Here's What India's Largest Robotics Company Looks Like Behind the Scenes
Rajesh, head of Advanced Robotics at Addverb Technologies, and co-founder Beer Singh discuss how the company designs and builds robots in India at Addverb’s Bot Valley facility, alongside Caleb and other Addverb staff.
In this talk
- 0:48
Building robots in-house
Marketing manager Tulsi says Addverb makes about 100,000 robots a year across its Bot Valley and Bot World facilities. Rajesh says the company produces 70 to 80 percent of many robots’ components in-house, including motor drivers, and develops their software from low-level controls to AI.
- 2:52
Training quadrupeds and humanoids
Rajesh describes quadrupeds trained in simulation for stairs, rough ground, and uneven terrain. The larger model carries about 20 kilograms; its computer and actuators are sourced externally, while its controllers, reinforcement learning, and autonomous movement systems are developed in-house. Addverb is also working on wheeled and bipedal humanoids that combine movement with object handling.
- 5:00
Scaling autonomous tasks
Addverb’s humanoids can currently complete autonomous tasks lasting three to four minutes, such as moving to a location, picking up an item, or doing a small assembly. The team aims to extend these tasks to 30 or 40 minutes, including non-repetitive work where robots can recover from errors. It is developing visual language action models to help robots interpret instructions and manipulate objects.
- 9:28
Growing India’s robotics ecosystem
Co-founder Beer Singh says Addverb has spent nine years building robots in India, though visitors sometimes assume its products were imported. He identifies specialized talent and a limited industry ecosystem as challenges. Addverb recruits graduates from IITs and NITs and gives them experience with robotics technologies.
- 13:23
Making and inspecting circuit boards
Aman Thakur walks through the surface-mount line that mass-produces circuit boards for Addverb products. The process applies solder paste through product-specific stencils, checks it with solder paste inspection, places components, and bonds them in a nine-zone reflow oven. Automated optical inspection checks the assembled boards; some connectors are added by hand soldering before testing and coating.
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