Robotics engineer / entrepreneur / world archive
Hey! I'm Kunal, a Cornell robotics engineer and AI/XR founder. I've built software, firmware, and hardware across four continents and several embodiments, including autonomous cars, intelligent humanoids, and bio-inspired swarms.
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A field note from working around robots in Japan: the interesting part is rarely the demo alone, but the choreography around it. In autonomous vehicle deployment, every interaction becomes a systems problem: operators, edge cases, city texture, hardware rhythm, and the quiet discipline of making autonomy behave in the real world.
The work sits between model performance, hardware uptime, operator trust, and the small operational details that decide whether a robot feels useful or fragile.
This carousel is built to take more updates: travel notes, deployment logs, project launches, essays, and short visual dispatches.
Project archive
Robotics projects should open like case files: prototype evidence, mechanism decisions, electrical bring-up, software traces, and the lessons that survived testing.
Open projectsExperience log
A working sequence across robot autonomy, founder work, venture diligence, autonomous EVs, AI infrastructure, humanoids, swarms, XR tourism, and Cornell robotics education.
Wayve / Mountain View. Building and deploying the SoTA robot autonomy stack for self-driving cars.
Entrepreneur First / San Francisco. Iterated on robotics tooling, training, and embodiments in a highly selective incubator cohort.
Battery Ventures / Remote. Sourced and led deal diligence for early and growth-stage tech investments.
Cornell Electric Vehicles. Directed a 60-person team building autonomous, hyper-efficient electric cars.
Cornell Electric Vehicles. Headed design, bring-up, and integration of vehicular electrical and embedded systems.
Amazon AGI / Boston. Developed an ML infrastructure module to accelerate dataset generation for Alexa SLU models.
Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab. Designed perception and control algorithms for bio-inspired swarm robot stigmergic coordination research.
Dynamic Locomotion / Groton. Developed embedded and electrical systems for joint actuation of a high-efficiency humanoid.
Visions / The Hague and Kotor. Led technology architecture for immersive reality tourism platforms backed by the NTO of Montenegro.
Travel atlas
Countries hold photos, edits, travel dates, and notes. Hover or click highlighted places to reveal a compact travel card.
Build base, robotics labs, startup work, road trips, and demo days.
Writing archive
Short essays from the overlap between robotics, company-building, travel, and taste.
Open writing
