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Indian restaurants are using robots. Backing them are DRDO brothers and startups

From Mie.Roboluscious in Mohali to Roseate House Delhi and Hilton Gurugram, restaurants are using robots as servers to manage footfall while easing staff workload.

Four engineers in Greater Noida are building robots for the world

The robotics and automation sector is quickly gaining momentum among Indian companies, with Addverb, GreyOrange, Unbox Robotics, and Gridbot Technologies using AI and robotics to provide automated services.

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.

On Camera

India’s GDP may be strong—global inflation, debt and war could change the picture

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeals to postpone gold purchases, avoid foreign travel and conserve fuel do not signal an imminent crisis. They do expose the constraint: India must earn or conserve the dollars needed for essential imports.

India’s GDP data, new methodology & the arguments: CEA V Anantha Nageswaran on CutTheClutter

In this special edition, CEA joins Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta & debunks the ‘fudged data’ claim, adds the numbers for Q1 FY27 reflect the underlying vigour of Indian economic activity.

Estonia’s defence minister quits after €70 mn Ukraine shell deal with Indian-owned Italian firm goes awry

Hanno Pevkur takes political responsibility after Estonia paid up to €70 million upfront to Datasel for artillery shells for Ukraine that the company never previously made or sold.

Pakistan’s most embarrassing secret is internationalised. Now cricketing world is looking out for Imran

Given how arrogant and self-loving Imran is, he may not be capable of introspection even in the isolation of Adiala jail. The harsh truth is, he played the same game when it suited him.