Cotan Labs
Transforming industries using Autonomous & Intelligent Systems while preserving the irreplaceable value of human insight, creativity, and compassion through cutting-edge technology that enhances human potential.
Explore Cotan LabsOur Story
Necessity often sparks innovation — and for our co-founder Varesh, it began with something as simple, yet vital, as a child’s lunch. At a community event, he was struck by the lack of healthy options for kids. A passionate cook with deep roots in traditional culinary practices, he started preparing wholesome meals every week, soon inspiring other parents to do the same. But spending four hours in the kitchen every Saturday revealed a bigger challenge. The robotics engineer in him couldn’t ignore the question: what if healthy cooking could be automated? That spark became the seed of Autonomous Kitchen. Srikant, Arun and Varesh expanded this vision far beyond the kitchen - into healthcare, education, animal sciences, and emergent fields. What began as a personal mission to make a meaningful impact grew into Cotan Labs, a company driven by research, innovation, and a bold commitment to solving some of society’s most pressing challenges.
About UsOur Vision
To be the global leader in autonomous and intelligent systems that seamlessly enhance human potential, transforming industries while preserving the irreplaceable value of human insight, creativity, and compassion by driving meaningful social impact through technology that empowers communities and creates sustainable value for society.
Our Mission
We develop cutting-edge Autonomous & Intelligent systems that amplify human capabilities across healthcare, education, and everyday life, ensuring technology serves humanity by solving real-world challenges while maintaining the highest standards of ethics, sustainability, and innovation.
Core Values
Stewardship
We are responsible stewards of the resources entrusted to us and consider the impact of our decisions on all stakeholders.
Integrity
We act with honesty, transparency, and fairness. We treat everyone with dignity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion in its true sense.
Innovation
We encourage creativity and thoughtful experimentation to find, embrace and solve problems and create value.
Excellence
We strive for the best solution and continuously seek opportunities to improve. We value data driven decisions.
Perseverance
We learn from setbacks, adapt with courage, and keep moving forward with purpose.
Our Principles
Embrace AI
We believe intelligence should not be segregated into artificial/natural. Thus we define AI as autonomy and intelligence, not just artificial intelligence.
Research-Driven Innovation
Every system begins with rigorous research and development
Human-Centric Design
Autonomous systems that enhance rather than replace human potential
Sustainable Impact
Building intelligent systems that benefit both business and environment
Adaptive Excellence
Systems that evolve and improve with changing needs and technologies
Product Innovations
Our journey began with Autonomous Kitchen, where precision robotics, intelligent sensing, and adaptive AI solve urgent challenges in food preparation and sustainability. Yet the true innovation isn't the kitchen itself, it's the capability-based platform that powers it.
From proactive and reactive healthcare to AI-powered learning platforms, intelligent pet care, and VTOL mobility systems, our innovations share one DNA: capabilities that transcend sectors and scale with human needs.
Healthcare
Proactive Healthcare
Autonomous Kitchen: Food being a foundational driver for proactive healthcare, we aim to automate food preparation within the fresh food production sector. Our focus is on "Outcome based food intake" - preparing fresh food daily using nutrition preserving, sustainable food preparation techniques and serving communities. This is our primary deliverable for 2025.
Reactive Healthcare Solutions
Elderly Care: Empowering elderly individuals to live independently by creating autonomous assistants that enhance their quality of life while supporting cognitive health through evidence-based, technology-enabled therapeutic and alternative approaches.
Traumatic Brain Injury Support: Advanced supportive devices providing assistance with movement and daily tasks, offering physical help with walking and grasping, plus cognitive support for memory and communication, enabling increased independence.
Education
Xacademy Platform
Our goal with Xacademy is to use AI as the primary driver of change in the platform space by building a platform that can plugin to any LMS to ease adoption and rollout. With multi-modal capabilities and agentic workflow capabilities, this platform acts as an assistant for all educators and students in both B2B and B2C customer segments.
