L to R: Patrick Barbey ,Managing Director, Innovaud and Alain Gillièron, Mayor of Prilly

CynLr (Cybernetics Laboratory), an Indian deep-tech startup announced the opening of its first International Design & Research Centre in Switzerland. The announcement was made during the Swiss-Indian Innovation Week at Unlimitrust Campus in Prilly, headed by Pascal Marmier.

CynLr's independent research that went into building their products brought in recognition and association from LASA (EPFL) and CSEM for them. These institutions, known for their research prowess, found promising overlaps with innovation made in areas such as their Vision Product - CLX, which alone has 400+ parts and required fundamental neuroscientific research to design & develop. They are now looking to expand their portfolio of research and component partners in the Swiss ecosystem where Innovaud and SPEI have been of immense help to make these connections.

"Adopting a single robot requires 3x the robot cost in customisation and nearly 24 months of design due to the need for environmental adjustments, making automation complex and often infeasible. CynLr's Visual Object Intelligence focuses on making robots grasp unknown objects without training and handle over 100,000+ parts regardless of lighting or surface variation. This enables robots to be trained on any task and be hot-swapped across stations," says Gokul NA, Founder - Design, Product & Brand, CynLr.

The centre, inaugurated by Alain Gillièron, Mayor of Prilly bolsters CynLr's commitment to evolve its robotics & vision technology in an extremely innovation-focused ecosystem that Switzerland is.

"For us customer challenges range from station-level automation – like with Denso where they need to manage their demand variability for different parts through a hot-swappable robot station which can assemble different sub-assemblies interchangeably- to plant-level automation – like with General Motors where they require one standard robot platform to handle 22,000+ parts for assembly of the vehicles. Our General Purpose Robotics platform, CyRo, solves these problems for them owing to its visual object intelligence," said Nikhil Ramaswamy, Co-Founder & CEO of CynLr

Cynlr plans to expand its business teams to cater to European markets, especially the proximal automotive hubs of Germany, France and Italy. It also plans to further build its engineering and research teams here with a focus on neuroscience, vision algorithms, hardware design, application engineering, and software architecture. The company plans to expand globally as well, with a future office in the US.