Bharat Forge and Agile Robots Sign MoU for AI led Industrial Automation

Bharat Forge and Germany-based Agile Robots S.E. agree to explore a strategic collaboration to jointly explore the space of AI driven robotics and intelligent industrial automation. Driven by Bharat Forge’s extensive domain expertise and Agile Robots’ ingenious intelligent robots and automation solutions, this collaboration will see the deployment of cutting-edge solutions for the automotive, healthcare, and consumer electronics industries. The Indo-German partnership is focused exclusively on civilian industry and manufacturing. To this effect, both companies have signed an MoU to:

(i)   Co-develop, set up capabilities and offer bespoke solutions in manufacturing, industrial CPG and logistics space, including existing solutions of Agile Robots for India and Southeast Asia markets

(ii)  develop and deploy state-of-the-art vision and AI based robotic solutions as one of the strategic partners to enable a fully autonomous (‘dark’) factory

Commenting on the collaboration, vice chairman and joint managing director, Bharat Forge Limited, Amit Kalyani said, “This strategic collaboration with Agile Robots is a reinforcement of Bharat Forge’s ambition to provide state-of-the-art intelligent robotic and automation solutions across multiple industries while driving manufacturing efficiencies at home. Manufacturing in India is on a steep growth path, and I am very excited that with Agile Robots we are going to deploy bespoke, modular and intelligent automation solutions across the sectors.”

Executive director, Agile Robots, Rory Sexton said, “By partnering with Bharat Forge, Agile Robots is strengthening its position in India’s rapidly growing manufacturing sector. Combining Agile Robots’ proven leadership in AI driven robotic automation with Bharat Forge’s sectoral expertise will allow us to improve the efficiency and precision of entire production systems.”