Adarsh Baburaj

I learn.

I make.

I teach.

1First underwater ROV
built in the UAE

6+Competition
wins

3Championships for
the UAE

First underwater ROV built in the UAE◇ Robotics Championship, twice, representing the UAE◇ IEEE Region 8 Sustainable Solution winners◇ Most Innovative Project, Bharat Tech Foundation◇ Best Entrepreneur Award◇ IEEE UAE Student Day◇ First underwater ROV built in the UAE◇ Robotics Championship, twice, representing the UAE◇ IEEE Region 8 Sustainable Solution winners◇ Most Innovative Project, Bharat Tech Foundation◇ Best Entrepreneur Award◇ IEEE UAE Student Day◇

01 / Work

Things I have built.

Click any of them to open the full breakdown.

02 / Teaching

Teaching.

Motor fundamentals to engineering students, line following bots to school kids. Gotta spark the next generation.

School classroom during a line following robot session — **School class**Line following, built from scratch

Motor Fundamentals workshop opening — **Motor fundamentals**IEEE workshop

Slide comparing open loop and encoded motor control — **Open loop vs encoded**Why your robot drifts

Teaching a room of students — **Live demo**Torque and speed

Full workshop room of attendees — **Full room**Students and faculty

Closing the workshop session — **Wrap up**Questions and build time

Presenting the ROV poster to faculty — **Poster session**Presenting the ROV

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03 / Photos

Photos.

Shot between labs and rides.

Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy in warm bokeh — **Spirit of Ecstasy**Rolls-Royce

Silhouette on a mirror flat beach at sunset — **Low tide**Kerala

Cafe racers silhouetted at sunrise on a race track — **6am grid**Track day

Motorcycle on a mountain road below Chembra Peak — **Chembra**Wayanad

Cafe racer against a burning dusk sky on wet tarmac — **After the rain**Track day

04 / Outside

Outside work.

Bikes, mountains, and the people I end up travelling with.

Cafe racers at dawn — **Riding**Cafe racers, track days and hill roads.

In the Swiss Alps — **Mountains**Switzerland, and anywhere with altitude.

With the team at an arcade — **The team**Competition travel is 20% competing.

05 / About

Mechatronics and robotics engineer.

I graduated from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai in November 2025, in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation Engineering.

We were the first team in the UAE to build an underwater ROV. First undergrad team to do it, and the first robotics team to do it.

Right now I am building Moopa, a screenless AI wearable for elderly people. Before that I freelanced for Leap Interactive, run by my old professor, which once meant flying to Saudi on a few hours notice to set up their interactive hubs on my own.

I teach as well. Motor fundamentals to engineering students, line following bots to school kids.

Awards

2xRobotics Championship, representing the UAE
01Best Entrepreneur Award, inter university
01Sustainable Solution winners, IEEE Region 8
01Most Innovative Project, Bharat Tech Foundation
01IEEE UAE Student Day, Common Design Project
01Paper published on underwater ROVs

What I work with

Hardware

Underwater ROV design, sealed pressure housings, thruster and power distribution, 3D printing, aluminium fabrication

Electronics

Pixhawk and ArduSub, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, micro:bit, BLDC and ESC control, encoders, sensor integration

Software

Python, C/C++, TypeScript, React Native, Kotlin, OpenCV, ROS, inverse kinematics

Also

Teaching, agentic AI tooling, photography

Other things I have built

Mudra

Phone launcher for elderly users, stripped down to video calls with family. It led directly to Moopa.

Garage

Car maintenance tracker that connects owners to local garages for bills and bookings.

Proptech

Property investment decision layer built as a multi agent debate rather than a single score.

dabi

Focus and task manager I built for myself, which tracks my work and rates it. dabi-pi.vercel.app

Get in touch.

Emailadarshbaburaj@moopa.tech LinkedInadarsh-baburaj GitHubadarshbaburaj X@adarshbaburj Companymoopa.tech