Hello!

We are Hans and Hardik - longtime friends and co-founders of Boost Robotics.

TL;DR

Boost Robotics builds autonomous mobile manipulation robots that can inspect and physically interact with data center infrastructure.

Instead of dispatching technicians for every cable check, reboot, or hardware swap, data centers can now triage and resolve issues through “robot remote hands”. When not performing interventions, the robots continuously provide 24/7 security monitoring and operational analytics.

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🚨 The Problem

As AI infrastructure continues to scale up, data center physical operations are becoming increasingly difficult:

• Growth bottleneck: AI demand is scaling faster than the operational capacity to support it.
• Increasingly Remote Locations: Data centers are being built near cheaper power sources in sparsely populated areas—often with limited access to skilled labor.
• Competition: Hyperscalers are looking for every possible edge. Downtime means SLA violations and lost revenue.
• Hazardous Environments: Maintenance involves high-voltage power and toxic liquid coolants.

Now more than ever, robots are gaining the dexterity and generality to solve these critical problems.

🤖 The Solution

We are building a general purpose robot to handle a variety of use cases in data centers.

• Predict, find, and solve issues faster, even when you’re not physically on-site.
• Enable one skilled technician to debug multiple issues across multiple sites through context-aware teleoperation, and eventually autonomy.
• Provide 24/7 security monitoring and inventory management, simplifying compliance and financial audits while collecting data for your data center digital twin models.

Early Renderings of our Robot

Bi-Manual Teleoperation of the Manipulation Subsystem

👥 The Team

We met as engineering school freshmen at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015, when we both joined the same competitive Bhangra dance team. Over the next 10 years, we lived together, worked together in school projects, and both received Master’s degrees from CMU’s Robotics Institute. We always knew we would start a company together.

Hardik was previously robotics team lead at an agtech startup where he pivoted the team to a new product and made sales within 1 month. He was selected as commencement speaker for the CMU School of Computer Science Masters ceremony by his professors in recognition of his leadership.

Hans was previously a Staff Software Engineer at Boston Dynamics, where he worked on productizing computer vision algorithms for the Spot inspection robot. Before that, he built GPS-denied drone autonomy at a startup and conducted legged robotics research at CMU’s Robotics Institute.

Our Ask

We're actively seeking forward-thinking data centers to pilot our autonomous robotics platform at their facilities.

Reach out to us at founders@boostrobotics.ai — let’s shape the future of data center operations together.