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Andy Li Taught the Forklift to See
Before VisionNav moved pallets in more than 30 countries, its co-founder was solving a quieter problem: how a robot could know where it was by looking around. Andy Li turned that research question into an industrial company built for the unruly geometry of real warehouses.
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.