Startups Directory

Ace Aeronautics Pvt.Ltd.

UAV [Surveillance / ISR]

We design and manufacture collision resilient drones, purpose built for indoor inspection and monitoring, engineered to navigate confined, cluttered, and GPS denied environments without the fear of a crash ending the mission. Our platforms combine rugged, impact tolerant airframes with intelligent flight control, enabling safe operation in tanks, silos, warehouses, tunnels, Manholes and industrial facilities where traditional drones and robotics fall short. From asset inspection to safety audits and real time monitoring, our technology reduces downtime, eliminates the need for scaffolding or confined space entry, and keeps personnel out of hazardous areas.

Jet Engine Propulsion for UAVs and Autonomous Systems

UAV [Surveillance / ISR]

Aero Engine Craft Pvt. Ltd. is Pakistan’s first dedicated commercial company for Jet Engine R&D for UAV Applications. Established to achieve technological sovereignty, our mandate is to design and manufacture indigenous propulsion systems for both civil and defence autonomous systems. Aero Engine Craft is developing Propulsion Systems and Jet Engines for UAVs and Drones indigenously as a first mover in Pakistan. We have successfully developed Pakistan’s first indigenous turbojet engine for drone and UAV propulsion. Current UAV platforms in Pakistan are limited to battery power due to no local jet propulsion expertise and import restrictions. Batteries constrain payload, range, and endurance. Our Solution: A jet engine replaces the battery bottleneck. Impact: Higher Payload & Range: Enables heavy-lift, long-endurance operations impossible with electric systems In short: We are moving Pakistan from battery-limited drones to jet-powered, mission-capable aerospace systems

Aerothrust system PVT LTD

UAV [Surveillance / ISR]

Aerothrust Systems Aerothrust Systems is an advanced aerospace and defense technology company specializing in the development of AI-enabled autonomous drone and counter-drone solutions for defense, homeland security, strategic surveillance, and commercial applications. We combine cutting-edge artificial intelligence, autonomous flight technologies, advanced sensors, and precision engineering to create intelligent aerial platforms capable of operating in complex and dynamic environments. Our mission is to redefine the future of unmanned aerial systems by delivering innovative, reliable, and mission-ready solutions that enhance operational effectiveness, situational awareness, and decision-making. Our product portfolio includes First Person View (FPV) tactical drones, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, autonomous monitoring platforms, AI-powered drone swarms, interceptor drones, loitering platforms, and advanced counter-drone technologies. Each solution is engineered to meet the evolving requirements of modern defense forces, law enforcement agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and industrial enterprises. By integrating onboard artificial intelligence, real-time data processing, computer vision, secure communication systems.

AIBL

Healthcare & Assistive Robotics

People with limb loss and mobility impairments often struggle to access affordable, high-quality prosthetic solutions. Most advanced prosthetic devices are imported, expensive, and unavailable to the majority of people in developing countries, leaving many dependent on outdated or purely mechanical alternatives that provide limited functionality. This lack of access reduces independence, restricts employment and educational opportunities, and negatively impacts physical and mental well-being. The shortage of locally developed assistive technologies, rehabilitation services, and after-sales support further widens the gap between those who need these solutions and those who can afford them. As a result, millions of individuals are unable to regain mobility, participate fully in society, or achieve financial independence. There is a critical need for cost-effective, locally manufactured, and technologically advanced prosthetic and rehabilitation solutions that restore mobility, improve quality of life, and empower people with disabilities to live independently, pursue education and employment, and contribute meaningfully to communities.

ArtemisUAV

UAV [Surveillance / ISR]

ArtemisUAV is an AI-native autonomous systems company building UAV and robotics platforms for defense and government customers. Based in Lahore, Pakistan, and incubated at NIC Lahore, the company designs edge AI systems that operate without cloud dependency, giving customers full autonomy over deployment and operation. Product lines include the AI Interceptor for counter UAS, the Kamikaze FPV series, Swarm Drone Systems, Long Range VTOL platforms, and Drone in a Box solutions. Airframe design, body structure, and assembly are developed and manufactured in house. ArtemisUAV has completed successful demonstrations of its AI Interceptor system before military stakeholders. The company is expanding from a Pakistan focused defense supplier into an international robotics and autonomy platform, competing on cost and capability against legacy Western systems.

