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Why Ati's humanoid will skip parties and go straight to factory floors
Abhijeet Kumar New Delhi
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In a quiet corner of Bengaluru's startup ecosystem, far from the glamour of apps and fintech, Ati Motors is working on what may be India's most ambitious bet in deep-tech: industrial humanoid robots. The company recently unveiled Sherpa Mecha, a robot built not to replicate humans in form or function, but to surpass them in industrial tasks.
'Most humanoids want to mimic a person as closely as possible,' says Saurabh Chandra, founder and CEO of Ati Motors. 'Our approach is different — we want a superhuman.'
Launched at its 2025 Product Day event last week, Sherpa Mecha is the latest
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