Arya Sasikumar
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ROBOTICS ENGINEER · FOUNDER · BERKELEY M.E.T.

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I've shipped robotics systems at Omron, AEye, and 10X Genomics - and built my own companies around robots. $XXM founder, two-time robotics world champion, one utility patent.

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Arya
Sasikumar
ROBOTICS ENGINEER · FOUNDER
Hardware
+ Software
sensors → runtime → deployed robots
CAD
SolidWorks
DFMEA
ROS2
DDS · TF
MCAP
C++
Python
Embedded C
EDGE
Jetson · Pi 5
Coral · ESP32
A
Noble
Leader
S
Son of
the Moon
FOUNDER
3 companies
$XXM built
AUTONOMY
Perception
MPC · LiDAR
AI / ML
VLA data
Edge inference
MECH ENG
B.S. ME
M.E.T. '26
2×
World Champion
$XXM
Revenue built
1
Utility patent
3
Companies founded
M.E.T.
UC Berkeley '26
GSB
Stanford MBA '31
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COMPANIES I'VE FOUNDED

Founder & operator

Universal Intelligence logo01BACKED BY HUMAN CAPITAL
VENTURE · 2025Co-Founder
Universal Intelligence
Robotics data provider for the next generation of robotics & physical AI companies.
Robolabs logo025 LOCATIONS · 30+ STAFF
VENTURE · 2018Co-Founder & CTO
Robolabs
K-12 robotics education centers - 6,000+ students and 7-figure annual revenue.
Robolabs Foundation logo0396 TOURNAMENTS · 1,045 TEAMS
NON-PROFIT · 2023Co-Founder
Robolabs Foundation
Organizes regional & flagship robotics competitions for K-12 students.
WHERE I'VE WORKED

Hardware & research

10X Genomics logo
10X Genomics
Automation HW Eng
Summer 2025
Omron logo
Omron
Mobile Robotics Eng
2023
AEye logo
AEye
LiDAR Field App Eng
2021-22
UC Berkeley MPC Lab logo
MPC Lab
Autonomy Researcher
2023
PROJECTS I'VE BUILT

Selected work

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The self-built leader arm - VEX structure, joint encoders and C++ on a microcontroller
UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE · 2025-26
Leader-Follower Teleoperation Rig
A self-built leader arm driving an industrial follower, instrumented for data.
An NVIDIA Jetson Nano companion board beside the CRC-32 framing code that carries its data to the V5 robot brain
ROBOLABS · 2025-26
Self-Healing Serial Link for Onboard Robot Compute
Self-healing serial link between a robot brain and its onboard compute, shipped as a tested systemd service.
Live obstacle detection running on the robot: the RGB view labelled OBSTACLE 0.61 m beside its depth colormap
ROBOLABS · 2021-26
Full Self-Driving Robot with Onboard Perception
Onboard Jetson perception feeding on-robot C++ autonomy, across five competition seasons.
The fused dual-LiDAR point cloud from two calibrated Ouster OS1 sensors
MPC LAB · 2023
Dual-LiDAR Perception Stack
Dual-LiDAR calibration feeding a Model Predictive Control stack in ROS 2.
The tendon-driven HANDI hand and its sensorized control glove on the bench
UC BERKELEY · 2025
15-DOF Teleoperated Humanoid Robotic Hand
A tendon-driven hand that mirrors a sensorized glove in real time.
Dual-hand tracking with 21 joints per hand, rendered from the pipeline's keypoint output
UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE · 2025-26
VLA Dataset Annotation Platform
Egocentric demonstration video turned into labelled data for VLA training.
Arya Sasikumar, robotics engineer and founder, Berkeley CA
THE STORY

From competition robots to companies

I started in elementary-school robotics, won two world championships, and never stopped building. I graduated from UC Berkeley's M.E.T. program with dual degrees in mechanical engineering and business, and I build companies that put real machines into the world.

Along the way I've shipped hardware at 10X Genomics, Omron, and AEye, organized 96 sanctioned robotics tournaments across nine seasons, and filed a 15-year utility patent.

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