From ShareChat to Building Humanoid Robots | Inside India’s Most Advanced Robotics Startup

In this episode of Chill Mizaaz, I visited General Autonomy, a robotics startup founded by Farid Ahsan and Bhanu Pratap Singh in HSR Layout, Bengaluru.

For the past two years, they have been building in stealth mode with a team of 10 IITians, on a mission to build humanoid robots and they’ve already built Atom-1 : India’s first walking humanoid within four months.

Inside their lab, you don’t just see machines -
you see courage, patience, and engineering at its finest.

00:00 - Precap & Introduction
02:41 - College days, early exposure to robotics and founding ShareChat
07:28 - Why robotics ? Stepping down from ShareChat to start a robotics company
11:16 - 15 years of building together ( From projects at IIT Kanpur to startups)
14:10 - Why a software company after college
14:41 - Why IITians leave core engineering (hard truth)
16:21 - From ShareChat to Robotics: Jumping from one idea to another
17:51 - Why investors hesitate to fund deeptech startups in India
18:58 - Market readiness of humanoids, How physical labor is going to change ?
19:56 - Finding the product-market fit in robotics and long term goals
23:37 - How do you train a humanoid robot
25:23 - Solving the data problem in robotics
26:42 - Will Generative AI unlock the real potential of robotics ?
27:40 - lowest cost to collect robotics data at general autonomy across the world
29:03 - Presenting India’s first walking humanoid
32:30 - The hardest challenge: building robot arms
33:40 - Competing with global robotics giants while building in India
34:27 - The future of robotics
35:56 - Will humanoids outnumber humans? The market for humanoids
36:41 - Long development cycles and iteration in deeptech hardware startups
40:07 - Real challenges of building robotics in India
41:57 - Passion for robotics and the IIT Kanpur pledge
43:18 - Advice to students who want to start hardware companies after college
45:20 - You can’t build a robotics company just with money and hiring people
47:46 - What success will look like in the next 5–6 years

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