Animesh Garg
Stephen Fleming Early Career Asisstant Professor
Leads the PAIR group on generalizable robot autonomy through representation, reinforcement and imitation learning.
Animesh Garg's lab at Georgia Tech works on manipulation & robot learning. 52 papers since 2023, 40 at top venues, mostly ICRA and CoRL. 14 PhD students and 2 master's students. 53 alumni, most often to NVIDIA. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 77%
- PhD students
- 14
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 53
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 11 papers2026 · T1 10 · collecting
- 12 papers2025 · T1 11
- 11 papers2024 · T1 9
- 18 papers2023 · T1 10
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, CoRL, IROS, ICLR, Autonomous Robots
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning30 papers
- imitation3 papers
- imitation learning2 papers
- robot autonomy0 papers
- autonomy0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202611 papers
- ICRA (T1)AMPLIFY: Actionless Motion Priors for Robot Learning from Videos (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)An Empirical Study of Data-Loading Bottlenecks (and Non-Bottlenecks) in Robotic Imitation Learning
- Nature Machine Intelligence (T1)Can LLM feedback enhance review quality? A randomized study of 20K reviews at ICLR 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)COBALT: Crowdsourcing Robot Learning via Cloud-Based Teleoperation with Smartphones (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Hierarchical Policy Learning via Spectral Decomposition (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)KEYGEN: Unsupervised Keypoint-Based Object-Centric Representations for Category-Level Policy Generalization (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Computational ScienceMATTERIX: toward a digital twin for robotics-assisted chemistry laboratory automation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)MESA: An Evaluation Framework for Compositional, Semantic, and Spatial Generalization in Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)OG-VLA: Orthographic Image Generation for 3D-Aware Vision-Language Action Model (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SoftMimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)TAPESTRY: A Single Backbone for Video Generation and Robot Control (opens in a new tab)
202512 papers
- Science Robotics (T1)“Data will solve robotics and automation: True or false?”: A debate (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics: Perspectives and Challenges from the 2024 IEEE ICRA Workshop, Yokohama, Japan (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)ACGD: Visual Multitask Policy Learning with Asymmetric Critic Guided Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Adapt3R: Adaptive 3D Scene Representation for Domain Transfer in Imitation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)AnyPlace: Learning Generalized Object Placement for Robot Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)CLIMB: Language-Guided Continual Learning for Task Planning with Iterative Model Building (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)EgoSim: Egocentric Exploration in Virtual Worlds with Multi-modal Conditioning (opens in a new tab)
- MatterORGANA: a robotic assistant for automated chemistry experimentation and characterization (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)PWM: Policy Learning with Large World Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)RoCoDA: Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Data-Efficient Robot Learning from Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SuFIA-BC: Generating High Quality Demonstration Data for Visuomotor Policy Learning in Surgical Subtasks (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)TopoCut: Learning Multi-Step Cutting with Spectral Rewards and Discrete Diffusion Policies (opens in a new tab)
202411 papers
- ISRRAdaDemo: Data-Efficient Demonstration Expansion for Generalist Robotic Agent (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Adaptive Horizon Actor-Critic for Policy Learning in Contact-Rich Differentiable Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- ISRRDexMOTS: Dexterous Manipulation with Differentiable Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Discovering Robotic Interaction Modes with Discrete Representation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Fast Explicit-Input Assistance for Teleoperation in Clutter (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Handypriors: Physically consistent perception of hand-object interactions with differentiable priors (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Open X-Embodiment: Robotic learning datasets and RT-X models (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)ORBIT-Surgical: An Open-Simulation Framework for Learning Surgical Augmented Dexterity (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Quest: Self-supervised skill abstractions for learning continuous control (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)SPIRE: Synergistic Planning, Imitation, and Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)SuFIA: Language-Guided Augmented Dexterity for Robotic Surgical Assistants (opens in a new tab)
202318 papers
- TMLR (T1)Benchmarks for Physical Reasoning AI (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Composable part-based manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Digital DiscoveryDigital pipette: open hardware for liquid transfer in self-driving laboratories (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsDiSECt: A Differentiable Simulator for Parameter Inference and Control in Robotic Cutting (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Fast-Grasp’D: Dexterous Multi-finger Grasp Generation Through Differentiable Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Geometry Matching for Multi-Embodiment Grasping (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Surgical InnovationIntegration of reinforcement learning in a virtual robotic surgical simulation
- Autonomous RobotsLarge language models for chemistry robotics (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Learning Achievement Structure for Structured Exploration in Domains with Sparse Reward (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)MVTrans: Multi-View Perception of Transparent Objects (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)nerf2nerf: Pairwise Registration of Neural Radiance Fields (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and ICRAORBIT: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went53 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 1Academia 1
Most often to
- NVIDIA
Also to
- MIT
Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
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