Manorama, Mathrubhumi, broadcast and conference coverage — collected since 2020. A robot only really exists once someone outside the workshop writes about it.
Malayala ManoramaNewspaper feature
Drones Built in Kerala Take to the State Daily
Inker Robotics’ unmanned systems reach one of India’s largest newspaper readerships
KOCHI — For a workshop that had spent its first years talking mostly to engineers, the Manorama feature marked a change of audience.
The coverage placed Inker’s drone work in front of a readership counted in millions — readers who had no particular interest in flight controllers or airframes, but a considerable interest in what was being built down the road from them.
It is the moment a piece of hardware stops being a project and becomes a local story.
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Regional PressCultural feature
A Robot Serves the Onam Sadhya
The state’s most familiar meal, plated by machine — and the picture that travelled furthest
KERALA — Robotics rarely makes the culture pages. Serving a sadhya did what no specification sheet could.
The sadhya is not a neutral setting. It is the meal every household in Kerala can picture without being told, which is exactly why a machine placing food on a banana leaf reads as remarkable rather than routine.
The story ran well outside the technology section — the clearest evidence Inker has that robotics lands hardest when it arrives inside something people already love.
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MathrubhumiExpo coverage
The Expo Floor, Front and Centre
Mathrubhumi reports from an Inker technology exhibition
KERALA — The expo has become Inker’s most repeatable format: bring the robots to the crowd rather than waiting for the crowd to find them.
More than two hundred expos and exhibitions have followed, across schools, colleges, conferences and public venues throughout the state.
Each is a room of people meeting a working robot for the first time — and asking, almost without exception, whether they can touch it.
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Media CoverageBroadcast & print
Sanbot Becomes a Familiar Face
When a machine is recognised on sight, the conversation stops being technical
KERALA — The Inker Sanbot acquired something most machines never manage: recognition.
Appearances across events and broadcast placed the unit in front of audiences repeatedly enough that people began greeting it rather than inspecting it.
A robot that is recognised is a robot that has been accepted — a far harder engineering outcome than it sounds.
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COCON XIConference
Robotics on the Floor at COCON
Kerala’s long-running security and technology conference
KOCHI — COCON is a rare room in which the audience asks harder questions than the press does.
Inker exhibited among security researchers and engineers — an audience with little patience for demonstrations that only work once.
The questions were about failure modes, latency and what happens when the network drops. Good questions.
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Press ArchiveClipping
From the Cuttings Drawer
One of many features collected since 2020
KERALA — The pile is the point.
Robotics designed in Kerala, built in Kerala, reported in Kerala and read in Kerala — a loop that closes without ever leaving the state.
The drawer keeps filling. This is a representative page from it.
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PLATES
0101 / 02
Two hundred expos and counting
Technology expos, exhibitions and campus demonstrations across Kerala and beyond. Every one of them a room full of people meeting a robot for the first time.
0202 / 02
The front pages
Malayala Manorama, Mathrubhumi, Flowers TV. When a robot serves an Onam sadhya or performs Tholpava Kooth, the press tends to notice.
INDEX
Full index
Everything else in the drawer
Expos, workshops, front pages and the team behind all of it.
