Deep-tech robotics startup CynLr, founded in 2019. that specialises in visual object intelligence robotics and cybernetics recently launched and showcased its semi-humanoid, ‘CyRo’ at the world’s leading robotics developments event Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston. 

The all-purpose, reusable visual robot platform, is a multi-arm vision guided robotic manipulator that can intuitively grasp objects under variable lighting conditions and can even handle complexities such as reflective objects. 

Cyro at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston

Intuitive Robots

CyRo’s framework works on a human-eye inspired vision and intelligence hardware and software stack which makes it natively intuitive about objects without having to see or train on them before. Thus the robots are easily repurposable for various tasks with no hardware customisation or modification. 

“Today, there is a very big bottleneck or a chasm to cross for the technology, where you’re stuck with having to engineer the environment, so that without the awareness of what has been presented, the machine can go, and robotic arms are not robots anymore. They don’t justify the word robot. That’s how they lack perception in a large way,” said Gokul NA, founder – design, product & brand at CynLr, in an exclusive interaction with AIM. 

“So we build that whole intelligence and perception stack so that you don’t have to do that custom engineering and customisation of the environment, or extensive training that you have to go through to be able to go pick them,” he said. 

Speaking about the robotics advancements and the kind of models robotics companies are mainly focusing on, Gokul believes that most are not approaching the problem the right way. 

“In most cases where you want to practically and commercially deploy these robots, you don’t need legs, wheels are more than enough, but you need more capability with the hands. Today they are more pragmatic, they realise that there is so much more manipulation that is missing, but what they are not focusing on is perception. It is missing. There’s very little investment that is going into perception,” he said. 

Crossing Borders

Nikhil Ramaswamy, co-founder & CEO at CynLr said, “We are already getting positive feedback for CyRo in the US. We recently opened a hardware design facility in Switzerland where we are developing these visual robots using the skilled talent & advanced research facilities available there. The technology has been designed in India in our state-of-the-art R&D centre (H.I.V.E) in Bengaluru.” 

“We envision that CyRo has the potential to change the future of industrial automation, ushering in an era of ‘Universal Factories -product agnostic factories,” said Ramaswamy. 

CynLr is piloting these visual robots with General Motors & Denso.