Janeth Manyalla

My projects span electronics, robotics, and machine learning, from autonomous robots to community irrigation systems.

I enjoy working across hardware and software, and bringing engineering into community projects.

Janeth practicing yoga on a beach

Selected projects

BEET autonomous robot

BEET autonomous robot

Contributed to a cotton-harvesting robot, training a TensorFlow image classifier and deploying a TFLite model on a Raspberry Pi.

2022 ASABE team awards: second in engineering design and first for project poster.

TensorFlow · Raspberry Pi · Robotics

Autonomous maze robot

Autonomous maze robot

Programmed a robot car in C to navigate a maze using ultrasonic sensing, an Arduino Nano, and infrared detection.

C · Arduino · Embedded systems

Engineering in Tanzania

Engineering in Tanzania

Worked with Engineers Without Borders, local contractors, and community partners on ferrocement water tanks for an irrigation system in Tanzania.

Engineering design · Community · Project management

Past experience

Imperial College London

July–August 2023

Undergraduate researcher, Personal Robotics Lab

Helped develop a shared-control power-wheelchair system using Python, ROS, and CAN communication.

Amazon Robotics

January–June 2023

Software Development Engineering Co-op

Trained and evaluated image-recognition models and deployed TFLite models to autonomous mobile robots.

MiFood Tech

January–May 2022

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Designed and modeled an autonomous vegetable-cutting mechanism using Fusion 360.