Adithya Murali

Hello there!

I'm a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Robotics. If you are interested in research internships, you can apply here and reach out to me.

I work on Embodied AI. My research is at the crossroads of robotic manipulation, robot learning, synthetic data generation and sim2real.

I have also had the chance to build ("low cost" robots LoCoBot, LCA and NVIDIA-Bimanual Humanoid) and work with several cool robots (da Vinci Research Kit).

Brief Bio: I received my PhD at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University advised by Abhinav Gupta. I was supported by the Uber Presidential Fellowship. Before CMU, I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley EECS, where I worked with Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel at BAIR. I have also spent time at NVIDIA (interning with Dieter Fox), Meta AI Research, Amazon AWS and NTU. Fun fact: I grew up in Singapore and my starbucks name is Eddie.

Google Scholar / Twitter / GitHub / LinkedIn / CV / PhD Thesis

Press Coverage

Representative Projects

	Automating Smart Pick-and-Place with NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator Adithya Murali, Clemens Eppner, Xuning Yang, Balakumar Sundaralingam (In collaboration with intrinsic.ai) NVIDIA Developer Blog / NVIDIA Corp Blog / The Robot Report / TechCrunch / video
	M2T2: Multi-Tasked Masked Transformer Wentao Yuan Adithya Murali, Arsalan Mousavian, Dieter Fox Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023 project page / arXiv / video / code
	CabiNet: Scaling Neural Collision Detection for Object Rearrangement with Procedural Scene Generation Adithya Murali, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Adam Fishman, Dieter Fox International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 NeurIPS Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop, 2022 project page / arXiv / video / talk / code
	Motion Policy Networks Adam Fishman, Adithya Murali, Clemens Eppner, Bryan Peele, Byron Boots, Dieter Fox Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022 project page / arXiv / video / code / data / NVIDIA Developer blog
	6-DOF Grasping for Target-driven Object Manipulation in Clutter Adithya Murali, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Chris Paxton, Dieter Fox International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020 Best Robot Manipulation Paper Finalist Best Student Paper Finalist arXiv / video / talk / NVIDIA Blog
	PyRobot: An Open-source Robotics Framework for Research and Benchmarking Adithya Murali, Tao Chen, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Dhiraj Gandhi, Lerrel Pinto, Saurabh Gupta, Abhinav Gupta arXiv / pyrobot.org / code GitHub Star / FAIR Blog / WIRED / VentureBeat / The Robot Report
	Robot Learning in Homes: Improving Generalization and Reducing Dataset Bias Abhinav Gupta, Adithya Murali, Dhiraj Gandhi, Lerrel Pinto. [Equal Contribution] Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018 arXiv / data / code / WIRED article
	Learning by Observation for Surgical Subtasks: Multilateral Cutting of 3D Viscoelastic and 2D Orthotropic Tissue Phantoms Adithya Murali, Siddarth Sen, Ben Kehoe, Animesh Garg, Seth McFarland , Sachin Patil, W. Douglas Boyd , Susan Lim, Pieter Abbeel, Ken Goldberg. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 Best Medical Robotics Paper Finalist Best Conference Paper Finalist video / New York Times / MedGadget / CBS News

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Organizing Team, Sponsorship Chair, CoRL 2025

Area Chair, CoRL 2024

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