DWG DA-0001 · Rev E
I make robots for a living.
Robotics hardware engineer

Deepit Arora

End-to-end robot hardware
System design · PCB · Mechanical
Embedded code · Rapid prototyping
01 / 06

Opalin

Robotics hardware engineer · founding team2026 – now

Physical AI for real-world operations. I design the arm's hardware: the mechanics, intricate flex PCBs and the sensing around them.

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02 / 06

Cargo Robotics

Assoc. robotics hardware engineer · founding team2025 – 26

Warehouse on wheels. I worked on the actuators and power management, and on the robot's physical design.

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03 / 06

ASU × Mayo Clinic

Graduate researcher · Bio-Inspired Robotics, Technology & Healthcare Lab2024 – 25

I designed and manufactured miniature magnetic robots to steer to and capture blood clots in stroke thrombectomy. Patent pending.

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04 / 06

ClearFlame Engine Technologies Intern

Controls engineer2024

Heavy-duty engines that run on ethanol. I built the on-board diagnostics in OpenECU and Simulink, to SAE J1939.

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05 / 06

ThorDrive AI Intern

Mechatronics engineer2022 – 23

Autonomous baggage tractors at CVG airport. I integrated the sensors and actuators and the CAN link between the MCU and VCU.

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06 / 06

Devils Prosthetics

Electrical systems lead2022 – 23

A 3D-printed myoelectric arm for children. I designed the electrical system: EMG muscle sensing and the servos it drives.

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wall

A few souvenirs. Tap one to jump to it.

Die-cut, not to scaleNo laptops were harmed

Build
log

The jobs behind the machines above.

2026Now

Opalin

Robotics hardware engineer · founding team

Hardware for physical AI in real-world operations. I design the robot's mechanics, intricate flex PCBs and the sensing around the arm.

MechanicalIntricate flex PCBsSensing
OPALIN
Under NDA
202512 months

Cargo Robotics

Associate robotics hardware engineer · founding team

Warehouse on wheels. Joined before the Series A and worked on the actuators, power management and the robot's physical design, along with the electronics cabinet, PCBs, harnesses and CAN bus, to get it ready for customer pilots.

ActuatorsPower managementPhysical designCAN bus
Line illustration of Cargo Robotics' delivery van
Illustration: Cargo Robotics · work under NDA
2024ASU × Mayo Clinic

Bio-Inspired Robotics, Technology & Healthcare Lab

Graduate researcher · medical robotics · ASU × Mayo Clinic

Co-invented the patent-pending M3 thrombectomy robot. Designed and manufactured miniature magnetic robots to steer to and capture blood clots, ran the FEA, and helped build the vision-based tracking.

Patent pendingISMR 2025UR16e
M3 robot test rig
M3 test rig
2024Remote

ClearFlame Engine Technologies Intern

Controls engineer

Built on-board diagnostics for heavy-duty engines that run on ethanol instead of diesel: modular Simulink libraries that monitor digital, analog and CAN signals across the engine, plus a test harness to validate them.

OBDOpenECUSimulinkSAE J1939
ClearFlame's ethanol-powered Class 8 truck
Ethanol truck · photo: ClearFlame
2022CVG airport

ThorDrive AI Intern

Mechatronics engineer

Integrated sensors and actuators on autonomous airport baggage tractors, wrote a J1939 layer carrying 60+ sensor messages between the MCU and VCU, and automated analysis of 4.5M+ lines of CAN, IMU and GNSS logs. Product video ↗

Sensors + actuatorsCAN · J1939MATLAB · ROS
ThorDrive autonomous cargo tractor on an airport apron
ThorDrive tractor · photo: ThorDrive

Selected
work

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M3 thrombectomy robot
01 MEDICAL ROBOTICS

M3 thrombectomy robot

A modular magnetic robot for stroke thrombectomy. Steered by an external magnet on a UR16e arm, its segments travel through the vessel and expand at the clot. Built at ASU's Bio-Inspired Robotics, Technology & Healthcare Lab with Mayo Clinic.

1Provisional patent
ISMR2025 poster
MayoClinic collaborator
Devils Prosthetics arm
02 PROSTHETICS

Devils Prosthetics

Led the electrical design of a 3D-printed myoelectric arm for children, from the muscle sensors to the servos, and co-wrote the grant applications. An EPICS at ASU project.

$15kProject grants
2 yrsLead
2Awards
Project page ↗
Soft-robotic ostrich
03 SOFT ROBOTICS

Soft-robotic ostrich

Tuned an ostrich-inspired gait in MuJoCo with soft-body physics, then built the robot with an ESP32 and servos and compared its stride and stability with the sim. Group project.

MuJoCoSim
ESP32Brain
2Legs
Video ↗
CAD render of the Sun Devil Robotics URC rover with its robotic arm
URC rover · CAD render
04 ROBOTICS CLUB

Sun Devil Robotics

Led the robotic arm on the club's rover for the University Rover Challenge (URC), and helped run the 50-member club on the management team.

ArmSubsystem lead
URCCompetition
50Members

School +
side quests

Where the habits came from.

Arizona State University · Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

BSE and MS
Robotics

Hackathons · weekends well spent

6 podiums
$22k+ in prizes

2ndDevils Invent · HoneywellVoice-assistant co-pilot
2ndDevils Invent · HoneywellQA + inventory automation
2ndHacksForHumanityLLM community resolution app
3rdDevils Invent · LANLGesture-controlled robot arm
3rdDevils Invent · HoneywellMulti-robot part delivery
3rdHabitHacksRobotic desk assistant
Awards
Leadership + teaching

Research
+ patent

From ASU's Bio-Inspired Robotics, Technology & Healthcare Lab.

Poster · ISMR 2025 Miniature Magnetic Modular (M3) Robot for Endovascular Thrombectomy D. Arora, T. Zhang, M. Ghiyasi, N. Gangrade, H. Marvi · International Symposium on Medical Robotics
Provisional patent application · US 63/766,185 Thrombectomy Apparatus with Magnetically Expandable Segments Co-inventor · with the Bio-Inspired Robotics, Technology & Healthcare Lab and Mayo Clinic
Poster · Southwest Robotics Symposium 2024 Robotic System for PTSD and Drug-Resistant Epilepsy M. Ghiyasi, T. Zhang, D. Arora, A. Yang, H. Marvi
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