Tensrai raises Rs 3.4 crore pre-seed for physical AI robots
Hyderabad-based Physical AI startup Tensrai has raised Rs 3.4 crore in a pre-seed round from India Accelerator, Finvolve, Hyderabad Angels and other angels.
It plans to use the capital to accelerate technology development, strengthen engineering and deployment capabilities, and support expansion into domestic and international markets.
Tensrai was co-founded by Sai Nikhil Rao Gona, Venkata Sai Charan Chalamalasetty, Harshith Uppalapati and Vivek Datta. It is developing a unified, retrofittable autonomy platform that enables industrial and commercial robots, vehicles and machines to perform physical tasks autonomously.
The platform combines vision-first navigation, AI-based localisation, vision-language model (VLM)-powered reasoning, autonomous mobility, robotic arm manipulation and vision-language-action (VLA)-based teach-and-deploy capabilities. The technology is designed to help machines perceive their surroundings, reason through tasks, learn skills and execute operations with limited human intervention.
Tensrai is targeting applications such as autonomous material handling and cleaning across factories, warehouses, airports, hospitals, shopping malls and commercial campuses. It is also developing a general-purpose mobile manipulator that combines autonomous mobility with robotic arms to perform tasks across material handling, cleaning, manufacturing and construction.
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The company plans to generate revenue through multiple streams, including robot sales, autonomy retrofitting, Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) and customised solutions. It also plans to expand into international markets.
Tensrai aims to bring autonomous capabilities to both purpose-built machines and existing equipment through retrofitting, potentially reducing the cost and complexity of adopting robotics across industrial and commercial settings.
The funding comes amid growing interest in Physical AI, which combines artificial intelligence with robotic systems and machines to enable them to understand and interact with the physical world. Unlike software-based AI applications, Physical AI systems are designed to translate perception and reasoning into real-world actions.
With a common autonomy platform for different types of machines, Tensrai aims to help businesses automate repetitive, labour-intensive and operationally complex tasks across industrial and commercial settings.
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