NewNew robotics series: building a home robot from scratch

Rittim NandiProduct Designer & Creative Technologist

Currently building TRLC-DK1, a mobile home robot

I design products.Then I build them.

A decade of product design for HSBC, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, SoundCloud and UEFA. Now creative technologist at Christie's, building a home robot after hours.

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03About

Designer by trade. Engineer by compulsion.

I'm Rittim Nandi, currently a creative technologist at Christie's, building immersive 3D auction experiences and the tooling behind them. Before that: over a decade designing digital products for banks, sports startups and DeFi protocols, including HSBC's Global Money and Mars Protocol.

I work end to end. Research, information architecture, interface design and design systems on one side; SwiftUI, React and Python on the other. The portfolio you're reading is my own code.

The lab work is where I push myself: I'm currently building TRLC-DK1, a mobile home robot: electronics, 3D-printed parts, SLAM, teleoperation and synthetic training data in Isaac Sim. I document the whole thing, failures included, in the robotics series.

Rittim Nandi
Brands shipped for, HSBC to Christie's
25+
Brands shipped for, HSBC to Christie's
Customers on HSBC Global Money by 2023
1.3M+
Customers on HSBC Global Money by 2023
Peak TVL on Mars Protocol v1
$350M
Peak TVL on Mars Protocol v1
Home robot, very much in progress
1
Home robot, very much in progress

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