Atharva Rao
I'm Building
Robotic arm with soft gripper and camera for automatic destemming of plants like cilantro, coriander, etc.
Bio
Atharva is a young technical builder based in Canada, where he focuses on integrating robotics into agricultural processes. He received funding from the Merge Club to develop a robotic arm equipped with a soft gripper and camera, designed to automate the destemming of plants like cilantro and coriander. Previously, Atharva worked on projects related to robotics and agriculture, laying the groundwork for his current efforts in automating plant processing.
Milestones
Received a 2nd Ingenious+ grant to prototype robotics hardware + received a 10X Future Founders Scholarship and accepted to Stanford for electrical eng + phil
Worked at a non-invasive BCI startup and helped build out a model, leading to first revenue
Received Ingenious+ grant for an automated machine learning app
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