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manthan patel robotics ai researcher mp about research publications education awards scholar github linkedin manthan patel phd student eth zurich robotic systems lab foundation models for robot perception navigation google scholar github linkedin cv about about me i am a ph d student in robotics at the robotic systems lab eth zurich supervised by prof marco hutter and dr cesar cadena my research focuses on foundation models for perception and navigation for legged robots in the wild i am currently interested in spatio temporal memory and reasoning for long range navigation in the open world previously i obtained my msc in robotics systems and control at eth zurich and did my master s thesis at nasa jet propulsion laboratory on traversability mapping for off road environments i have experience with diverse robotic platforms including legged robots wheeled ground robots and flying robots i am always open to collaborations and discussions feel free to reach out to me research featured research foundation models depth under review 2026 defm learning foundation representations from depth for robotics a dino style self supervised foundation model trained on 60m depth images achieves sota on classification segmentation navigation manipulation and locomotion benchmarks arxiv project code navigation vfms under review 2026 wildos open vocabulary object search in the wild a unified system for long range open vocabulary object search combining safe geometric exploration with semantic visual reasoning using foundation models arxiv project code dataset perception iros 2025 tartanground a large scale dataset for ground robot perception and navigation a large scale multi modal dataset with 1 5m samples across 70 environments for advancing ground robot perception and autonomy arxiv project code vlm benchmark icra 2026 navitrace evaluating embodied navigation of vision language models a novel vqa benchmark evaluating vlms on embodiment specific navigation understanding across 1000 real world scenarios arxiv project code view all publications background education apr 2025 present ph d in robotics eth zurich foundation models for perception and navigation in the wild supervisors prof marco hutter dr cesar cadena sep 2021 apr 2024 m sc in robotics systems and control eth zurich grade 5 9 6 0 thesis grade 6 0 6 0 thesis learning traversability maps for autonomous off road navigation at nasa jpl sep 2017 apr 2021 b tech in mechanical engineering iit kharagpur academic rank 1 140 micro specialisation in entrepreneurship and innovation thesis collaborative mapping of archaeological sites using multiple uavs at mpi is experience internships research jun 2024 mar 2025 research engineer eth zurich robotic systems lab tartanground dataset long range autonomous hiking with anymal sep 2023 apr 2024 visiting researcher nasa jet propulsion laboratory ca usa master s thesis roadrunner m m framework real world field deployments sep 2022 feb 2023 computer vision intern sony research development center zurich spatio temporal cnns for event based vision high speed spin estimation may 2020 apr 2021 visiting researcher mpi for intelligent systems germany bachelor s thesis collaborative slam for uav archaeological mapping teaching teaching supervision 2024 present student supervision eth zurich 7 master s thesis 2 semester thesis 2 plr projects mar jul 2023 teaching assistant eth robotics summer school annual robotics summer school organized by robotx recognition awards scholarships 2023 2024 jpl visiting student research fellowship nasa jet propulsion laboratory pasadena ca 2021 2023 eth d mavt scholarship full merit based scholarship awarded to less than 2 5 of all d mavt masters students 2021 dr b c roy memorial gold medal best all rounder among all graduating 1400 b tech students at iit kharagpur 2021 institute silver medal academic rank 1 highest cumulative grade in mechanical engineering at iit kharagpur 2020 daad wise scholarship research internship scholarship at max planck institute for intelligent systems 2018 2020 inter iit tech meet 7 0 8 0 9 0 three time participant winner 2020 first runner up 2019 second runner up 2018 2019 27th igvc 2nd place autonav challenge among 40 international teams at oakland university michigan usa 2020 op jindal engineering and management scholarship awarded to 100 students across india for academic and leadership excellence email scholar github linkedin twitter 2026 manthan patel built with modern web technologies