Automation, humanoid robots, and industrial robotics solutions
Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup VECROS has unveiled Jetcore, an India-designed AI autonomy compute platform that lets drones and robots localise, map and navigate on their own in GPS-denied environments — packaging the "brain" of its ATHERA drone for other manufacturers to build around.
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Bengaluru deep-tech startup Yaanendriya has raised ₹15 crore in a seed round led by Piper Serica to scale its indigenous inertial sensors and navigation controllers for drones, robots, space and defence — including an MoU to supply the Indian Army's 515 Army Base Workshop.
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Bengaluru-based Suind is set to raise ₹20.5 crore led by Transition Venture Capital Fund, valuing the autonomous agriculture-drone maker at around ₹80 crore as it expands its Bumblebee platform beyond farms.
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Bengaluru- and Detroit-based Mowito has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding led by Version One Ventures, with PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala among its angels, to scale foundation AI models that let industrial robot arms learn tasks by demonstration. Its software already runs on production lines at a Fortune 500 automaker and a major electronics manufacturer.
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Zoho Corporation has acquired Kochi-based deep-tech startup Asimov Robotics, announcing the deal on 2 July 2026 as it opened a new AI-and-robotics R&D campus in the small Kerala town of Kottarakkara. The buyout marks a rare case of a profitable Indian software firm absorbing a home-grown robotics team.
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Meril's MISSO, a 100% Made-in-India knee-replacement robot priced 66% below incumbents, attacks Stryker's Mako on cost and signals India now has multiple indigenous surgical-robot OEMs.
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Reliance-backed Addverb and peers like GreyOrange are scaling AMR, sortation and ASRS systems on India's quick-commerce boom, with PLI and reshoring turning the country into both market and export base.
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Raphe mPhibr's $100M raise, ideaForge's 52.6% EBITDA margin and Garuda's ₹1,000 crore IPO filing mark India's drone sector turning investable, powered by post-Sindoor demand and a non-China sourcing moat.
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Svaya Robotics built India's first indigenous quadruped and a soldier exoskeleton, while NewSpace supplies the Navy's 'Abhimanyu' stealth drone, an import-substitution play backed by DRDO funding.
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GenRobotics turned the NAMASTE manual-scavenging mandate into recurring municipal O&M revenue, winning a ₹17 crore Ahmedabad tender and an ~₹80 crore Singapore contract that proves export viability.
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SS Innovations ran the world's longest-distance telesurgery, Guyana to Indore, on a system priced at a tenth of da Vinci. Behind the headline is a recurring-services medtech scaling fast, with cash-burn the catch.
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