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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•

I learn.

I make.

I teach.

  • 1First underwater ROV built in the UAE
  • 6+Competition wins
  • 3Championships for the UAE

Things I have built

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01

Moopa

Screenless AI wearable for elderly people. What I am building now.

WearableAgentic AIReact Native

Posted under 2026

Underwater ROV thruster frame

N.I.M.O.

Underwater ROV. The first one built in the UAE.

ROVPixhawkRaspberry Pi

Posted under 2023-25

AEIT-2025 published paper

Vision-Guided Robotic Arm

Object detection and placement. Published at AEIT-2025.

Computer visionKinematicsPaper

Posted under 2025

04

pastworks

MCP server that stops AI coding agents rebuilding what already exists.

MCPOpen sourceTooling

Posted under 2026

IEEE UAE Student Day award ceremony

IEEE Common Design Project

19th IEEE UAE Student Day, University of Dubai.

AwardDesignTeam of 4

Posted under 2025

Unitree quadruped with LiDAR head

Quadruped and LiDAR

Unitree legged robot with 3D LiDAR for mapping and autonomy.

LiDARROSLegged

Posted under 2025

Line following robot

Autonomous Ground Robots

Line following, obstacle avoidance, closed loop motor control.

EmbeddedControlSensors

Posted under 2023-25

Teaching

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

Teaching a line bot class, truth table on the whiteboard
Line botTruth table on the board, MakeCode on the screen
School classroom during a line following robot session
School classLine following, built from scratch
Motor Fundamentals workshop opening
Motor fundamentalsIEEE workshop
Slide comparing open loop and encoded motor control
Open loop vs encodedWhy your robot drifts
Teaching a room of students
Live demoTorque and speed
Full workshop room of attendees
Full roomStudents and faculty
Closing the workshop session
Wrap upQuestions and build time
Presenting the ROV poster to faculty
Poster sessionPresenting the ROV

Photos

Shot between labs and rides.

Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy in warm bokeh
Spirit of EcstasyRolls-Royce
Silhouette on a mirror flat beach at sunset
Low tideKerala
Cafe racers silhouetted at sunrise on a race track
6am gridTrack day
Motorcycle on a mountain road below Chembra Peak
ChembraWayanad
Cafe racer against a burning dusk sky on wet tarmac
After the rainTrack day

Outside work

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

Cafe racers at dawn
RidingCafe racers, track days and hill roads.
In the Swiss Alps
MountainsSwitzerland, and anywhere with altitude.
With the team at an arcade
The teamCompetition travel is 20% competing.

About me

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.

Get in touch

Email is best. I read everything.

Email adarshbaburaj@moopa.tech
LinkedIn adarsh-baburaj
GitHub adarshbaburaj
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Company moopa.tech