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.

I think deeply about AI as a material, not a feature. I design and build conversational interfaces, tool-calling and agentic loops, and RAG systems grounded in real sources. At HCL I built AI Canvas, an enterprise product that turns documents and stakeholder input into business canvases, BRDs and PRDs, with citations and confidence scoring keeping every output honest.

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 at his desk
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
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Home robot, very much in progress

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