Anandi Arora

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Anandi Arora's Portfolio

Hi, I’m Anandi, an M.S. Robotics student at the University of Michigan. I am interested in building robots that solve real-world problems, especially in the areas of human-robot interaction, social robotics, and human-centered robot design. Right now, I am expanding my experience in hardware design, system integration, prototyping, and real-world deployment. I am especially interested in how robots look, move, and behave around people, and how their form, motion, and presence can make them easier to understand, trust, and interact with.

In my free time, you can find me at the gym, exploring new food places, or traveling.

Selected Work

Screenshot of Anandi Arora's portfolio home page
Summer 2026

Personal Portfolio Website

Designed and built a personal robotics portfolio to showcase projects in HRI, robot design, AI, multi-robot systems, and prototyping.

  • Web Development
  • UX
  • Branding
  • HTML/CSS/JS
Webby outreach drawing robot title slide
Inspired4Robotics Hackathon

Webby: The Outreach Drawing Robot

An interactive outreach robot that draws and signs visitor names as personalized take-home artifacts.

  • HRI
  • Outreach Robotics
  • Robotics Design
  • Hackathon
  • Interactive Robot
  • GUI + Servo
One Click to Safety project title slide
Feb 2026 - Present

One Click to Safety: Reimagining Campus Security at UMich

A campus safety platform designed to help students access emergency resources and real-time support with fewer clicks.

  • HCD
  • Campus Safety
  • UX Research
  • Social Impact
Smart Industrial Sort conveyor belt prototype
Apr 2026 - May 2026

Smart Industrial Sort

Built a sensor-driven conveyor prototype that detects and sorts defective objects using Arduino, IR sensing, and servo actuation.

  • Arduino
  • Sensors
  • Actuation
  • Mechatronics
Jan 2026 - May 2026

Controller for QCars

Developed ROS-based trajectory tracking and centralized control for QCars using OptiTrack.

  • ROS
  • OptiTrack
  • Control
  • Multi-Robot
Nov 2025 - Dec 2025

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Robot Navigation

Benchmarked Leader-Follower robot navigation against MPC in dense simulated crowds.

  • HRI
  • Social Navigation
  • MPC
  • Python
Wingmate app title slide with owl logo
Sep 2025 - Nov 2025

Wingmate Dating App

Designed the technical architecture and mobile deployment strategy for an AI-powered dating app.

  • Architecture
  • Product Strategy
  • AI Apps
  • Backend Design
Oct 2024 - May 2025

Wildlife Monitoring System

Built and deployed a YOLOv8-based wildlife detection system for identifying 12 animal species.

  • YOLOv8
  • Computer Vision
  • Flask
  • Deep Learning

Additional Projects

Survey Project

IoT-Based Smart Kitchen System

Surveyed IoT kitchen safety systems using gas, temperature, Arduino, GSM, and wireless communication technologies.

  • IoT
  • Arduino
  • Sensors
  • GSM
Data Analysis Project

Top 100 YouTube Channels Analysis

Used logistic regression and Scikit-learn to classify YouTube channel success based on subscriber metrics.

  • Python
  • Scikit-learn
  • Logistic Regression
  • Kaggle
Software Design Project

Music Management System

Designed UML diagrams and built a C++ object-oriented music management system for concert coordination.

  • C++
  • UML
  • OOP
  • System Design

Research and Writing

Object Detection Powered Wildlife Monitoring System

IEEE, June 20, 2025.

Related to the YOLOv8 wildlife monitoring project, covering object detection for identifying wildlife species through a deployed detection pipeline.

Let’s build something thoughtful, useful, and memorable.

anandiar@umich.edu