betabot.robotics

A robotics engineer figuring it out in public. Papers, hardware, and the things that break in between.

I'm Rupali. Six years across perception, manipulation, SLAM, and sim-to-real. I've put visual odometry on a drone with no GPS and lost whole weekends to calibration. That didn't make me an expert. It made me someone with good notes.

So that's this channel: a working engineer reading the papers, building the systems, and documenting what she learns.

PAPERS, READ SLOWLY: long-form walkthroughs of the research moving the field, including the parts that confuse me.

BUILD LOGS: real hardware, real errors, real fixes.

PLAIN ENGLISH: SLAM, imitation learning, sim-to-real, explained the way I wish someone had explained it to me at 24.

FIELD NOTES: what interviews actually test, what I got wrong.

If you're early, you'll be able to follow. If you're deep in it, you'll still find something.

Instagram: @betabot.robotics
Medium: rupaligarewal22.medium.com