Industry Findings: India is expanding trials of autonomous delivery, indoor mobility, and warehouse logistics systems across hospitals, manufacturing parks, and quick-commerce networks. The surge in large fulfilment centres and city-level delivery corridors is pushing enterprises to prioritise robots that can navigate congested pathways, withstand frequent power fluctuations, and integrate with locally developed software stacks. Vendors offering cost-efficient, heat-resistant platforms and strong field servicing gain early traction as Indian buyers scale from pilot to multi-site deployment.
Industry Progression: National policy is now explicitly steering robotics adoption toward measurable public-good use cases, and India’s Draft National Strategy on Robotics (2023–2024) formalises funding and pilot targets that unlock public–private deployments in healthcare and logistics; this policy scaffolding reduces risk for enterprise buyers and accelerates scaled pilots, favouring vendors who align with government application lists and local implementation partners.
Industry Players: Indian industry shifts are guided by GreyOrange, Systemantics, Unbox Robotics, and Flipkart Labs' robotics arm etc. The push to automate sprawling fulfilment corridors and quick-commerce networks is turning pilots into multi-site rollouts; in 2024 leading e-commerce players publicly expanded AMR fleet trials across tier-1 distribution centers, making software-led orchestration and low-cost local servicing decisive procurement filters. This movement gives an edge to suppliers who combine affordable hardware with deep systems-integration locally, and increases demand for flexible financing models.