Prime Minister has launched 5 Young Scientists Laboratories of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
The five labs are:
Artificial Intelligence research will be at Bengaluru.
The Quantum Technology laboratory will be at IIT Mumbai.
Cognitive Technologies research will be done at a lab based in IIT Chennai.
Asymmetric Technologies will be based out of the campus of Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Smart Materials research will be based out of Hyderabad.
DRDO already has 52 labs.
It can be noted that N Chandrasekaran Committee was constituted by the Ministry of Defence in 2018 to study the use and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military.