Austin, TX

Inaba Amanat

Electrical & Computer Engineering — Texas Robotics Honors — The University of Texas at Austin. Building at the intersection of robotics, embedded systems, and simulation.

Currently: Undergraduate Researcher at Human Enabled Robotic Technology Lab

What I'm interested in

Robotics, signals, and the systems that sit between hardware and software.

Robotics Signal Processing Embedded Systems Controls Haptics Real-time Systems

Experience

Research, leadership, and hands-on hardware work.

Apr 2026 — Present
Longhorn Neurotech · Full-time

Vice President Operations

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area.

Sep 2025 — Present
Longhorn Neurotech · Part-time

Hardware — Electronics

Helped design the drive system for an electric wheelchair using two 24V batteries, two motor drivers, and two brushed DC motors. Arduino IDE and embedded software.

May 2026 — Jul 2026
Texas Robotics · Full-time

Undergraduate Research Fellow, Human Enabled Robotics Lab

Selected as one of two full-time undergraduate researchers working under Dr. Ross Neuman.

Jan 2026 — Dec 2026
Freshman Research Initiative · UT Austin FRI

Undergraduate Researcher, Medical Robotics & Haptics

Designed and programmed a haptic piano system using the Hapkit platform, creating force-feedback piano keys inspired by Da Vinci surgical robots to replicate the tactile feel of pressing a real piano.

May 2026 — Aug 2026
Kode With Klossy · Part-time

Technical Leadership Accelerator

Selected as part of the founding cohort for Kode With Klossy's Technical Leadership Accelerator, a 12-week program in technical communication and leadership.

Projects

Selected work, pulled from github.com/inabaamanat.

In progress
Human Enabled Robotics Lab · UT Austin

Motion Capture — Bertec Treadmill ROS 2 Application

A ROS 2 application built around a motion-capture system and Bertec instrumented treadmill for inverse dynamics and gait analysis at the HeRo Lab.

ROS 2 Motion Capture Gait Analysis
ROS 2

ROS 2 ↔ Unreal Engine Bridge

A communication framework connecting ROS 2 and Unreal Engine 5.8 using ZeroMQ and JSON, enabling real-time robotics visualization.

C++ ROS 2 ZeroMQ Unreal Engine

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FRI

Haptic Piano

Force-feedback keyboard hardware built as part of the FRI robotics stream, exploring tactile response for piano input.

Embedded Haptics

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Kode With Klossy

Technical Leadership Portfolio

A portfolio built for Kode With Klossy's Technical Leadership Accelerator, documenting my growth in technical communication and leadership over the program.

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Contact

Reach out — happy to talk robotics, research, or opportunities.