Barq technologies

UGV [Unmanned Ground Vehicle]

Barq Technologies is a defense robotics startup developing next-generation unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for tactical reconnaissance and remote threat response. Our mission is to enhance frontline safety through agile, remotely operated robotic platforms that reduce risk to personnel. Our flagship Frontline UGV combines real-time surveillance with a compact dual-barrel launcher, bridging the gap between conventional scouting robots and expensive combat vehicles. The platform features a reinforced chassis, optimized weight distribution, a low center of gravity, synchronized targeting, and an intuitive single-screen control interface for precise, low-latency operation. Built on a modular architecture, our roadmap includes dedicated reconnaissance UGVs and expendable strike UGVs. Currently bootstrapped, Barq Technologies has successfully designed and validated a functional pathfinder prototype demonstrating mobility, remote operation, and targeting capabilities. We are seeking strategic partnerships, government collaborations, and commercial opportunities to accelerate the deployment of cost-effective, mission-ready autonomous defense systems.

Beecortex

UGV [Unmanned Ground Vehicle]

Beecortex is a robotics and industrial inspection company based at the National Incubation Center, NED University, Karachi. The company develops inspection hardware and software for asset integrity monitoring in the oil, gas, and process industries. Products Spider is a magnetic crawler system for ultrasonic thickness gauging of storage tanks, enabling corrosion mapping without scaffolding. Cartoscope is a handheld LiDAR scanner for rapid dimensional and structural surveys. Flexitrack is a pipe crawler for internal inspection of piping networks. The company also develops an aerial inspection platform for visual and sensor-based external asset surveys. Services Beecortex provides non-destructive testing data collection, defect mapping, and corrosion-rate analysis services, supporting inspection teams with field deployment and data processing. The company has completed technology pilots with PSO and TUV Rheinland, and delivers commercial inspection services to clients including Indegrity and Sadaat NDT.

Bioniks

Medical Evacuation Robotics

Bioniks Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a Pakistani health-tech and bio-robotics company founded in 2016 to make advanced prosthetic care affordable and accessible. The company develops AI-powered bionic arms, modular prosthetic systems, and digital rehabilitation solutions using artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D scanning, and advanced manufacturing. Operating as a social enterprise, Bioniks combines commercial growth with humanitarian impact, enabling subsidized prosthetic care for underserved communities through partnerships with hospitals, governments, NGOs, and private organizations. To date, Bioniks has transformed the lives of more than 1,900 people across Pakistan and beyond. Its innovations have been showcased at the United Nations, AI for Good Summit, OTWorld Germany, and other leading global forums, earning international recognition, including Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia. With a multidisciplinary team and a strong focus on research and innovation, Bioniks is building a globally connected ecosystem for affordable, AI-driven prosthetic care, restoring mobility, independence, and dignity worldwide.

CubeSTEM SpaceTech Mission Lab

Space Robotics, CubeSat Training, Satellite IoT, AI Mission Control & Educational Space Systems

CubeSTEM, in collaboration with SSTRL, Institute of Space Technology (IST), is developing hands-on SpaceTech education and mission-control platforms for schools, universities and innovation programs. Our core offering is the CubeSTEM Mission Lab: a KidSAT CubeSat trainer integrated with Mission OS dashboard, telemetry/telecommand experiments, reaction-wheel attitude-control learning, digital twin visualization and live/replay satellite signal reception. The platform helps students experience satellites as autonomous robotic systems involving sensors, power, communication, control, AI and mission operations. CubeSTEM is also building the Parwaz-1 / ParwazSat pathway: a planned 12U CubeSat technology demonstrator focused on IoT, AI-enabled payload concepts and educational mission participation. Our long-term vision is to develop a Pakistani school-to-space and IoT mission network, progressing toward a small constellation of up to 12 satellites over the next three years, subject to funding, approvals, frequency coordination and launch readiness

