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Scientists, roboticists, naval architects and boat builders

Founders who between them have built boats, unmanned systems and control electronics for defence and industry across five decades — supported by an advisory board spanning five disciplines.

Leadership

The people behind the programmes

Alok Mukherjee

Chief Executive Officer

A retired Scientist ‘G’ from R&DE (Engrs), DRDO, where he pioneered the development of unmanned ground, air and underwater vehicles for military use in India. Systems he designed have been productionised by both public-sector and private industry and are in service with the armed forces and paramilitary.

Sunny Sebastian

Director

A pioneer of composite and aluminium boat building with more than 35 years in the trade. He founded Sunny Boats Pvt. Ltd., Pune, which has built sports, defence, recreational, tourism and transport craft for over three decades.

Raja Mahbubani

Director

An IIT Bombay alumnus working on custom unmanned systems and the electrical and electronic systems behind them. He founded Theta Controls, Pune, supplying state power utilities, process control, atomic energy and defence for over 35 years.

Prakash Khanzode

Director

A VJTI and NID alumnus whose product design work spans automotive, defence, petroleum and furniture. He founded Onio Design Pvt. Ltd., Pune, specialising in industrial product design for defence, retail and healthcare infrastructure for more than 25 years.

Sanjeev Afzulpurkar

Chief Technology Officer

A retired scientist from the National Institute of Oceanography who was part of the team that developed India’s first autonomous underwater system. He grounds the platforms in real subsea and marine instrumentation practice.

Advisory Board

Five disciplines around the table

Our staff of design engineers and manufacturing professionals is supported by advisors across the fields this work touches.

Robotics & Autonomy

Specialists guiding the control and autonomy stack.

Boat Building

Practitioners who support boat planning, marine engineering and testing.

Product Design

Designers shaping how the platforms are built and used.

Unmanned Mobility

Experts in unmanned systems and their operation.

Marine Science

Scientists grounding the work in real oceanographic and limnological practice.

Our Collaborators

Institutions we work with

IHFC — I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics, IIT Delhi
TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE, IIT Bombay
Technology Innovation Hub, IIT Guwahati
TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
MIT-WPU Subsea Lab
Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune
Sunny Boats
Theta Controls
Onio Design
IHFC — I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics, IIT Delhi
TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE, IIT Bombay
Technology Innovation Hub, IIT Guwahati
TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
MIT-WPU Subsea Lab
Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune
Sunny Boats
Theta Controls
Onio Design

Interested in joining us?

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