FieldAI · Electrical and firmware lead
Developing and hardening autonomy payloads for robots operating in demanding, unstructured environments.
Roboticist · Embedded systems engineer
Ajinkya Kamat.
Ajinkya builds the electronics, firmware, and system boundaries behind machines that have to work outside the lab. His work spans industrial robots, research manipulators, and field-deployed autonomy.
More than a decade building physical systems.
Ajinkya has worked across the complete robotics stack: electronics and motor drives, real-time firmware, Linux and ROS 2 systems, control, motion planning, perception, and integration. That breadth is grounded in building real machines rather than treating hardware and software as separate disciplines.
At FieldAI, he leads electrical and firmware work for autonomy hardware deployed on mobile robots. Earlier work includes industrial robot development at Systemantics, manipulation research at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington, and the creation and mentorship of robotics projects through IvLabs.
From original robots to dependable platforms.
Carnegie Mellon University · Robotics Institute
Worked on direct-drive manipulation, distributed CANopen control, impedance control, and robotic disassembly while completing an MS in Robotics.
University of Washington · Personal Robotics Lab
Developed manipulation and motion-planning systems for assistive feeding and unstructured debris-clearing robots.
Systemantics · Industrial robotics
Led electronics, firmware, and software work spanning robot controllers, motor drives, real-time Linux, ROS 2, and deployment infrastructure.
IvLabs · Founder and mentor
Founded a student robotics community at VNIT and has continued mentoring teams building original robots and engineering careers.
Hardware, control, and the software between them.
01 / AUTONOMYField-deployed robot hardware
Rugged autonomy payloads integrating sensing, compute, networking, power, firmware, and operational diagnostics.
02 / INDUSTRIALASYSTR robots
Controller electronics, motor-drive firmware, ROS 2 architecture, real-time Linux, and reliable deployment for industrial manipulators.
03 / RESEARCHManipulation and original robots
RoMan debris manipulation, chopstick-based assistive feeding, direct-drive arms, and the reconfigurable ReBiS snake robot.
Architecture earned through contact with hardware.
APSL grew from repeatedly encountering the same engineering problem: complex machines become fragile when timing, ownership, failure behavior, and hardware boundaries are implicit. Its approach is to make those constraints visible while keeping mechanisms small enough to understand.
The lab combines practical engineering work with reusable tools for embedded and robotic systems. The objective is not abstraction for its own sake—it is helping physical systems remain testable, diagnosable, and dependable as they grow.
Work together
contact@apsl.dev →Have a difficult physical system to make dependable?
Tell Ajinkya what you are building, where it is stuck, and what success needs to look like.