Kikobot Robotics is an early-stage hardware startup in Pune. It began by building robotic arms for education and research and has since moved into industrial-grade arms and its own actuators. Raghvendra says the company builds robot arms for education, research and physical AI, and arms for industrial use cases as well. The lineup includes cobots, delta robots and gantry systems.
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As part of our India Tech Tour series, we visited Peer Robotics' facility in Pune, where Ritwik walked us through the company's robots, manufacturing setup, and engineering processes. We also spoke with Ruchit, Vice President of Software Engineering at Peer Robotics, about the company's approach to deploying autonomous mobile robots in industrial environments.
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Sub-1 GHz radio links sit at the core of a wide range of products, including public safety radios, smart utility meters, RFID readers, and vehicle telematics units. Many of these systems now need to work across several regional frequency allocations without a hardware redesign for each market, while still running efficiently on battery power in a compact footprint. Qorvo's QPA9510 power…
We are all facing a huge transition in tech due to AI. In projects, we can run AI models on PCs, SBCs or even Cloud servers. In this tutorial, we are trying to see if we can run an AI model on a microcontroller board like the ESP32. To test this out, we are going to deploy and benchmark the 260K-parameter Tiny-LLM by Andrej Karpathy using his open-source llama2.c…
ROS 2 has become one of the most important technologies for engineers interested in robotics. But beginners often struggle with the same questions: Should I learn ROS 1 first? Do I need a physical robot? Which programming language should I know? And is ROS actually used in production?We discussed these questions with Shubham Nandi, co-founder and Chief Research…
ESP32 Cameras have become a popular choice for building low-cost wireless cameras, smart surveillance systems, and even small AI projects. But today, there are several options available, from the original ESP32-CAM to newer ESP32-S3-based camera boards and compact boards like the XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense. At first glance, they may look similar, but there are…
ESP32 development boards have been around for years, and we all have been doing a lot of projects with them. They come in various models, with different peripherals, and they perform different levels of tasks. If we are to check into a simple example, we have the normal ESP32 WROOM development boards as well as the same ESP32 with a camera sensor mounted onboard, the…
Athil said his interest in robotics began during his school years, inspired partly by the Tamil film Enthiran and partly by Iron Man. He said he wanted to build his own version of that kind of technology. During that period, Arduino boards were difficult to get, so he started building small robots from whatever components were available.
One of his robots went viral in a video during…
Playing smooth, full-motion video on low-power microcontrollers has been challenging due to memory and processing limitations. But with the dual-core speed, high SPI clock rates and an optimized decoding library on the ESP32, you can turn a simple development board into a working video player. If you want to create custom animations or add dynamic visual UI elements…
In this Physical AI tutorial, we will train a real robotic arm using Hugging Face LeRobot and imitation learning. The project uses the Seeed Studio SO-ARM101 leader–follower robotic arm and a reComputer J4012 powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX.
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From June to July 2026, AI hardware demand affected more than just GPUs, CPUs, and high-bandwidth memory. TrendForce reported that DRAM contract prices would rise by 13%–18% in Q3 2026. NAND Flash contract prices would rise by 10%–15%. The main drivers are AI inference systems and large data center deployments.
The pressure also…
