Pranav Prabha

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Pranav Prabha is an emerging robotics and human-robot interaction researcher whose work spans agricultural automation and social robotics for child development. His research uniquely bridges practical engineering solutions with meaningful social impact across two distinct yet equally compelling domains. In agricultural robotics, Prabha proposed an innovative cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR) designed to autonomously perform seeding, weeding, and nutrition monitoring in plant nurseries, demonstrating his ability to translate complex robotics concepts into real-world farming applications. His most-cited work (9 citations) highlights his early contributions to precision agriculture automation. Perhaps more distinctive is his work in child-centered social robotics. Prabha co-designed HaKsh-E, a minimalist interactive social robot that uses audio-visual perception and artificial intelligence to nurture positive behaviors in children, earning 8 citations since 2022. Building upon this platform, he developed a handwashing action detection system addressing children's hygiene behaviors during the COVID-19 era, and has since explored child-robot interaction dynamics across individual and group settings in India. With a cumulative citation count of 23 across four publications, Prabha demonstrates a thoughtful commitment to robotics research that genuinely serves communities, making him a researcher worth following as his career develops.