fusion for autonomous driving systems.
    • Used Autoware.AI for LiDAR-camera fusion to predict 3D bounding boxes
    • Calibrated Velodyne LiDAR and monocular camera systems at a remote location
  • 2018 - 2018

    Noida, India

    Software Engineer Intern
    Tata Consultancy Services
    Developed an autonomous system for dataset generation and annotation.
    • Built robotic pipeline for automated image capture and labeling
    • Trained Mask R-CNN for object detection and segmentation

Education

  • 2019 - 2022

    Europe

    MSc ICT Innovation (Dual Degree)
    EIT Digital Master School
    Autonomous Systems
    • Merit Scholarship Recipient
    • Thesis on “In-Hand Manipulation via Constraint Exploitation and Wrist Movements”
  • -

    Stockholm, Sweden

    MSc Year 1
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • -

    Berlin, Germany

    MSc Year 2
    Technical University of Berlin
  • 2015 - 2019

    India

    BTech
    Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    Electrical Engineering
    • Institute Silver Medal
    • Semester exchange at TU Munich
    • MIT-IIT Entrepreneurship Bootcamp participant

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

Skills

Programming: Python, C++, MATLAB, LaTeX
Frameworks: ROS2, OpenCV, PyTorch, TensorFlow
Tools: Docker, Fusion 360, Siemens NX

Interests

Activities: Sports, Hiking, Travel, Reading