Robots that know where they are
Kritrim means artificial in Sanskrit and Hindi. कृत्रिम-इंटेलिgence is a robotics and AI startup that puts SLAM and deep learning at the centre of everything it builds.
Why SLAM
A robot can only be useful if it knows where it is. Outdoors, GPS usually answers that question. Inside a warehouse, a tunnel, a factory or a dense city block, it does not. Simultaneous localization and mapping lets a robot build its own map from its sensors and track itself within it.
Deep learning is changing what SLAM can do. Large pretrained 3D models now help robots map with plain cameras, handle blank walls and recognise places they have seen before. Reinforcement learning then helps them decide what to do with that map. We work where these three fields meet.
The founder
Abhishek Tyagi is a mechatronics engineer and roboticist. He first built Veg, our GPS free quadcopter, as his B.Tech project in 2021, and later extended it with SLAM, LQR control, fault recovery and onboard vision, published as a preprint on arXiv in 2025.
He designed an object detection rover during an internship with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and worked as a Data and AI Engineer at Deloitte on automation, data quality and predictive modelling. He started this company to turn that mix of robotics, AI and data engineering into autonomy that works in the real world.
