Nima Gard
Director of AI at Path Robotics focused on robot learning
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Education
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Writing
What's Missing from Robot Learning (Part I)
January 1, 2026A blog article examining gaps in dominant approaches to robot learning and outlining pragmatic steps toward scalable, reliable physical AI systems; discusses imitation learning, world models, reinforcement learning, and simulation ecosystems.
US 11,720,091 B2 — Systems and methods for real-time data processing and for emergency planning
August 1, 2023Issued U.S. patent describing systems and methods for real‑time scenario data processing and neural-network‑based filtering to identify anomaly test scenarios relevant to emergency planning.
Human Contour Detection and Tracking: A Geometric Deep Learning Approach (PhD dissertation)
January 1, 2019Doctoral dissertation focused on geometric approaches to human contour detection and tracking using deep learning methods.
Autonomous welding robots (patent filings/publications)
Patent family and applications related to autonomous welding robots, scan planning, multipass welding, and machine‑learning adjustment techniques for robots.