Sarthi is the one who guides
The name is Sanskrit for charioteer: the person who steers so someone else can do their work. That is the company in one word. The robot steers itself through places people should not have to walk, so the people can decide.
Why this company exists
Industrial sites have kilometers of underground and confined space that humans still inspect on foot: dangerous, slow, and mostly undocumented. The robotics industry has answered with platforms that assume connectivity, and so stop where the danger starts.
Sarthi began as eight years of field research on the opposite problem: missions that need nothing from the site. That research produced world-first results. This company exists to turn them into a routine a mine can subscribe to.
Why now
Three curves crossed. Capable robot platforms became affordable enough to treat as interchangeable hardware. Vision-language models became good enough to draft an inspection narrative a human can verify. And mines are going deeper while their inspection workforce shrinks.
The missing piece is the one we spent years proving in the field: missions that run where nothing else does.
How an early company earns trust
Sarthi is pre-seed and pre-incorporation, building on funded research and paid trials. We think the only credible way to market at this stage is to label everything: what is Field-Proven, what is In Development, and what is honestly just Roadmap. You will find those tags on every claim on this site, and the schedule below is the same one we run the company on.
- Jul - Sep 2026Now
- Report v0 built from recorded field data
- Discovery interviews with Nordic mine operators
- Company formation and IP audit underway
- Oct - Dec 2026
- Scheduled-mission hardening and offline data sync
- Closed loop in an underground test environment
- Jan - Mar 2027
- 20-run unattended reliability campaign
- First paid pilot at an operating mine
- Apr - Jun 2027
- Pilot-to-production conversion
- Second robot platform qualified
The longer story, including the research record, lives on the founder page.
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