The Himalayas

Arya Haria

Lucky to be here. Excited to keep going.

ENGINEER · ROBOTICIST · ADVENTURER

CURIOUS ABOUT PLACES, PEOPLE AND HOW THINGS WORK

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The Trail

Currently

Teaching a humanoid robot to carry shopping bags, and building Beni, a budget wheel-legged robot.

In progress

Roboto Origin Humanoid Teaching an open-source humanoid to pick up shopping bags.

Working on RoboParty's Roboto Origin, an open-source humanoid
Simulating it in MuJoCo before anything moves for real
Training it to pick up and place shopping bags
Lesson so far: the supply chain for robot parts is way more broken than you'd think

MuJoCoSimulationHumanoidSourcing

The journey so far

WorkSchool

Zipline Mechatronics Intern · Avionics Test Engineering 37.65° N 122.41° W Made the air-data sensors on delivery drones prove themselves.
- Owned Angle of Attack and Pitot Tube sensors through development, DVP&R and production testing
- Planned test campaigns; wrote Python test apps and Streamlit dashboards; designed fixtures
- Built a company-wide hardware test setup: 4 hours → 15 minutes
Zipline

Cyclic temperature and humidity testing

Corrosion testing

IPX7 water testing

Example of a test cart I built

Worked with contract manufacturers
Contoro Robotics Robotics Intern · NPI 30.27° N 97.74° W Got a box-sorting robot doing its job 80% faster.
- Owned hardware, software and electrical for next-gen box-sorting robots
- Built and tested computer vision algorithms on Raspberry Pi with Python
- Cut task time 80% while using less compute
Box-sorting conveyor

Robotic box-handling cell
Tesla Mechanical Design Intern · Midwest Manufacturing Automation 45.09° N 93.36° W Designed automated manufacturing lines down to the last bolt.
- SolidWorks CAD and FEA on assemblies with 1,000+ parts
- Commissioned $300K+ in machined parts and components
- Standardized in-house sheet metal parts: 85% cheaper than outside sourcing
Tesla

Custom wireway

Wireway feet

Operator station

Clamp arm

Locating pin

Line-wide pneumatics

Cart tugger connector
Tesla Equipment Engineering Intern · Sustaining, Gigafactory New York 42.86° N 78.85° W Built an inspection station that saves $200K of scrap a year.
- Took a new line station from concept to production for under $15K
- Upgraded tools on 4 stations with Atlas Copco: $165K less scrap
- Jigs, extrusion carts and 3D-printed fixtures, working across 8 teams
Inspection system

Vision sensor

Atlas Copco tooling

Extrusion tool stand

Crane-ready extrusion cart

3D-printed shop signs

First Cybertruck in NY
Kohler Co. Product Engineering Co-op · Advanced Development 43.74° N 87.78° W Named inventor on a patent for a low-water toilet. (Yes, that Kohler. Yes, a toilet patent.)
- Developed a modular system across 30+ iterations
- Prototyped in the model shop: 3D printing, CNC, Arduino, power tools
- Presented to the Kitchen & Bath division president
Kohler, Wisconsin
Siebel Center for Design Lab Technician · UIUC Maker Shop 40.10° N 88.23° W Kept a campus machine shop running and safe.
- Ran and troubleshot waterjets, CNC routers, laser cutters, 3D printers (FDM and SLA) and woodworking tools
- Gave tool and safety training to students and guests
- Helped people use the shop's spaces and equipment the right way
GreenAge Materials Additive Manufacturing Intern 19.08° N 72.88° E 3D printing rare-earth magnets from waste.
- Explored 3D printing NdFeB magnets for complex shapes that stay strong at high temperatures
- Startup recycling waste into rare-earth magnets, controlling the supply chain from raw material to finished part
Text and Clicks Social Media Marketing Assistant 19.08° N 72.88° E Wrote about CAD, CAM and NDT for a learning and development firm.
- Blog posts on CAD, CAM and NDT
- Managed the WordPress site
- Social media designed in Canva

Summits

Things I designed, built, broke, and rebuilt.

2nd place ▶ LIVE

RoboJake A basketball robot that finds the hoop on its own.

Navigates the court, detects IR targets and shoots by itself
Servo, time-of-flight and IR sensing

OnshapeMATLABRaspberry PiArduinoPythonC++

1st place ▶ LIVE

Sandia Vision Inspection Automated part inspection inside a 6-inch cube.

