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Physical AI Is Transforming Industries Now, Says Tata Elxsi
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Moneycontrol•05-10-2026, 14:02
Physical AI Is Transforming Industries Now, Says Tata Elxsi
- •Aditya S Chikodi of Tata Elxsi states that physical AI is actively being deployed across industries, though the technology remains in its early stages.
- •The company emphasizes applying existing AI capabilities to solve specific business problems rather than prematurely chasing distant technological frontiers.
- •Tata Elxsi operates across diverse sectors including automotive, healthcare, and manufacturing, tailoring AI deployments to specific domain challenges.
- •Humans will remain in the loop to provide oversight and quality control, while AI automates repetitive tasks and reduces errors.
- •Tata Elxsi is actively training its engineers in generative AI and building internal environments for employees to experiment with new models.
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Tata Elxsi's immediate priority is applying existing AI and physical AI capabilities to specific industry use cases and business problems rather than chasing the next remote frontier, according to Aditya S Chikodi.
Aditya S Chikodi notes that despite the rapid adoption of generative AI and agentic systems, the overall integration of AI into engineering and business workflows is still at an early stage.
AI is expected to automate repetitive tasks, reduce errors, and improve quality while humans remain in the loop for oversight. While it will reduce time spent on certain jobs, it will not automatically double or triple overall engineering output, and it will drive the creation of new roles in AI quality assurance and prompt engineering.
