India is rapidly becoming a major hub for industrial AI. Ranked third worldwide in AI competitiveness and first in AI skill penetration, the country pairs strong engineering expertise with fast-growing industrial investment.
As India scales up its industrial base, infrastructure, and transport networks, industrial AI is shifting from experimental pilots to full-scale deployment, delivering measurable impact across sectors such as semiconductors, clean energy, electronics, and electric mobility.
“Industrial AI is a core capability to make our customers more competitive, resilient and sustainable. And for the Indian economy it is the key lever for growth and prosperity,” said Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens. “Together with our partner NVIDIA, we are building the industrial AI operating system to connect AI to real production systems at scale. Siemens’ and NVIDIA’s teams in India will play a leading role to integrate Industrial AI along the entire value chain from design, engineering, and operations.”
The combination of NVIDIA’s leadership in accelerated computing and AI platforms with Siemens’ leading hardware, software, industrial AI and data allows manufacturers to simulate entire factories before construction, train AI systems in virtual environments and deploy software-defined production systems that are more adaptive, resilient and efficient.
Across India, leading companies across various sectors are already putting technologies such as digital twins and robots with different form factors (e.g. cobots, humanoids) for industrial applications into practice – demonstrating how the building blocks of the industrial AI operating system are converging and creating value today.
To accelerate this convergence, Siemens is working with product and engineering teams worldwide to integrate automation with AI-native workflows into one coherent architecture. India has become one of Siemens’ strongest innovation hubs in this effort. Over 10,000 software and AI experts in Siemens India are contributing to solutions deployed across global industries.
At the same time, Siemens’ technologies support the physical backbone required for AI-driven production – from electrification and grid integration to data centers and AI-ready facilities. As India expands its compute capacity and data-center footprint, these systems form the infrastructure on which AI factories operate.
On March 6, Siemens will host Transform – Siemens India Innovation Day 2026, bringing together more than 500 customers and partners to demonstrate how industrial AI is being deployed across manufacturing, energy and infrastructure. Together with NVIDIA and other ecosystem partners, Siemens will showcase how digital twins, AI-driven simulation and software-defined automation are accelerating India’s industrial transformation, supporting smart infrastructure, resilient grids and sustainable mobility.