Haprow

Humanoid Robots

Haprow Private Limited is a Pakistan-based AI and robotics company developing intelligent automation solutions for education, healthcare, enterprises, and public services. Our mission is to build practical, human-centered robotic technologies that solve real-world problems. Our flagship product, TimTim, features conversational AI, computer vision, speech recognition, multilingual communication, and cloud connectivity. We also develop AI tutors, customer service robots, UV-C disinfection robots, and custom robotic solutions tailored to organizational needs. Haprow combines expertise in artificial intelligence, robotics, embedded systems, and software engineering to create reliable, scalable products. The company is a finalist in the Google Cloud Startup Competition, a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program, has been featured by BBC Urdu, and selected for leading accelerator programs. As we expand globally, our goal is to make intelligent robotics accessible, helping organizations improve learning, productivity, and customer experiences while positioning Pakistan as a contributor to the global robotics ecosystem.

HARAWAL UGV- MINIBYTE TECHNOLOGIES

UGV [Unmanned Ground Vehicle]

MiniByte Technologies AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS • EDGE Al • DEFENCE ROBOTICS A Pakistani AI firm shipping autonomous platforms, on-device intelligence, and high-stakes sensor-fusion systems — closing the software—hardware gap through hardware-software co-design. Credentials run from inside Pakistan's defence- research ecosystem, to a compute module in Orbit On SpaceX Transporter-11, to production deployments across five countries

Helpforce AI

UAV [Surveillance / ISR]

Helpforce AI is a Pakistan-based Physical AI company building the validation infrastructure for robotics and autonomous systems. The world is deploying autonomous systems faster than it can validate them, and no domestic layer exists to certify them first. We build, train and certify autonomous systems inside physics-accurate digital twins, so a system arrives at deployment already proven to specification rather than learning on live ground. Our flagship, Bird's Eye, is an autonomous UAV border-patrol and ISR system, validated at 0.995 mAP with full mission autonomy and demonstrated to national defence stakeholders. Alongside it we run validated systems across ground patrol, industrial automation and humanoid manipulation. Our platform is vendor-agnostic and deployable on sovereign infrastructure where required. Backed by NVIDIA Inception, Microsoft for Startups, AWS Activate and Lambda. We seek defence, industrial and government partners to deploy validated autonomy and build national RAS capability together.

Xavor Pakistan (Private) Limited

Physical AI and Social/Care Robots

Xavor Corporation is a global enterprise technology company with a 30-year legacy of delivering robust engineering solutions to Fortune 500 clients like Dell, Intel, and Pfizer. With operations across the US, Pakistan, and China, Xavor specializes in bridging legacy enterprise infrastructure with next-generation innovation. Today, the company’s most aggressive frontier is Physical AI. By leveraging the NVIDIA ecosystem, ROS 2, and high-fidelity digital twins, Xavor builds and manages autonomous systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world. Their edge computing and intralogistics solutions actively transform complex manufacturing and warehousing environments at scale. To direct this immense enterprise engineering capacity toward the global aging crisis, Xavor launched NaviGait, a dedicated eldercare robotics spin-off. NaviGait develops the Navi companion robot ecosystem, which is already commercially deployed in US senior living facilities and validated by tier-one academic research to keep older adults safely connected.

