Technology Hotbed · Robotics & Industrial Automation
Material Handling
Data as of 12 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: ▼ Cooling
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
27
Patents
10
Startups matched
10
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on material handling
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
ADDVERB TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Gautam Buddha Nagar · Robotics & Industrial Automation
CANECTAR FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED
Pune · Robotics & Industrial Automation
ETTRICK INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Pune · Computing & AI
GARUDA AEROSPACE PRIVATE LIMITED
Chennai · Mobility & Transport
MLIT-18 TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED
Mumbai Suburban · Robotics & Industrial Automation
RADIFORZ AUTOMATION PRIVATE LIMITED
Kanchipuram · Robotics & Industrial Automation
SUN MOBILITY PRIVATE LIMITED
Bengaluru Urban · Energy
Surinova Private Limited
Chennai · Robotics & Industrial Automation
THINK BLUE LLP
New Delhi · Robotics & Industrial Automation
UMAROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED
Haridwar · Robotics & Industrial Automation
A sample of matched deep-tech startups - Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Deep-tech basis: site-backed (own website fetched and read), IP-backed (patent or design filed in its own name), web-backed (described elsewhere on the open web), registry only (registry description alone). How this is decided
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 1 |
| Maharashtra | 1 |
See material handling on the India map → Where its patents are filed, state by state and city by city, with companies, institutes and individual inventors apart.
Filing momentum
Filings by year - recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | 2 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 |
| 2026partial | 1 | 1 |
Patents publish ~18 months after they're filed, so the current year is always incomplete. The Rising / Steady / Cooling signal ignores it and compares only fully-published years - read a dip in the latest year as data still coming in, not a decline.
Who's filing
Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate
- DR R SENTHILKUMARIN · 1
- ETTRICK INNOVATIONSIN · 1
- MR B GANESHIN · 1
- MR CH VINODHIN · 1
- MR E RAJUIN · 1
- MR GAUTAM B KAMATHIN · 1
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.