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.
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.
Get in touchInsight
Driving is a complicated biological symphony
- Drivers worldwide
- 2B
- Awake hours in a car
- 6%
- Data collected
- 0%
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
Navigation Guidance
The system guides candidates through the test route with clear voice instructions, ensuring a standardized and language-independent test experience.
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.
Impact
Benefits for all parties involved
- 97%
- Decision agreement
- 0%
- False positives
- 95%
- Examiner time saved
COMPARISION
We replace examiner judgment with data-driven evaluation
Traditional
- Staff Time
- Evaluation Method
- Output
- Safety Risk
- 5 min / test
- Data-driven
- Detailed results report
- No examiner risk
- 30 min / test
- Qualitative
- None
- Examiner in car
vs.Traditional- Staff Time
- 5 min / test30 min / test
- Evaluation Method
- Data-drivenQualitative
- Output
- Detailed reportNone
- Safety Risk
- No examiner riskExaminer in the car
The team behindThe team behind Sapios
We're a team of experienced founders
and world-class researchersWe're a team of experienced founders and world-class researchers who love solving hard problems
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.