vr teleop still shook, so i swapped to leader–follower. “go to a5” works. grasp training in parallel. also talking to people i’m not ready to name yet.
thoughts on engineering, startups, and building things
weekly build log · jun – sep 2026 · embodied ai on the xlerobot
vr teleop still shook, so i swapped to leader–follower. “go to a5” works. grasp training in parallel. also talking to people i’m not ready to name yet.
back from vacation, a reprinted gripper, an orbbec depth camera, and chess board perception that finally reads 64/64.
no robots, no jetson, no chess. just an island, a lot of tzatziki, and zero commits. the most productive week of the summer.
first vr teleop on meta quest, a custom parallel gripper, destroyed screws, and building a chess robot for remote play.
ssh into a headless jetson, split the video stack, find the example code is broken, and fix it with a cpu vs gpu experiment.
kickoff day in otaniemi — hardware handoff, the challenge ahead, and committing to twelve weeks of writing.
one-off posts
five themes where i think the real money and hard problems actually are: physical ai, energy, compute, biology, and brain-computer interfaces.
stepping into the role of cto at slush — from lego bricks in new delhi to building foundations where thousands of others can create what comes next.