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Mayur HulkeOrbital Memory My Journey

A destination · not a claim

Building the physical-intelligence layer for robots.

Machines that can perceive, decide and act reliably in the physical world—from Earth’s hardest worksites to infrastructure beyond it.

Long-term direction Earth is the proving ground.
The Moon is the first horizon.

Origin · age 13

This story began in a workshop.

I started building competition robots after school, learning mechanics, electronics and code by making the machines real.

30+ national-level winsRoboWar · Robo Soccer · Maze Solver · Mechatronics

Photographic archiveSix machines. Sparks, steel, pneumatics and the first hard lessons in physical intelligence.

Hiro and Tadashi building Baymax in Big Hero 6 Early competition robot chassis being cut while sparks fly Completed early competition robot with a flipper arm Pneumatics and wiring being installed in a competition robot Drive motor and gear reduction for a competition robot Competition robot drive train laid out on a base plate Competition robot mid-build in the workshop

Movement · Chisel Robotics

Restore movement.

A dorm-room bionic leg became five years of building for people who had lost a limb—and a lesson in turning research into something physical.

4 NHS trials · under 50 ms feedbackPerformance legs for Paralympic athletes, including a Rio gold medallist.

Mayur with the intelligent bionic leg prototype

Production perception

Teach machines to see.

Roads, vehicles and factories forced perception to survive months of real operation—not one good demo.

RoadsideDetection, tracking, speed and traffic flow on NVIDIA edge hardware.

Vehicle inspectionApproximately four hours to under 90 minutes.

Factory scaleHundreds of stations across more than 60 sites.

Perception programme visual Almetra Series A team photograph Mayur working at a robotics workstation

From perception to action

Give perception a body.

I built a perception-to-action stack for industrial manipulation: learning from demonstrations where it helps, classical control where physics demands guarantees.

Completed customer pilotFranka Research 3 Duo · Universal Robots · contact-rich tasksGoogle DeepMind Robotics Accelerator · MassRobotics Physical AI Fellowship

Franka Research 3 Duo and Universal Robots laboratory Mayur building the dual Franka robotic-arm cell Google DeepMind Robotics Accelerator cohort Mayur at the Physical AI Fellowship exhibition in Boston Robotics and physical AI programme badges

The operating principle

Earth is the proving ground.

Real customers, strict safety requirements and immediate consequences are how dependable autonomy gets built—for factories, heavy machines and difficult environments.

Perceive → understand → plan → actThe same loop connects roads, robot arms and heavy equipment.

Mayur swimming butterfly Mayur swimming in a competition lane Night dive in open water Mayur surfacing with other divers inside a sea cave

The long game

Build where people cannot yet safely live.

Before people can remain beyond Earth, machines will need to prepare landing areas, move material, assemble habitats and keep infrastructure working with limited supervision.

I am not building lunar machinery today. I am deliberately building the perception, manipulation and autonomy such machines will eventually need.

Explore the full journey

The path is long.
The direction is clear.

NASA lunar excavation concept NASA lunar construction concept
Planetary textures and lunar construction references: NASA · external research material, not Mayur’s work.