Sangam Chapagain

Founder building embodied AI for kitchens: Sangam co‑founded Cheforge to build Harmony, an AI-powered robot chef focused on automated prep and cooking (personal and enterprise variants). He has led product demos, user research, and pilot programs while positioning the product for pilots and reservations. cheforge+2

Hands-on robotics researcher and builder: Sangam has a strong practical robotics background spanning undergraduate robotics teams (VEXU and Planetary Rovers), an equipment engineering internship at Tesla, and graduate research building an automated robotic welding cell (UR10e). He blends mechanical design, ROS, path planning, and system integration. sangamchapagain+2

ML + robotics tooling and open-source demos: Sangam publishes reproducible robotics tooling and demos (GPT-ACT repos) that show an emphasis on combining large language/vision models with low-level visuomotor ACT policies and practical training pipelines (Colab notebooks, Hugging Face dataset links). github+2

Student leader and operator-to-founder trajectory: Sangam served in leadership roles in student clubs (McNeese Robotics, Nepalese Student Association at TAMU), participated in YC Startup School and Founders Inc ShipIt, and moved from academic research into founding a startup focused on embodied AI. mcneese+2