2026

 Xun Tu, Minghao Zou, Karthik Desingh
"Grasp-TAGS: Task-Aware Grasp Selection via Critic Distillation for Prehensile Loco-Manipulation,"
arXiv 2026.
[Bibtex]   [Arxiv]   [Project page]  
Yilong Song, Harshvardhan Chandirasekar, Karthik Desingh, Chen Zhu-Tian
"CrowdMAPS: Crowdsourcing Multiple Actions per State for Real-World Robot Imitation Learning,"
CoRL 2026.
[Project page]  
Adam Imdieke, Heidi Woelfle, Brad Holschuh and Karthik Desingh
"Tailorable Force-Sensing Skins for Manipulators Using Textile and Additive Manufacturing,"
IROS 2026.
[Project page]  
Yang Liu, Hanchen Cui, Karthik Desingh
"PILOT: Guiding Long-Horizon World-Model Planning for Robot Manipulation with Visual Subgoals and Policy Priors,"
arXiv 2026.
[Bibtex]   [Arxiv]   [Project page]  
Andrew Liao, Hanchen Cui, Karthik Desingh, Aryan Deshwal
"Active Real-World Factor-Based Evaluation for Generalist Robot Policies,"
arXiv 2026.
[Bibtex]   [Arxiv]  
Hanchen Cui, Sergio Arnaud, Arjun Majumdar, Daniel Dugas, Elie Aljalbout, Karthik Desingh, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Franziska Meier
"DREAMSTEER: Latent World Models Can Steer VLA Policies During Deployment Without Any Finetuning,"
arXiv 2026.
[Arxiv]   [Project page]  
Tzu-Hsien Lee, Fidan Mahmudova, Karthik Desingh
"Learning Category-level Last-meter Navigation from RGB Demonstrations of a Single-instance,"
RA-L 2026.
[IEEE]   [Bibtex]   [Arxiv]   [Video]   [Project page]  
Pin-Hao Cheng, Ronak Narkhede, Matt Rajala, Jared Schultz, Nathan Harbinson, Samuel Fisher, Nitish Poojari, Sharva Khandagale, Alex Berg, Keara Berlin, Adam Imdieke, Michael Feldkamp, Scott Frushour, Kaustubh Patil, Mark Ashby, William Peine, Sean L. Moen, Andrew Grande, Karthik Desingh, Timothy M. Kowalewski
"Towards Remote Thrombectomy with Telerobotically-Driven Guidewires,"
Design of Medical Devices Conference 2026.
[ASME paper]   [Bibtex]  
Alex Berg, Sharva Khandagale, Adam Imdieke, Timothy M. Kowalewski, Andrew Grande, Sean L. Moen, Karthik Desingh
"Vasculature Discretization and Search Space Simplification for Automating Catheter Navigation,"
Design of Medical Devices Conference 2026.
[ASME paper]   [Bibtex]  
Nitish Poojari, Sharva Khandagale, Keara Berlin, Alex Berg, Adam Imdieke, Sean L. Moen, Andrew Grande, Timothy M. Kowalewski, Karthik Desingh
"Strokenav2D: A Skeleton Based Dataset for Cerebrovascular Imitation Learning,"
Design of Medical Devices Conference 2026.
[ASME paper]   [Bibtex]  

2025

 Raj Surya Rajendran Kathirvel, Zach Chavis, Stephen J. Guy, Karthik Desingh
"SENT-Map: Semantically Enhanced Topological Maps with Foundation Models,"
Presented in ICRA 2025: Workshop on Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics.
[Bibtex]   [Arxiv]   [Video]   [Project page]  
Ryan Diaz, Adam Imdieke, Vivek Veeriah, Karthik Desingh
"AugInsert: Learning Robust Visual-Force Policies via Data Augmentation for Object Assembly Tasks,"
IROS 2025.
[Bibtex]   [Arxiv]   [Video]   [Project page]  
Alireza Rezazadeh, Houjian Yu, Karthik Desingh, Changhyun Choi
"InvSlotGNN: Unsupervised Discovery of Viewpoint Invariant Multi-Object Representations and Visual Dynamics,"
Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) 2025.
[Bibtex]   [IEEE]   [Project page]  
Xun Tu, Karthik Desingh
"SuperQ-GRASP: Superquadrics-based Grasp Pose Estimation on Larger Objects for Mobile-Manipulation,"
ICRA 2025.
[Bibtex]   [Arxiv]   [Video]   [Project page]  
Adam Imdieke, Karthik Desingh
"SPARK-Remote: A Cost-Effective System for Remote Bimanual Robot Teleoperation,"
arXiv 2025.
[Bibtex]   [Arxiv]   [Video]   [Project page]  

2024

 Carl Winge, Adam Imdieke, Bahaa Aldeeb, Dongyeop Kang, Karthik Desingh
"Talk Through It: End User Directed Manipulation Learning,"
RA-L 2024.
[Bibtex]   [IEEE]   [Arxiv]   [Video]   [Project page]  
Alireza Rezazadeh, Athreyi Badithela, Karthik Desingh, Changhyun Choi
"SlotGNN: Unsupervised Discovery of Multi-Object Representations and Visual Dynamics,"
ICRA 2024.
[Bibtex]   [IEEE]   [Arxiv]   [Video]   [Project page]  
Chahyon Ku, Carl Winge, Ryan Diaz, Wentao Yuan, Karthik Desingh
"Evaluating Robustness of Visual Representations for Object Assembly Task Requiring Spatio-Geometrical Reasoning,"
ICRA 2024.
[Bibtex]   [IEEE]   [Arxiv]   [Video]   [Project page]  

Full List of publications

Please refer to Karthik Desingh’s list of publications for publications before 2024.