Dr. Jaishankar Bharatharaj, a robotics scientist, is the Co-Director (Robotics) at Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Neuroscience and Psychology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and an Exchange Scholar at Tufts University, United States. He writes about education, pedagogy, robotics, and AI and is passionate about bringing technology to the grassroots—transforming Bharat from a body shop to a tech hotspot.