Indraneel R. Patil

235 Escuela Ave

Mountain View, CA 94040

My goal in life is to use technology for the greater good. Currently I love building robots! As a sophomore at BITS Pilani Dubai I used to love sitting into random industry talks or research presentations (sometime more than my normal lectures hoping my professors do not read this) which BITS used to have loads of. In one such talk by Fractal Systems I discovered Robotics and I have been busy experimenting, learning and tinkering with robots ever since.

I grew up playing tennis and all kinds of sports. Through sports I learnt (among a lot of other things) that with repetition, consistency and discipline I can get better at and master something seemingly very complex/difficult at first. That no mountain is too high (even C++ template programming in PCL). Lost count of how many times I have applied that learning in engineering and robotics. Sports continues to be a very wise teacher (GGMU, yeah we have been pretty bad lately, its a real test of patience!).

On my first job at GreyOrange Robotics (thank you Saket for hiring me) I learnt that robotics is a team sport and the best robots are built by the best teams of humans. I was blessed to have worked in what I consider to be the best robotics team in India then.

I have always learnt best through hands on projects than lectures and books. Fortunately Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute was a Disneyland of robots and I made a lot of memories working on Moonranger the Lunar Rover, RoboSAR: the multi robot search and rescue system and StairMasters the staircase climbing vacuum robot.

Building real world robots is hard but I like attempting hard things. Difficult Hikes, Improv, Marathons, Waking up in the morning (jk) Those are the ones that put you in a flow state and that give you the most satisfaction whenever you make progress on them. If you are lucky sometimes you have an all star team to help you. And when you fail which you inevitably will, you just try again. If you enjoy this process, life can be fun and very rewarding (Thats my guess, its TBD)

news

Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
Nov 07, 2015	A long announcement with details
Oct 22, 2015	A simple inline announcement.

latest posts

Apr 04, 2026	(RoboVac) Building a home robot to autonomously clean our house
Mar 28, 2026	Learnings from deploying Human in the Loop Reinforcement Learning (HIL-SERL) on SO-101

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.