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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.
Ati Motors
Ati Motors is an industrial robotics company building autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that move material inside and around factories. Its Sherpa family of self-driving robots uses 3D lidar, high-precision mapping and AI - the same principles behind self-driving cars - to tug, lift and transport loads from about 500 kg to 4,600 kg without the magnetic tape or fixed guide-paths of older AGVs. Founded in Bengaluru in 2017 and now dual-headquartered with a North American base near Detroit, Ati has deployed robots at 50-70+ manufacturing plants worldwide - including Fortune 500 names such as Hyundai, Bosch, Forvia, Daimler and Airbus - logging over 500,000 autonomous kilometers. The company raised a $20M Series B in early 2025 to expand across North America and APAC.