Plateau Dynamics

C-UAS Systems

Plateau Dynamics is a Pakistan-based defence technology startup developing affordable, modular, and locally adaptable counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS). We build integrated autonomous solutions designed to detect, track, assess, and counter hostile or unauthorized drones across military, critical-infrastructure, and public-security environments. Our objective is to deliver practical last-mile protection against the growing threat posed by commercially available FPV drones, quadcopters, fixed-wing UAVs, and other low-cost aerial platforms. Our solutions include: • Autonomous Interceptor Drones: High-speed unmanned platforms designed to detect, pursue, and intercept hostile aerial threats. • AI Optical Detection and Tracking Modules: Edge-deployed computer vision systems that use EO and thermal sensing for real-time drone detection, classification, and tracking. • Net-Based Capture Platforms: Non-kinetic drone-catching systems for applications such as airports, stadiums, sensitive facilities, and urban environments. • Modular Counter-UAS Architecture: A flexible hardware and software stack that can be adapted to changing mission requirements, payloads, sensors, and operational environments.

RLABS

Deep Tech & Emerging Robotics

At rlabs, we’re building a proprietary LLM-powered engine that accelerates simulator development by 75% while maintaining a modular, interoperable, and cross-platform architecture. Each simulation produces high-value data that fuels both human performance insights and continuous AI model improvement, creating a powerful flywheel. By treating simulation as core infrastructure, we unlock a dual-training system where humans and machines evolve together. This approach enables faster iteration, smarter systems, and scalable intelligence across environments.

StemVerse

Education & STEM Robotics

STEMverse is a UNDP-recognised EdTech startup delivering hands-on STEM and AI education to K-12 students across Pakistan. Through curriculum-integrated hardware kits, structured camps, and school partnership programs, we give students aged 10–18 real experience in robotics, electronics, AI, Python, 3D printing, and entrepreneurship — domains they previously only encountered in theory. Our model is built around project-based learning. Students don't just study concepts; they build circuits, program autonomous robots, train machine learning models, and pitch startup ideas in Shark Tank-style presentations. All hardware is provided, sessions are delivered by trained instructors, and the curriculum is designed in-house and updated each cycle. Operating across Punjab and KPK region, STEMverse has trained hundreds of students through its camps and school programs. We are actively building Pakistan's next generation of engineers, innovators, and autonomous systems builders — from the ground up.

Strydex Robotics

Humanoid Robots

Strydex Robotics develops AI-powered lower-limb exoskeletons that help patients with mobility impairments walk with personalized robotic assistance and rehabilitation support. Strydex provides intelligent lower-limb robotic exoskeletons equipped with sensors, embedded control systems, and machine-learning algorithms that learn patient-specific gait patterns and deliver adaptive motor assistance during walking. Our Medical Walking Assist Devices help people affected by stroke, spinal injuries, muscle weakness, and neurological disorders who struggle to regain mobility due to limited access to effective rehabilitation, therapist shortages, and the high physical effort required during recovery. Existing solutions are often expensive, non-personalized, or inaccessible in developing countries. Strydex changes this with In-House Robotics in Pakistan, 90% less Operating costs, and distributing Made in Pakistan Walking Devices nation-wide across Hospitals, Physiotherapy Centers and Homes.

TITANNO

UGV [Unmanned Ground Vehicle]

TITANNO (Private) Limited is a Pakistani manufacturer of indigenous unmanned systems, specializing in the design, development, and manufacturing of advanced Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for defense, public safety, hazardous operations, and industrial applications. By integrating robotics, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, and secure communication technologies, TITANNO delivers reliable, mission-ready platforms that improve operational safety and efficiency. Committed to innovation and local manufacturing, the company is dedicated to strengthening Pakistan's technological capabilities while developing globally competitive unmanned systems for domestic and international markets.

BRIDGE MATE

Humanoid Robots

The Cognitive Robotics Research Group at University of Central Punjab explores how robots can safely and intelligently interact with humans in real-world environments by merging adaptive robotics with cognitive science and AI. Our focus is on developing predictive, learning-based systems that anticipate human actions and needs, enabling robots to collaborate effectively in dynamic settings. Through embodied cognition and continual reasoning, we aim to advance methodologies and tools that make cognitive robotics both socially impactful and industrially relevant.