Robosoft Technologies

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Robosoft Technologies Private Limited

Type	Private
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Udupi, Karnataka, India
Key people	Rohith Bhat, MD & CEO
Industry	Outsourced Product Development
Services	iPhone Application Development, Casual Games for Mac, New Product Development, Application Porting, Game Porting, Game Testing, Quality Assurance and Testing, Web Application development
Employees	~350 ( April 2008)
Website	www.robosoftin.com

Robosoft Technologies is an Indian information technology company which provides software product development services. Robosoft was founded in 1996 by Rohith Bhat, who established the company to develop software products for the Mac market. Today, Robosoft is involved in providing Software Product Development services for Mac OS as well as Windows platform.

The companies Corporate Office is located in Santhekatte near Udupi on National Highway 17, in a sprawling 5 acre campus.Robosoft has brought Udupi a significant place in the global IT scenario and has won many awards and recognitions.

Robosoft has opened many project labs in various engineering colleges in Karnataka to bridge the gap between the industry and the academia. Colleges where Robosoft have opened their project labs include NMAMIT - Nitte, K.V.G.College of Engineering - Sullia, and St.Aloysius Institute of Computer Science - Mangalore. This has helped the students to have hands on experience of the various tools and technologies.

1 History
2 Business
3 Games ported by Robosoft
4 Robosoft's Clients
5 Achievements
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

Robosoft was founded in 1996 by Mr. Rohith Bhat in Mumbai. Initially, Robosoft began as a 'Mac OS only' development company but later started working on products for the Windows and other Web platforms.

[edit] Business

Robosoft specializes in C, C++ and Java product development for the Macintosh, iPhone and the Windows platform. Device Driver development, Game Porting, Game Testing, Quality Assurance and Testing services and Web applications development are few of its focus areas.

In the gaming arena, Robosoft has created a niche for themselves as the leading developer for porting some of the well known windows titles like Tomb Raider Anniversary, The Movies, Imperial Glory to the Mac platform. Tomb Raider Anniversary has been well received by the Mac gaming community and the reviews of this game speaks about the work done by Robosoft.

With the release of the SDK for iPhone by Apple Inc., Robosoft has announced the expansion of its Mac development services for the iPhone. They would be involved in developing native applications and Casual Games for the iPhone.

[edit] Games ported by Robosoft

[edit] Robosoft's Clients

Robosoft's client base is located in US, Europe and AsiaPacific. These clients range from innovative start-up companies to Fortune 500 companies. Among them are Apple Inc., BenQ, Canon Inc., Hewlett Packard, Intuit and Feral Interactive. It has more than 32 clients to its credit.

[edit] Achievements

Robosoft's Software Development and Delivery processes have been certified as ISO 9001:2000 by the Germany headquartered audit firm TUV.
Robosoft has won the Best Services Exporter Award (Silver)from the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI).
The Movies game ported to Mac OS X by Robosoft and published by Feral Interactive has won BAFTA award for best video game under Simulation category.