PAIR
People, AI & Robots
PAIR Lab is directed by Animesh Garg in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech Before moving to GT, we were at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
Our research vision is to build the Algorithmic Foundations for Generalizable Autonomy, that enables robots to acquire skills, at both cognitive & dexterous levels, and to seamlessly interact & collaborate with humans in novel environments. We focus on understanding structured inductive biases and causality on a quest for general-purpose embodied intelligence that learns from imprecise information and achieves flexibility & efficiency of human reasoning.
Research: Our current research focuses on machine learning algorithms for perception and control in robotics. The principal focus of this research is to understand representations and algorithms to enable the efficiency and generality of learning for interaction in autonomous agents. We work on challenging open problems at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. We develop algorithms and systems that unify reinforcement learning, control theoretic modeling, causality, and 2D/3D visual scene understanding to teach robots to perceive and to interact with the physical world. Read more
If you are interested in joining us, please see details on the contact page.
Research Interests: Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, 3D Perception, World Models.
Current Applications: Humanoids in Personal/Service, Self-Driving Labs and Surgical/Medical robotics.
news
| Jun 17, 2026 | Our work KEYGEN and OG-VLA will be at IROS 2026. |
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| May 17, 2026 | Our work Hierarchical Policy Learning via Spectral Decomposition will be at ICML 2026. |
| Jan 31, 2026 | Our work Amplify, Cobalt, SoftMimicGen will be at ICRA 2026. |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Our work Matterix, digital twins for self driving labs is published in Nature Communications. |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Our work Adatp3R, AnyPlace, TopoCut will be at CoRL 2025. |
press & media
| Jan 15, 2026 | Animesh on Building Deep Tech podcast by Ilir Aliu about robotics and life. |
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| Mar 04, 2025 | Animesh interviewed by AIM Magazine on Anyplace Paper. |
| Nov 06, 2024 | Quoted in Nvidia Blog on HF in Isaac Lab. |
| Oct 14, 2024 | Our work on Sufia-BC in NV Blog |
| Aug 01, 2024 | Quoted by Business Insider and Verge on Teleoperation in Humanoids. |