Vibhakar Mohta

Projects

Everything I have built, from a self-fabricated ground vehicle to an autonomous lunar excavator to world models that let a robot plan its way out of its own mistakes. Filter by what you care about.

16 projects
Oct 2025 · Best Self-Improving Agent · 67 teams

ReviveAgent

Point it at a research repository that stopped working years ago and it reconciles that repo with a current one, then rewrites its own playbook from the mistakes it made doing it.

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Sep 2024 to Jan 2025 · NeurIPS 2025 · Spotlight

SAILOR

A learning-to-search method: at every control step the robot searches over imagined latent rollouts for a correction to its own plan, so it can notice it is going wrong mid-episode and steer back. It beats diffusion policies trained on 5 to 10x more data.

Hardware
Feb to Apr 2024 · Course project

Dream4Speed

DreamerV3 adapted for F1Tenth racing, trained on one simulated track from raw LiDAR, then driven on a physical 1/10-scale car with no real-world fine-tuning and no hyperparameter retuning.

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Jan to Dec 2023 · Presented at NASA LSIC

LunAR-X

An autonomous excavator that builds berms out of lunar regolith simulant: a bucket drum that shaves material continuously to hold ground reaction forces low, and a planner that decides where to dig and in what order.

Oct to Dec 2023 · Course project

Play it by Ear

A diffusion policy conditioned on vision, gripper-mounted contact audio and joint states, aimed at the moments in a manipulation task when the camera cannot see what matters.

Hardware
Spring 2023 · Course project

Autonomous Jenga

A Franka arm that builds Jenga towers from a pile of blocks, and, more usefully, notices when a grasp has gone wrong and retries instead of building on the mistake.

Feb to Apr 2023 · Course project

Masked LDM

A mask-aware perceptual loss that pushes latent diffusion to render human faces and poses properly, with no pose skeleton or segmentation map required at generation time.

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2019, published 2022 · IEEE/ASME MESA 2022 · Gold medal

AAROHI

A terrace farming robot that lifts itself up 40 cm steps on a pair of scissor lifts, then plows, sows, rolls, waters and sprays the terrace it just climbed onto.

2020 to 2021 · National runners-up · 6500+ teams

Intelligent Pickers

A warehouse picking system designed for Flipkart's national robotics challenge: a 6-DOF arm sized from its own kinematics and torque analysis, a gripper built around the product mix, and grasp selection on a segmented point cloud. Second in the country out of more than 6500 teams.

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