Adithya Murali

Hello there!

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

These days I'm mostly working on synthetic data generation for robotics and Embodied AI. I'm generally interested in machine learning, 3D vision and robotic manipulation. I also like building robots - checkout PyRobot and LoCoBot which I build in my PhD. Previously, I worked on machine learning for autonomous medical robots.

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, LBL and NTU. Fun fact: I grew up in Singapore and my starbucks name is Eddie.

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Press Coverage

Representative Projects
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M2T2: Multi-Tasked Masked Transformer


Wentao Yuan Adithya Murali, Arsalan Mousavian, Dieter Fox

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023
project page / arXiv / video / code

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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

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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 tech blog

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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

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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

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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 / CBS News


Jon Barron has an awesome website =)