Dr. Upinder Kaur has always been drawn to understanding how things work. Growing up in Delhi, India, her curiosity naturally gravitated toward engineering — a discipline that united analytical thinking with tangible, real-world creation. That same impulse to build and problem-solve led her to robotics, where she found a field that demanded both technical precision and creative thinking. Her work as a roboticist reflects a career shaped less by circumstance than by a genuine appetite for hard problems. Dr. Kaur’s story is one of intellectual curiosity pursued with intention — and the conviction that the most interesting questions are the ones worth engineering solutions for.