Suchet Bargoti

Suchet Bargoti’s 2026 AI Engineer conference biography identifies him as Director of Inspection and Mapping at Skydio, leading work on autonomous drone systems for capturing, inspecting, and understanding critical infrastructure. His work spans field robotics, perception, and applied autonomy, with a focus on making drones reliable tools for collecting high-quality data in complex real-world environments.

In his presentation on Skydio’s autonomy stack, Bargoti demonstrates remote operation of multiple docked drones, including flights in San Mateo and Colorado, autonomous car tracking, and a fleet return-to-dock command. He explains how higher-level objectives can let one operator manage multiple drones, with immediate autonomous actions handled onboard and heavier inference and longer-term planning supported by the cloud. He describes shared navigation maps updated through fleet observations, tracking through occlusion, and a vision-language model using drone APIs and tracking tools to find and follow a white Jeep. He also discusses flight-data retraining and evaluation, attention to privacy and customer data sharing, and the difficulty of diagnosing failures and guaranteeing physical-system reliability with fully end-to-end learning.