From LEGO Cranes to Record-breaking Robotics šļø
I was recently invited to join The Grand Challengers Podcast hosted by Peter Marcus Bach!
Peter, founder of EdenCT, is a leader in urban resilience, sustainability, and blue green infrastructure. With 15+ years in the environmental field and more than 50 published papers, he brings a thoughtful and practical perspective to engineering and innovation. It made for a great conversation.
We started at the beginning of my robotics journey. Growing up in India, I built machines that sparked my fascination with motion and mechanics. During the conversation, Peter and I realized we actually had built the same LEGO set as kids, the 8040 Technic Universal Set. That crane model, packed with gears, pulleys, and pneumatics, revealed how force moves through a machine and how simple mechanics can multiply strength.
Building things by hand at that age develops real intuition. Machines stop being black boxes and become systems you can understand and improve. That mindset carried into one of my early projects, a chess playing robot that required me to think about mechanics, sensors, control, and strategy all at once.
The full episode dives into the future of robotics, the opportunity to modernize heavy machinery, and what it truly takes to design and build machines that perform in the real world. I hope youāll take a moment to tune in.
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Weāre proud to contribute to the conversation about how robotics can transform outdated, inefficient industries like heavy machinery. š¦¾
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