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Arlan Baikurazov

Robotics engineer

I make robots do useful work: map a building, walk to a goal, sort objects, check a corridor for faults, call the lift.

Watch the projects

Napoleon on a rearing horse, pointing up the mountain pass, from Jacques-Louis David’s painting, printed as a two-tone blue halftone.
Detail, the raised hand
Close crop of the rider’s raised, pointing hand.
Detail, the rider
Close crop of the rider’s face under a bicorne hat.
Detail, the horse
Close crop of the horse’s head and wide eye.

Jacques-Louis David, “Napoleon Crossing the Alps”, 1801

Projects

Eight recordings. Each window turns to full colour while its clip plays.

Go2 building inspection

3:22 Sound
Frame from the clip: a floor map with the planned route beside the Go2 walking along a carpeted corridor.

A Unitree Go2 quadruped inspects a building on its own.

Inspection points are chosen in a web interface. The robot orders them from nearest to farthest and plans a path.

It checks ceiling lights (working, or only half working), confirms a fire extinguisher is in place, and looks for cracks in a wall.

Then it calls the lift:

  1. aligns itself to an AprilTag
  2. presses the call button with a rod on a small servo arm
  3. docks inside
  4. presses the floor button
  5. exits on the destination floor

A report is generated in the web interface and can be saved as PDF.

G1 control from a phone

2:26 Sound
Frame from the clip: the G1 humanoid walking towards the camera, next to a phone screen with a map and control buttons.

A web app for the Unitree G1 humanoid, used from a phone.

Start SLAM with slam_toolbox and watch the occupancy map grow live while the robot walks. Save the map, then localise on a saved map and send the robot to goals.

G1 map-based navigation

1:26 Sound
Frame from the clip: the G1 standing in a doorway, beside an occupancy-grid map with the planned path drawn on it.

The G1 walks from a room, along a corridor and into a lobby, following a planned path.

The occupancy-grid map and the path are shown beside the footage.

G1 voice control

1:34 Sound
Frame from the clip: the G1 humanoid standing in a room, filmed upright on a phone.

The G1 takes spoken commands.

It raises an arm, then walks out of the room, down the corridor and back.

Teleoperation with a 3D camera

0:29 Sound
Frame from the clip: me with both hands raised beside a robot arm, and the camera view with my hands tracked.

A robot arm follows my right hand, tracked by a 3D camera.

An open left hand works as a clutch and a pinch closes the gripper. The on-screen readout shows tracking at about 19 Hz with a 12 ms round trip.

Overhead gantry sorter

1:29 Silent
Frame from the clip: the overhead camera view of a small arm on gantry rails, with detected cubes and drop zones outlined.

A small arm rides an X-Y gantry of aluminium rails.

An overhead camera detects coloured cubes, and the arm picks them and sorts them into a drop zone per colour.

Safety zone in Isaac Sim

0:49 Silent
Frame from the clip: a simulated warehouse with a person boxed inside the marked zone around a manipulator, and the warning “HUMAN IN ZONE — STOP MANIPULATOR”.

A simulated warehouse with a marked zone around a manipulator.

When a detected person steps into the zone, the system raises “HUMAN IN ZONE — STOP MANIPULATOR”, and returns to “Zone: CLEAR” when they leave.

Pick-up policy

0:05 Silent
Frame from the clip: a simulated robot arm reaching down to a small cube on a table.

A reinforcement-learning policy picks a cube up off a table in simulation.

About

Arlan Baikurazov
Arlan Baikurazov standing with his arms crossed, printed as a blue halftone.

I work on robot autonomy: mapping and navigation for humanoid and quadruped robots, manipulation, teleoperation and simulation.

In 2026 I completed a three-month training and internship programme with XBOT, the authorised Unitree Robotics distributor in Almaty.

Credentials

  • Unitree Robotics / XBOT Three-month training and internship programme Certificate dated
  • Huawei ICT Academy HCIA-AI V4.0 course Completed
  • Anthropic Claude Code 101

Contact

Detail, names cut in the rock
Close crop of the rock in the painting’s foreground, carved with the name BONAPARTE and, below it, part of ANNIBAL.