As part of a distinguished panel of global leaders for a discussion on ‘India Building AI solutions for the World’ at the Main Summit of India-AI Impact Summit 2026, Mrs Priya Kapur, Non-Executive Director at Sona Comstar and Managing Director of Aureus Investment shared her views on AI adoption, Industry-led collaboration and opportunities for Indian start-ups.
Highlighting the rapid evolution of AI across global manufacturing and mobility value chains, Mrs. Kapur noted that leading automotive players have moved decisively from pilot projects to large-scale, mission-critical AI deployment. AI is now embedded across design, manufacturing, supply chains, predictive maintenance, quality assurance, and sustainability monitoring.
She emphasized that what differentiates global leaders today is not the novelty of AI use, but their ability to deploy AI reliably at scale across geographies and regulatory environments, with a strong focus on data integrity, cybersecurity, safety, and seamless integration with physical systems. As AI becomes core to operations, governance must shift to the board level, ensuring alignment with long-term strategy, risk oversight, ethical deployment, 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.
