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CynLr Launches Cybernetics HIVE, a Cutting-edge Vision, Intelligence, and Robotics Research Hub

Gokul N A, Founder-Design, Product & Brand, Cybernetics Laboratory. Robots with Visual Object Intelligence, CynLr; SG Shirgurkar, Founder, Ace Micromatic Group and Murugappan MM, Executive Chairman, Murugappa Group at the company’s new Research Center.

Bengaluru, India – CynLr, a robotics deep-tech startup building vision and intelligence for industrial robotics and autonomous navigation, announced the launch of a new research facility, Cybernetics HIVE in Whitefield, Bengaluru. Cybernetics HIVE (Hub for Intelligence & Vision Excellence) is a state-of-the-art R&D hub spread across 13,000 sq ft research space and is equipped to accommodate 16 robot research cells, 25 robots, a cutting-edge electronics, camera, and vision laboratory, and infrastructure to train and host 50+ research & development engineers. The new research facility was inaugurated by Chief Guest MM Murugappan, Former Chairman of the Board, Murugappa Group; Current Chairman of the Boards of CUMI Ltd and Cyient Ltd; and Director, IIT Madras Research Park, on February 25, 2023. The start-up has raised pre-series A funding of about US$ 4.5 million in 2022, led by Speciale Invest & growX Ventures with a total funding of US$ 5.25 million till date.

Industry stalwarts such as SG Shirgurkar, Founder & Chairman, Ace Micromatic Group; Kandasamy, Director Global Digital Manufacturing Engineering, Ford Motor Company; Dr Bharadwaj Amrutur, Director, ARTPARK, IISc; and several other leaders from the manufacturing, automation, and technology industries, including dignitaries from Ford, General Motors, Aptiv (Delphi), Intel, Ace Micromatic Group, SKF, Kuka, Fanuc, and ABB, were a part of the launch event. The hub will help the industry reimagine long-unsolved challenges in automating manual tasks through versatile robots equipped to sense motion and feel the objects, enabling them to manipulate objects in their environment effectively. This will essentially help in enhanced object handling while lowering the overall time of deployment of robots by over 70 percent and their cost by over 30 percent.

The use-cases for the vision and intelligence technology will also extend beyond manufacturing & robotics and into areas such as ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and Object Search. Particularly in driver assistance, this has the potential to simplify and accelerate the development of cognition by combining the benefits of RADAR (motion detection), LIDAR (depth detection), and CAMERA (color detection) into one simpler system, much like the human eye, and avoiding sensor Con‘Fusion’ which is the status quo for the industry today. 

Today, even a simple task like picking bolts from a bin and placing them in a screw hole is something that robots simply cannot do. Torquing of robots has been automated, but the task of picking and placing bolts requires a level of visual cognition, tactile feedback on the fingers and wrist, and an understanding of the physics of the bolts that current vision systems cannot handle. And what do we manufacture today that doesn’t have screws or bolts in them? Cognition to help robots handle such nimble tasks can fundamentally disrupt how we manufacture and make factories more adaptable and universal.

Murugappan commented, “CynLr’s dedication to creating an innovative and collaborative environment, alongside their customer partners and collaborators, is a glimpse into what India is capable of achieving. I am thrilled to see their progress and know that together they can take their ideas to the world. To those who have given them the opportunity to succeed, you are not just potential business partners, but champions of a vision that inspires confidence and progress for all.”

Speaking on the launch, Nikhil Ramaswamy, Co-founder & CEO, CynLr, said, “We are quite excited about the launch of Cybernetics HIVE that houses India’s largest density of visual robots. We hope that it will spur a transformation in robotics and in making them cognitive and adaptable for the universal hyper-automated factories of the future.”

In similar lines, Gokul NA, Founder – Design, Product & Brand, CynLr, stated, “The new facility will help us realize the holy-grail of robotics: universal object manipulation. Our 7D vision systems operate at 10X the speed and 3X the resolution than the industry leading robotics vision cameras. We believe these modern visual robots can trigger a tectonic shift in the manufacturing industry, made possible by the convergence of cutting-edge infrastructure and technology deployment capabilities.” He further added that the company has robust plans to establish its business presence in the US and Europe in the coming quarters, to build capacity to address the current pipeline of customers and scale to deliver over 100 robots annually, and that the deep-tech startup has 250+ technology partners and vendors and sources components from 30+ countries of origin. 

Images Source: CynLr

 

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