Robot Dog

India-made robots shine at AI Impact Summit 2026 after early controversy

Indigenously manufactured and developed robots emerged as a major attraction at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, despite an early controversy over an Indian university's claim that a China-made robot dog was its own. Among these, SVAN-M2, a robot dog by Kanpur-based startup xTerra Robotics, was a crowd puller. Co-founder of xTerra Robotics said the product took years of translational research by students and faculty of IIT Kanpur. The SVAN-M2, which has an aluminium alloy body and legs, uses its light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device to create accurate 3D representations of its environment. It can be used for monitoring a hazardous area or at power stations for inspecting the facility with thermal imaging. In the security domain, the robot dog can play a key role in threat detection and save lives by 3D-mapping an area and relaying the images to a team away from the site. Founded by Nimesh Khandelwal, Avinash Bhashkar, Amritanshu Manu, Aditya Rajawat and Shakti S Gupta in 2

India's startups build humanoids with local code, globally sourced hardware

Indian robotics startups are developing humanoid and quadruped robots using locally built software while relying on global supply chains for critical hardware, as deployments steadily rise

Robot dog 'PARAM' walks down Bengaluru Street, stuns locals; watch video

The four-legged "device," which has been causing a buzz on the Internet, has now been seen strolling around Bengaluru's streets. The tech industry is being overtaken by robot dogs these days

China leads global market as robot dogs become major AI testing ground

Beijing's support for so-called embodied artificial intelligence has boosted the domestic robotics sector, while vast tech and electric vehicles supply chains have driven down costs

Sony's pet project, a new robot dog, to be unleashed soon

Firm is reportedly preparing for a media event in November to show off the product