Anikait Singh
Papers
8
Total Citations
542
H-Index
6
About
Anikait Singh is an influential robotics and machine learning researcher whose work sits at the intersection of reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and large-scale foundation models for robotic control. His research has made significant strides in enabling robots to generalize across diverse tasks by leveraging Internet-scale data and offline learning paradigms. Singh's most celebrated contribution is his work on RT-2, a vision-language-action model that transfers web-scale knowledge directly into robotic control, enabling emergent semantic reasoning in physical systems — a paper that has already garnered 267 citations since 2023. Equally impactful is his involvement in the Open X-Embodiment initiative, which consolidated robotic learning datasets across multiple embodiments to train generalist robot policies, accumulating nearly 220 citations across its iterations. A recurring theme in Singh's research is the principled use of offline reinforcement learning — understanding when and how it outperforms behavioral cloning, developing practical workflows for its deployment, and extending it to learn from Internet video data. His benchmark dataset D5RL further reflects his commitment to rigorous, standardized evaluation. Collectively, his work is shaping the foundation for scalable, data-driven robotic intelligence.
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Top Papers
- 1RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control267 citations · 2023
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- 3Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models101 citations · 2023
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- 6A Workflow for Offline Model-Free Robotic Reinforcement Learning6 citations · 2021
- 7Robotic Offline RL from Internet Videos via Value-Function Learning5 citations · 2024
- 8D5RL: Diverse Datasets for Data-Driven Deep Reinforcement Learning2 citations · 2024