Work — Kapalik Khanal

§ 01 / PROJECTS

Work index.

Humanoid robotics, manipulation, voice interfaces, and system design. Built at NC State's AIR Lab and in the field.

2026 / Hardware

A 12-degree-of-freedom bipedal robot designed to keep an open-source walking platform within reach of a small budget.

2026 / Humanoid

Running locomotion and manipulation as separate control policies on the Unitree G1, so the arms can work without destabilising the gait.

2026 / Manipulation

Deploying the GR00T N1.7 vision-language-action model on a Unitree G1 and running it on the physical robot.

2025 / Humanoid

A sim-to-real locomotion effort focused on uneven poultry-house terrain, foot placement stability, and gait robustness on the Unitree G1.

2025 / Manipulation

An imitation-learning pipeline for object pickup and transfer using teleoperated episodes, dataset curation, and policy fine-tuning.

2024 / Voice

A voice-driven interface for robotic workflows, designed to make field operation, testing, and annotation more natural in constrained environments.