Will robots only destroy factory jobs?

They will cut some shop-floor roles. The public case is to remove lethal work and to create design and maintenance jobs, which needs planned reskilling.

Is buying foreign robots enough?

It can save lives quickly. Substantive innovation still needs Indian institutes, parts, and a domestic buyer, or the country stays a user.

What are the areas of prohibitive labour that can be sustainably managed by

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Prohibitive labour is hazardous, dirty, dull, or extreme work in mines, radiation, explosives, fire, underwater, space, furnaces, and isolation wards. Robots can take that load if power, parts, safety, and worker reskilling are funded. Premier institutes need mission testbeds, DRDO-ISRO-CSIR problem statements, and long chairs, not one-year gadgets. Industry must buy qualified Indian machines so research has a market. Score labs on field deployment with users such as NDRF and hospitals.

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  HAZ[Prohibitive labour] --> R[Robots in field]
  R --> S[Power spares safety reskill]
  LAB[IIT IISc missions] --> INN[Substantive innovation]
  BUY[DRDO ISRO industry] --> INN
  INN --> R

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Pick five national use-cases — mine rescue, bomb disposal, sewer, hospital isolation, and farm spraying — and score institutes on field hours, not papers alone.
Create a public robotics proving ground and a fast import window for research parts that now sit in customs.
Tie fellowships to deployment with a user (NDRF, a mine, a hospital), then let the team spin out a firm.

Robots should take work that kills, poisons, or wears people out: mines, radiation, bombs, fire, deep water, space, furnaces, and contagion. That is sustainable only with maintenance, safety law, and reskilling. Premier institutes will innovate if missions, testbeds, defence and industry buyers, and long fellowships replace short imported demos.

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They will cut some shop-floor roles. The public case is to remove lethal work and to create design and maintenance jobs, which needs planned reskilling.
Is buying foreign robots enough?

It can save lives quickly. Substantive innovation still needs Indian institutes, parts, and a domestic buyer, or the country stays a user.

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