# Mowito: robot AI company

Canonical ID: `36421f07-af74-461d-a56e-a8a35705cc19`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Puru Rastogi
- **CTO:** Safar V
- **CBO:** Adityanag Nagesh
- **Funding:** 3M USD pre-seed (July 2026)
- **Lead Investor:** Version One Ventures
- **Financial stage:** Early (pre-seed, VC-backed)
- **Product:** NeuralPick — Physical AI for industrial robot arms
- **Advisors:** Soumith Chintala (Thinking Machines Labs), Lerrel Pinto (Meta SIL)

- **Slug:** mowito
- **Founded:** 2024
- **HQ:** Bengaluru, India

## Models

- [NeuralPick](/models/neuralpick.md) (industrial_robot) (id: `20655e38-d347-4a1a-8a97-257bbb048b3f`)

## Current leadership (3)

- [Puru Rastogi](/people/puru-rastogi-mowito.md) CEO & Co-founder
- [Safar V](/people/safar-v-mowito.md) CTO & Co-founder
- [Adityanag Nagesh](/people/adityanag-nagesh-mowito.md) CBO & Co-founder

## Founders (3)

- [Puru Rastogi](/people/puru-rastogi-mowito.md) _no longer at company_
- [Safar V](/people/safar-v-mowito.md) _no longer at company_
- [Adityanag Nagesh](/people/adityanag-nagesh-mowito.md) _no longer at company_

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Mowito?

Mowito builds Physical AI foundation models for standard industrial robot arms, enabling them to learn tasks from as little as a single demonstration without hardware changes. The company's NeuralPick software platform runs on commodity robot arms for automotive and electronics manufacturing, handling assembly, fastening, wire harness inspection, and glue dispensing with near-100% reliability. Mowito is headquartered in Bengaluru with a go-to-market team in Detroit.

### What does Mowito make?

Mowito has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: NeuralPick (Mowito builds robot foundation models or autonomy software).

### Where is Mowito headquartered?

Mowito is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

### Where does Mowito operate robots?

Mowito is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### When was Mowito founded?

Mowito was founded in 2024.


## Sources (3)

1. https://www.bctechnology.com/news/2026/7/7/Version-One-Ventures-Leads-3M-Pre-Seed-Investment-in-Mowito-to-Develop-Physical-AI-for-Robot-Arms-in-Manufacturing.cfm
2. https://versionone.vc/announcing-our-investment-in-mowito-physical-ai-for-robot-arms-in-manufacturing/
3. https://www.mowito.in/about-us

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