Robots that bloom.Affordable robots, and the courses to build your own.

I'm Vikas, a robotics engineer from Raipur. I build field robots, humanoids and vision-guided swarms, and I teach everything I learn along the way through courses and live build sessions.

Explore courses See the robots
A lavender skeleton with daisies blooming from its jaw and a glowing butterfly at its chest A skeleton looking up at the stars with a butterfly resting on its skull A daisy-covered skull reaching toward a glowing butterfly A skeleton among the stars with daisies along its spine
19 / 29hackathons won
> open ~/workshop

Every robot here wears a flower

This is a vertical-lift camera rig, fresh off the printer. A depth camera rides a geared rack up an aluminium rail, wired through spiral wrap and tucked into a 3D-printed control box.

The flower on the camera and the box is the Daisy Botics mark. Robots can look friendly, and so can learning to build them.

> 3D printed · rack-and-pinion lift · depth camera
Front view of the camera rig: an orange depth-camera housing with a yellow flower, above a yellow control box with an orange flower
Side view of the rig showing the depth camera on white struts and a geared carriage on the vertical rail
> ls ~/robots

Things I've built

From a tea-serving ROS2 robot to a fish that swims and logs water data. Every one of these left the workbench and worked in front of judges, farmers or a lab full of people.

> on the bench

Being built right now

  • Daisy BlocksA 3-actuator hybrid arm with sensorless homing, steered from Unity VR. Source
  • The physical terminalA CoreXY pen plotter that writes Linux command output onto paper, in Hershey fonts.
  • Myoelectric handAn EMG-driven prosthetic hand prototype for upper-limb amputees.
  • ChickiAn offline voice and vision assistant on Raspberry Pi 5 with a little screen for a face.
> ./learn --with-vikas

Learn robotics by building one

Project-first courses taught from the same bench these robots came off. Each one ends with a working machine you built yourself.

Level 1 · beginner

Robotics from zero

Your first moving robot, without the fear.

  • Arduino & ESP32 basics
  • Motors, servos, sensors
  • Build a line-following car
Opening soon
Level 2 · vision

Computer vision for robots

Teach a robot to see and react.

  • OpenCV & HSV tracking
  • ArUco markers & pose
  • MediaPipe teleoperation
Opening soon
Level 3 · autonomy

ROS2 & navigation

From a URDF to a robot that drives itself.

  • ROS2, ros2_control, URDF
  • SLAM & Nav2
  • micro-ROS on microcontrollers
Opening soon
Level 4 · edge AI

AI brains on the edge

Local LLMs and voice, running on the robot.

  • Jetson Orin & Raspberry Pi 5
  • Ollama, VLMs, Whisper, Piper
  • A talking desk robot
Opening soon

Live build sessions

Build along in real time, bring your broken robot, ask anything. Session times are posted first on the Discord server.

Join the Discord Get notified
> cat achievements.log

Over the years

  1. 2025

    ₹15 Lakh MSME grant

    Government of India innovation funding to take a robot from prototype toward a product.

  2. 2025

    2 patents granted, 3 pending

    Two inventions granted, with three more filed and under examination.

  3. 2025

    DGCA-certified drone pilot

    Licensed to fly drones under India's civil aviation regulator.

  4. 2025

    Research paper: Daisy Blocks

    A novel hybrid robot arm with rack-and-pinion plus rotary joints, current-threshold homing and VR teleoperation.

  5. Across

    19 hackathon wins out of 29

    Including two wins at IIT Madras, plus IIT Bhilai and NIT Raipur.

  6. Earlier

    Showcased at IIT Bombay

    The vision-guided pick and place robotic car was exhibited at IIT Bombay.

  7. Earlier

    AICTE IDEA Lab

    Built and certified through SSIPMT's AICTE IDEA Lab. See certificates

> follow --everywhere

Watch the builds, read the code

A skeleton in violet light, a glowing butterfly near its jaw
> whoami

Why daisies, on a robotics site?

Because robots shouldn't feel cold. Daisy Botics started with one idea: build affordable robots, and show people that they can build them too.

I'm Vikas Singh Thakur, an Electronics & Telecommunication student at SSIPMT Raipur. I like taking robots from a sketch on paper to actually working in front of judges, whether that's an autonomous field robot, a teleoperated humanoid, or a swarm of vision-guided cars.

The skeleton with flowers is a reminder I keep on my desk. Under every machine there's a frame of bones and wires. What grows on it is up to the builder.

Read my full CV
> ping vikas

Let's build something

Collaborations, workshops at your college, custom robots or just a question about your project. Write in.

vikashsnghthkr@gmail.com