Infosys builds driverless golf cart with IIIT Delhi, to invest in AI

Firm also seeks to skill more of its people in emerging areas such as drones, robots and cloud

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Infosys is testing a driverless golf cart built jointly with the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi, using open source technologies, to demonstrate its capability and to tap growing global opportunities for autonomous and connected vehicles.

Vishal Sikka, chief executive of Infosys spoke about the “How, What and Why” of adopting greater automation and AI at the 36th annual general meeting and disclosed  the company's attempt to create a pool of thousands of engineers with capability to work on projects in artificial intelligence and tap business opportunities.