Pranshu Tople
Co-Founder & CTO at RigBetel Labs
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPranshu Tople is a robotics-focused entrepreneur and CTO with 8 years of hands-on experience building ROS-driven industrial robots and AR/VR digital twin solutions from concept to exportable products. As co-founder of bootstrapped RigBetel Labs, he leads a 25+ engineer team delivering custom automation for manufacturing, inspection, agriculture and defence, with robots exported to over 25 countries and clients including Tata Elxsi, Nvidia and L&T. Academically grounded with a B.Tech in Mechatronics and an M.Tech in Robotics, he has published award-winning research and won 20+ national and international robotics competitions, including Smart India Hackathon 2019. Early career roles at HAL and product/consulting stints sharpened his systems and industrial deployment skills, while his unpaid ROS and industrial robotics teaching via YouTube shows a commitment to community knowledge share. Notably, he transformed a hackathon solution into a sustainable, revenue-first company that remains competitive without external funding.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Ajeenkya D Y Patil UniversityMaster of Technology - MTech, Robotics & Automation, Master of Technology - MTech, Robotics & Automation at MIT ADT University
English, Japanese, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (41)
robotics10
robot10
slam10
simulation9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
gazebo-simulator9
autonomous-robots9
ros9
yarp8
tensorflow8
fusion8
ignition8
neural-network8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PranshuTople/nrf24_JJRC_H36_gesture
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
XRobots/ReallyUsefulRobot
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 5 months
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