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UTPAL ROBOTICS

About

We build robotics to make robotics more accessible.

A company sitting deliberately between education, hardware, experimentation and engineering — because that is where people get stuck.

The company

People learn robotics best when they can build, break, test and improve a real machine.

Robotics is taught almost everywhere and practised in far fewer places, and the gap between the two is where most people lose momentum — usually not for lack of ability, but for lack of a machine and someone to ask.

Utpal Robotics builds the hardware, writes the material that explains it, runs its own experimental platforms, and takes on engineering work for people who need something built. Each side keeps the others honest.

Robotics workshop with benches of hardware, test rigs and workstations under open ceilings.

What we believe

Four steps, then start again.

Not a methodology. Just the order the work actually happens in, for anyone who has built a machine that did not work the first time.
  1. 01

    Learn

    Enough theory to start, not enough to stall. The rest arrives when the hardware asks for it.

  2. 02

    Build

    Assemble it yourself. Understanding begins at the point your own hands are involved.

  3. 03

    Experiment

    Change it, push it, break it. A machine teaches most on the runs where it fails.

  4. 04

    Improve

    Fix what broke and go round again. Every loop leaves you with a better machine.

Utpal Kant, founder of Utpal Robotics and autonomous UAV systems engineer.

Founder

Utpal Kant

Founder, Utpal Robotics

Autonomous UAV Systems Engineer

Utpal Kant is an autonomous UAV systems engineer and the founder of Utpal Robotics, focused on making practical robotics and autonomous systems more accessible to students, builders and emerging engineering teams.

His work spans UAV systems, flight control, embedded systems, robotics, autonomous systems, quadruped robotics and practical robotics education.

Selected work

The record behind the company.

Competitions, a granted patent and hardware built from the board up — listed as documented, without embellishment.
  • 01

    Smart India Hackathon

    2019 / 2020

    Entered both the hardware and the software editions.

    • Winner — Hardware Edition, 2019
    • Winner — Software Edition, 2020
  • 02

    Custom STM32H723 ArduPilot Flight Controller

    A working flight-controller prototype built on an STM32H723 board, running ArduPilot firmware with IMU, barometer, GPS, magnetometer and MAVLink integration.

    View on GitHub
  • 03

    Quadruped Robotic Platform

    A servo-actuated quadruped designed and developed with gait sequencing, wireless control and mechanical optimisation — part of the wider focus on accessible platforms for education and experimentation.

  • 04

    Non-Invasive IoT Water Flow Meter

    A strap-on measurement system that reads flow through an existing pipe without cutting into it.

    • Patent 202031038046
    • Issued 23 August 2023
  • 05

    Sky Racer

    2nd place

    Second place in a drone-racing challenge organised by Startup Bihar at the IIT Patna incubation centre.

    • ₹40,000 prize
  • 06

    Bharat Drone Shakti 2023

    Presented a rescue-drone system at Hindon Airbase as part of the VAMA SKYLIGHT team.

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