AGMS · AAMS · OmegaMTL — India's autonomous ground and aerial mobility systems on a single sovereign software stack.
ATEON LABS PRIVATE LIMITED · CIN U62011KA2025PTC207897 · Bengaluru, India
“India's hardest terrain — stairs, fields, mines, borders — will be worked by machines. Someone will build those machines and own their software. We intend for that someone to be Indian.”
GoI CBIC drone import ban (Feb 2022); MoD indigenous-component mandates barring border-country parts.
Perception, planning and safety on-device. Ground and air share compute, harness, batteries, tooling — and one supply chain.
Every rupee spent on the stack compounds across both product lines.
Verified-reasoning runtime: machine-checkable decision traces — an inspectable safety case for DGCA and MoD certification.
Safety and containment fabric around the autonomy core.
Navigation & state-reasoning module shared across ground and air.
Provisional → complete filings staged with funding. No granted patents yet; strategy documented.
Verified autonomy is the certification story — a differentiator no Indian competitor markets today.
Import ban + indigenous-component mandates make ATEON procurable where imports aren't. iDEX / Make-II / positive-list aligned.
Mining AHS: 15–20% opex reduction. Agri drone service: ₹300–700/acre vs slower manual spraying. Autonomous last-mile removes the largest cost line — the human.
Switchblade 300 ≈ $53–58k/unit; imported military UGVs $100k–650k. ATEON testbed de-risk: ₹54,200 (~$650) — Indian cost structure on a sovereign stack.
One training pipeline, one spares chain, one safety case, one vendor — instead of separate UGV and UAV ecosystems.
Sources: Switchblade 300 unit cost $52,914–$58,063 (skykam.co.uk; US Army $186M order, calibredefence.co.uk) · UGV price band (breakingdefense.com RCV coverage) · Mining AHS 15–20% (Komatsu/AHS analyses) · Agri ₹300–700/acre (Leher/Neptune Farming, 2024–26) · Import & component bans (CBIC 2022; idrw.org).
Subscale structural analogue for kinematics/control de-risking — NOT the 50 kg-payload production vehicle; no full-scale BOM exists. AAMS bench-stack: ₹10,300 (dossier). Line items published in paper.md §4.1 — part-numbered, costed, reproducible.
A seed investor at TRL-2 is buying the quality of the plan and the team's ability to execute it. We've made that plan unusually inspectable.
Milestones gate the funding tranches (see The Ask).
Ranges by design — no false precision.
Indian, air-only, conventional autonomy. (~$11.3M Indian Army order proves procurement appetite.)
Capable — but banned or priced out: $53k+ per Switchblade 300.
Banned. Supply vacuum by policy.
Indian + ground-and-air + verified-autonomy stack. None of the above ship a verified-reasoning runtime or a common ground+air stack.
Robotics-as-a-service: per-vehicle/month + per-km / per-sortie pricing.
Sale + maintenance contracts for defence / Make-II procurement.
Software licensing to OEMs — the long-term margin engine.
Target blended hardware margin path from Indian BOM cost structure. Land-and-expand via PoCs → RaaS contracts; defence via iDEX challenge → Make-II production order.
Campus / hospital / agri / mining PoCs in Bengaluru radius → paid pilots → RaaS. Commercial pilots generate the operating data defence evaluators ask for.
iDEX challenge entry (grant-funded prototype) → Make-II → positive-list procurement.
Both tracks share the same TRL-6 prototypes.
Bench prototypes shipped — TRL-4
Field prototypes, pilot LOIs — TRL-5
Instrumented pilots, iDEX submission — TRL-6
Non-dilutive stack pursued in parallel: iDEX ₹1.5 Cr–₹25 Cr · SISFS · ELEVATE. Allocation 50/20/15/15; total from funding-roadmap-2026-2028.
Systems engineering across mechanical, embedded and edge-AI; author of the AGMS/AAMS dossiers and the OmegaMTL programme.
Lead the company's technology strategy, engineering execution, and product realization by converting ATEON's research, system architectures, and product vision into scalable, reliable, and production-ready autonomous mobility platforms.
“The machines are inevitable. The stack should be sovereign. Build it with us.”
ATEON LABS · Bengaluru · rishi.kr.tejas@gmail.com