VideoeYSIP 2026, mentor
VLA-Based Bimanual Collaborative Stacking
Two SO-101 arms trained with ACT and SmolVLA to pick, transfer and stack cubes together on real hardware.
- Learning
- Manipulation
- Education & Outreach
Projects
Things I have built, mentored or competed with: autonomous vehicles, learned manipulation, SLAM and the hardware underneath them.
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Mentored research projects
eYSIP 2026 summer research projects at e-Yantra, IIT Bombay, that I planned and supervised. The interns did the building.
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VideoeYSIP 2026, co-mentor
VLA-GRASP: Imitation Learning on a UR5
Pika Sense teleoperation, LeRobot datasets and SmolVLA, on an industrial UR5 that LeRobot does not support.
- Learning
- Manipulation
- Education & Outreach
VideoeYSIP 2026, mentor
3D LiDAR SLAM on a UAV
LiDAR-inertial SLAM from PX4 simulation to flight on a Holybro X500, mapping IIT Bombay buildings.
- SLAM
- Hardware
- Education & Outreach
Projects
VideoSoftware and autonomy lead
NITK Autonomous Campus Shuttle
Autoware on ROS 2 for an L5 campus shuttle: sensor suite, LIO-SAM campus map, autonomous runs.
- Autonomous Driving
- SLAM
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MuJoCo-ROS 2 Quadruped Navigation
A Unitree B2 in MuJoCo bridged to ROS 2: IK, a trot gait and spline waypoint navigation from RViz.
- Navigation
- Planning
- Control
Course project, Microsystem Technology
Piezoelectric Smart Flooring for Robot Localisation
MEMS piezoelectric floor tiles that localise warehouse robots with RFID, and harvest energy as they drive over.
- State Estimation
- Hardware
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ROS 2 Differential-Drive Robot from Scratch
My first robot built from scratch: Raspberry Pi, Arduino and ROS 2 teleoperation, to learn the electronics.
- Hardware
Design competition, Team Duronex
IEEE Skye Expedition: Drone Delivery Platform
A modular CFRP payload platform that attaches to any UAV by electromagnet and drops its load over ROS 2.
- Hardware
- Mechanisms
Code + CAD (opens in a new tab) Design document (opens in a new tab)
Competitions
VideoRank 32 of 62, simulation round
LeHome Challenge, IEEE ICRA 2026
Bimanual garment folding in Isaac Sim with SO-101 arms. Team lemax ranked 32 of 62.
- Learning
- Manipulation
- Perception
National qualifier, top 50 teams
DD Robocon 2023
Chassis and ring-shooting mechanisms for two robots: NITK's first national qualification.
- Mechanisms
- Hardware
Talks and workshops
Talk, e-Yantra YouTube
The LeRobot SO-101 Arm: Introduction to Imitation Learning
A beginner-friendly talk on imitation learning and vision-language-action models with LeRobot and the SO-101 arm, Episode 4 of e-Yantra's SO-101 series. Aug 2026.
~80 college professors
Embedded Systems Faculty Development Programmes
Two-day hands-on programmes on the AlphaBot v2 platform, representing IIT Bombay's ERTS Lab. Bengaluru and Mysore.
40+ participants
ROS Workshop, Women in Robotics
A two-day hands-on ROS workshop under e-Yantra's Women in Robotics initiative. e-Yantra, IIT Bombay.