Project MANAS

Bringing Bits to Life

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We are proud to be the highest-ranked Indian team at IGVC 2026! 2nd — Top Performer ($1,500), 4th — Self-Drive, 7th — Auto-Nav. ALYX, our autonomous ground vehicle has proven itself on the biggest stage. Onward to tougher challenges!

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Ready to roll with ALYX at IGVC '26. We extend our gratitude to @stepperonline , @goBILDA and @Tattubattery for supporting our build.

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We have been trying to tackle the challenge of clutter in 3dgs that arise due to the under-optimized gaussians and background views that are not multi view consistent.

A key challenge here is retaining the semantic properties of the scene. #3dgs #mvs

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As we gear up for IGVC Self-drive this year, we have tried and tested various drive systems, and holonomic has turned out to be really effective.

Check out our ground vehicle navigating the challenges in simulation before it hits the road!!

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@AshishJournali1 @brajeshpathakup @CMOfficeUP @GreaterNoidaW @JagranNews @OfficialGNIDA Sincere thanks to @AshishJournali1 and @TheDailyJagran for recognising our team's efforts. Great Journalism meets innovation.

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It's interesting to see the role coverage can play in this era of transformer-styled 3d reconstruction models.

On the left is a gaussian splat if our UGV, from a dense DA3 output (197 images) while the right splat is from just 12 images. Maybe masking would help here.

#3d #DA3

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We are pleased to announce Stepper Online(@stepperonline) as our sponsor. We are grateful to them for trusting our mission and supporting development in AI & Robotics. Thanks for fueling our innovation!
#ProjectMANAS #Stepperonline #bringingbitstolife #sponsorships #Innovation

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Parallelised Q-Networks go continuous! 🚀

We’re excited to introduce PQN extended to continuous-action control — no replay buffers, no target networks, just pure online Q-learning + a deterministic actor.

Now you can use PQN + MuJoCo Playground to train full robotic policies in just seconds or minutes 🤖 All running entirely on GPU

👉 Blog post: https://t.co/7lfLUccSGR

👾 Codebase: https://t.co/7S8z00IhWT

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Low level control for Quadrupedal Robots in Mujoco. We have 12 joints and 4 wheel actuators for this Quadruped.

In this simulation, the actuators act as torque actuators, with the bars representing the torque signal being sent to each actuator.
#quadrupeds #mujoco #robotics

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We are rethinking autonomous systems....

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Introducing the new board for Project MANAS, 2025-26

After an incredible year of innovation, we proudly pass the responsibilities to the next board of our team. Here’s to carrying forward the legacy as we push boundaries, break new ground, and continue Bringing Bits to Life.

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Real-Time GPU-Accelerated Gaussian Splatting is the best thing since sliced bread and we tried it!

Nvidia also released a new Vulkan-based sample that demonstrates real-time Gaussian splatting earlier this year, and we wonder how that turns out.
#3d #nvidia #graphics

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At Project MANAS, our work is to make machines do the work :)
#AI #Robotics

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Solo long drives are fun, aren't they? Sitting on the passenger seat, of course!
#EVE #DriverlessVehicles

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https://t.co/cEJqmdSR69

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We, Project MANAS and The Research Society MIT, along with our exclusive media partner MTTN, present to you a session on the role of AI in space exploration by Shreyansh Daftry, a research technologist currently working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA.
Link in thread!

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In early July 2021, Microsoft and OpenAI released the technical preview of GitHub's Copilot, an AI based assistant to help programmers by suggesting lines or even whole functions.
Here's a live demo of Copilot suggesting an entire function of PID scripts.
#github #ai #robotics

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Our very own Sahil Khose was part of the team that built the classification system that ranked first among all submissions for subtask-1(a) at the Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) 2021 workshop co-located at NAACL 2021
@SahilKhose

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Finally presented our paper at #SMM4H at #NAACL2021 @NAACLHLT
Thank you @ArjunMagge and @gracielagon for the opportunity!

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Congratulations to the board of 2021-2022!

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Check out Project MANAS' entry to the IPAS Challenge organized by Mars Society South Asia.
Like and share the post and spread the word!
https://t.co/9Ag0ukiGmr

#innovation #challenge #ipaschallenge #marssociety #SpaceExploration #UAV