India, Sept. 16 -- Apollo Tyres MD shares what India's next-gen engineers need to learn

Robotics is often seen as an engineering discipline. In practice, it is much broader. It takes mechanical, electronic, software and artificial intelligence knowledge to design an intelligent system. Equally vital is the capacity to ask questions, test their concepts, find out what went wrong and how to make it better. These are not skills acquired in a single university course or during an internship. They develop over years of learning by doing. That's why robotics education should be introduced earlier in a student's education.

India is already taking steps in this direction. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 emphasizes experiential learning...