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Hey, I'm Ambarish

Ambarish Govindarajulu Kaliamurthi

I wanted to work on machines that move through a room, not only through a dataset. That's why I spend my time on humanoids and perception.

Robotics Engineer @ Toborlife.ai · M.S. Computer Engineering, SJSU · IEEE IMC 2026

Authorized to work in the US. Open to robotics roles.

Currently working on

At Toborlife I help design the full loop on Unitree G1 and Go2: teleop and data collection, training VLAs (Isaac GR00T N1.7, Cosmos Reason 2 and Cosmos 3), and running them on Jetson Thor/AGX. I care about real-time latency, and about keeping the stack in line with current research and how the industry actually ships. The aim is a platform so more people can do this end to end, not only the few who already know every step.

Working on a Unitree G1 humanoid: open torso, boards, and arm joints
Working on a Unitree G1 at Toborlife

Publications

MoRAL: Sensor-Grounded BEV Reasoning for Compact VLMs toward Edge-Oriented Autonomous Driving

Ambarish Govindarajulu Kaliamurthi, Kaikai Liu · IEEE IMC 2026, Fukuoka (presented) · arXiv:2608.02449

I taught NVIDIA Cosmos Reason 2 to read a bird's-eye view we render from LiDAR and radar, then to reason about driving: what is approaching, whether to brake. Two stages: learn to read the scene, then learn to decide. Presented at IEEE IMC 2026 in Fukuoka.

Bird's-eye-view sensor plot: ego vehicle at center, LiDAR points and tracked objects around it
Bird's-eye view of a scene, the kind of input MoRAL reasons over

Experience

Robotics Engineer · Toborlife.ai

July 2026 to present. Helping design the teleop-to-VLA pipeline, with an eye on latency.

Graduate Research Assistant · SJSU

Sep 2024 to May 2026 · MoRAL, AMR stacks, LiDAR fusion, Jetson fleet.

Software Engineer · Smarthub.ai

May 2021 to Jan 2024 · 10K+ cameras, YOLO in production, 97% faster OTA.

Full experience

Skills

Physical AI
Isaac GR00T N1.7 Cosmos Reason 2 Cosmos 3 π0 Isaac Teleop Gear Sonic
Robots and edge
Unitree G1 Go2 Jetson Thor Jetson AGX ROS 2 Isaac ROS Isaac Sim
Perception
LiDAR BEV NVIDIA Warp PyTorch LoRA

Selected work

Bird's-eye view of a driving scene used by MoRAL

MoRAL

A small Cosmos Reason 2 model that reads a bird's-eye view of the driving scene, then reasons about what to do. Presented at IEEE IMC 2026 in Fukuoka.

PyTorch · VLMs · nuScenes · BEV · LoRA

ROS 2 course

ROS 2 course

ROS 2 notes from teaching and from getting Jetsons to cooperate. First node through Nav2.

ROS2 · Gazebo · Nav2 · Jetson

Isaac Sim running in Docker

Isaac Sim in Docker

Run Isaac Sim in a container and stream the GUI over WebRTC.

Isaac Sim · Docker · WebRTC

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Open to robotics roles. Authorized to work in the US. Connect on LinkedIn

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Happy to talk about robotics, the paper, or the tutorials. LinkedIn or email is fine.

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