mikhail sannikov

Hi, I'm Mikhail.
I work on robots that learn.

I do robotics and machine-learning research, and I build software people can actually download — an open-source robotics engine in Rust, a few papers on how robots see and feel, and a couple of small Mac apps.

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projects

Things I've built.

Each one has a small live demo you can play with — click through for the whole story.

Caliper

open source

a robotics engine in Rust — sim, data, GUI in one small binary

  • 10.4 MB app
  • 5.6 ms import
  • physics inside
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Wisp

macOS app

set your iPhone anywhere on Earth — from the Mac menu bar

open →

ScanPatch

macOS app

edit scanned PDFs like they were never paper

open →

The Rack

always on

two Raspberry Pis that run my life — bots, backups, this site

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all the demos on one page →
research

Papers.

Mostly about getting robots to work with less — less labelling, fewer sensors, and honest numbers about what actually helps.

ScaffDiff dense 3D scenes from sparse LiDAR — in a single denoising step IEEE SMC 2026 · accepted HapticVLA contact-rich manipulation with no tactile sensor at inference IROS 2026 · accepted Phantom a world model that feels the contact coming before it happens ICRA 2027 · in progress
contact

Say hi.

If you're working on something interesting, or just have a question, send me a line. Email is best. I read everything.

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