AIRA targets to create 1mn roboticists by 2025

Hyderabad The All India Robotics Association (AIRA), a city based not for profit trade body of Robotic enterprise, the first of its kind in the country established to support, nurture and create robotics business opportunities in India announced several first of its kind initiatives in India. These initiatives were announced by P S V Kisshhan, the founder of AIRA in a programme held in T-Hub 2.0.

Kisshhan said : "AIRA is on a mission in making India the largest Robotics and Drones Hub in the world. Taking Robotics to the grass root level and integrating it into every sector is our objective. In the past, we had only 350 startups in the robotics vertical but now, we have 3700. AIRA aims to create one million roboticists by the year 2025.Some of these include Har Vibhag Mein Robotics, an initiative to ensure the deployment of robotics in every possible area of our life."

The initiatives were launched by Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, government of Telangana. AIRA entered MoUs with several government and private organisations. These MoU were exchanged in the presence of Jayesh Ranjan and Rama Devi Lanka, OSD Emerging Tech Wing, government of Telangana.

Jayesh Ranjan said:"Har Vibhag Mein Robotics is a laudable initiative. Involving students and making them use robotics to solve real-life problems is highly appreciable. There is an abundant talent like Slok, a 9th class student from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Adilabad who was given rupees five lakh grant by AIRA today to help him in his research project titled 'Slok Assistant' using both AI and Robotics." Jayesh added that, "Unlike Japan and Korea, we are late in the adoption of Robotics and their applications, but we are making firm steps." Ranjan also advised AIRA to involve people associated with Sophia, a social humanoid robot developed earlier.