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Straight answers to the questions schools, CSR teams, and partners ask most — about the program, the CBSE mandate, which lab and kit to choose, pricing, teacher support, and more.

The short version

Grobots is an AI & robotics lab program for K-12 schools in India — robotics kits, a structured ~130-activity curriculum, teacher support in English and Hindi (the Virtual Master Trainer), and ongoing implementation. It's a brand of S A Digital (manufacturer, GeM Quality Assessed Vendor) and is implemented by AVM Infotech (25+ years in school technology) across hundreds of schools. It helps schools meet CBSE Circular 75/2024 and aligns with NEP 2020 and NCF SE 2023.

AI & Robotics in Schools — General Questions
A robotics or AI lab builds the skills the school system is moving toward — computational thinking, problem-solving, and hands-on creation — and is increasingly expected under NEP 2020 and CBSE's skill framework. The real risk for a school isn't whether to start, but ending up with equipment that goes unused. Grobots is built to be a lab that actually runs — with teacher support and a structured curriculum, not just a box of kits.
A Composite Skills Lab is a multi-disciplinary skills space CBSE requires affiliated schools to set up under Circular Skill-75/2024 — combining areas like robotics, electronics, and design rather than a single subject. Grobots delivers a CBSE-compliant Composite Skills Lab in two tiers, so a school meets the mandate properly rather than just ticking a box.
They overlap. A robotics lab centres on building and programming robots; a STEM lab is broader (science, technology, engineering, maths — often electronics and 3D printing); a tinkering lab, like an Atal Tinkering Lab, emphasises open-ended making and innovation. Grobots offers configurations for each and can blend them, so the lab matches your goal and grades rather than a label. Compare labs →
Children can begin as early as Grade 3 with mechanical building and block-based logic, well before formal coding. Starting early and progressing in stages works far better than introducing everything at once in senior grades. The Grobots pathway is designed this way — mechanical thinking in Grade 3, block coding in Grades 3–5, and AI by Grade 8.
No. A well-designed program starts from zero — visual block coding and simple builds — and adds text-based coding only when students are ready. With Grobots, neither students nor teachers need any prior background; the curriculum and the Virtual Master Trainer carry them step by step.
Most labs go unused for one of two reasons: no teacher confident enough to run it, or no structured curriculum to follow. Solve both and the lab survives. Grobots is built around exactly this — a video for every lesson in English and Hindi so any teacher can deliver it, plus a fixed activity plan — which is why its labs keep running into their second and third year.
An in-school lab reaches every student as part of the timetable, builds hands-on hardware skills a screen can't, and stays under the school's control rather than a third-party subscription. Grobots embeds into the school day, trains the school's own teachers, and leaves the capability inside the school.
Less than most schools expect. A standard classroom works, and the kits run on tablets, Windows PCs, or Raspberry Pi — so many schools use devices they already have. Grobots surveys your space and maps a configuration to it, rather than forcing a costly new build.
Look for usage (are sessions actually happening every week?), student output (projects, competition and exhibition entries), and teacher confidence — not just attendance. Grobots reports on usage and outcomes, and its partner schools have track records of competition and CBSE exhibition participation that make the impact visible.
No. Robotics and AI teach broadly useful thinking — logic, sequencing, persistence, collaboration — and work for mixed-ability whole classes, not a selected few. The Grobots curriculum is graded so every student in a class can participate and progress.
About Grobots
Grobots is an AI and robotics lab program for K-12 schools in India. It combines age-appropriate robotics kits, a structured grade-mapped curriculum, teacher support in English and Hindi (the Virtual Master Trainer), and ongoing implementation support. Grobots is a brand of S A Digital and is implemented across India by AVM Infotech India Pvt. Ltd. It serves hundreds of schools.
Grobots is a brand of S A Digital, which designs and manufactures the robotics kits in India and is a GeM Quality Assessed Vendor. The lab program is implemented across India by AVM Infotech India Pvt. Ltd., which has 25+ years of school technology experience and has run school robotics programs since 2013. Both are based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. More about us →
Yes. Grobots products are supplied by S A Digital, a GeM Quality Assessed Vendor, which makes the program straightforward to procure for government schools and institutional buyers. See compliance & credentials.
Bhavans Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir Nagpur runs Grobots across all six campuses. By its second year, students were entering competitions, earning podium finishes, and qualifying for CBSE National Science Exhibitions across its campuses — which is why the school expanded it from one campus to all six. Read the case studies →
CBSE & Compliance
Yes. CBSE Circular Skill-75/2024, dated 23 August 2024, requires every affiliated school to establish a Composite Skill Lab. Fresh affiliations need it immediately, and existing schools must comply by 22 August 2027. Grobots offers a CBSE-compliant Composite Skills Lab in two tiers.
No. CBSE AI Code 417 (Grades 9–10) and Code 843 (Grades 11–12) are optional elective subjects, not mandates. The Grobots Grades 3–8 pathway builds the foundational competencies students need if a school chooses to offer them.
AI and Computational Thinking are being introduced in the foundational and preparatory stages under NEP 2020 and NCF SE 2023, with rollout into early grades from 2026–27. The Grobots learning pathway begins in Grade 3 to align with this direction.
Yes. Grobots embeds AI, robotics, and computational thinking as a cross-curricular capability from Grade 3, in line with NEP 2020 (Section 4.9), and covers "Work with Machines and Materials" end-to-end as set out in NCF SE 2023. Full mapping on the compliance page.
