Research that becomes product.
Research and development is the core of Bharat Robotics. We research, design and build both hardware and software, and apply AI and emerging technologies to problems that matter for India and the world — together with software engineers, AI researchers and domain experts from India and abroad.
Years of research. Products that run in the field.
We do not resell foreign platforms. Our products come out of years of in-house research and development: we write our own source code, design our own hardware, train our own models on Indian data, and measure every result on stated hardware before we publish it.
Own technology.
Clean-room engineering and our own source code across software, firmware and AI models — no re-branded engines.
Built for India.
Models trained on Indian roads, plates, crowds and buildings, where generic global AI performs poorly.
Measured, not claimed.
Every figure comes from our own benchmarks with the hardware and conditions written next to it. Targets are labelled as targets.
Six areas. One engineering team.
Hardware and software are researched side by side, so a model, the board it runs on and the machine it controls are designed together.
Computer vision & video analytics
Detection, tracking, re-identification, number-plate reading, crowd and traffic analytics, plain-English video search.
- AGS 1.1 video analytics
- Indian-road vision models
Edge AI hardware & embedded systems
Compact AI compute next to the camera or machine, with embedded control and industrial interfaces.
- CCTV-to-AI retrofit box
- Embedded controllers
Robotics & autonomy
Autonomous mobile robots, vision-guided inspection and special-purpose machines with on-board perception.
- SLAM navigation, ROS 2
- Vision-guided QC
Energy intelligence
AI that reads electricity bills and site data to find penalties, demand peaks and wasted load.
- VidyutAI™ programme
- Hospital and municipal energy
IoT & sensing
Long-range wireless sensing, metering and dashboards for water, energy and building systems.
- LoRaWAN water metering
- Smart energy metering
GPU acceleration & AI systems
Hardware video decoding, optimised inference and worker pools that keep entire AI pipelines on the GPU.
- 34× real time on one GPU
- 4 GPU platforms benchmarked
Five steps from idea to field.
- Research
Study the real problem
Field visits, data collection and a written problem statement with the people who will use the result.
- Prototype
Build the first version
Software and hardware prototypes, built in-house, tested on real data from day one.
- Measure
Benchmark in the lab
Accuracy and speed measured on stated hardware; weak results go back to research.
- Pilot
Prove it in the field
A pilot at a customer site with agreed, written acceptance targets.
- Product
Ship and support
Installation, training, updates and support — and the next research question from the field.
Hardware and software, with their honest status.
Our flagship is AGS 1.1, a world-class AI video analytics platform. Alongside it, the lab is developing products across robotics, energy, IoT and AI vision.
| Product | Type | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGS 1.1 — AI video analytics | Software + GPU server | Pilot-ready | Live alerts, forensic search, Indian ANPR, traffic and crowd analytics, court-ready evidence, on-premise |
| AI Vision Retrofit | Edge hardware + software | Pilot | Turns existing CCTV cameras into AI cameras with an on-site add-on box |
| VidyutAI™ energy intelligence | Software + metering | Pilot | AI-assisted electricity bill analytics and optimisation |
| Hospital smart energy management | Hardware + software | In development | Lighting, AC and HVAC control tuned to occupancy and schedules |
| Autonomous mobile robots | Robotics hardware + software | Live | Material movement with SLAM navigation and ROS 2 |
| Vision-guided inspection & QC | Hardware + AI | Live | Camera-guided inspection and quality control on production lines |
| LoRaWAN smart water metering | IoT hardware + dashboards | Live | Long-range wireless water metering with automated readings |
| Smart energy metering & dashboards | IoT hardware + software | Live | Connected meters with live consumption, load and alerts |
Full list with filters in the Innovation Lab →
Experts from India and around the world.
Our products are built by a team of software engineers, AI researchers and domain experts from India and abroad, working together on today's products and the technology of the next decade.
- Joint research — shared problems, shared data, published results where possible.
- Product pilots — field trials with agreed, written acceptance targets.
- Internships & fellowships — students and young researchers on real products.
- Advisory — senior experts reviewing architecture, models and results.
Institutions and researchers who wish to collaborate: write to founder@bharatrobotics.io.
What our research has measured.
automated quality tests run on every change to AGS 1.1.
Software qualityNVIDIA GPU platforms benchmarked: RTX 4090, L4, L40S and H100.
GPU labthe vehicle detection accuracy of generic global AI on Indian CCTV.
77.8 vs 39.7 APproducts across five divisions, from robots to AI software.
Innovation LabWhat we are building next.
The roadmap below is work in progress, not shipped product. It shows where our research is heading.
State-scale video analytics
Many GPU servers sharing storage, with one search across districts.
Edge AI cameras
Analytics inside compact hardware at the camera, for sites without a server room.
Robots with on-board AI
Mobile robots that see, decide and report without a cloud connection.
Energy AI for public infrastructure
Pumping stations, street lighting and public buildings optimised from live data.
Build the next product with us.
Researchers, institutions, government departments and industry partners: tell us the problem. We bring the engineering team, the lab and the field.
Let's Automate.
Let's Lead India.
Researchers, institutions and partners: write to us about joint research, pilots, internships or advisory work.