Manikantan Nambi

Manikantan Nambi is a Senior Manager of Applied Science at Amazon Robotics, where he leads a team developing item manipulation systems within Amazon's Industrial Robotics Group. He received his PhD from the University of Utah, where he developed a robot for retina surgery, and previously worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Energid Technologies on controls and simulation software for surgical and other robotic systems. He is best known for leading the creation of ARMBench, a large-scale benchmark dataset for robotic pick-and-place manipulation, and for research on tactile sim-to-real transfer and robotic failure detection.