We believe humanoids like RIA are set to redefine how learning is delivered and experienced. RIA is not just a robot—it’s a multilingual, AI-powered educator that can understand and respond to students in languages like English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, and Spanish. This bridges the gap for students from diverse linguistic backgrounds and ensures inclusivity in classrooms like never before. Sreekanth K Arimanithaya, CEO of Xarpie Labs; Entrepreneur in Residence at The Machani Group & Co-Founder – Mantrika.ai, Visara Partners, and Communios.ai, shared in an exclusive interaction with Kaanchi Chawla of Elets News Network (ENN). Edited excerpts:
With over 30 years of leadership experience, how do you see AI reshaping the workforce and enterprise strategy in the coming years?
And what excites you the most about leading this AI-driven digital transformation journey? Having spent more than three decades in leadership roles across human capital and business operations—includ- ing as CHRO, CEO of Britan Industries, and Global Head at DXC Technologies—my belief has always been rooted in one truth: human potential is limitless. Yet, despite major technological revolutions—from industrializa- tion to big data—no innovation has truly unlocked this potential in its entirety.
Today, with AI, we stand at the edge of a transform- ative era. For the first time, we have a tool powerful enough to understand, quantify, and amplify the intan- gible aspects of human capital—things like leadership, aspiration, collaboration, and culture. These are qualities that were traditionally seen as unmeasurable, yet they hold the key to exponential growth.
In business, we often evaluate tangible attributes— like years of experience—as indicators of capability. These are easily measurable, numeric values. But the real game-changers are intangible: the way people lead, how they align with a company’s purpose, how teams collaborate, or how culture fuels performance. These elements were always seen as qualitative, abstract. AI allows us to quantify the unquantifiable—and that’s where its real power lies.
Xarpie has been at the forefront of AI-driven business transformation. Can you share how AI is specifically revolutionising the education sector?
AI is disrupting every industry we know—be it IT, manufacturing, FMCG, or even traditionally static spaces like religious institutions and education. Education, in particular, is undergoing a significant transformation, and this disruption is long overdue. The current curriculum and pedagogy in many educational institutions were designed for an older industrial economy. Today, with the advent of AI and other disruptive technologies, the world of work has changed dramatically—but education hasn’t kept up. This disconnect is one of the primary reasons we’re seeing a shift.
There are three core areas where AI is reshaping education:
- Relevance of Curriculum Content
- Personalised Learning & Pedagogy
- Preparing Future-Ready Professionals
AI is not just enhancing education—it is redefining its purpose. We’re moving from producing job seekers to nurturing creators, innovators, and self-starters. At RP Labs, we see this transformation as a mission—to unlock the untapped potential of every learner, no matter where they come from.
With RIA, the humanoid robot teacher you’ve developed, how do you see AI-powered humanoids shaping the future of learning?
We believe humanoids like RIA are set to redefine how learning is delivered and experienced. At Xarpie, we’ve already piloted RIA in renowned institutions like Harvard, Stanford, and several community colleges across the U.S., and the response has been phenomenal.
RIA is not just a robot—it’s a multilingual, AI-powered educator that can understand and respond to students in languages like English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, and Spanish. This bridges the gap for students from diverse linguistic backgrounds and ensures inclusivity in classrooms like never before.
One of RIA’s standout features is its ability to monitor classroom participation in real time. With integrated cameras and AI-driven analysis, it can observe body language, attentiveness, note-taking, and question-asking patterns to evaluate engagement—something that’s extremely difficult for a human teacher managing a large class.
More importantly, RIA personalises content delivery based on each student’s learning pace and cognitive ability. It offers 24/7 availability for one-on-one sessions, ensuring no student is left behind. RIA is not meant to replace human teachers but to work alongside them, handling the repetitive and instructional components so that educators can focus on mentoring, coaching, and nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship.
The future of learning is going to be personalised, inclusive, and AI-augmented—and RIA is helping bring that future closer.
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Looking ahead, what’s next for Xarpie in the education sector and beyond?
At Xarpie Labs, we believe the future of education isn’t just about creating job seekers—it’s about nurturing creators, thinkers, and entrepreneurs.
Of course, not everyone will become an entre- preneur, and that’s perfectly fine. But the world today desperately needs more job creators, not just job fillers. It needs exponential thinkers, disruptive innovators, and fearless doers. That’s the space we’re building for.
So what’s next for us?
- Igniting Entrepreneurship on Campuses
- Building Exponential Leaders
- Democratising World-Class Content and Access
- Making Learning Fun, Immersive, and Human
At the heart of it, our next chapter is not just EdTech—it’s EdRevolution.
We’re not just preparing students for the world— we’re preparing them to shape it.
