Tharindu Ranathunga
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Cobot Claw: Agentic Control for Collaborative Robots

Feb 2026 - Present

Multi-agent AI system for natural-language control of UR collaborative robot arms and end-effectors, designed for smart factory and industrial automation environments.

Problem Statement

  • Industrial robot operation still depends heavily on specialist programming workflows, slowing adoption on the factory floor.
  • End-effectors such as grippers, vacuum pumps, and custom tools require flexible integration without rebuilding the control stack each time.
  • Safe autonomy demands continuous monitoring and intervention rather than one-shot command execution.

What I Led

  • Architected a multi-agent, LLM-powered control system coordinated via MCP servers, enabling hardware-agnostic tool discovery across robotic arms and end-effectors.
  • Designed a safety-first autonomy layer with a dedicated monitoring agent that continuously observes robot state and intervenes in real time when execution drifts from safe conditions.
  • Enabled deployment across local and cloud inference backends, including DGX Spark and hosted APIs, with a one-line configuration switch.

Deliverables

  • Multi-agent natural-language robot control architecture
  • MCP-based tool discovery for diverse end-effectors
  • Real-time robot monitoring and intervention workflow

Tech Stack

PydanticAILlamaIndexROS 2FastMCPOllamaOpenAI SDKAnthropic SDK

Industry Relevance

Demonstrates a practical path for manufacturers to reduce robotics integration friction while keeping safety, observability, and deployment flexibility central to production operations.

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