Sohail Sayed

@uwaterloo systems design engineering

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

1/ I built an autonomous rover in my mom's basement completely from scratch.

chassis, drivetrain, PCBs, STM32 firmware, controls, inference, all of it.

In this demonstration, it’s controlled by a neural network, trained to push objects into a goal zone (like Ronaldo on wheels).

Here’s everything it took me to bring this rover to life:

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

@rameez_rishard @KadriJibraan certified authentic Scarborough man

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@chrisfashek Thanks Chris! It was worth staying up for

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

1/ I built an autonomous rover in my mom's basement completely from scratch.

chassis, drivetrain, PCBs, STM32 firmware, controls, inference, all of it.

In this demonstration, it’s controlled by a neural network, trained to push objects into a goal zone (like Ronaldo on wheels).

Here’s everything it took me to bring this rover to life:

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

@rdotapps The original shunt layout didn’t actually include a Kelvin connection. I never tested those PCBs with any serious current draw - the current shunt layout hasn’t had any problems (yet), the measured current seems to be pretty accurate (from when I testing with a bench supply)!

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

@krystiangebis Thanks!

[Landon @landon20s]

This rover project was made possible with the support of the Electrical Lab at @mHUBChicago

Space matters

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

@landon20s @mHUBChicago Shoutout @mHUBChicago for the space!

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

12/ What's Next (for me)
I graduate Systems Design Engineering at @UWaterloo this month!

DM me if you know any cool teams building in the robotics/Physical AI space that are looking to add engineers! I'm looking for cracked teams to continue building robots at full-time!

Read more about FindBot in the full blog I wrote about it: https://t.co/dOT11AS3WO

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

11/ What's Next

This was an initial demonstration to prove I could build a robot capable of deploying a learned control policy in the physical world. I want to continue exploring this by:

1) Exploring more capable models (VLAs, RL)
2) Expanding FindBots capabilities, particularly its ability to manipulate and interact with the world (beyond pushing objects)

[Sohail Sayed @SohailMSayed]

My website got breached with fake captcha malware just 4 days after I tweeted about it LOL

make sure to keep ur nextjs up to date

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Added Clippy to my personal site. If you dismiss him he cries (until u click on him again)
https://t.co/EvTxTOuKx0