Built on connected thinking.
Automata is a deeptech company built by people who work across hardware, design, testing, and the commercial decisions that determine whether good engineering ever reaches the road.
What the people at Automata bring.
Automata began as a habit rather than a plan: take on a real problem, work it until it yields, and follow the consequences wherever they lead.
One of us arrived through Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering and Industrial Design, and stayed curious about everything the work touches — compliance, supply chains, research, patents and licensing, design, manufacturing, business strategy, and the way they quietly steer one another. That person notices early that a component choice moves availability, cost, and compliance, and that a design decision changes how a product is made. It is why hardware and design are settled here while the work is still movable, before suppliers and tooling begin deciding by default.
Another of us thinks about what happens when conditions stop cooperating. The focus is the design of secure hardware systems for cyber-physical products, where embedded systems, applied AI/ML, and signal processing are one problem rather than three, and the question worth asking is how a system behaves under stress and interference — what it does when a signal degrades, an input is contested, or an assumption about the world stops holding. Because that thinking sits in from the first sketch, protection becomes part of the architecture rather than something added to it later.
The third brings the longer view. Fifteen years in technology-driven intellectual property across telecommunications, semiconductors, software, AI, electronics, automotive, and healthcare teaches that an invention has a life beyond the drawing: whether it is documented well enough to be protected, clear enough of other people’s work to be built, and positioned well enough to be shared. Patent strategy, freedom-to-operate, competitive intelligence, and standards-essential patent mapping all live inside that judgement — which is why what to keep and what to release is asked alongside the engineering, not after it.
What matters here is capability, not titles. Held together, these ways of working become a single approach: insights from one domain informing another, so what gets built is meaningful, relevant, and grounded in a real need.
Ordinary vehicles with extraordinary awareness.
Intelligent mobility should not be limited to expensive vehicles or narrow conditions. Our aim is assistance small enough to fit everyday two-wheelers and disciplined enough for cars and four-wheelers — helpful when it matters, and handing control back the moment it does not.
We measure progress by whether a system can be explained, tested, and trusted, not by how much authority it takes from the person in front of it.
What we hold ourselves to.
Safety is a physics problem, not a policy one. These are the standards every product and programme is measured against.
Safety before capability
A function earns its place by the harm it prevents, not by how impressive it is to demonstrate.
Evidence before claims
Behaviour is described through scenarios and measurements that can be reproduced and reviewed.
Human control is the default
Override paths stay immediate and physical. Assistance never removes the person from the loop.
Security as part of control
Identity, software integrity, communications, and actuation are treated as one protected system.
Validation before release
Field events become reproducible scenarios, and releases are judged against acceptance criteria.
Honest engineering
Limits, assumptions, and open risks are stated early — including what a system cannot yet do.
How we work
- 01
Observe
Define the operating context, users, vehicle dynamics, hazards, and constraints.
- 02
Architect
Separate real-time, validation, and security responsibilities with clear boundaries.
- 03
Prototype
Build focused hardware and software loops that expose assumptions early.
- 04
Validate
Reconstruct field events, test edge cases, compare against acceptance criteria.
- 05
Integrate
Connect perception, decisions, controls, interfaces, and override paths.
- 06
Protect
Verify identity, updates, communications, and authorized control throughout.
Where Automata is heading.
Progress, for us, is one traceable cycle: a product that operates with assistance, evidence that it operates safely, and protection that keeps it that way over years of use.
Each step is meant to strengthen the others, so the company grows in depth rather than in breadth.
Turning working systems into products that can be built, supplied, certified, and supported — with the decisions around protection and licensing made alongside the engineering rather than after it.
Assistance that learns from the people who use it without becoming opaque, validation that keeps pace with change, and protection that holds across a long service life.
Mobility where assistance, validation, and protection are expected as standard rather than premium — reached through product work, licensing, and collaboration as much as through ownership.