Applied Scientist · Robotics @ General Motors

Hi, I'm Yatharth Ahuja
— great to see you here.

I build perception, autonomy, and learning systems for robots that work in the real world.

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Engineering betterment through automation

I'm an Applied Scientist on the Robotics team at General Motors, working on perception and autonomy for embodied systems. Before this I was a Robotics & AI Engineer at Maven Robotics in the SF Bay Area, and earlier earned my master's at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.

At CMU I worked with Koppers Inc. on an industrial cleaning robot as a sponsored capstone — leading the perception, autonomy and planning subsystems — and researched active perception for robotic manipulation at the Momentum Robotics Lab under Prof. Jeff Ichnowski.

I like engineering solutions that bring real-world betterment through automation — particularly in healthcare, energy, and manufacturing. Past efforts include the Dual-Axis Solar Tracker and an RCT Volume Estimator built for dentists at MAIDS, Delhi, among others.

Always up for a chat on technology, history, sports, or anything interesting happening around us — feel free to reach out.


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Recent updates

2026
  • JunServed as a reviewer for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal.
  • JunPresented our work on ExpReS-VLA at ICRA '26 in Vienna, Austria.
  • JunAttended CVPR '26 in Denver as part of the GM Research team.
  • AprServed as a reviewer for the IEEE CoDIT '26 conference.
  • FebJoined General Motors as an Applied Scientist on the Robotics team.
  • JanExpReS-VLA accepted at ICRA '26.
2025
  • DecAttended NeurIPS in San Diego.
  • NovReleased our work on a continual-learning system for VLAs on arXiv.
  • SepSubmitted our work on lifelong-learning VLA systems to ICRA '26.
  • JunMoved to the SF Bay Area to join Maven Robotics as a Robotics & AI Engineer.
  • MayGraduated from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.
  • AprAttended the Project Eagle Hackathon in San Francisco.
  • FebJoined the JP Morgan Chase AI Maker Space, working on Visual SLAM.
2024
  • NovDeployed DripBot — an industrial chemical-cleaning robot — as a capstone sponsored by Koppers Inc.
  • SepJoined the Momentum Robotics Lab at CMU, focusing on active perception in manipulation.
  • AugCompleted an Image Analysis internship at Glimpse Engineering, optimizing AI pipelines for metal-ion cells.
2023
  • MarAccepted admission to Carnegie Mellon University's Fall 2023 MRSD program.
2022
  • AugGraduated from Delhi Technological University (B.Tech, Electrical Engineering) — First Class with Distinction.