Our guests today are Nikhil Ramaswamy and Gokul NA, co-founders at CynLr, a Bengaluru startup that is developing computer vision and AI-based guidance technologies that can make industrial robotic arms much more versatile. In this episode, Nikhil and Gokul talk about their experiences, in building a deep tech hardware engineering startup out of India, including the absence of a playbook and the reality of having to deal with the ‘India discount.’

Notes:

(00:33) Introduction to The Daily Tech Conversation

(00:45) Our guests today — Nikhil Ramaswamy and Gokul NA, co-founders at CynLr

(02:00) A quick recap of what CynLr is about

(03:20) Replicating what computers do for data with robots and objects

(05:18) Universal factories

(08:00) More on the need for universal factories

(15:00) A snapshot of the journey so far, including early-stage funding, product milestones and early customers

(21:10) A concept of ‘object computers’

(21:50) Top priorities over the next 12-18 months

(24:10) Lessons from building deep tech hardware engineering products out of India — inventing the organisation and the team; automation;

(28:50) Difficulties on multiple fronts — including the ‘India discount’

(37:45) Optimising for a global supply chain

More on CynLr

https://cynlr.com/

Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds:

https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds