CBSE has moved from suggesting future-skills to requiring them. Between the Composite Skill Lab mandate, AI and Computational Thinking entering the early grades, and the AI electives at the secondary stage, a CBSE school now needs a lab that maps cleanly to every one of these — not five disconnected purchases. Grobots is that one solution. Grobots is a brand of S A Digital — a GeM Quality Assessed Vendor with kits designed and manufactured in India — implemented by AVM Infotech, a team with 25+ years in K-12 school technology that has deployed 500+ labs and supplied state government school programs across India.
CBSE Circular Skill-75/2024 (23 August 2024) requires every affiliated school to establish a Composite Skill Lab. Fresh affiliations need it immediately; existing schools must comply by 22 August 2027.
Here's exactly how a Grobots lab lines up against each piece of the CBSE framework — what it is, and how we cover it.
| CBSE framework | What it requires | How Grobots covers it |
|---|---|---|
| Circular Skill-75/2024Composite Skill Lab | Every affiliated school must establish a Composite Skill Lab. Deadline 22 Aug 2027. | The Composite Skills Lab in two CBSE-compliant tiers — Kaushalbodh (baseline) and Premier (with on-premise AI Server). |
| NEP 2020Section 4.9 | No hard separation between academic and vocational; future skills embedded across grades. | AI, robotics, and computational thinking embedded as a cross-curricular capability from Grade 3 upward. |
| NCF SE 2023Three Forms of Work | Work with Machines & Materials as a core form of work across the school stage. | Robotics, electronics, and mechatronics covered end-to-end across the kit pathway. |
| AI & CT from Grade 3NEP / NCF rollout, 2026-27 | AI and Computational Thinking introduced in the foundational and preparatory stages. | The pathway begins in Grade 3 with the Junior Construction Kit and builds continuously to AI in Grade 8. |
| CBSE AI Code 417Optional elective · Grades 9-10 | AI as an optional elective subject at the secondary stage. | The Grades 3-8 pathway builds the foundational competencies students need if the school offers Code 417. |
| CBSE AI Code 843Optional elective · Grades 11-12 | AI as an optional elective subject at the senior secondary stage. | The same pathway extends naturally into Code 843 if the school chooses to offer it. |
Codes 417 and 843 are optional electives, not mandates. The only standing CBSE lab mandate is the Composite Skill Lab under Circular 75/2024.
Any vendor can sell you a lab that ticks the box. Grobots builds the lab CBSE students actually use — and that holds up the year after.
Instead of juggling separate solutions for the Composite Skill Lab, AI from Grade 3, and the secondary electives, a single Grobots pathway maps to all of them — one vendor, one curriculum, one chain of accountability.
Bhavans Nagpur runs Grobots across all 6 campuses and reached CBSE National Science Exhibitions in Year 2. Choithram, Pragya, Vidyasagar, and others run it too — real CBSE programs, not pilots.
No new hire. The Virtual Master Trainer guides your existing teacher through every lesson in English and Hindi — so the lab runs from Day 1 and survives staff changes.
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