Pannaga Sudarshan
Robotics Engineer
- Role
- Founding Robotics Engineer at Kovari
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Pannaga Sudarshan
Robotics Engineer specializing in perception, manipulation, and autonomous navigation. Currently at Kovari Industries, building and deploying autonomous semi-humanoid mobile robots with SLAM, sensor fusion, and grasping in real-world environments. MS in Robotics from the University of Michigan, where I worked on imitation learning for bimanual manipulation (ARM Lab), 3D Gaussian Splatting for robotic grasping (ROAHM Lab), and 6DoF pose estimation for industrial robots (Smart Manufacturing Lab). Previously a Robotics Software Engineer at Avea Robotics, building VR teleoperation and 3D reconstruction systems.Areas of interest: 3D Robot Perception, Manipulation, SLAM, and Robot Learning.Technical skills: C++, Python, ROS2, MoveIt2, PyTorch, Isaac Sim, Visual SLAM, Sensor Fusion, Diffusion Policy, 3D Vision, Docker.
Experience
Founding Robotics Engineer
Dec 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Building autonomous cleaning bots!
Education
University of Michigan
Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering
JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Kendriya Vidyalaya
1st Grade - 10th Grade
2005 — 2015
Rashtrotthana Vidya Kendra PU College
+1 and +2 in Physics Chemistry Mathematics Electronics
2015 — 2017
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