Yes. The Grobots STEM Lab is built around the Atal Tinkering Lab / AIM equipment framework and fits within the ₹20 lakh ATL establishment grant from NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission.
Choosing a Lab
Five labs: the Starter Lab (Grades 3–5), the AI & Robotics Lab (Grades 3–8), the Composite Skills Lab (CBSE 75/2024 compliance), the STEM Lab (ATL and PM SHRI), and the Managed Lab (a full-time Grobots trainer runs it on site). All share one curriculum spine and the same teacher support in English and Hindi. Compare them →
It depends on grades, budget, and goal. Choose the Starter Lab for a low-risk primary-grade start, the AI & Robotics Lab for the full progression, the Composite Skills Lab to meet CBSE Circular 75/2024, the STEM Lab for an Atal Tinkering Lab or innovation grants, and the Managed Lab if you want Grobots to run it for you.
Yes. The labs are designed as a single upgrade path. A Starter Lab grows into the full AI & Robotics pathway, and any self-run lab can convert to a Managed Lab with a full-time trainer. Kits and curriculum carry forward, so earlier investment is never wasted.
Kits & Hardware
Six kits. A micro:bit pathway — Junior Construction (mechanical), Primo (Grades 3–5 coding), Ultima Lite and Ultima (Grades 5–8, AI and robotics) — plus an Arduino track: the Robotics & AIoT Kit (Arduino Nano) and the Arduino Tinker Kit (Arduino UNO, electronics and prototyping).
Both are micro:bit V2-based, drive up to four motors, support AI Vision, and run MakeCode through MicroPython to Google Teachable Machine, with 80+ activities across Grades 5–8. The difference is session length: Ultima Lite is for schools running one 40-minute period a week, while Ultima is for 80-minute sessions and adds MIT App Inventor plus full metal construction.
Junior Construction starts at Grade 3 (mechanical, controller-free), Primo covers Grades 3–5 (MIT Scratch in Grades 3–4, MakeCode in Grade 5), and the Ultima Lite, Ultima, and Robotics & AIoT kits suit Grades 5–8. The Arduino Tinker Kit is for Grades 7–9.
Students progress from block coding (MIT Scratch, MakeCode) to text-based MicroPython, then to applied AI with Google Teachable Machine and app building with MIT App Inventor. The Arduino track uses block coding through to the Arduino IDE (C++).
Yes. The kits run on tablet, Windows, or Raspberry Pi, so a lab can operate on the devices a school already has — which is especially important for government and under-resourced schools.
Curriculum & Teachers
The Grobots curriculum is a structured, grade-mapped program of around 130 activities with defined learning outcomes — from mechanical reasoning in Grade 3 to machine learning and app building in Grade 8. The Grades 5–8 AI and robotics stage alone runs about 20 activities per grade. See the curriculum →
Students build computational thinking, coding fluency from blocks to Python, engineering intuition, and applied AI literacy — training and deploying their own machine-learning models. The structured base also prepares competition and exhibition entries and the foundation for CBSE AI electives.
Yes. The Virtual Master Trainer provides a step-by-step video for every lesson, so any ICT or computer teacher can run the lab with zero prior robotics background. hundreds of teachers in schools across India already do.
The Virtual Master Trainer, at vmt.grobotsacademy.com, is an online platform with a teacher-facing video for every single lesson in the curriculum. It lets any teacher prepare and deliver a session and means the program does not depend on one trained individual.
English and Hindi — the same lesson in each (with more Indian languages rolling out), so teachers can learn and deliver in the language they are most comfortable with.
The program does not depend on one person. Because the training lives in the Virtual Master Trainer platform, any new teacher can pick up the same lessons and continue without a gap. This is a key reason Grobots labs keep running into their second and third year.
Pricing
Indicative starting points: the Starter Lab from about ₹1.8 lakh, the AI & Robotics Lab roughly ₹3.5–6.5 lakh by configuration, the STEM Lab from about ₹5 lakh, the Composite Skills Lab around ₹6 lakh (baseline) or ₹15 lakh (premium), and the Managed Lab from about ₹10 lakh. All figures are suggestive; final pricing is customised to the school. Compare →
No. All prices shown are indicative for planning. Final pricing depends on grade range, weekly session length, number of sections, and the infrastructure a school already has. Every school receives a customised proposal within 24 hours.
The Starter Lab, from about ₹1.8 lakh, is the lowest-risk entry point. It covers primary grades and upgrades cleanly into the full AI & Robotics pathway later, so the initial investment carries forward.
Setup, CSR & Partnerships
AVM Infotech installs the lab, trains your teachers, and provides ongoing support directly — there is no reseller in between. Day-to-day, your own teacher runs the sessions with the Virtual Master Trainer, or you can choose the Managed Lab where a full-time Grobots trainer runs it on site.
Directly. AVM Infotech delivers every Grobots lab, with no intermediaries between the school and the team behind the curriculum. A separate channel partner programme exists for distributors who want to offer Grobots at scale.
Yes. Grobots works with CSR teams and foundations to fund AI, robotics, and STEM labs for government and under-resourced schools, with vernacular curriculum, multi-platform kits, an optional onsite resource person, and an impact framework for reporting. The Umang program reached dozens of government schools in Nagpur. CSR programs →
Yes. Grobots is built for government-school realities: block coding in Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati, with teacher support in English and Hindi; kits that run on tablet, Windows, or Raspberry Pi; and an optional trained onsite resource person where a school cannot staff the lab. It is ATL-compatible and GeM Quality Assessed. Government & ATL →
Yes. Grobots runs a channel partner programme for EdTech distributors, education consultants, lab integrators, and CSR implementers, with a minimum 15% margin and both co-branded and white-label models. Partners get trainer training, co-branded proposals, and protected territories. Apply to partner →
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