Team

A founding team from IIT, IISc and IIM, with engineers who build and test robots for a living.

Leadership

Shivam Panwar Co-Founder & CEO IIT Kharagpur
Leads strategy, partnerships and the company’s AI and vision work.
Sangam Sahu Co-Founder & CTO RTU Kota
Owns engineering, from first drawing to the robot on the hull.
Avinash Mishra Co-Founder & COO IIT Gandhinagar
Runs field operations and delivery at shipyards and docks.
Nikhil Mittal Co-Founder & CSO IIT Kharagpur
Shapes organisation, growth strategy and business planning.
Rahul Giri Technical Advisor IIT Bombay
Independent design review at every engineering milestone.
Mukesh Jaiswal Business Advisor IIM Mumbai
Advises on go-to-market and pricing.

Sima Mahato Mechanical Design & Product Development
Five years of R&D, mechanical design and quality engineering across magnetic crawlers, inspection systems and drones.
Kishan Kumar Gupta Robotics & Embedded Systems
Electronics engineer from NIT Sikkim who designs, integrates and field-tests robotic platforms with a safety-first mindset.
Avik Adithya Raju Autonomy & Adaptive Systems
Builds the autonomy and adaptive-control software that lets BlueForge rovers navigate the hull and adjust blasting, painting and inspection on their own. Robotics research background at IISc.

Prof. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran Scientific & Technical Advisor
Professor (HAG) and Head, Department of Maritime Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar
Prof. Pushpak Jagtap Technical Advisor, Robotics & Autonomy
Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, IISc Bengaluru