Bench space, tools, and serious equipment to build on. A place to assemble, break, and iterate on a prototype without doing it alone in a garage.
Resident teams keep prototypes and demo material on the floor. Visiting investors, partners, and operators see working physical AI, not a pitch deck.
The lab is hosted. Founders, engineers, and backers who understand hardware share the space, so the hardest questions get answered by people who have been there.
Paid hands-on workshops, student research projects run with industry, and build days with the communities driving Indian robotics.
Nine cameras over the robot cell, drone cage, machine shop, prototyping, builder pods, electronics, demo floor, storage, and compute, feeding an NVR in the control room. No blind spots.
Live monitoring and motion alerts mean hourly members work safely, and any incident in a hazard zone is seen and recorded.
Footage links to badge-in records, so every booked session has a clear trail. Recordings retained and access-controlled.
| Zone | Key equipment | Power | Board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robot arm cell | 6-axis industrial arm, controller, safety PLC, light curtains | 3-phase 415V, dedicated, E-stop interlocked | DB-A |
| Machine shop | CNC router, bench grinder, drill press, dust extractor | 3-phase 415V + extraction circuit | DB-A |
| Rapid prototyping | FDM and resin 3D printers, laser cutter, fume extraction | 1-phase 230V, 4 × 16A circuits | DB-B |
| Drone cage | Charging station, cage lighting, test rigs | 1-phase 230V, dedicated LiPo charge circuit | DB-B |
| Storage + batteries | Fire-rated LiPo charging cabinet, shelving | 1-phase 230V, dedicated charge circuit | DB-B |
| Electronics + assembly | ESD benches, soldering, scopes, bench supplies | 1-phase 230V, clean isolated + ground | DB-C |
| Compute + control | Edge servers, GPU boxes, NVR, networking | 1-phase 230V on UPS | DB-C |
| Builder pods | Dedicated desks ×16, locker, monitor and clean power at each pod | 1-phase 230V, general circuits | DB-D |
| Demo floor | Floor power boxes, AV, reconfigurable rigs | 1-phase 230V floor outlets | DB-D |
| Entry, HVAC, lighting | HVAC, general lighting, access control | Mixed, main feed | Main |
Utility incomer, main breaker, metering, master E-stop for all hazard zones.
Robot cell and machine shop, interlocked with the safety perimeter.
Printing, drone charging, battery cabinet, on separate circuits.
Isolated grounded power for electronics and compute, UPS-backed.
Demo floor outlets, builder pods, general sockets, lighting, HVAC.
Your own desk in the pods zone: locker, monitor, clean power, and 24/7 access. Build from here every day.
The guarded cell with a 6-axis arm and controller. Safety induction required.
ESD-safe bench with soldering, a scope, and bench supplies.
3D printers, laser cutter, or CNC by the hour, materials extra.
The netted flight cage, booked in slots for safe indoor testing.
On-site GPU workstations and edge AI kits for training and data runs.
A full day on the floor, or monthly membership with discounted hours and priority booking.
Half-day, hands-on. Camera capture, model deployment, and embedded inference on Jetson Orin Nano kits.
Full-day. Run, tune, and serve models on the DGX Spark, and learn what on-prem AI actually takes.
Robot arms, drone autonomy, and sensor projects in small batches, with the final session ending in a working demo.
Become a member and complete a one-time safety induction.
Book the workstation you need, by the hour, online.
Badge in. Access control and cameras log your session.
Do the work, with staff and the room on hand.
Badge out. Billed only for the time used.
Sponsor a weekend invention challenge on our floor: your problem statement, our arms, sensors, Jetsons, and GPUs. Hire from working prototypes, not resumes.
Private invention-lab editions for teams: edge AI, embedded systems, vision on Jetson, on-prem LLMs, and robotics fundamentals, ending in a demo.
Semester-long, industry-linked edge AI and physical AI projects for students, supervised in the lab with colleges and companies.
Four-week evening programs on Jetsons, cameras, sensors, and the DGX Spark, ending in a certified capstone build on real hardware.
One-day hands-on formats, ₹5,000 to ₹10,000 per seat, 12 to 15 seats per batch. The full calendar lives on the Membership page.
Launch your product, host your meetup, or run a demo night on the demo floor, with AV, the equipment as backdrop, and our community in the room.
Brief in, working prototype out: our engineers, printers, CNC, electronics benches, and the arm, on your problem.
Manipulation, vision, and site-specific datasets collected on our rigs and annotated to your spec, licensed to you.
Bench, equipment, and collaboration for research professionals and corporate R&D teams who need a physical AI lab without building one.
The arm, the drone cage, or camera rigs with a lab engineer driving them, by the day, for tests, shoots, and pilots.
We spec, source, and kit your build: vendors, imports, compliance, and assembly, so your team starts building, not procuring.
Hardware brands sponsor a bench, the cage, or a workshop series: naming, gear on the floor, and a builder audience using it weekly.
The right configuration for your workload and budget: RTX 5090 workstations, RTX PRO 6000 nodes, or full 8-GPU servers, with the complete BOM, power draw, and cooling plan.
