Ankit Bhatia
Senior Staff Actuator Controls Engineer - Atlas Controls
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Bhatia is a robotics-focused controls engineer with 12 years of experience designing high-performance, physical systems—from a patented two-finger direct-drive hand developed during his PhD at Carnegie Mellon to production motion and behavior controls for Amazon’s tactile Vulcan robot. Now driving actuator and control work on Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, he blends deep academic research in dynamic, reactive manipulation with hands-on firmware and motor-control implementation experience (including custom FOC on TI InstaSPIN controllers). His background spans ballbot drive innovation, miniature screwdriving sensor fusion, and industrial R&D, reflecting a preference for experimental, hardware-first problem solving. Comfortable moving projects from concept to deployable systems, he’s as fluent in low-level motor control and mechatronics as he is in translating those capabilities into robust robotic behaviors in warehouse and humanoid platforms. A less obvious strength is his long-standing habit of simplifying mechanisms—choosing elegant drive solutions that reduce maintenance and improve real-world robustness.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechatronics Engineering at Manipal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School Science, High School Science at Bluebells International School
Github Skills (86)
api10
emoji9
vim9
lua9
neovim9
console9
text-editor9
stochastic-processes8
progress-bar8
nvim8
stochastic8
windows8
kinect-v28
vim-plugin8
delay8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robotics/factorymonitor
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
ankitbhatia/vim
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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