India-made robot Tata Brabo to be launched in next two months

TAL Manufacturing Solutions, a Tata Group company, is expected to launch first ever India-made robot by May 2016. Dubbed
‘Tata Brabo’, the robot was showcased in the Make in India Week in Mumbai.
Anil Bhingurde, COO of TAL Manufacturing Solutions led a group of six engineers, with an average age of 24 years, to design
and create Brabo from scratch. The cost of development of Tata Brabo is Rs 10 crore.
Talking about the Made in India robot,
Bhingurde said, “These are Made in India, Made for India. The idea is to drive automation in the market by offering affordable and cost-effective solution.” The name has been derived from a French word ‘Bras’, which means arm, and bot which is an automated machine. This means Brabo will be an arm bot in simple terms.
Brabo will be priced at Rs 3 lakh for 2kg payload, and Rs 6 lakh for 10kg payload.
The main advantage Tata will have is the localised manufacturing of the robot which will help it to price the robots lower than foreign players. Tata will face stiff competition from global companies who have started introducing their small robots in India, meant for the same target industries as Tata.