Aaryan Agrawal
Robotics engineer. California.
I'm a robotics engineer. I studied Mechatronics at Dartmouth — a high-mix track within the field of engineering — and now work at manager level at Service Robot Co., where we deploy and service commercial robots. My job is making robots work at real sites: cell bring-up, FAT/SAT, end-of-arm tooling, operator training, and remote diagnostics on ROS 2 fleets.
I work across the stack — hardware design, fabrication, software, and AI.
I like reading about industrial robotics and IoT, entrepreneurship and enterprise sales, and evolutionary psychology. During downtime, I enjoy skiing, surfing, house and rock music, and international culinary art.
Engineer & physicist
Engineering
As a designer for mechanical and/or electrical projects, I really value intentional, intuitive, and aesthetic design even when building function-driven products.
Physics
Sampling and modelling the world to then produce outputs, either predictions using AI or instructions for actuators, gets me excited.
Projects
Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge — cable-insertion policy
A cable-insertion policy for the Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge.
Robot Learning · Manipulation · Industrial Robotics
Robot Field Service — BellaBot-class deployments at Service Robot Co.
Deploying and servicing commercial service-robot fleets at real customer sites.
Deployment · FAT/SAT · ROS 2 Fleet Diagnostics · Operator Training
Vacuum-Gripper EOAT — Verne Robotics (YC S25)
A vacuum-gripper end-of-arm tool, shipped to a 3PL pilot in one week.
EOAT · Rapid Prototyping · Teleoperation · MQTT / AWS IoT
Autonomous 1/10th Racecar — UCSD Triton AI · dubbed 'Waymo at Home'
A scaled autonomous vehicle with RGBD, LiDAR, and GPS-IMU sensing on a Jetson, built with UCSD Triton AI.
ROS 2 · Jetson Nano · Imitation Learning · RGB & LiDAR Fusion
6-DoF Pose Estimation of Packaged Foods — NVIDIA Isaac ROS 2 · DOPE
Real-time 6-DoF pose estimation for robotic grasping with NVIDIA's DOPE on Isaac ROS 2 — sub-5 cm accuracy.
ROS 2 on Linux · Coordinate Transformations · Model Validation & Testing · Computer Vision
Ski Jumper Frontflip Robot
Embedded electronics and firmware for an aerial robot performing controlled 360° rotations in ballistic flight.
Embedded C++ · Hardware-in-the-loop Testing · Closed-loop Control · Sensor Fusion & Filtering
Multimedia Educational Unit for Nepalese Schools — Looma Education
Motherboard redesign for an affordable multimedia education unit powering Nepalese classrooms.
Design Verification & Validation · Power Electronics · Embedded Storage · PCB Design & Assembly
Vehicle Dynamics Sensor PCB — Dartmouth Formula Racing
Custom PCB collecting throttle, steering, wheel-speed, and brake-pressure data over CAN for the formula car.
PCB Design & Assembly · Documentation · Benchtesting · Embedded Software
Maze-Navigating Robot Mice Swarm — dubbed 'Gophers'
Four maze-navigating robots built for Dartmouth's ENGG415 Distributed Computing course, taught to 30+ students globally.
Distributed Computing · Embedded Electronics · Digital Control in C · CAD
Analog Heartrate Analyzer
An analog heart-rate monitor that detects heartbeats through a microphone stethoscope.
Circuit Design · Circuit Simulation · Benchtesting · Breadboard Prototyping
AI Barbell Weightlifting Tracker — dubbed 'BarSpot'
A velocity-based training device that clips onto any barbell for real-time and post-session feedback.
User Testing · CAD · Rapid Prototyping · Design Validation
Finite Element Method Simulations for PDEs
A finite-element simulation engine in C for heat flow, waves, vibrations, fluids, hydrology, and solid mechanics.
Data Structures · Numerical Methods · C · Matlab
Experience
2025 –
Service Robot Co. · Manager, robot deployment & service
Commercial robot deployment and service: cell bring-up, FAT/SAT, EOAT integration, operator training, and ROS 2 fleet diagnostics for BellaBot-class service-robot fleets.
2025
Verne Robotics (YC S25) · Robotics engineer
Built a vacuum-gripper end-of-arm tool and shipped it to a 3PL pilot in one week; teleoperation over MQTT / AWS IoT.
2025
Nautilus (YC S25) · Growth
B2B go-to-market: $200 to $20K MRR.
2024 –
Torrey Labs · Co-founder
AI consultancy: 50+ hospitality venues, a top-3 CRE brokerage, courts in 5 states.
2023 – 25
Dartmouth Formula Racing · Electronics
Vehicle dynamics sensor PCB: design, assembly, bench testing, CAN integration. Bound by a passion for motorsport — 15 Thayer Drive, Hanover, NH.
2024
Looma Education · Volunteer engineer
Redesigned the motherboard for an affordable multimedia education unit used in Nepalese schools.
Education
Class of 2025
Dartmouth College
B.A. Engineering Sciences (3.80) and B.E. Mechatronics (3.87).
Graduate coursework
Carnegie Mellon University
Computer vision & machine learning.
Graduate coursework
UC San Diego
Autonomous navigation, sensor fusion, and ROS 2.
Certifications: PMP (pending) · SolidWorks CSWA
Skills
- Robotics & controls
- ROS 2 · sensor fusion & filtering · computer vision (6-DoF pose estimation) · closed-loop control · teleoperation (MQTT / AWS IoT)
- Software
- C / C++ · Python · embedded C++ · hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Electrical
- PCB design (Altium / KiCad) · SMD soldering · STM32 / ESP32 / Arduino / Jetson · CAN · oscilloscopes
- Mechanical
- SolidWorks / OnShape (CSWA certified) · GD&T · CAD
- Fabrication
- CNC mill & lathe · 3D printing · hand-soldered wiring harnesses
Contact
The fastest way to reach me is email: aaryanragrawal@gmail.com
