NEW DELHI: In the bustling corridors of Hall 1 at Bharat Mandapam, a nimble mechanical guest nicknamed ‘Scout’ has become the centre of attraction for delegates at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026.
Stationed at the EY booth, the robot represents the cutting edge of industrial automation by leveraging digital twins, advanced edge intelligence, and physical AI. These technologies enable highly autonomous, predictive, and continuously improving inspection workflows across complex industrial environments.
While its primary use cases are designed for industries such as mining and oil and gas, ‘Scout’ has already garnered significant interest from diverse domains, including the armed forces.
The interaction at the booth highlighted the robot’s dynamic capabilities. When asked by curious onlookers if the machine could move automatically, demonstrators responded with confidence, “Actually, we can run this once again for you.”
This physical demonstration is part of a larger vision to integrate robotics with real-time data analytics.
“Because you are doing a dry run. We are trying to create a dashboard out of it. We want to visualise the dashboard,” a representative explained.
This sophisticated dashboard is designed to provide a bird’s-eye view of industrial operations, displaying the number of plants and specific details for every machine in use.
The system goes beyond simple monitoring, diving deep into the operational health of the infrastructure.
“Based on its overall performance, downtime, uptime, everything. The performance quality. It will derive… It will check the benchmarks,” the representative noted.
Complementing this display of physical AI, Hari Balaji, Partner at the GenAI Center of Excellence, EY India, underscored the firm’s broader focus on bridging the gap between digital intelligence and physical automation.
