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Anikesh Rajendran is a robotics researcher focused on the intersection of agricultural automation and soft robotics. His work centers on developing robotic systems for delicate handling tasks, with major contributions in cable-driven parallel robots (CDPR) for nursery farming and SCARA manipulators for the poultry industry. Rajendran’s 2021 paper on a CDPR for nursery farming assistance—his most cited work with 9 citations—introduces an autonomous system capable of seeding, weeding, and nutrition monitoring, addressing labor shortages in plant nurseries. He also designed and controlled an automated SCARA robotic arm with a pneumatic soft gripper (4 citations), specifically targeting egg processing and palletizing in India’s poultry sector, where Namakkal district handles over 90% of the country’s egg exports. His research on optimizing the external corrugation and geometry of Asymmetric Flexible Pneumatic Bellow Actuators (AFPBA) (2 citations) advances soft gripper design for fragile object interaction. Rajendran’s work demonstrates a practical, industry-driven approach to robotics, combining mechanical design, control systems, and soft actuation to solve real-world agricultural and manufacturing challenges.