WardZero is Rakshith's latest project, an open simulation platform for hospital robots. The humanoid work is Rakshith's main professional programme. The other two are university projects with partners from industry and healthcare.
An open platform to develop and test robot solutions for hospitals. It provides a full simulated hospital with a surgical wing, two simulators, a safety layer and navigation. The same software runs in MuJoCo, in Isaac Sim and on the real robot.
Rakshith programmed industrial use cases on Unitree H1-2 and G1 humanoid robots. Neural policies control the legs. The work covered sim-to-real transfer, actuator identification and the failure modes that occur only on real hardware.
A UR-10 collaborative arm on an Omron LD250 autonomous mobile base, with a SmartShift tool changer. Rakshith defined the scope with a senior packaging automation director at Walkers, for the crisp factory in Leicester.
Rakshith was the project manager of an eight-person team. The team designed and programmed a compliant robotic mechanism that gives surgeons realistic force feedback. The trainer is modular, low in cost and integrated with VR.
