Anscer

ANSCER Robotics — a name the company expands as "Autonomous Navigation Systems with Cognitive and Efficient Robotics" — designs, engineers and manufactures autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material movement in factories, warehouses and intralogistics operations. Its stated approach is "hybrid AMR," combining the flexible navigation of autonomous mobile robots with the precision of automated guided vehicles. Core applications include autonomous pallet stacking and transport, trolley movement, tugging, lifting, tunneling, sorting and mobile manipulation.

The product portfolio is organised into series: the AR series, a modular mobile platform with interchangeable top modules for tugging, lifting, tunneling, conveyors or a mounted robot arm, with lifting capacity cited up to 2,000 kg; the PSR/PLR pallet stacking and pallet-moving robots for warehousing and intralogistics; the AGV series, using compact QR-guided navigation for point-to-point transport, lifting and sorting; and a TR tugging series. Robots are engineered for varied Indian floor conditions — tile, cement and epoxy — using a rocker-bogie style wheel arrangement inspired by NASA's Curiosity rover to stay level on uneven surfaces.

Alongside the hardware, ANSCER offers fleet management software providing real-time robot location and task monitoring, utilisation and mission analytics, proactive alerts and notifications, and integration with ERP, MES and WMS platforms as well as doors, conveyors, machines and third-party robots. The company emphasises compliance with international industrial safety standards, multi-brand interoperability, lower total cost of ownership, and a service model spanning on-site support, remote diagnostics and training across India and partner regions.

Founding story

Co-founder and CBO Raghu Venkatesh met Ribin Mathew and Ebin Sunny in Bengaluru around 2015-16 after his earlier virtual reality venture Ploud.io shut down in 2015 and he helped launch a makerspace with Bangalore MakeSpace and Open Source Creative Club. Mathew and Sunny, engineering graduates then driving cabs and trucks, had built a mechanically actuated bionic arm. Lacking funds to start a company together, the two joined robotics firm Addverb, while the three continued collaborating on side projects including a UV disinfection robot built at IKP EDEN, a hardware incubator in Koramangala — the effort that became Anscer Robotics. When the disinfection product did not succeed after the pandemic, the team pivoted in 2021 to hybrid AMRs after observing labour challenges in factories and warehouses. Co-founder and CTO Raj Mohan proposed the modular architecture during the 2022 global chip shortage.

Business model

ANSCER sells and deploys AMR hardware together with fleet management software and lifecycle services including on-site support, remote diagnostics, training and after-sales infrastructure. Earlier company material also describes a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) subscription option positioned to shift automation spend from capital expenditure to operating expenditure with no upfront cost.

Revenue derives from robot sales and deployment projects, associated software and integration, and support/service, with a subscription-based Robots-as-a-Service option described in company material. Reported revenue was Rs 2.3 crore in FY24, with a company projection of Rs 30 crore for FY26.

Traction

The company reports projects delivered across four or more continents and robots deployed worldwide, with customer testimonials referencing multi-plant APAC rollouts and Kanban material replenishment at a Chennai plant. Reported revenue was Rs 2.3 crore in FY24 with a projected Rs 30 crore in FY26; headcount is listed at 125. New Bengaluru manufacturing capacity supports more than 1,000 robots annually.

Latest developments

In May 2026 Anscer announced a $5.4 million Series A led by IAN Alpha Fund with participation from Info Edge and angel investors, to be used for product platform development, US scale-up and partner ecosystem expansion across global markets. Around the same period it inaugurated a Bengaluru manufacturing facility with a 20,000 sq ft testing zone and annual capacity above 1,000 robots, and it lists planned appearances at IWS 2026 and Automate 2026.