People

Yashraj Narang

I lead the Seattle Robotics Lab (SRL) in NVIDIA Research. Team members are experts in perception, task and motion planning, control, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, simulation, sim-to-real transfer, and VLAs. We take an AI, compute, and simulation-driven approach to solve some of the hardest problems in robotics.

Note: The Publications section below is incomplete. Please see Google Scholar for a complete list of publications and patents.

Research Area(s)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Generative AI
Physical AI
Robotics
Main Field of Interest
Robotics
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=M3NuG7AAAAAJ&view_op=list_works…

Publications

2023

DeXtreme: Transfer of Agile In-Hand Manipulation from Simulation to Reality
Ankur Handa, Arthur Allshire, Viktor Makoviychuk, Aleksei Petrenko, Ritvik Singh, Jingzhou Liu, Denys Makoviichuk, Karl Van Wyk, Alexander Zhurkevich, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Yashraj Narang, Jean-Francois Lafleche, Dieter Fox, Gavriel State
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13702
DefGraspNets: Grasp Planning on 3D Fields with Graph Neural Nets
Isabella Huang, Yashraj Narang, Ruzena Bajcsy, Fabio Ramos, Tucker Hermans, Dieter Fox
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
IndustReal: Transferring Contact-Rich Assembly Tasks from Simulation to Reality
Bingjie Tang, Michael A. Lin, Iretiayo Akinola, Ankur Handa, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Fabio Ramos, Dieter Fox, Yashraj Narang
Paper

2022

Factory: Fast Contact for Robotic Assembly
Yashraj Narang, Kier Storey, Iretiayo Akinola, Miles Macklin, Philipp Reist, Lukasz Wawrzyniak, Yunrong Guo, Adam Moravanszky, Gavriel State, Michelle Lu, Ankur Handa, Dieter Fox
Accelerated Policy Learning with Parallel Differentiable Simulation
Jie Xu, Viktor Makoviychuk, Yashraj Narang, Fabio Ramos, Wojciech Matusik, Animesh Garg, Miles Macklin
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022
DefGraspSim: Physics-Based Simulation of Grasp Outcomes on 3D Deformable Objects
Isabella Huang, Yashraj Narang, Clemens Eppner, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Miles Macklin, Ruzena Bajcsy, Tucker Hermans, Dieter Fox
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

2021

Interpreting and predicting tactile signals for the SynTouch BioTac
Yashraj Narang, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Karl Van Wyk, Arsalan Mousavian, Dieter Fox
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) 2021
DexYCB: A Benchmark for Capturing Hand Grasping of Objects
Yu-Wei Chao, Wei Yang, Yu Xiang, Pavlo Molchanov, Ankur Handa, Jonathan Tremblay, Yashraj Narang, Karl Van Wyk, Umar Iqbal, Stan Birchfield, Jan Kautz, Dieter Fox
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
Sim-to-Real for Robotic Tactile Sensing via Physics-Based Simulation and Learned Latent Projections
Yashraj Narang, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Miles Macklin, Arsalan Mousavian, Dieter Fox
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021