Summary
Ayush Sharma is a robotics leader and founder with a decade of experience building autonomy, perception, and SLAM systems across agriculture, logistics, AR, and warehouse robotics. As Co-founder and CEO of AuraML in Bengaluru, he’s spearheading a cloud platform that uses procedural and generative AI to produce photorealistic 3D scenes and sensor-accurate synthetic data for training robust, multi-task robots. His background includes hands-on roles in robot navigation and autonomy at Thorvald, Rapyuta, and Hi-Tech Robotic Systemz, and research work on quadrotors and stereo SLAM from Northwestern University and IIIT-Hyderabad. He combines deep academic training in robotics with practical product-building—having translated research algorithms (lidar loop-closure, multi-sensor fusion) into deployed systems for industry partners. Notably, he leverages simulation-first thinking to shorten robot development cycles and reduce expensive real-world data collection. Based in India, he blends startup grit with domain expertise in simulation, perception, and applied ML for robotics.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Robotics, Master's degree Robotics at Northwestern University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at SRCOEM
Bhavan's B.P. Vidya Mandir
English, Hindi