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iampaulidrobo

Talk is cheap.
Make me a robot.

I'm Piyush Tailor.

A senior robotics engineer. I build the SLAM, sensor fusion and navigation that let robots and self-driving cars find their way, and I'm heading for physical AI.

Experience

Six years putting autonomy into machines that move: service robots, multi-robot fleets and self-driving cars.

  1. Aug 2025 – nowPune

    Humro

    Senior Navigation & Controls Engineer II

    Building the localization core. A SLAM-based DLIO module fuses raw IMU data with odometry, and a direct lidar-inertial fusion pipeline keeps pose estimates fast and robust in dynamic environments.

    SLAM, DLIO, IMU fusion, lidar-inertial odometry

  2. Sep 2024 – Aug 2025Kochi

    RoshAi

    Robotics Engineer

    Integrated Nav2 with Autoware for vector-map navigation (VectorMapNet) on autonomous vehicles. Led a team of six to design and deploy AVs on private premises, with safety and ADAS features built in.

    Nav2, Autoware, VectorMapNet, ADAS

  3. Nov 2022 – May 2024Bangalore

    Bosch

    Senior Software Engineer

    Planning and navigation for ADAS in self-driving cars, debugged and validated on Bosch's internal simulation platforms. A regular at internal hackathons and tech events.

    ADAS, motion planning, simulation

  4. Nov 2021 – Nov 2022Bangalore

    Microgenesis

    Software & Systems Engineer, for DRDO CAIR

    Multi-floor, multi-robot navigation in ROS 2 and C++. Lifecycle and behavior-tree nodes, SLAM Toolbox and the TARE planner wired into Nav2 for autonomous exploration.

    ROS 2, C++, Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, TARE, g2o, GTSAM

  5. Jan 2020 – Nov 2021Pune

    SVR InfoTech

    Robotics Software Engineer, then Head of Robotics

    Led a mechanical company's move into robotics, adding 30% to revenue. Promoted to head the robotics department within six months, and built an autonomous service robot single-handedly in six months, cutting development time by 40%.

    Techno-commercial partner for FEAST, VSSC ISRO

Open source

Tools I built for the ROS 2 workflow I wanted. All four are free on the VS Code Marketplace.

  • ROS Node Designer

    Draw a ROS 2 publisher and subscriber graph visually, then generate a compile-ready ament_cmake package.

    Get it on the Marketplace

  • ROS Darshan

    Live observability for ROS 2: a particle-flow graph of nodes and topics, message rates, bandwidth, diagnostics and executor state, right inside the editor.

    Get it on the Marketplace

  • ROS URDF Editor

    Build and edit URDF visually, with syntax highlighting, robot-tree navigation, link and joint inspection, and diagnostics.

    Get it on the Marketplace

  • Rosbag Analyzer

    Inspect rosbags, plot topics and measure trajectory accuracy, without needing a ROS installation.

    Get it on the Marketplace

Also mine: the hand at the top of this page. Every crease, tendon and vessel is generated from math, with no model file. Go back and grip it.

Research and recognition

  • Paper · AIR 2021

    Mono camera-based localization of objects to guide real-time grasp of a robotic manipulator

    Advances in Robotics, Robotics Society conference. Paper ID 77.

  • Paper · Springer

    Design of a SLAM map building system for a ground-based robot using ROS

    Published with Springer.

  • Talks · 2020–21

    Speaker on robotics at faculty development programmes, workshops and seminars

    Including RIT and KIT.

  • Press

    FUMOR, featured in The New Indian Express

    In collaboration with NIT Rourkela.

  • Award

    Silver honour, International Mathematics Youth Challenge

    IMYC.

From curiosity to physical AI

  1. CuriosityWhere it all started: opening things up to see how they work.
  2. Electro-mechanical systemsMotors, sensors and wiring on a desk.
  3. Mechanical and mechatronicsB.Tech at LNMIIT, specialising in mechatronics.
  4. Autonomous mobile robotsSLAM, Nav2 and multi-robot fleets.
  5. Self-driving carsADAS planning at Bosch, AVs at RoshAi.
  6. Physical AINow. Machines that perceive, decide and act in the real world.

It started with curiosity: the urge to open things up and see how they work. That led to electro-mechanical systems, the kind you can take apart on a desk and put back together better. Then mechanical engineering with a mechatronics specialisation, autonomous mobile robots, and self-driving cars.

Every step moved the same question up a level: how does a machine know where it is, and what it should do next? Now I'm taking that into physical AI.

Off the clock, it's cricket, long rides on the bike, and doing the impossible anyway.

Education

IIT Bhilaie-Masters, Applied Mechatronics & Robotics, 2024 – now

LNMIIT JaipurB.Tech, Mechanical with Mechatronics, 2014 – 2018

Toolkit

ROS 2, C++, Python and Linux. SLAM, sensor fusion, path planning and perception. Nav2, Autoware, CARLA, Unreal Engine, PyTorch, g2o and GTSAM.

Got a robot that needs a brain?

Let's build it. Email reaches me fastest.