Negentropy Labs

Robotics & Artificial Intelligence · Bhopal, India

Machines that make order out of chaos.

Nikola Tesla's 1898 patent drawing of a remotely controlled boat, seen from above — Fig. 1. N. Tesla, U.S. Patent No. 613,809 (1898): the first radio-controlled vessel.

The Name

Left alone, everything drifts toward disorder. Physicists call that drift entropy. A robot is a small engine that pushes the other way: it sorts, builds, carries and repairs. That push is negentropy, and it is what we build for.

Diagram of Maxwell's demon sorting fast and slow molecules between two chambers — Fig. 2. Maxwell's demon: a tiny intelligence that sorts molecules and creates order.

What We Are Building

Ciel is the brain we are building for small robots. It learns how the physical world behaves by watching and moving through it, and it runs on the robot itself, not in a distant data centre.

Low-cost robot hardware that anyone can build.
Learning on the device, from the robot's own experience.
Open build logs and videos as we go.

We are an early-stage, student-led lab. Work in progress is shared on GitHub.

Our Lineage

People have built machines that move on their own for centuries. We stand on their shoulders.

Replica of Tesla's remote-controlled boat at the Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade — Fig. 3. Tesla's "teleautomaton" boat, Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade.

Engraving of the inner mechanism of Vaucanson's mechanical duck — Fig. 4. Vaucanson's mechanical duck (1739), as drawn in *Scientific American*, 1899.

Side section of Tesla's remotely controlled boat showing batteries, motor and steering — Fig. 5. The same vessel in section: batteries, motor, rudder and receiver.

Contact

Founded by Divyarth Jain.
Write to negentropy@divyarth.online.