Business Remedies | Rajshree Upadhyaya |Trivikram Kumar started XMachines with a clear, quietly urgent mission to bring robotics and artificial intelligence into fields that had been shaped by generations of human labour rather than lines of code and sensors. Founded in 2017, the Hyderabad-based company grew out of conversations with farmers, months of prototype testing, and an insistence that technology should reduce chemical use and ease labour shortages rather than replace the people who know the land best.
From the beginning, the work was hands-on and iterative. The team built a family of multipurpose agricultural robots designed to sow, transplant, manage weeds, and perform targeted spraying, and they paired those machines with software so that decisions about where and when to apply inputs were driven by plant data rather than habit. The most visible of these machines, the X100, was presented as a modular, fully electric platform that could be fitted with attachments for transplanting, weeding, or spraying and run either autonomously or with joystick control depending on the farm’s needs.
As XMachines broadened its scope, it did not stop at fields. The company developed Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) for material handling aimed at manufacturing floors and warehouses and built rugged outdoor platforms for solar farm maintenance and other high-exposure tasks. This mix of products positioned XMachines at the intersection of agritech and industrial automation, a pragmatic response to the fragmented Indian market where customers value versatility and reliability over single-use novelty.
The Shark Tank India appearance brought XMachines into the national conversation. When founder Trivikram Kumar pitched the company on Season 3, he did not just sell a product-he sold a story of field trials, farmer partnerships, and a service model that included rentals to make machines affordable for smallholders. The episode ended with a funding pact that validated the model and gave XMachines both the capital and the visibility to scale trials and deployments.
What followed felt less like sudden celebrity and more like steady validation. XMachines continued to surface in industry conversations, incubator pages, and regional news pieces that traced how prototypes became paying deployments across Telangana, Karnataka, and beyond. The company maintained an active web presence detailing its product lines and specifications while its leadership engaged with research and policy forums about precision farming and sustainable inputs. Those public traces – an up-to-date website, recent media features, and active outreach – all point to a company that remains operational and focused on rolling out practical robotics rather than chasing headlines.
If there is a single throughline to the XMachines story, it is the insistence that technology must be readable by those who work the land. Trivikram Kumar and his team designed machines that speak the farmer’s language – modular, rentable, and usable under real conditions – and then found partners and investors who saw the practical promise. The result is a company that sits at an unglamorous but crucial junction: building durable robotic tools while learning how to fit them into the rhythms of Indian agriculture and industry.
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Rajshree Upadhyaya
