India, Oct. 2 -- When the industrial revolution reshaped the world in the late 1700s, it was powered by steam, coal, and the belief that mechanical labour could replace human muscle. More than two centuries later, industry stands at another turning point-one increasingly described as Industry 5.0. Whereas Industry 4.0 referred to automation, IoT, robotics, and AI, this new chapter is not about humans being displaced by machines but about humans working alongside them.

Unlike earlier waves of industry, Industry 5.0 is less defined by the machines themselves and more by the partnership between human creativity and technological precision. At the core of this shift is collaboration: humans offer empathy, intuition, and design-led thinking, ...