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27 Sep 2024 CW Team

Bengaluru-based Control One AI, a robotics company founded in 2023, aims to enhance existing equipment with AI and vision systems, making it more intelligent and adaptable. Targeting warehouses, mining and construction over the next three years, it intends to power at least 1,000 machines globally and develop its AI models for the US, Europe, Middle East and Africa [EMEA] and Indian markets, says Pranavan, Founder and CEO, Control One (a vision-to-action AI model), in conversation with R SRINIVASAN. Excerpts:

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Official research began in November 2022 and the company was incorporated by March 2023. At that point, we were actively exploring the market and trying to understand the current state of robotics. Robotics has made significant advancements in technology, sensors and overall capabilities but it still occupies only a small niche in production and material handling processes. Despite its potential, it has not achieved widespread adoption in mainstream industries in the entire production or material movement line...

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