Automation through robotics, AI, software and mechanical engineering.
Atriyad is a UK engineering consultancy that designs and builds automated production equipment — the mechanical hardware, the control software and the vision systems that run it.
We work with manufacturers, growers and technical teams in the UK, EU and US, on anything from a feasibility review to a complete cell designed, built and commissioned on site.
How a project runs
Most projects pass through all three stages in order. You can also engage us at any one of them — a design that needs software written for it, or software that needs hardware built to run on.
- 1
Mechanical design and prototyping
CAD, structural analysis, custom PCBs and printed prototype parts, drawn for manufacture and sourced.
SolidWorks, 3D printing, KiCad PCB
- 2
Control software and simulation
ROS2 control stacks and embedded firmware, validated in simulation before they run on the hardware.
ROS2, Isaac Sim, Gazebo, C++ and Python, FreeRTOS, Linux
- 3
Vision, AI and analysis
Vision models for inspection and sorting, plus performance data from the running line and the changes it points to.
PyTorch, TensorRT, Vision QA
What we do
Six engineering disciplines, offered together or separately. The drawing is a vision sorting cell; each numbered callout marks the part of it one of these disciplines is responsible for. Most projects need several, some need only one.
Robot software
Full ROS2 stacks — motion control, sensor fusion, system architecture and the debugging that follows.
- ROS2
- MoveIt2 and Nav2
- C++17
- Gazebo and Isaac Sim
Vision and AI
Detection, tracking, grading and quality rejection, trained on your product and run in line at production speed.
- PyTorch
- TensorRT
- YOLO and segmentation
- Stereo and depth
Electronics and firmware
Custom PCBs, RTOS firmware, actuator control and the fieldbus work that ties a cell together.
- STM32 and ESP32
- FreeRTOS
- KiCad and EAGLE
- CAN, EtherCAT, Modbus
Mechanical design
Grippers, fixtures and frames in SolidWorks — analysed, drawn for manufacture, and sourced.
- SolidWorks
- FEA
- GD&T drawings
- Supplier management
Cell integration
Bringing hardware, software, sensors and control together, from first prototype to signed-off line.
- Line commissioning
- Safety and CE marking
- PLC interfacing
- Factory acceptance
Technical review
Independent assessment before you commit: feasibility, system architecture, build-versus-buy and delivery roadmap.
- Feasibility studies
- Architecture review
- Technical due diligence
- Roadmapping
Robots and production systems
Atriyad is a new company; the engineering behind it is not. Below are machines built in-house at other firms and under contract — named wherever the client can be.
Cacao packing robot
Xihelm, London · 2023–24
Deployed at Flavourfresh Salads
Automated tomato packing cell: vision grading, cut planning and pack assembly to 220 g ±10%, built in ROS2 from scratch.
From nothing to a working machine in nine months, at a 30% gross profit margin, and running on Flavourfresh Salads' line within a couple of months of that. It packs to a 220 g target within ±10%, holding a run average between 220 g and 240 g — grading, cut placement and pack assembly all decided on the line, in flight.
Full case study
Hola autonomous tray robot
Since January 2025
Autonomous mobile service robot: a three-shelf cart platform, modelled and simulated in Gazebo Classic, RViz and Isaac Sim.
Poppy humanoid teaching robot
Since April 2024
Humanoid robot: CAD design through to ROS2 simulation in Gazebo and reinforcement-learning training runs.
Meet the team
Atriyad is led by Bahador Moineddini, a mechatronics engineer who has run mechanical and software teams together on production automation — building the machines, writing the control stacks, and taking both through certification and commissioning on site.
Now
Head of mechanical and industrialisation, leading both teams
Before
ROS2 and vision at Xihelm; UAV mechatronics at Windracers
Trained
MEng Mechatronics, MPhil at UCL
Based
London, working with UK teams
Full career history
2024–now
Head of mechanical and industrialisation
Industrial Robotic Solutions
Leading both the mechanical and software teams, turning prototype robotic units — grippers, vision heads, weighing mechanisms — into products that pass certification.
- SolidWorks
- ROS2
- Industrialisation
- Team leadership
2023–24
Robotics software and integration engineer
Xihelm, London
Built a precision fruit-packing robot from nothing in ROS2. Led the vision system that spots substandard produce and rejects it before it reaches the box.
- ROS2
- C++
- Vision
- Automation
2021–23
MPhil research
UCL Surgery and Interventional Science
Multichannel nanofibre piezoelectric acoustic transducers, paired with neural networks for speech recognition and spatial localisation.
- Deep learning
- Sensors
- Research
2019–20
Mechatronics engineer, then manufacturing lead
Windracers, Southampton
Designed and built an in-house UAV tracking antenna, then took over scaling airframe production through the pandemic.
- UAV
- Mechatronics
- Manufacturing
Discuss a project
A half-hour consultation is usually enough to establish whether a project is feasible, what it would involve and roughly what it would cost. For printed parts, upload an STL for an instant quote.