India Builds Strategy To Strengthen Robotics

At India’s flagship AI summit in New Delhi, a private university was asked to leave after showcasing a commercially available Chinese robot dog as homegrown, provoking online ridicule and highlighting deeper ecosystem weaknesses. The author outlines India’s low patent share (1.6%), 70–95% import dependency, and prescribes curriculum reform, domestic procurement rules, robotics parks, and a 50% public-procurement target by 2030 to build sovereign physical-AI capability.