The Creator of Sastra Robotics is Turning Sci-Fi Real Started in 2012, his robotics start-up, Sastra Robotics, has built an industrial robotic arm

By Punita Sabharwal

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Entrepreneur Magazine is glad to present Aronin P, 27, Co-founder And CEO, Sastra Robotics who made it to our 35 under 35 special.

Fascinated by electronics while growing up, Aronin P. gradually realized how future belongs to a marriage between machines and humans that can bring characters from the science fiction movies to reality. Started in 2012, his robotics start-up, Sastra Robotics, has built an industrial robotic arm for small scale manufacturing and research and a touch screen testing robotic arm to save time and cost. In fact,
the latter is the world's fastest touch screen testing robotic arm.

But the most exciting first of its kind in India product Aronin and his team developing is a prosthetic robotic arm (like seen in I, Robot movie) to do much more than what a human hand can do. "It will be controlled by human brain signals," says Aronin about its application.

(This article was first published in the February issue of Entrepreneur Magazine. To subscribe, click here)

Punita Sabharwal

Entrepreneur Staff

Managing Editor, Entrepreneur India

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