Shubham Sonawani

Robotics researcher focused on turning perception and learning methods into systems that work outside the lab. Experience spans autonomous manipulation for medical applications, vision-guided navigation across solar arrays, pose estimation for NASA's Mars Sample Return program, and human–robot interaction. I am a Research Scientist at Apricity Robotics, where I develop robot-learning and multimodal-perception systems for next-generation healthcare robots. I received my Ph.D. from Arizona State University, where I worked on human–robot interaction, robot learning, and computer vision in the Interactive Robotics Laboratory with Prof. Heni Ben Amor. Current interests include robot learning, multimodal learning for grasping and manipulation, teleoperation, computer vision, and safe human–robot interaction.