Suhail
Khan.

An illustrated miniature studio at sunset. Suhail works at a desk beside a chessboard, surrounded by books, coffee equipment, a small kitchen, and exercise gear.

Projects explored
during unemployment.

Most of these are unfinished. Each one helped me figure out what I wanted to work on next.

ps one must drop a project if they are not obsessed about it

Writing

The desks Where I studied, built robots, and tried to figure things out.
01

Before college · IIT-JEE coaching

The boring and sad desk.

A desk that felt too consequential,
but never turned out to be.

Long, repetitive days in coaching classrooms. A lot of pressure, and very little sense of who I was outside the goal. I didn’t get into IIT.

Learning to admit when something isn’t working started here.

A hand-drawn miniature IIT-JEE classroom under fluorescent lights, with students bent over exercise books, a wall clock, and a teacher drawing shapes on the whiteboard.
02

VIT · Robowars · First internship

Floor as desk.

I arrived feeling behind.
Then I found the workshop.

Robowars. Welding-shop runs. Fried components and midnight searches for parts. In my second semester, I found my way to an internship at Accio Robotics.

One night before a pilot, I broke the 3D-printed parts. I thought I’d get fired. What mattered was figuring out how to fix them.

A hand-drawn miniature college hostel room at night, with three friends building a small robot on the floor among tools, components, a notebook, and a laptop.
03

COVID · The rest of college

The COVID desk.

A laptop and a chair.
My version of “a chip and a chair.”

Blender, CAD, hackathons, crypto, trading, podcasts. I even started my own philosophy podcast. It lasted one episode. I was looking for opportunities where a little effort could go a long way.

Then things got quieter. I slowed down, finished college, and let there be a pause.

A hand-drawn miniature bedroom at night, with Suhail wearing headphones at a desk between CAD and crypto charts, beside a rumpled bed and an open notebook.
04

Accio Robotics · From March 2023

The Accio desk.

Making the machine was
only part of making it work.

I joined Accio full-time and moved between assembly, design, planning, and deployments. Then came a product launch, an expo, rebranding, and operations.

How do you ship an unfinished product across the country in pieces and get them all to the expo at the same time?

An anime-style miniature Accio workspace, with a team discussing branding and website design beside an engineering workshop where mobile robots are being assembled.
05

Accio Robotics · Finding focus

The meeting table.

We couldn’t keep exploring
every direction.

Funding conditions forced a narrower focus. I worked across solution design, pre-sales, and product research, searching for a problem the company could meaningfully solve.

The bet became dark-store automation.

An anime-style miniature meeting room beside a robot testing area, with a team discussing dark-store automation, blue storage totes, and mobile robots.
06

Accio Robotics · Through January 2026

The warehouse desk.

A gantry system.
And everything it took to get it built.

Development, manufacturing, supply chains, R&D, deadlines, and whatever broke that day. I drove the dark-store automation product end-to-end.

By January 2026, customer and acquisition interest was emerging. I chose that transition as my moment to leave and figure out my own next move.

An anime-style miniature warehouse with a central gantry robot, tall racks of blue totes, yellow safety fencing, packing stations, and four people working around the system.

The present · 2026

Back at my desk.

First, I slowed down. Coffee, cooking, chess, poker. Messing around with AI without needing it to become something.

Gradually, the curiosity became a search again.

Projects explored in 2026

I want to start a company.
I’m looking for a problem worth the next few years.

Take the big swing now, or build toward it?

Back to the present
Back in the same sunset studio, with coffee, chess, books, and a laptop. The next chapter is still open.