# Life so far
Source: https://kaustubhkr.github.io/about.html

Kaustubh Krishna / Off the clock, mostly

# Life so far.

A few milestones. Several bugs. Still running.
95%+ built without coding agents. Started using coding agents in late 2025. By then, I’d already built and deployed autonomous systems, written learning and control software, competed at ICRA and presented at ROSCon India. The debugging jokes below are lived experience.

2006 Born

### Hello World!

Arrived without a manual. Made myself heard.

Early years

### Learned to walk. Learned to talk.

Balance took a few iterations. Talking was harder to switch off.

2014 Age 8

### Two computers. Unlimited plans.

Intel Pentium dual-core. 2 GB RAM each. 28–100 GB HDDs. My first compute cluster, if you’re generous.

2015 Age 9

### First programs.

Scratch, QBasic and web development. Things moved on screen because I told them to. This seemed like a loophole.

2016 Age 10

### Java. My first proper language.

Hello World now required a class.

2017–2022 Ages 11–16

### Code meets solder.

Built a Wi-Fi jammer, sensor-and-relay automation and an autonomous-wheelchair prototype. Designed PCBs, worked on motor synchronization, and built a mechanism that drove two grabbers from one motor. Joined a quadcopter build and worked with seniors on CNC-style 3D-printer prototypes. Debugging now involved wires and gears.

2018–2022 Ages 12–16

### The code grew wheels.

WRO India: regional Junior second place in 2019; RoboMission Senior Silver Badge at nationals in 2022. Bugs could now leave the desk.

2022 Age 16

### First heartbreak.

No stack trace. Terrible documentation.

2023–2024 Ages 17–18

### The wheels got bigger.

Deployed autonomy on a real golf cart: Model Predictive Contouring Control (MPCC), learned policies and industrial controls. No simulator reset button.

Image: Kaustubh and the project team with the physical autonomous golf cart (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/assets/golf-cart.jpg)
The real golf cart, with the team. Inside the build ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/golf-cart.html)

2023–2025 Ages 17–19

### Four offers. No applications.

Founders and recruiters approached me with four job offers, including three across Physical AI, controls engineering and reinforcement learning in Isaac Sim. Turned down all four to keep building my own systems. Robots remained the career plan.

2025 Age 19

### Raced robots. Spoke to humans.

Built my ICRA racing entry solo: third in simulation qualification, zero collisions. Presented industrial robotics work at ROSCon India.

2025–2026 Ages 19–20

### First startup: AviRob.

Built robot runtimes and machine-evidence systems. Discovered that companies have rather a lot of non-code problems.

Media: https://kaustubhkr.github.io/assets/avirob-isaac-sim.mp4
AviRob · three-robot warehouse demo in Isaac Sim · silent. Inside the runtime ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/multi-robot-runtime.html)

2026 Age 20

### Second company. Still building.

Physical AI for industry, in stealth. Apparently one startup was not enough character development.

Home videos, with motors

## Before the bigger wheels.

Actual footage. The robots were smaller. The enthusiasm was not.

Media: https://kaustubhkr.github.io/assets/early-pid.mp4
PID line-following test · personal project archive

Media: https://kaustubhkr.github.io/assets/wro-demo-silent-125.mp4
World Robot Olympiad robot test · 1.25× speed · silent

WRO India 2019 · regional Junior second place +

Image: WRO India 2019 plaque: second position, Junior Regional Championship (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/assets/wro-robot.jpeg)

Contact

## Kaustubh Krishna

Founder · robotics & industrial autonomy · India

kaustubhkr.work@gmail.com ↗ (mailto:kaustubhkr.work@gmail.com)

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