There is a point of disbelief, in between conversations about Python coding, LEGO robotics, and Quarky boards, where one remembers that the speakers are still only 10-years-old. Food-entrepreneur Nachiket Shetye concurs. “I know a friend of mine whose child presented a better engineering paper than his, at college,” he shares with a chuckle. His twins, Neev and Nysa, are proving that generational gap right with their latest win in the Track Two Elementary Challenge of the Codeavour 7.0 robotics competition at Jakarta last month.

Early beginnings

The journey into robotics started early for the Worli-based twins, at the age of four. “We were at their maternal grandparents’ place during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we thought of introducing them to robotics. A friend directed us to the OMOTEC Institute in Juhu, and it went on from there,” the co-founder of Kytchens shares.