Mayur Hulke · Staff Autonomy Engineer at HIVE

Robots haven't had their ChatGPT moment. Yet. 🤖

I’m working out the recipe that makes them work at scale.
Fellowships & technical collaborations
My Journey
Mayur Hulke working in the robotics lab at Almetra
What one machine learns, every machine knows.

Now

Learned autonomy for heavy machines

Staff Autonomy Engineer · HIVE

Retrofitting the machines customers already own, from forklifts to wheel loaders, with one shared intelligence that learns from real work.

Operating in the field · 40+ people across London, Norway and the US

Before HIVE

Factory perception to robot action

Robotics Lead · Almetra

Pre-trained vision-language models that turn factory video into timelines of the work, distilled to run on-station. Then built the robotics team and ran a customer pilot with Franka and UR arms.

60+ factory sites · 10,000 video-hours/day · Seed to scale-up, 40 people

Non-intrusive roadside perception

Built & deployed · Q-Free

An offline, camera-based edge system that recovered traffic counts, vehicle classes, speeds and flow across 4, 6 or 8 lanes and changing weather.

99.7% detection accuracy · 93.5% mAP · 65+ FPS · 10 units deployed across the UK and US

3D vehicle perception & inspection

Built & deployed · BCA

A production vision stack for remote vehicle buying: scene transformation, reflection handling, 360° capture, multi-view 3D reconstruction and fine-grained cosmetic-damage detection.

Inspection time: ~4 hours → under 90 minutes · Millions of vehicle images

Adaptive powered bionic leg

Founded & led · Chisel Robotics

A fully actuated lower-limb prosthesis using multimodal sensing and machine learning to personalise gait and adapt to changes in the user and walking surface.

Under 50 ms closed-loop feedback · 4 NHS trials · Performance legs for a Rio Paralympic gold medallist

The longer story

  1. BeginningsCompetition robots after school, 30+ wins.
  2. Chisel RoboticsA bionic leg that learns from the person wearing it.
  3. Production perceptionRoadside cameras and vehicle inspection.
  4. Perception to actionFrom factory video to robot arms.
  5. Now: HIVEOne shared brain for heavy machines.
  6. The long gameMachines that build before people arrive. 🌕
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