Sai Vivek Venna

Explores future mining challenges (workforce shortfalls, deeper deposits) and proposes robotics-driven solutions and business models to increase automation in exploration, extraction, and processing.

Narrative about building EstateAI (a property-listings app), discussing technical stack, product development lessons (milestones, versions), feedback, and productivity practices.

Personal reflection on three seasons in the First Robotics Competition, team performance, technical and strategic lessons (auto, ranking points, endgame), and member retention challenges.

Technical write-up on building a robot arm with limited budget and time; discusses end effector design, electrical integration, actuator coupling issues, and lessons learned from competition failures (e.g., wireless comms).

Design notes and prototyping details for a simplified quadruped robot inspired by TARS, covering mechanical design choices, balance challenges, and planned control architecture.