Vanika is the first AI copilot built for robotics engineers — one place to design, build, simulate, and ship robots. Quietly in development. Launching this year.
We'll be in touch when early access opens. Until then — keep building.
The first six weeks are spent stitching tools together. The next six are spent keeping them in sync. Somewhere in there, you're supposed to build a robot.
It's not the hard parts that slow us down. It's everything in between.
Building a robot is one of the most complete engineering challenges that exists. Mechanical design, firmware, simulation, sourcing, deployment, operations. Each one is a discipline. Each one has its own tools.
None of those tools talk to each other. So a change in one means manual updates in four others. Most of the time isn't spent on the hard problems — it's spent on the small ones, repeated over and over.
Software teams solved this years ago. Robotics teams are still doing it by hand.
Three shifts have arrived at the same time. They will not be in this configuration again.
Frontier models can hold a project in their head, plan across steps, and use real tools. That makes a copilot for serious engineering work finally buildable — not as a demo, as a daily tool.
Humanoids, autonomous warehouses, agricultural robots, surgical robotics — the category has investor attention, talent attention, and customer urgency all in the same year. Teams are forming faster than the infrastructure to support them.
You don't have to be in Silicon Valley to build robotics anymore. Strong engineering teams are forming in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Singapore, Seoul, Munich, Lagos. The next generation of robots will be built by them — and they need tools as good as the ambition.
Building robots should feel like building robots — not like wrestling tools.
A team from India with deep experience across robotics, platform engineering, and product. We're not building Vanika because it's a good market. We're building it because we needed it and it didn't exist.
Architect and robotics engineer. Has been thinking about the gap between robotics design and robotics deployment for longer than is reasonable. Vanika is the platform we wished existed on every project we ever shipped.
Product, growth, operations. Obsessed with the engineer's first hour on a new platform — the part that decides whether people stay. Owns everything from onboarding to community to the way Vanika feels to use.
We're working with a small number of robotics teams to harden the platform end-to-end. If that sounds like you, let us know what you're building.
We'll be in touch within two working days. Tell us more anytime at hello@vanika.ai.