Speaking at the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 during a high-level panel discussion titled ‘India Building AI Solutions for the World’, Mrs. Priya Kapur, Non-Executive Director at Sona Comstar and Managing Director of Aureus Investment, shared insights on AI adoption, industry collaboration and emerging opportunities for Indian start-ups.
Mrs. Kapur highlighted the rapid integration of artificial intelligence across global manufacturing and mobility value chains, noting that leading automotive companies have progressed beyond pilot initiatives to large-scale, mission-critical AI deployments. Today, AI is embedded across product design, manufacturing operations, supply chain management, predictive maintenance, quality control and sustainability tracking.
She underlined that true differentiation among global leaders lies not in experimenting with AI, but in deploying it reliably at scale across multiple geographies and regulatory frameworks. This requires strong data integrity, cybersecurity safeguards, safety compliance and seamless integration with physical systems. As AI becomes central to core operations, she stressed that governance must elevate to the board level to ensure strategic alignment, effective risk oversight, ethical implementation and workforce transformation.
Mrs. Kapur also underlined the growing opportunity for Indian AI startups to integrate into multinational automotive ecosystems. Success, she said, will depend on building globally compliant, robust solutions and collaborating early with large industry players to accelerate deployment.
Talking about Sona Comstar’s foray into AI and Robotics, she highlighted that the company is actively integrating AI, data analytics, and robotics into both manufacturing operations and next-generation mobility technologies. The company has deployed AI-enabled computer vision systems for automated inspection and predictive analytics for process optimization. The Advanced robotics and autonomous material-handling systems are enhancing precision, productivity, and safety across facilities of the company.
Through its global technology platforms, including radar and sensing technologies, Sona Comstar is advancing AI-driven mobility solutions that support ADAS and autonomous driving systems. The company is also exploring applications of precision drivetrain and motion-control technologies in emerging areas such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and next-generation robotics platforms.
These initiatives reflect Sona Comstar’s broader strategy of combining AI, electronics, precision engineering, and robotics to build globally competitive, export-ready technology solutions.
Mrs. Kapur concluded that India has a unique opportunity to position itself as a global hub for AI solutions that are scalable, reliable, and impact driven. Achieving this will require close collaboration between startups, industry, academia, financial institutions, and policymakers. When AI innovation is anchored in real-world deployment, guided by strong governance, and supported by global collaboration, India will not only adopt AI , it will build AI solutions that the world trusts and deploys at scale, she said in her closing remarks.
