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Retina Robotics

Forklift-mounted vision for warehouse inventory

  • Robotics
  • Computer Vision
  • Logistics
  • Supply Chain

About

Retina Robotics is building WAM, a compact, plug-and-play device that mounts on existing forklifts and other material-handling equipment and uses onboard computer vision and AI to track every pallet a warehouse moves, with or without a label. It replaces manual scanning, validation and audits, and speeds up picking and putaway.

WAM's first two capabilities are live: real-time pallet tracking as forklifts work, and continuous drive-by auditing of racked inventory, with more on the way. Robotics engineers Maanav Iyengar and Vishrut Bohara, who both trained in robotics at WPI, run the company from the Chicago area.

Array invested in Retina's pre-seed round in July 2025, alongside Forum Ventures and Right Side Capital.

Record

Stage
PreSeed
Category
Robotics
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Team
1-10
Total raised
$150K
Array came in at
Pre-Seed, 2025

Founders

  • Maanav Iyengar

    Co-founder and CEO

    Previously a graduate research assistant in robotics at WPI, building simulation training for humanoid robot teleoperation, and co-founder and CEO of Phase Maze.

  • Vishrut Bohara

    Co-Founder and CTO

    Previously a founding robotics engineer at Nokia Bell Labs and a software engineer at Microsoft; studied robotics at WPI and IIT (BHU) Varanasi.