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We're building the foundational intelligence for understanding humans in the physical world - translating how we sense, reason, and react into actionable truth.

Starting with driving.

SapiOS turns a smartphone into a fully automated driving test examiner, replacing subjective human judgment with objective, data-driven evaluation.

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Insight

Driving is a complicated
biological symphony

2B

Drivers worldwide

6%

Awake hours in a car

0%

Data collected

Problem

Driving tests haven't
changed in 100 years

Today's driving evaluations still rely on a human examiner sitting in the vehicle and manually judging driver behavior. This system is difficult to scale, expensive to operate, and inherently subjective.

What we do

We turn a smartphone into a fully automated driving test examiner

Sensor Stack

Navigation Guidance

AI Evaluation Protocol

Sensor Stack

Using the smartphone’s cameras, microphones, GPS and motion sensors, we capture the full driving environment and the driver’s behavior throughout the test.

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Sensor Stack

Using the smartphone’s cameras, microphones, GPS and motion sensors, we capture the full driving environment and the driver’s behavior throughout the test.

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Navigation Guidance

The system guides candidates through the test route with clear voice instructions, ensuring a standardized and language-independent test experience.

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Navigation Guidance

The system guides candidates through the test route with clear voice instructions, ensuring a standardized and language-independent test experience.

GIF

AI Evaluation Protocol

Our AI analyzes the driving session against official test standards, detecting critical events such as missed stops, unsafe turns, lane deviations, or inattention, and automatically generates a structured evaluation report.

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AI Evaluation Protocol

Our AI analyzes the driving session against official test standards, detecting critical events such as missed stops, unsafe turns, lane deviations, or inattention, and automatically generates a structured evaluation report.

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Impact

Benefits for all parties involved

Scalable infrastructure for authorities

Licensing systems worldwide face growing demand, examiner shortages, and long waiting times. SapiOS turns the driving test into a scalable digital evaluation system.

Fairer evaluations for drivers

Driving ability should be measured by skill - not by the subjective judgment of a single examiner. SapiOS evaluates driving behavior through objective signals captured during the test.

Safer testing for examiners

Driving exams are one of the few government evaluations where the evaluator sits inside a moving vehicle. SapiOS enables reliable assessment without requiring the examiner to be in the car.

Impact

Benefits for all parties involved

Scalable infrastructure for authorities

Licensing systems worldwide face growing demand, examiner shortages, and long waiting times. SapiOS turns the driving test into a scalable digital evaluation system.

Fairer evaluations for drivers

Driving ability should be measured by skill - not by the subjective judgment of a single examiner. SapiOS evaluates driving behavior through objective signals captured during the test.

Safer testing for examiners

Driving exams are one of the few government evaluations where the evaluator sits inside a moving vehicle. SapiOS enables reliable assessment without requiring the examiner to be in the car.

Impact

Benefits for all parties involved

Scalable infrastructure for authorities

Licensing systems worldwide face growing demand, examiner shortages, and long waiting times. SapiOS turns the driving test into a scalable digital evaluation system.

Fairer evaluations for drivers

Driving ability should be measured by skill - not by the subjective judgment of a single examiner. SapiOS evaluates driving behavior through objective signals captured during the test.

Safer testing for examiners

Driving exams are one of the few government evaluations where the evaluator sits inside a moving vehicle. SapiOS enables reliable assessment without requiring the examiner to be in the car.

97

%

Decision agreement

0

%

False positives

95

%

Examiner time saved

COMPARISION

We replace examiner judgment with data-driven evaluation

Traditional

vs.

Staff Time

Staff Time

Evaluation Method

Evaluation Method

Output

Output

Safety Risk

Safety Risk

Staff Time

5 min / test

30 min / test

Evaluation Method

Data-driven

Qualitative

Output

Detailed report

None

Safety Risk

No examiner risk

Examiner in the car

5 min / test

5 min / test

Data-driven

Data-driven

Detailed results report

Detailed results report

No examiner risk

No examiner risk

Traditional

30 min / test

30 min / test

Qualitative

Qualitative

None

None

Examiner in car

Examiner in car

TEAM

The team behind

We're a team of experienced founders and world-class researchers who love solving hard problems

We're a team of experienced founders
and world-class researchers

TEAM

The team
behind SapiOS

We're a team of experienced founders and world-class researchers who love solving hard problems

We're a team of experienced founders
and world-class researchers

Ravi Teja Chadalavada

CEO

Ph.D. in Robotics. Sapios started with Ravi's realisation that there is a systemic issue with the driver tests, and decided to apply his robotics knowledge to fix it. He steered the company from Day 0 to an awarded contract with Department of Motor Vehicles without raising any capital.

Dr. Sai Krishna Pathi

CTO

Ph.D. in Robotics with a specialization in computer vision. Sai built the entire Sapios evaluation system from the ground up - from early prototypes to the current iPhone-based AI examiner used in government pilots. His work led to a system achieving 97% agreement with human examiners under real testing conditions.

Dr. Henrik Andreasson

Head of Robotics and AI

Internationally recognized robotics researcher and associate professor specializing in autonomous systems and robot navigation. Henrik leads the robotics and AI architecture behind Sapios’ evaluation engine. Henrik is an experienced founder with commercial experience in navigation and sensing for autonomous vehicles.

Prof. Dr. Maike Schindler

Head of Human Factors and Eye Tracking

Professor at the University of Cologne and globally recognized expert in eye-tracking and human behavior analysis. Ranked among top 0.5% of all researchers worldwide according to the latest ScholarGPS ranking for 2024. Her work focuses on understanding how humans perceive and process complex environments - a foundation for Sapios.

Prof. Dr. A. J. Lilienthal

Head of Research and Industrial Collaborations

Board member at MIRMI – Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence and professor at TU Munich. Ranked among top 0.5% of all researchers worldwide according to the latest ScholarGPS ranking for 2024. Achim leads research collaborations and connects Sapios to one of Europe’s most advanced robotics research ecosystems.