6 robotics companies in India you need to know
As robotics is heating up, entrepreneurs are coming up with cutting-edge solutions that can be used in healthcare, defense and education.
As German social psychologist Erich Fromm once said,”The danger of the past was that men became slaves; the danger of the future is that men may become robots.”
As he envisioned three-four decades ago, the invention of robots has made man, a ‘robot’ (read lazy), and robots are now an essential part of our lives. Be it manufacturing, design or construction — robotics is widely being used by enterprises globally to bring in efficiency, reduce cost and save time. Smart entrepreneurs are further exploring the scope and possibilities of robotics so that human beings can ultimately use robots for almost everything.
As a result of these experiments, a robot has now come into our living room, where we use it as a personal assistant. As robotics is heating up, more entrepreneurs are coming up with cutting-edge solutions that can be used in healthcare space, defense and education.
Here, we bring you a list of half-a-dozen robotics startups in India.
Grey Orange Robotics
Based in Gurgaon and Singapore, Grey Orange creates robots catering to the warehousing and automation space. The firm aims to provide disruptive technology to make innovative products for efficient logistics and distribution.
Its flagship product, the ‘Butler System’, is a high-tech material-handling system that simultaneously improves speed, accuracy, productivity and flexibility. It consists of a grid of paths across a warehouse floor on which fast-moving mobile robots traverse, fetching racks of items to a packer. Once the packer removes the item and packs it for shipping, the racks are replaced back in their place by the robots.
The startup is backed by Tiger Global and Blume Ventures.
Systemantics
This Bangalore-based startup aims to enable widespread adoption of flexible automation in industry, for tedious and mentally-fatiguing or hazardous tasks that human labour is ill-suited to perform.
Systemantics is focussed on the indigenous development of the core technologies of robotic arms (servo motion controllers, AC servomotors, speed reducers and joint angle encoders).
Its products include Scara, a pick-and-place robot intended for use in loading discrete components in applications such as feeding, stamping machines and stacking in FMCG/pharma industry.
In 2011, the company received an equity investment from Accel Partners and a group of individual investors.
Gade Autonomous Systems
Mumbai-based Gade aims to introduce state-of-the-art social and service robots that could communicate with human beings and their surroundings.
Its flagship product is AdverTron, a marketing and advertising robot that can play music and speak English, interact with smart devices, knows where it is and where it needs to go and move safely and smoothly around people and objects. The robot can also be used as a mobile information desk, tour guide, brand mascot, or entertainment robot for your shops, shopping malls, trade fairs, exhibitions, museums and for marketing events of any kind.
Sastra Robotics
Based in Kochi (South India), Sastra aims to develop and market novel and high-end robotics technologies for a wide range of applications aimed at the welfare of humanity, such as industrial, consumer and academic research purposes.
Its products include Hovis (humanoid robot kits that can be used to form more than 20 different forms) and Genibo (a robot quadruped dog that can walk around on its own, recognise its owner with its own eyes, respond to spoken words and touch, play tricks and cuddle up to the owner, as if alive). The startup also offers robotics services such as circuit design, simulation and verification.
German multinational company Bosch is a customer of Sastra.
Gridbots
Based in Ahmedabad (West India), Gridbots works in the fields of nuclear space and industrial robotics. Gridbots develops robots that can be used for inspection and welding and cutting operations in difficult to reach spaces.
Its advanced combat robots can be used for battlefield and smart reconnaissance missions suited for homeland agencies and defense forces. It also offers robots that can remove human dependence by increasing productivity and efficiency in various industries.
High-Tech Robotics
Hi-Tech Robotics is working in the field of robotics, Artificial Intelligence and control technologies, spanning the entire value chain starting from requirement analysis, concept development to system integration and beyond.
With more than 15 patents, the company is engaged in developing solutions to bring in effective and efficient robotic systems for mass utility. Hi-Tech is a part of the Hi-Tech Group, a US$150 million multi-dimensional group of companies with over two decades of experience in the Indian and international markets.
The company’s industrial robotics division develops robotic and automation solutions for increasing the efficiency and productivity on the factory floor, while its defense division is focussed on developing and delivering unmanned systems for keeping armed/civil defense personnel safe.
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