# Ankit Saini

> Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ RIOS | Master of Science in Robotics

Location: San Bruno, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ankitsaini

## Work Experience
### Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ RIOS Intelligent Machines
Jan 2025 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ Tortuga AgTech
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Denver, Colorado, United States

### Robotics Software Engineer II @ Tortuga AgTech
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Denver, Colorado, United States

### Robotics Engineer II @ Tortuga AgTech
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Denver, Colorado, United States

### Robotics Engineer @ NextShift Robotics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Lowell, Massachusetts
- Modified robot’s behavior to pick/place totes from shelf and cart using a lifting gripper instead of  using a mechanical pull-in/push-out gripper to pick/place only from shelf.
- Added time of flight camera to the robot for obstacle detection and avoidance.
- Built contamination strategy for Lidar data to filter valid obstacle distance readings from phantom obstacle distance readings generated by dust on lidar's lens.
- Added code changes to accommodate Lidar tilt, made Lidar tilt configurable from robot's webpage and fixed Lidar's calibration procedure.
- Added a dynamic human comfort margin for obstacle detection and fixed bugs in skirting obstacles.
- Identified limitations of localization algorithm and implemented solution for the limitation.
- Installed systems at customer and collaborator sites and trained employees to run the system.
- Added functionality to make site specific changes for customer sites configurable through robot’s webpage instead of having to change the code.
- Built and deployed demos for trade shows.
- Added functionality to demo programs to recover from errors without having to reset the entire demo.
- Added regions to slow down the robot and beep 3 times before turning.
- Designed mud guard and a light mount in Solidworks.
- Made software changes in Estop module to stop the robot, instead of letting it roll, when the Estop flag is pulled.
- Fixed bug to show warnings and errors on the LCD screen that were not being displayed originally.
- Fixed bugs in software used to build maps.
- Fixed memory leaks using objgraph.

### Conversation Partner @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Worcester, Massachusetts
- Helped 4 international teaching assistants(ITA) improve their listening and conversational skills in English.
- Improved ITA's grammatical correctness and pronunciation of English words.

### Industrial Trainee @ Quark City India Pvt. LTD
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mohali, Punjab, India
Disassembled end effector, gear train, forearm of FANUC s-420i F and built ladder logic for a batching plant.

### Intern @ The IdeazFactory
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Involved in the scratch to final prototyping of a canvas painting robot.


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Robotics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Mechanical Engineering
University Institute of Engineering and Technology

### St. Xaviers Sr. Sec. School , Sector-71 , Mohali, Punjab


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ankitsaini0010
- Website: https://www.ankitsaini.net

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Last updated: 2026-04-01