Nikhil X. Bhattasali

2 accepted papers

2025

RUKA: Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning

Anya Zorin, Irmak Guzey, Nikhil X. Bhattasali, Lerrel Pinto

RSS 2025poster

Dexterous manipulation is a fundamental capability for robotic systems to interact with the physical world, yet progress in this area has been limited by hardware. An ideal robotic hand must balance precision, compactness, strength, and affordability—requirements that remain challenging to achieve s…

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2022

Neural Circuit Architectural Priors for Embodied Control

Nikhil X. Bhattasali, Anthony M. Zador, Tatiana A Engel

NeurIPS 2022accept

Artificial neural networks for motor control usually adopt generic architectures like fully connected MLPs. While general, these tabula rasa architectures rely on large amounts of experience to learn, are not easily transferable to new bodies, and have internal dynamics that are difficult to interpr…

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