Auto makers bet big on robots as frequent labour stirs hit output

In August-September last year, India's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, found itself in a particularly tough spot. Around 1.5 lakh customers were awaiting delivery of the Swift and Dzire, two of its most popular products, but the company was hardly able to produce them. A violent clash with workers at its plant in Manesar outside Delhi in July led operations to be shut for a month and 500 workers to be fired, and even after restarting operations by mid-August with a few workers, the initial output was still very low.

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