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Saurabh Chandra
Saurabh Chandra is the co-founder and CEO of Ati Motors (Ati Robotics), a Bengaluru-born maker of autonomous mobile robots for factory and warehouse material movement. A mechanical engineer from IIT (BHU) Varanasi who earlier built and sold the IT services firm Neev to Razorfish, he started Ati in 2017 to bring self-driving-car style autonomy to the factory floor. His Sherpa robots now move trolleys, bins and pallets for customers including Airbus, Hyundai, Samsung and TVS Motor, and in January 2025 the company raised a $20M Series B to expand into North America.
Mark Messina
Mark Messina is Managing Director and CEO of ANSCER Robotics Americas, the U.S. arm of a Bengaluru-based hybrid autonomous mobile robot company. With more than 25 years across engineering, manufacturing and operations, he helped build the modern warehouse-robot industry from the inside - joining Amazon during the Kiva Systems acquisition, later working on Amazon Prime Air drones, IoT at Mattel, and leading U.S. expansions for Geek+ and Addverb. He now runs ANSCER's Austin, Texas headquarters, championing a frugal, ROI-first approach to robotics and a Robots-as-a-Service model built to put automation within reach of small operators.