Assembled and burn-tested in armature: PCIe lanes, Above 4G decoding, Resizable BAR, drivers, and thermals tuned for sustained multi-GPU training and inference.
Installed on your premises, wired into your power and network, with an optional managed service for monitoring, updates, and capacity planning as you scale.
Streaming dozens of cameras to the cloud around the clock is expensive and slow. A local GPU processes everything on site, in real time, at a fixed cost.
Hospitals, schools, and factories often cannot legally or practically send footage out. On-prem keeps every frame, and every LLM query, inside your walls.
The same on-site GPU that watches the floor also runs your local assistant, your document search, and your site-specific models.
armature's engineers spec, install, and maintain the deployment, and the lab behind it means models keep improving after go-live.
Patient-area monitoring, fall detection, restricted-zone alerts, and hygiene compliance, with footage that never leaves the hospital.
People counting, crowd flow, queue analytics, incident detection, and guest-safety alerts across large public spaces.
PPE and safety compliance, intrusion detection, line monitoring, and visual inspection, on the machines you already run.
Entry and perimeter monitoring, attendance signals, and after-hours anomaly detection for schools and colleges.
Site-specific assistants, document search, and reporting on the same on-prem GPUs, private by default.
Paid hands-on workshops where teams learn AI/ML and physical AI on Jetsons and the DGX Spark, in the lab.
Site assessment: cameras, footfall, use cases, and network audit.
Pilot: one zone, one GPU box, measurable outcomes agreed up front.
Deployment: edge boxes and on-prem GPU server, wired into your cameras.
Managed service: monitoring, model updates, and support, per month.
Expand: new zones, new use cases, and LLM workloads on the same stack.
TrueNAS or OpenMediaVault first: durable datasets, logs, CAD, checkpoints, and video.
A 2-GPU Autonomous Computer build before larger rack-scale experiments.
Project-level dataset and model versioning on top of local storage.
SeaweedFS or Garage only after the first NAS is stable and projects need object APIs.
NetBox, OpenBMC, SONiC, Metal3, and Ironic when the Lab has multiple nodes.
| Category | Phase 1 · lean (~₹50 L) | Phase 2 adds (~₹25 L) |
|---|---|---|
| Compute and AI | DGX Spark ×1, RTX workstation ×1, Jetson Orin Nano Super ×6, Raspberry Pi 5 ×10, NAS, networking (₹14.1 L) | Second RTX workstation (₹3.5 L) |
| 3D printing | FDM ×3, resin + wash/cure, stock (₹3.5 L) | Industrial FDM, laser cutter (₹4.5 L) |
| Machine shop | Drill press, grinder, hand and power tools (₹1.0 L) | Benchtop CNC, upgraded extraction (₹2.5 L) |
| Electronics + PCB | ESD benches ×4, soldering ×4, scope, supplies, components (₹5.1 L) | Reflow + pick-and-place, second scope, stock (₹2.6 L) |
| Sensors | Depth cameras ×2, 2D LiDAR ×2, IMUs (₹1.8 L) | 3D LiDAR, more cameras, RTK GPS, force/torque (₹3.3 L) |
| Robotics | One collaborative arm, drone cage, test drone (₹10.0 L) | Educational arms ×2, AMR, more drones (₹7.5 L) |
| Fit-out | Full electrical (5 boards, 3-phase, UPS), HVAC, extraction, 9 cameras + NVR, access control, fire safety, furniture (₹14.5 L) | More lockers, second demo AV (₹1.0 L) |
| Line item | Monthly | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rent | ₹3,00,000 | Set by the slider above |
| Electricity | ₹1,00,000 | BESCOM commercial ~₹9/unit all-in; ~8,500 units, AC-dominated for 3,500 sq ft |
| Staff | ₹1,50,000 | Lab manager, technician, front-desk / community |
| Internet | ₹20,000 | Business fiber plus backup |
| Consumables | ₹50,000 | Filament, resin, solder, components, PPE |
| Software and cloud | ₹25,000 | CAD, simulation, licenses, backup |
| Insurance | ₹20,000 | Equipment and public liability |
| Maintenance / AMC | ₹30,000 | Servicing, calibration, repairs |
| Marketing and events | ₹40,000 | |
| Admin and misc | ₹30,000 |
| Revenue stream | Where it lives on this site | Pricing anchor |
|---|---|---|
| Starters + serious builders | Membership · workstations | ₹3.5–15 k / month |
| Dedicated pods | Membership · builder pods | ₹[rate] / month × 16 pods |
| Company tenants | Membership + Join | ₹1.5–4 L / month per team |
| Physical AI service sites | Services · on-prem deployments | ₹40 k–1.5 L / site / month |
| Workshops | Membership · workshops + Services · talent | ₹5–10 k / seat |
| Data centre builds | Services · AI data centre | 20–30% margin on hardware |
| Programs | Services · talent + build and research (hackathon hiring, corporate training, prototyping, datasets, residencies) | ₹50 k–5 L per program |
| Hourly + events | Membership · hourly + Services · venue and equipment rental | per booking |
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