Welcome! I am Siddharth Saha. My friends call me Saha.

I am currently living my dream — studying at the mecca of robotics, The Robotics Institute @ CMU, and working on quadrupeds. I am in the M.S. Robotic Systems Development program, Batch of 2024. My program's cornerstone is the 1.5-year-long capstone project, which I was fortunate to have with Prof. Sebastian Scherer, AirLab. I used the Unitree quadruped robot for search and rescue in unknown and cluttered environments. Through my life’s work, I want to advance robotic capabilities in unstructured environments with three focuses: motion planning, legged locomotion, and optimization.

I graduated from IIT Bombay in 2021, attaining a Bachelor's (with Honors) in Mechanical Engineering and a Minor degree in the Department of Computer Science. During my undergraduate, I was fortunate to work under the guidance of wonderful mentors. I worked with Prof. Leena Vachhani on my Undergraduate Thesis and Prof. Prasanna Gandhi on another research project related to modeling ultra-flexible inverted pendulum

At the institute, I was the founding member of a fully-funded technical team building a quadruped robot and motivated to solve the international urban search and rescue challenge RoboCup Rescue League

My interests lie at the intersection of optimization and planning for legged robots.

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