Manipulation · ROS
Autonomous Pick-and-Place System
Full-stack robotic manipulation pipeline integrating perception, planning, and control for industrial assembly tasks.
I'm Saniya Patwardhan — robotics researcher, freelance engineer, and perpetual traveler. Currently: London.
I'm a robotics researcher with a passion for both intelligent machines and the open road. B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Gandhinagar (minor in Robotics), now pursuing an MRes in Design Engineering at Imperial College London.
Over the years I've worked across cities and disciplines — from Pune to Seattle — blending robotics, AI, and computer vision to build useful, adaptive systems. This site represents not just my work, but a way of working: traveling light, thinking deep, solving problems wherever they arise.
Download CVRobotics, AI, and computer vision — from research to real-world deployment.
Full-stack robotic manipulation pipeline integrating perception, planning, and control for industrial assembly tasks.
Production-ready detection system using YOLO with custom training on domain-specific datasets, achieving 94% mAP.
Adaptive motion planning for unstructured environments, bridging simulation and physical hardware deployment.
Thoughts on robotics, research, and the life of building things while moving through the world.
The gap between simulation and reality is more than a technical problem — it's a philosophical one. Here's what three deployment cycles taught me.
Read more →Navigating robotics research across two very different academic cultures — and what I learned about learning itself.
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Read more →Motion planning, control systems, and manipulation pipelines for research and industry.
YOLO, OpenCV, segmentation — from dataset curation to production deployment.
ROS-based workflows, hardware integration, and bridging the simulation-reality gap.
Available for async remote work and short-term on-site engagements worldwide.
Whether you're working on a robotics product, need computer vision expertise, or just want to talk shop — I'd love to hear from you.
robotics.saniya@gmail.com