A-SET Training and Research Institutes

India's A-SET Training and Research Institutes earned its place in robotics history as the creator of Manav, described as India's first 3D-printed humanoid, built in 2014 in a lab led by Diwakar Vaish.

This is a research and educational project, not a commercial product: no model is available for sale, and there is no website, founding date or headcount data, because the institute does not publish such information in publicly available sources.

Its significance for Poland and Europe is nil: Manav never went beyond the status of a technology demonstrator, and it is not even known whether the institute still works on humanoid robotics or whether the project was abandoned after the media buzz.

Those interested in the history of early humanoid robotics in India can treat Manav as an important reference point, despite the lack of further commercial development.