Founded in Pittsburgh to make critical infrastructure safer
Shifters AI was started in 2023 by engineers with deep background in robotics systems for environments where manual inspection carries real physical risk.
We build robots that go where maintenance teams should not have to
Every inspection that puts a worker on transmission steel or inside a pipeline carries unnecessary risk. We are building the tools that close that gap, starting with the environments where the risk is highest and the inspection technology is oldest.
The team
Ofer Ballin
CEO & Co-FounderSpent years working on the commercial and deployment side of autonomous systems, understanding what it takes to move a robotics product from prototype into an industrial operator's hands. Leads the process of qualifying Shifters AI with utilities, pipeline operators, and mining companies.
Priya Nambiar
CTO & Co-FounderYears designing autonomy stacks for mobile robots operating in unstructured industrial environments. Specific depth in sensor fusion and chassis design for confined-space navigation, where GPS is unavailable and mechanical constraints are severe.
Erik Lindqvist
Head of PerceptionSpent years building and training computer vision models for industrial inspection applications. Deep background in defect detection dataset construction and model evaluation for physical infrastructure defect taxonomy.