Research & Development Centre
Students and faculty with hands-on robotics hardware at a HITS workshop.
What the centre is for
The facility lets students work hands-on with humanoid robotics platforms and the AI systems that control them — perception, motion planning and autonomous decision-making — rather than studying them only in theory.
Research across the institute
Research at HITS is not confined to a single laboratory. In AY 2025–26, HITS faculty recorded 290 notable achievements across research publications, major research projects, institutional grants, seminars and Faculty Development Programmes. Faculty lead advanced training initiatives and external research that feed directly back into coursework and student projects.
Part of a working industrial ecosystem
The R&D centre sits alongside the institute’s other applied facilities: a DGCA-approved Remote Pilot Training Organisation, a drone assembling and service centre, an automated manufacturing environment, a student-built autonomous electric buggy, and an active startup incubator. Together these form a working industrial ecosystem on campus, where learning happens on real equipment and to real industry standards.
Prototyping and additive manufacturing facilities on campus.
Industry partners in robotics
All India Robotics Association
T-Works
Segritech
