About me

I'm a young builder with
a problem-solving instinct.

For me, robotics is not a collection of machines. It is a way to understand a problem, test an idea and make the physical world respond.

Portfolio focusRobotics · Agriculture · Water · Automation
10+Years of
hands-on curiosity
Pranay holding the Kheti Insight agricultural robot he built

My story

It started with making.
It grew through meaning.

LEGO robotics gave me the joy of seeing an idea move. Arduino opened a much wider world for me: sensors, electronics, code and connected systems.

Over time, my questions changed. Instead of only asking “Can I build this?”, I started asking “Who could this help?” That shift led me toward agriculture, water conservation and useful home automation.

Build enough to learn. Test enough to know. Improve enough to make it useful.

My process

How I
solve problems.

The path I follow, from noticing something that could be better to a prototype that actually works.

01

How I spot a problem

I pay attention to everyday friction—things that waste time, water, energy or effort. When a task annoys me, or I watch someone struggle with it (a farmer, someone at home, a classmate), I ask whether a machine, a sensor or a bit of code could do it better.

02

How I frame it

I make the problem small and specific before I touch any hardware. I pick one clear use case instead of trying to fix everything at once, then decide the simplest version that could actually work.

03

How I build and test

I build a rough prototype fast, then test one behaviour at a time and watch what breaks. Every failure points to the next change—the structure, the wiring or the logic. I keep iterating until it runs reliably.

04

How I know it works

I look for evidence, not opinions: does it do the job, repeatably, in real conditions? Then I write down what I learned so the next project starts from a better place.

Recognition

Awards along the way.

Moments from robotics championships, maker showcases and science programmes—recognition that has followed the work rather than driven it.

Pranay with a first-place robotics championship trophy
National Robotics ChampionshipFirst place
Pranay receiving a robotics championship award on stage
National Robotics ChampionshipAward ceremony
Pranay receiving a Maker certificate
Maker Award“You are a Maker!” certificate
Pranay holding a large winner's trophy at an athletics meet
5th ISSO National Athletic Meet 2023Winner
Pranay receiving a certificate at a Singapore science camp
Singapore International Science CampCertificate of Achievement, NUS

Published research · peer-reviewed

Exploring blade design & size optimization in wind turbines.

My research paper on how blade length and wind speed affect the power a wind turbine can produce—a software simulation run across four locations in India, published in the International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research (IJFMR).

Read the full paper

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