An autonomous machine is only as good as what it can see.
A drone that cannot reliably perceive its surroundings cannot navigate a contested border, inspect a pipeline or track a target, and perception, the combination of sensors and the intelligence to interpret them, is one of the harder problems in robotics.
Paar Autonomy, a Bengaluru startup founded in 2024, is building that perception layer for unmanned vehicles operating in the air, on the ground and at sea.
Founder Vignesh Jayaraman is a robotics engineer who studied at Washington University in St.
Louis and previously led product development at Asteria Aerospace, one of India's known drone makers.
