Pannag R Sanketi

Researcher, Robotics, Google

Joined

June 2021

Names

Pannag R Sanketi (Preferred)

Emails

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Robotics, Google (google.com)

2011 – Present

Postdoc

Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (smithkettlewell.com)

2009 – 2011

PhD student

University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2003 – 2009

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

Robot learning

Present

Publications

SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement
Heni Ben Amor, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Alex Bewley, Yifan Zhou, Kamalesh Kalirathinam, Swaroop Mishra, Pannag R Sanketi
- ICRA 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Self-Improving Embodied Foundation Models
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Ayzaan Wahid, Jonathan Tompson, Pannag R Sanketi, Igor Mordatch
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Robo2VLM: Improving Visual Question Answering using Large-Scale Robot Manipulation Data
Kaiyuan Chen, Shuangyu Xie, Zehan Ma, Pannag R Sanketi, Ken Goldberg
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- WRL@ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Robo-DM: Efficient Robot Big Data Management
Kaiyuan Chen, Letian Fu, Siyuan Fu, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Huang Huang, Kush Hari, Ashwin Balakrishna, Pannag R Sanketi, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg
- CoRL-X-Embodiment-WS 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Vid2Robot: End-to-end Video-conditioned Policy Learning with Cross-Attention Transformers
Vidhi Jain, Maria Attarian, Nikhil J Joshi, Ayzaan Wahid, Danny Driess, Quan Vuong, Pannag R Sanketi, Pierre Sermanet, Stefan Welker, Christine Chan, Igor Gilitschenski, Yonatan Bisk, Debidatta Dwibedi
- Robotics: Science and Systems 2024, Delft, Netherlands
- Readers: Everyone
On the Surprising Efficacy of Online Self-Improvement for Embodied Multimodal Foundation Models
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Ayzaan Wahid, Jonathan Tompson, Pannag R Sanketi, Igor Mordatch
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
VADER: Visual Affordance Detection and Error Recovery for Multi Robot Human Collaboration
Anthony Gerald Francis, Michael Ahn, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Matthew Bennice, Noah Brown, Christine Chan, Nikhil J Joshi, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, sharath maddineni, Dorsa Sadigh, Pannag R Sanketi, Leila Takayama, Fei Xia
- Preprint
- Readers: Everyone
DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair, Ashwin Balakrishna, Sudeep Dasari, Siddharth Karamcheti, Soroush Nasiriany, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Kirsty Ellis, Peter David Fagan, Joey Hejna, Masha Itkina, Marion Lepert, Yecheng Jason Ma, Patrick Tree Miller, Jimmy Wu, Suneel Belkhale, Shivin Dass, Huy Ha et al. (78 additional authors not shown)
- DGR@RSS2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model
Moo Jin Kim, Karl Pertsch, Siddharth Karamcheti, Ted Xiao, Ashwin Balakrishna, Suraj Nair, Rafael Rafailov, Ethan P Foster, Pannag R Sanketi, Quan Vuong, Thomas Kollar, Benjamin Burchfiel, Russ Tedrake, Dorsa Sadigh, Sergey Levine, Percy Liang, Chelsea Finn
- CoRL 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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