India, Oct. 27 -- Just five years ago, robotics felt too distant for Indian startups: technically demanding, capital intensive, and dependent on foreign components. That's no longer true.

India's robotics revolution is being actively pursued by startups, and it's being built not in corporate labs but inside warehouses, factories, hospitals, and farms.

As India moves from a $4 Tn to a $10 Tn economy over the next 15 years, the economy's growth will depend not only on digitising workflows but also on automating the physical systems that move goods, manufacture products, and deliver essential services.

Robotics, once a niche domain, is now emerging as the infrastructure layer of physical dynamism that will define India's next productivity...