For investors and grant reviewers
Sarthi Robotics runs inspection rounds in underground and unconnected industrial sites with robots that need no network and no pilot, and turns each run into a decision-ready report. This page holds what you can verify in public. The rest is in the deck.
What you can check before we ever talk
A field record that predates the company
A world-first fully autonomous exploration of more than 1 km of an Icelandic lava tube, post-collapse assessment in an operating iron-ore mine, and years of underground trials across three EU research programs. All of it public, published, and checkable before a single call.
A market that still sends people
Kilometers of underground and confined workings are inspected on foot today: slow, dangerous, and mostly undocumented. The platforms sold into connected plants stop where the network does, and the network stops at the portal.
A founder from the environment
PhD and postdoc in field robotics at Luleå University of Technology, 20 peer-reviewed publications, and standing trial relationships with Nordic operators. The technical work and the customer access sit with the same person.
Start with the field record and the founder's publication history.
Where the company is
Pre-seed and pre-incorporation, built on eight years of funded field research. The funding path runs through Nordic and EU deep-tech instruments toward a seed round after the first paid pilot. The plan below is the one we run against and the one customers see.
- Jul 2026
- Full loop ran on a real quadruped at the university yard: mission, capture, emailed report
- Public site and investor decks published
- Sep - Oct 2026Now
- Discovery interviews with Nordic mine operators
- Company registration, name check, and IP boundary memo
- Product definition with the university's business office
- Nov 2026 - Mar 2027
- Incubator and grant applications
- Hardware campaign on rough ground, then an underground test environment
- Scheduled-mission hardening and offline data sync
- Apr - Jun 2027
- Unattended reliability campaign, 20 runs
- First paid pilot at an operating mine
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We share positioning, business model, and diligence material directly rather than publish them. Check the field record first, then ask for the rest.