Captures images from 5+ axes
Senior design project for Sandia National Labs

Fusion 360Raspberry Pi3D printingProject management

6 of 28 finished ▶ LIVE

Angel A wall-climbing robot with no microcontroller.

Purely mechanical: 4-bar linkages do all the work
Climbs and crosses between two parallel walls
Built in 8 weeks

Fusion 360CreoMATLABLaser cutting3D printing

Robotic Assembly Planning Motion planning for robotic assembly.

Motion planning for a robot arm moving parts between stations

Motion planning

Aerial Robotics A drone that dodges obstacles to pop balloons.

Obstacle detection and motion planning
Raced a competition obstacle course

ROSMATLABGraph theoryDynamics

▶ LIVE

UR5e Inverse Kinematics IK solvers for a 6-DOF arm, from scratch.

Implemented and simulated IK like the MoveIt OMPL library
Calibration, registration and optimization

MATLABRobotics

Honda Civic Revival Bought a 2006 Civic that needed work. Fixed it myself.

Private-seller buy, repairs done by hand
Most hands-on engineering I've done

AutomotiveHands-on

Swarm Manufacturing Robots that 3D print as a team.

Cooperative 3D printing plus hybrid manufacturing
UR5e arm turned into a conformal FDM printer

ROS2MoveIt2UR5e

Gearbox Forward, reverse, neutral, and a brake.

Lifts a 1 kg payload up and down with a pulley
Brake block holds it in neutral

CAD3D printing

Hand-Cranked Titanic A toy with two scenes and a switching mechanism.

Gears, cams and linkages hidden inside the ship's theme

Mechanisms

▶ LIVE

Rube Goldberg Machine Ten steps to switch off a light.

Airborne step, elastics, linkages and a 3-second window
Design of Experiments to predict every step

Fusion 3603D printingWoodworkingDOE Watch on YouTube ↗

NotSkyScanner Flight search that finds the best route and layovers.

Graph model with Dijkstra and betweenness centrality
Team of 4, Data Structures class

C++PythonData mining

1st place

Reimagine Our Future Extracting lithium from geothermal brine.

University sustainability competition

Sustainability

Recycled Glider A glider built from recycled materials.

Target: land within a 1 m radius
Team of 3

AeroDesign

Lumped Capacitance Proved a heat-transfer model by experiment.

Designed the experiment with constant airflow
Validated cooling curves for 3 materials

Heat transferTesting

Nanoborne Helped scale up a nanotech fluid for geothermal and CO2 storage.

Nanoborne makes ESN, a nanoparticle-based fluid that controls flow underground
Sourced suppliers and contract manufacturers to scale US production
Ran chemical quality experiments

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Origins

Degrees, plus the campus jobs and teams that came with them.

UT Austin MS Mechanical Engineering · Dynamic Systems & Controls · Robotics Certificate 30.28° N 97.73° W Robotics, controls, and robots that 3D print together.
- Graduate Researcher, SIDI LabSwarm manufacturing with cooperative 3D printing; a UR5e on ROS2 + MoveIt2 turned into a conformal FDM printer; LLMs for automated assembly
UIUC BS Mechanical Engineering · Minor in Computer Science · James Scholar & Dean's List 40.11° N 88.23° W Where it started: four years of shop time and side quests.
- Research Assistant, Mechanical EngineeringHelped Prof. Leon Liebenberg write his textbook
- Course Assistant, TAM 210/211 StaticsDiscussion sections, office hours, the online forum
- Lab Technician, Siebel Center for DesignWaterjets, CNC, 3D printers, woodworking; tool and safety training
- External Marketing Director, Engineering Open HouseMarketing for the nation's largest student-run event, 20K+ visitors
- Drivetrain, Illini Formula ElectricUpright optimized in Altair Inspire for DMLS printing; brake bias, planet pins, FEA
- Event Staff, State Farm CenterCustomer service at campus events
TU Munich Study Abroad 48.15° N 11.57° E A semester of engineering in Germany, and my first real taste of travelling solo.
- Study abroad + solo travelStudied in Munich and travelled between classes, a lot of it solo

Gear List

VibecoderSolidWorks CAD + FEASiemens NXFusion 360CreoOnshapeROS2MoveIt2PythonC++MATLABGD&TDFM / DFADOE3D printing (SLA/FDM)CNCWaterjetLaser cuttingTest fixturesStreamlit

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