Hyderabad: The robot that serves you food in a restaurant to the robot that books appointments and collects the fee and guides you to the right department when you are in a hospital, to the robot that provides contactless sanitiser and temperature checking in your offices! All of these come from the stable of one and only robo company Vistan NextGen.

The Hyderabad-based startup is changing the way robots are perceived and used in different segments and is offering the first-of-its-kind made-in-India robots. Vistan NextGen was founded by Rama Raju Singham, a consultant who returned to India after staying for two decades in the UK. Established in 2019, the startup offers robots for different verticals.

Starting from autonomous mobile robots for manufacturing and logistics sectors, service robots that can be used in the hospitality space, robots that can be used in restaurants and healthcare space, the company offers these autonomous machines for all kinds of applications.

“When we founded the company in 2019, we never imagined that one year later contactless and autonomous solutions will become such an important element in every sector. In 2020, when the pandemic struck the globe, the service sector was hit the most and we thought of expediting our development process and started building robots for industrial units and social humanoid robots that can be used in different verticals. In total, we have about 22 different variants of the robots,” Singham told Telangana Today.

He runs the startup along with his partner Sai Manjula Singham, who is the chairman of Vistan NextGen. The startup offers robots under two brand names including Flunky, which is their service robot and Tavio, which is used in industrial spaces.

It also has brands like the Sushruth Robot and Nightingale Robots, which are used in the healthcare space. The two-year-old startup also offers interactive robots called Maira, which can be useful for restaurants and real estate. Other than robotics, the company also provides solutions in artificial intelligence, IoT, augmented reality, and virtual reality space.

“All the robots are made in-house and about 85 per cent of our components are locally sourced. We are looking at developing an entire ecosystem of manufacturers so that we can reduce our raw material procurement from other countries. Not just in India, we are also seeing demand for our robots in other countries such as the Middle East and the UK,” he informed.