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Ajay Uday Mandlekar

3 accepted papers

2026

COBALT: Crowdsourcing Robot Learning Via Cloud-Based Teleoperation with Smartphones

ICRA 2026poster

The scarcity of large-scale, high-quality demonstration data remains a bottleneck in scaling imitation learning for robotic manipulation. We present COBALT, a teleoperation platform designed to democratize robot learning at scale both in simulation and in the real world. By leveraging vectorized env…

2026

Grasp-MPC: Closed-Loop Visual Grasping Via Value-Guided Model Predictive Control

ICRA 2026poster

Grasping of diverse objects in unstructured environments remains a significant challenge. Open-loop grasping methods, effective in controlled settings, struggle in cluttered environments. Grasp prediction errors and object pose changes during grasping are the main causes of failure. In contrast, clo…

2026

SoftMimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation

ICRA 2026poster

Large-scale robot datasets have facilitated the learning of a wide range of robot manipulation skills, but these datasets remain difficult to collect and scale further, owing to the intractable amount of human time, effort, and cost required. Simulation and synthetic data generation have proven to b…