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A robotic arm, costing nearly 1 crore, and presently used in assembly lines of at least six major industrial sectors—mainly automobile—has been installed at GEC to train students. This has made the college only the third educational institute in the country—after Ajay Kumar Garg College of Engineering in UP and Chennai Institute of Technology in Tamil Nadu—to have the industrial robotic arm on its campus for students' benefit."The KUKA KR-16 Industrial Robot is the one presently used in industry. So students are ready to work in industry the minute they step out of college. Before we acquired the robot, students could only watch videos to see how programming of such a robotic arm is done," said GEC principal V N Shet.After the robot was installed in January this year, the institute has begun by training its graduate and postgraduate students in the electronics and telecommunication engineering stream. Students of mechanical, electrical and computer engineering will be subsequently trained in programming the robot, as it is used across various industries."Goa has a thriving pharma industry which also makes use of this robot and robots are increasingly taking over automation jobs, so we thought it was the right time to train our students in programming such a robot