Krishna Krothapalli's Portfolio

Machine learning & robotics engineer · Munich

I build intelligence that moves beyond the screen.

I'm Krishna Teja, an ML and robotics engineer at Accenture in Munich. I connect perception, learning and control so that a model ends up as a robot doing something useful.

I started in automotive perception at ESR Labs. Now I work on manipulation, humanoid teleoperation and making models run fast on real hardware.

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What I believe about building robots

From my notes
A pose is only useful if you can trust it.

Before a model goes on a robot, measure it on your object, your camera and your lighting. Benchmarks don't tell you how it fails in your cell.

Write the robot layer once.

A clean, robot-agnostic interface turned a Franka-to-UR5e port into a three-day job instead of a rewrite.

Document the limitations, not just the wins.

Every write-up ends with what broke. The next iteration starts with better questions.

Latency is a design choice.

Gloves and trackers over camera hand-tracking, TensorRT over raw PyTorch. Compute, memory and throughput come up in almost every project.

Path so far

  1. 2016 – 2017MSc Computer Science · Kaiserslautern

    Master thesis at Audi Electronics Venture: anticipating lane changes and turns from driver video and CAN data, ~90% accuracy.

  2. 2017 – 2023Automotive perception · ESR Labs

    Segmentation, detection, depth and rain detection, optimised and deployed on Drive PX and other embedded targets.

  3. 2023 – 2025Pose estimation & teleoperation

    OnePose++, FoundationPose evaluation on a Franka FR3, hand-eye calibration, a first glove prototype.

  4. Now · AccentureManipulation & humanoids

    LLM-driven cobots, lab automation on a UR5e, humanoid teleop from Isaac Lab to a real Unitree G1.

Toolbox

Perception & AI

6D pose · FoundationPose · CNOS · LoFTR · PyTorch · TensorRT

Robotics & systems

ROS 2 · Isaac Lab · Docker · hand–eye calibration · C++

Hardware

Franka FR3 · UR5e · Viper 300s · Unitree G1 · RealSense · Zivid · SenseGlove