Skill Gap Education Content
We empower organizations to invest in their people's potential through AI-powered, personalized reskilling pathways that align employee development with emerging job requirements, creating a resilient workforce that thrives alongside technological advancement rather than being replaced by it.
Animal Sciences
Intelligent Pet Care Solutions
We integrate veterinary science, animal psychology, and cutting-edge sensor technologies to develop autonomous systems that understand and respond to animal behavioral patterns. Our solutions provide personalized interventions and seamless integration with existing pet care ecosystems.
Robotic Companions
Intelligent robotic companions that learn each pet's unique behavioral patterns and physical needs to deliver interactive training, emotional support and engaging platforms, creating meaningful bonds between technology and pets.
Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL)
In the advent of emerging technologies like VTOL aircraft with a study supporting from Morgan Stanley suggesting this sector is going to be $9 trillion by 2050, it is apparent that intelligent and autonomous systems are sought to make the VTOL aircraft autonomous and intelligent. Cotan Labs has the capabilities that can make a VTOL aircraft make intelligent decisions and have awareness to provide much needed situational awareness and decision-making. It is known that these VTOL aircraft will be soon introduced in the following sectors where Cotan Labs technologies and capabilities will demonstrate VTOL aircraft's existence is more meaningful and demonstrate much needed autonomy and capability.
- Cargo transportation
- Firefighting
- Policing
- Air medics
- Rescue
- Military and many more
Core Team
Dr. Srikant Devaraj
CEO and Chairman
Brings over 20 years of transformative leadership in research, innovation, and large-scale program execution. As a Ph.D. economist, has directed multi-million-dollar initiatives across healthcare, education, and technology sectors, consistently delivering data-driven solutions that drive organizational growth and create measurable impact.
Varesh Rangan
Chief Product Officer
20+ years of industry experience in Software and Hardware Automation Product Development with prior experience at Amazon Robotics, GoogleX-Mineral.ai, Meta-WhatsApp, and Tesco.
Arun Chandrasekaran
Chief Technology Officer
Over 20 years of transformative engineering leadership. Visionary leader who has directed teams of 60+ engineers across global organizations, with expertise in AI/ML, computer vision, identity systems, biometrics, and high performance computing.
Our Capabilities
Physical Interaction
- Pick & Place Automation - Precise handling of objects for reliable operations
- Linear Movement - Smooth point-to-point movement for task execution
- Rotational Control - Accurate rotation of tools and ingredients
- Tilting and Dispensing - Controlled pouring and ingredient delivery
- Opening and Closing - Automated handling of lids, doors, and containers
- Gripping and Releasing - Adaptive grip for soft and hard objects
- Grinding and Blending - Consistent food preparation automation
- Heating - Controlled heating for cooking and preparation
Sensing Capabilities
- Vision Systems - Object recognition and precise visual analysis
- Touch and Pressure Sensing - Grip and texture awareness
- Weight Measurement - Built-in weighing for ingredient accuracy
- Heat and Cold Sensitivity - Temperature detection for safety
- Sound Recognition - Audio cue understanding and response
- Smell Detection - Aroma and freshness identification (Coming Soon)
Intelligence and Interaction
- Multi-Language Communication - Speaking and understanding multiple languages
- Human-Like Awareness - Multi-sensory natural interaction
- Adaptive Automation - Dynamic environmental response for seamless operation
Investors
Letter to Investors
We are excited to invite you to join us on our journey to transform industries through autonomous and intelligent systems. At Cotan Labs, we are not just building technology - we are creating solutions that enhance human potential while addressing real-world challenges across healthcare, education, and everyday life.
Our experienced leadership team brings over 20 years of proven expertise from leading organizations like Amazon Robotics, Google X, Meta, NEC, and more. We've already established strategic partnerships and are actively developing groundbreaking solutions in proactive healthcare through our Autonomous Kitchen initiative.
This is an opportunity to be part of something meaningful - developing technologies that serves humanity while maintaining the highest standards of ethics and sustainability. We invite you to join us in building the future of autonomous systems.
Warm regards,
The Cotan Labs Team
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Location
Fremont, CA
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