Kartik Garg

Sciencer | PhD Princeton. Building skynet one robot at a time :)

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

At #CoRL2026. Happy to chat about humanoids, dex manipulation and RL. Feel free to reach out!

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

@ab_deshpande 🐐

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

Sprout Jackson

[Samuel M Bateman @smbml_]

🚨 Stop feeding your world model the same boring demos. Switch to free-range play data! 🚨

Our CoRL 2026 paper finds we can optimize autonomous data collection to focus on missing action consequences, achieving up to 85x the data scaling efficiency of expert data collection!🧵

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

@ab_deshpande 🐐

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@lok_s_h 🐐

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@carlo_sferrazza Congrats Carlo!

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@Vaibhavdixit02 Another take from research perspective: if you can get it to work on a humanoid, you can probably make it work on most existing robots. If a humanoid can manipulate then so can a fixed base manipulator or a wheeled robot but the other way might not be true always.

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

@pr0t0_01 Would love to know what are the improvements that make your robots faster and more expressive than openduck mini or Disney while still looking similar

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

@retr0sushi_ Challenge the assumptions

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@KyleMorgenstein Same tbh

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@chris_j_paxton 2M in India goes a long way tho

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@ChongZitaZhang I have seen RL on hands generally end up giving you the finger… a lot

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

Excited to show the results of our latest work at #CoRL2025!

[Sehoon Ha @sehoonha]

Can robots learn to jump, crawl, and climb—without reward engineering, curriculum learning, or reference data?
In our #CoRL2025 paper SDAX, Skill Discovery as eXploration, we show how unsupervised RL can learn these challenging motor skills without human priors —and transfer them to real robots.
📷 Unsupervised Skill Discovery as Exploration for Learning Agile Locomotion
Seungeun Rho* @ross_rho , Kartik Garg* @_pacificax, Morgan Byrd, Sehoon Ha @sehoonha
https://t.co/Hy4lpDX75r

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

@chris_j_paxton You should go on more airplanes then 🤭

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@ChongZitaZhang Congratulations 🥳

[Eric Jang @ericjang11]

Here’s our latest RL update: Natural Mogging
(thread below!)

[Kartik Garg @_pacificax]

@vyash2k +1 to that 🫠

[1X @1x_tech]

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