Manthan Patel

Robotics PhD student @ RSL | JPL | ETH | IIT Kgp

[C. Zhang @ChongZzZhang]

With @JayHe748646 @KehanWen170077 @leggedrobotics , we push humanoid mobility to next frontier.

Achieved by a generalist contact planner + a generalist tracker + a generalized neural mapping, warmstarted from few human data.

Website: https://t.co/Y7cu3D4K4I
Promo Video 👇

[Manthan Patel @patelm99]

@ChongZzZhang Hahaha😂

[Carlo Sferrazza @carlo_sferrazza]

Incredibly excited to return to ETH Zurich as Assistant Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence next summer. I'll be recruiting PhD students to build a new lab on general-purpose embodied intelligence for humanoid robots and dexterous manipulation. Details coming soon!

[Junzhe (JJ) He @JayHe748646]

We put this on the hardware!! So excited that I won this round!!

[Chenhao Li @breadli428]

We are releasing a dataset with human motions together with terrain reference collected both indoors and outdoors.

Now, contact signals can be extracted to help with learning terrain interactions.

Presenting in Nov 2026 @corl_conf!
Try out EgoHTR now!
🔗 https://t.co/GyjTrfbECC

[Robotic Systems Lab @leggedrobotics]

We are releasing EgoHTR, a dataset with both human motions and terrain references, accepted @corl_conf.

📖 Paper: https://t.co/LHEQpqFrXG
🌐 Project Page: https://t.co/x12lTzVTDf

• 55 scene-aligned sequences • 150k+ frames • rough-terrain environments • multi-modal 3D scene

[C's Robotics Paper Notes @RoboReading]

https://t.co/q0uVT2EP5V

There are a lot of foundation models for RGB images. But now we have the depth one

[Moritz Reuss @moritz_reuss]

VLAs have become the fastest-growing subfield in robot learning. So where are we now?

After reviewing ICLR 2026 submissions and conversations at CoRL, I wrote an overview of the current state of VLA research with some personal takes:
https://t.co/OMMdB1MHtS

[AirLab @AirLabCMU]

We're excited to share that five papers from AirLab 🚀have been accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025!

Papers are on the thread:

[Manthan Patel @patelm99]

@zhenjun_zhao @QiuYuhengQiu @smash0190 Tha ks for sharing! If anyone is at ICRA this week and would like to chat reach out to me!!

[Zhenjun Zhao @zhenjun_zhao]

TartanGround: A Large-Scale Dataset for Ground Robot Perception and Navigation

@Manthan90921929, Fan Yang, @QiuYuhengQiu, Cesar Cadena, @smash0190, Marco Hutter, Wenshan Wang

tl;dr: 910 trajectories, 70 environments, 1.5 million samples, wheeled&legged robots

https://t.co/ca9TiflgfY

[Manthan Patel @patelm99]

@ki_ki_ki1 Congratulations Dr Taka! Was a pleasure and privilege to work with you !

[Robotic Systems Lab @leggedrobotics]

New research: Quadruped robots climbing ladders! 🦾🚀 Using RL-based control and a hooked end-effector, we're expanding robot capabilities in industrial environments. More info in the paper: https://t.co/Urv9pGLPib

Video: https://t.co/FxPs6OnKwx

[Zhenjun Zhao @zhenjun_zhao]

GlORIE-SLAM: Globally Optimized RGB-only Implicit Encoding Point Cloud SLAM

Ganlin Zhang, Erik Sandström, Youmin Zhang, Manthan Patel, Luc Van Gool, @Martin_R_Oswald

tl;dr: neural point cloud scene representation->RGB-only SLAM

https://t.co/RIcxev3s4G

[Manthan Patel @patelm99]

Checkout our latest work on Collaborative SLAM which makes it possible to use any VIO front-end of your choice.

If you are at #icra2023 feel free to drop by at our poster on Tuesday, May 30th

[Margarita Chli @MargaritaChli]

Collaborative SLAM with different VIOs? Check out COVINS-G ti be presented at #icra2023 next week: Localization and Mapping 1 | 08:30-10:10 | Tue 30 May | Poster pod 56.
Video: https://t.co/eh3Lt5myl4
Paper: https://t.co/33cYFqcEbE
Code: https://t.co/3Yocia9Jfb
@Manthan90921929

[Manthan Patel @patelm99]

@tanujthakkar @f1debrief @AstonMartinF1 👀

[Manthan Patel @patelm99]

@tanujthakkar 🙏

[IIT Kharagpur @IITKgp]

In 67th Convocation @IITKgp, #PresidentofIndiaGoldMedal awarded to Gurjot Singh Suri #CompSciEngg #DrBidhanChandraRoyMemorialGoldMedal to Manthan Patel #MechEngg #PrimeMinsterofIndiaGoldMedal to Omar Eqbal #CompSciEngg
@EduMinofIndia @dpradhanbjp

[Manthan Patel @patelm99]

@lucacarlone1 @adarshpatnaik11

[Manthan Patel @patelm99]

@davsca1 @UZH_en Looking forward to attend the course !!