New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- LAT Aerospace, backed by Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal, has acquired Sharang Shakti, an early-stage defence robotics startup based in Gurgaon.

Announcing the development, Goyal wrote on X, "This is our first move toward building indigenous defence capabilities alongside our long-term mission of developing next-generation civil aviation platforms from India."

He noted that civil aviation and defence are often viewed as separate sectors. "But the core technology stack is shared across autonomy, perception, sensing, navigation, guidance, and control systems."

By bringing Sharang Shakti into LAT, he said they are building these capabilities in-house, from first principles, with the intent to deploy them across both d...