Top 10 Robotics Research Labs in India that need more attention and funding to build the next frontier Robotics and Physical AI models! Also for researchers, these are the top labs to aspire for! AIRL, IISc Bengaluru RRC, IIIT Hyderabad IITGN Robotics Lab Stochastic Robotics Lab, IISc HiRo Lab, CPS IISc MRL, IIT Kanpur Robotics Lab, Dept of Eng. Design, IITM FOCAS Lab, IISc Multi Agent Systems Lab, IISc CAIR, Bengaluru @ANRFIndia @NITIAayog @GoI_MeitY @IndiaDST

Hot Takes - The trillion dollar valued WORLD models and robots of the west are only going to be built by Indian data and the trends are strong! 1. 1000’s of Egocentric Data Companies in India, entered factories, households, many other public places! Best place to scale! 2. Entry of devices such as Meta Glasses into the Indian market 3. Lowest cost data suited for Physical AI across the world! 4. Enough young people to provide agile data to the data lake I see it in these ways: Being a technology optimist, 🇮🇳 has to capitalize on owning the entire data pipeline, and charging a premium on the data because these are gold standard data that the west can never generate at such a humongous scale. Simply boycott/blanket ban any company that is not Indian in this data collection space. Let’s play to our strengths and let only Indian companies do this! Also, entrepreneurship has multiplied 10 fold because of this boom and thats a great sign for 🇮🇳’s story. Data Privacy : A basic compliance and consent to not reveal faces is all that is needed to trade the data! The other policies will evolve with time and new incidents! Access to tech and models? It also might be true that 🇮🇳 might never see or experience the generalized/household robots or the models that were trained on this very same homegrown data, and we should be prepared for it. Superintelligence will be owned elsewhere while we still play the major role in supply chain! But we will be the ultimate fools if we don’t charge enough for the data! Someone pls pass this on to the lawmakers in 🇮🇳!