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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicAutomation

Topic: Automation

Inside India’s only dark factory in Tamil Nadu. Robots work all night, engineers stay out

The swish of robotic arms, electronic beeps, and a Ganesha prayer on loop are the only sounds at Polymatech, a semiconductor unit in Kancheepuram.

Why it’s so difficult choosing a career for yourself — and 3 things you can do about it

Career decisions are a balancing act. You have to align your interests and aptitudes with the current demands of the labour market, neither of which are static entities.

Weathering the Storm: Preparing for a Recession with AP Automation

In the time of recession when companies have to carefully monitor their financial transaction, automation can be a boon for financial experts and planners making their jobs easier.

SubscriberWrites: Promise and perils of AI in the future

There is growing concern that these technologies will perpetuate joblessness among the poor and create a more divided society, writes Vamsikrishna Chandrasekharan.

Even China, India face labour shortages. Can automation rescue the world?

Adopting automation speeds up the manufacturing process and stretches scarce talent. It can even make the workforce more inclusive.

Automation would have eased some Covid economic pain, but the world isn’t prepared

The lockdowns wouldn’t have paralysed economies had we been less dependent on the presence of humans to sustain a certain basic level of economic activity.

The one job that will disappear by 2062 — the job of fighting wars

In 2062: The World That AI Made, Toby Walsh writes about the dangerous scenario of lethal autonomous weapons getting to decide who dies and who lives.

Workers might welcome robots taking over their jobs

A survey found a robotic takeover was easier to accept because it didn’t batter people’s self-image quite so brutally as being replaced by another human.

Automation & AI won’t make low-skilled jobs disappear

Companies must ensure that employees don’t get stuck in low-skilled jobs, but are instead able to grow in knowledge and skills.

Robots might turn out to be great co-workers

The idea that robots will render humans obsolete & take over their jobs maybe unlikely as nobody knows how many jobs will be replaced and how.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.