Avathon establishes AI Center of Excellence in Bangalore. New center brings together top AI talent to advance the science of Physical AI and build the future of autonomous operations PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Avathon, a leader in Autonomy for Operations, today announced the establishment of its AI Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bangalore, reinforcing India's role at the center of Avathon's global AI innovation. The Bangalore CoE will bring together AI scientists, engineers, and technical leaders to advance the science and application of Physical AI, from how knowledge is captured to the development of frontier models for autonomous industrial systems across core markets such as energy, mining and aerospace. Avathon is building the CoE as a destination for people who want to work at the cutting edge of AI, advancing the science and development across multiple domains and tackling problems that match the complexity of industrial operations - such as supply chains, maintenance, robotics and manufacturing. The center will connect research, engineering, and deployment, with work originating in Bangalore contributing to Avathon's global platform and customer deployments. "AI is entering a new era. The question is no longer whether machines can generate information, but whether they can understand the world and turn data into knowledge, reason through its complexity, and take action within it," said Pervinder Johar, Chief Executive Officer of Avathon. "That is the frontier Avathon is pursuing. We are building the intelligence layer for the physical economy, where AI has to make sense of enormous amounts of data, navigate uncertainty and competing constraints, and continuously learn as the world changes. Bangalore will be central to that mission. We want the best AI researchers and engineers in India working on problems that matter at global scale, turning advances in AI into systems that can reason and operate in the real world. This is not simply an investment in a new center. It is an investment in India's ability to help shape the future of AI." The CoE will set a high bar for technical excellence and bring together Avathon's leading AI talent. Avathon will continue to invest in Bangalore and attract AI talent from across India as the center expands. Avathon will also deepen its connections with universities, researchers, and technology organizations in India and around the world, creating an ecosystem that advances AI science and connects new research with real-world deployment. "India has everything required to become a global center for AI innovation. It has deep technical talent, a world-class research community, and a culture of engineering excellence," said Dinesh Fathpuria, Managing Director of Avathon, India. "The opportunity is to bring those strengths together around some of the most important problems in AI. That is what we are building in Bangalore." The AI Center of Excellence will make India a global hub for Avathon's AI innovation, advancing the science and building the intelligence that powers autonomous operations across the industrial economy. About Avathon Avathon is a leading AI provider of Autonomy for Operations, bringing Industrial AI into the physical world. The Avathon Autonomy Platform enables organizations to intelligently plan, orchestrate, and execute complex manufacturing, supply chain, and asset management operations by transforming data into knowledge. Designed to scale securely across industrial environments, Avathon improves asset performance and strengthens operational resilience. Learn more at www.avathon.com

Avathon has established an AI Center of Excellence in Bangalore to advance Physical AI and autonomous industrial systems. The centre will focus on developing frontier models for sectors including energy, mining, and aerospace. The facility will unite AI scientists and engineers working on applications spanning supply chains, maintenance, robotics, and manufacturing. Research conducted in Bangalore will contribute to Avathon's global platform and customer deployments. "We are building the intelligence layer for the physical economy, where AI has to make sense of enormous amounts of data, navigate uncertainty and competing constraints, and continuously learn as the world changes," said Pervinder Johar, chief executive officer of Avathon. The company plans to expand the centre and collaborate with universities and research organisations in India.

IIT Roorkee, Avathon to set up Physical AI Lab for industrial autonomy. Reading Time: 3 mins read New research initiative aims to build the next generation of Physical AI science in India, anchored at IIT Roorkee's Department of Computer Science & Engineering PLEASANTON, Calif., and ROORKEE: Avathon, a leader in Autonomy for Operations, and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), one of India's premier institutions of national importance, today announced the launch of the Avathon Physical AI Lab (Avathon PAL), a research initiative dedicated to advancing the science of Physical AI for the industrial economy. The proposed laboratory will be established in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Roorkee. The laboratory is envisaged to serve as a centre for collaborative research in Physical AI and to deepen collaboration with leading academic institutions across India and around the world. The partnership pairs Avathon's leadership in bringing autonomy to industrial operations with IIT Roorkee's deep bench of research talent in optimization, machine learning, knowledge representation, and multi-agent systems. Together, the parties intend to build a durable foundation for cutting-edge Physical AI research focused on the most difficult problems in the industrial economy, from supply planning and logistics at scale to knowledge-driven, continuously learning autonomous systems. "IIT Roorkee shaped how I think about the world and what's possible within it. Returning to build something lasting here is deeply personal," said PervinderJohar, Chief Executive Officer of Avathon and an alumnus of IIT Roorkee. "The talent and rigor at this institution are extraordinary, and the challenges facing the industrial world today are exactly the problems this partnership is built to solve. Physical AI is how we bring autonomy to the industrial economy, and there is no better place to advance that science than where my own journey began." The Avathon PAL will work in close concert with Avathon's newly formed AI Center of Excellence (COE) in Bangalore. Together, the lab and the COE are designed to form a bridge between frontier research and real-world deployment, with science emerging from IIT Roorkee feeding directly into solutions that put autonomy into production across mining, energy, manufacturing, logistics, aerospace, and other industrial sectors. The Bangalore COE will anchor Avathon's growing research and engineering presence in India and serve as the primary industrial counterpart to the lab's academic work. "This partnership brings a rare combination of academic freedom and real-world industrial relevance to our research community," said Prof. SugataGangopadhyay, Principal Investigator of the Avathon PAL, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Roorkee. "Working alongside Avathon, a company at the forefront of bringing Physical AI to industrial operations, gives our researchers both the problems and the ambition worthy of them." The Avathon PAL intends to support a range of activities, including sponsored doctoral fellowships, collaborative research across multiple problem areas, student internships and industry exposure at Avathon, and workshops and technical events that connect the initiative to the broader research community. The lab reflects a shared conviction that the next frontier of artificial intelligence lies not in enterprise IT but on the factory floor, in the supply chain, and across critical infrastructure - the physical operations that move and sustain the global economy.