Hi, I'm Adithya —
I also teach them to disconnect from the cloud and touch grass.
Robots used to be programmed. Now they're starting to be taught.
Show a robot enough demonstrations, give it a camera and a sentence, and it can learn to act. I'm curious about what comes after that — when robots don't just see and listen, but also feel, anticipate, and work safely next to people.
Vision-Language-Action models that turn pixels and words into motion.
Giving policies a sense of touch, for the delicate, contact-rich tasks that vision alone can't handle.
Fitting big models onto small computers, so a robot can decide what to do in under 30 milliseconds.
Certifiable, reproducible AI for machines that share space with humans.
How I got here
I studied automotive engineering and found that the part I loved most was the software deciding what the machine should do. At Accenture and EMIS Health I worked on telecom data, speech models for NHS emergency calls, and the data lake that fed them.
a model is only as good as the pipeline behind itA master's in Advanced Robotics at École Centrale de Nantes. Motion capture and force plates drove a humanoid copying a person's upper body in real time, and my thesis at Reliev detected epileptic seizures from ECG and motion data.
first time a robot moved because I movedAt Huber Automotive I built camera, LiDAR and radar perception for autonomous vehicles on tight embedded budgets, and worked with Fraunhofer IPA on VeoPipe, a pipeline for AI you can actually certify.
At Neura Robotics I fine-tune Vision-Language-Action models on teleoperation data, give them a sense of touch, and get them running on Jetson and Qualcomm hardware fast enough to close a real control loop.
this is the fun partHere are some things I've been working on lately…
A profiling toolkit for running NVIDIA's GR00T N1.5 on Jetson. It breaks inference latency into the vision encoder, the language backbone and the diffusion action head, so you can see where the milliseconds go.
What work gloves do to the 3D hand tracking behind human-video robot learning, and which capture choices fix it: a second camera for hand position, a thin glove for finger pose.
Questions I keep coming back to
I'm always happy to chat, whether that's about robots, research, or interesting problems.
Say hello →I speak Tamil at home, English at work, French when I'm feeling brave, and German… ich übe noch.