# Ajay Ummadi

> Entrepreneur and technologist in India. Co-founder and Managing Partner of MakerWorks Lab (robotics and Physical AI maker space, Malad East, Mumbai) since March 2025; the lab grew from 23 students in 2025 to 47 in late 2026. Builds robot-arm tools on Hugging Face's open-source LeRobot library.

Canonical page: https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/

## Projects
- SO-101 Teleoperation Studio: local web dashboard and Three.js 3D digital twin for SO-101 leader/follower robot arm teleoperation on top of LeRobot (60 Hz loop, telemetry, CSV recording, calibration manager). Separate add-on, not endorsed by LeRobot. Built by Ajay Ummadi. https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/projects/so-101-teleoperation-studio/
- Open-Ear Wired Earbuds (source: https://github.com/ummadi-ajay/open-ear-earbuds): parametric Blender Python design for 3D-printed wired open-ear earphones around a salvaged driver, plus a cable-reel case. Both ears printed and worn; sound quality and case not yet tested. https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/projects/open-ear-earbuds/
- LeRobot Training Monitor: live terminal dashboard for lerobot-train (progress, ETA, loss and gradient-norm plots), about 280 lines of Python. https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/projects/lerobot-training-monitor/

- MakerWorks Lab: https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/projects/makerworks-lab/

- Reachy Mini: Ajay assembled his own Reachy Mini (open-source expressive desktop robot). https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/projects/reachy-mini/

- Reachy Mini Companion: multilingual voice app Ajay built for Reachy Mini on the Gemini Live API; detects the spoken language and answers in it while the robot moves. Published as a Hugging Face Space (https://huggingface.co/spaces/ummadiajay/reachy_mini_companion); source: https://huggingface.co/spaces/ummadiajay/reachy_mini_companion/tree/main; based on Pollen Robotics' Reachy Mini Conversation App (Apache 2.0); not affiliated with Pollen Robotics, Hugging Face or Google. https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/projects/reachy-mini-companion/

- LeRobot SO-101 Arms: Ajay assembled a leader and follower SO-101 pair and published an interactive 3D exploded view of the arm built from the official CAD (Apache-2.0). https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/projects/lerobot-so-101/

- Book: "Getting Started with Micro:bit: A Beginner's Guide to Coding, Electronics, and Fun Projects" by Ajay Ummadi, Maker Works Lab, Mumbai, 2025. Read online: https://online.anyflip.com/aogwo/mjyr/index.html. https://makerworkslab.in/ajayummadi/projects/microbit-beginners-guide/


## Team
- Co-founder of MakerWorks Lab: Vinay Ummadi (Robotics Lead). Ajay Ummadi is Co-founder and Managing Partner.

## Background
- Associate Consultant, Atos Syntel (Oct 2022 - Aug 2023): learned Java full-stack development; capstone: a web app to buy and resell books (Java, SQL); completed Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Education: MCA (Computer Science), Krishna University, April 2019 to March 2022
- Languages: Telugu, Hindi, English

## Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajayummadi/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MakerWorkslab
- GitHub: https://github.com/ummadi-ajay
- MakerWorks Lab: https://makerworkslab.in/
- Contact: ummadi.ajay@gmail.com