Aditya Sripada is a Staff Robotics Engineer at Nimble Robotics, where he works on the control systems and performance optimization that keep autonomous warehouse robots running reliably in live fulfillment environments. His work sits at the intersection of mobility and manipulation, focused on the kind of real-world reliability that only shows up after millions of cycles in production. He holds an MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, where he worked with Prof. Hartmut Geyer on control policies for dynamic legged systems. He has published at ICRA, IROS, and IEEE Humanoids. Outside of work, he built TARS3D, a dual-mode walking and rolling robot inspired by the character TARS from Interstellar, entirely independently and without institutional funding. The project was...