Growing up in Dahanu, robots were tech-driven elements that only existed in movies and cartoons for Aarti Gadekar and her friends, who have since taken their understanding of robots into a much larger canvas. The teenagers, who hail from Nareshwadi, Sakadwadi, Laxmiwadi and Kopargaon areas of Dahanu, are training to become future Robot Engineers.

The girls’ project at the robotics competition in KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, whose theme was Robotic Cars