Shashwat Singh

Hi! I am a third-year PhD student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Zeynep Temel. Previously, I completed my M.S. in Robotics at the University at Buffalo under Prof. Ryan St. Pierre, where I built sub-gram autonomous millirobots with multimodal locomotion.

My research lies at the intersection of robot design and robot learning. I design transformable, morphologically adaptive robots and train them using reinforcement learning to traverse complex, multi-terrain environments. I am particularly interested in sim-to-real transfer, mechatronics, and the co-design of body and behavior.

Outside of research, I enjoy working out, cooking, singing, and playing guitar.

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News

• Jun 2026 Paper accepted to IEEE RA-L: “Physical coupling for collaboration in heterogeneous robot teams.”
• May 2026 Paper accepted to IEEE ICRA 2026: “Terraskipper: A centimeter-scale robot for multi-terrain skipping and crawling.”
• Apr 2026 Paper accepted to IEEE RoboSoft 2026: “From fold to function: Dynamic modeling and simulation-driven design of origami mechanisms.”
• May 2025 🏆 Best Poster Award at ICRA 2025 Amphibious Robotics Workshop for PuffyBot.
• Nov 2024 PuffyBot preprint posted on arXiv: arXiv:2511.09885.
• 2024 Received the Dean's Graduate Achievement Award at CMU for excellence in research and technical publications.
• May 2024 🏆 Best Poster Award at ICRA 2024 Unconventional Robot Workshop for the springtail-inspired microrobot.
• May 2024 Paper published at IEEE ICRA 2024: “Multi-modal jumping and crawling in an autonomous, springtail-inspired microrobot.”
• Mar 2024 Paper published in IEEE RA-L: “Buffalo Byte: A highly mobile and autonomous millirobot platform.”

Publications

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Heterogeneous collaboration: A new approach for search and rescue operations

Boateng, S. N., Singh, S., Ugur, M., Wang, S., Kramer, M., Osei, I., Sobek, O., Martinez, M. O., Temel, F. Z., Blumenschein, L. H.

IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2024), pp. 142–147

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