# Wootzano: company

Canonical ID: `aa5d5a73-f350-40f4-b648-435e6ed3588a`

## Key facts

- **Robot:** Dexterous AI robot named Avarai
- **Technology:** Wootzkin electronic skin
- **Focus:** Picking and packing delicate fresh produce
- **Capability:** Picks and packs produce undamaged
- **CEO:** Dr Atif Syed
- **Product:** Avarai post-harvest fruit packaging robot
- **Award:** Princess Royal Silver Medal, Royal Academy of Engineering
- **US operations:** Fresno, California

- **Slug:** wootzano
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2018
- **HQ:** Sedgefield, UK

## Models

- [Avarai](/models/wootzano-avarai.md) (agriculture) (id: `1d9c2a23-d76e-4563-b126-e0fba4c72cd9`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Dr Atif Syed](/people/dr-atif-syed.md) Founder & CEO (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (1)

- [Dr Atif Syed](/people/dr-atif-syed.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

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## Sources (1)

1. **verification source** · https://www.wootzano.com/

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