+-Which level should I choose?
Self-Paced if you want to learn and prove it at your own pace, for the lowest price, with no staff involved. Mentored if you need the internship for college credit or want a named Wartens engineer every week. Team if you want the full workplace: a squad, a Team Lead, daily stand-ups and every hand-in reviewed by a person. Start Self-Paced, upgrade any time and pay only the difference.
+-Does a person check my work on Self-Paced?
No. Self-Paced has no staff. The AI mentor answers your questions, the AI review marks your logbook and every hand-in and decides your project gates, PLC tasks are tested automatically and the final viva is an AI viva. Your documents say so. If you want a person involved, add an engineer's project review (₹799), Engineer verification (₹1,499: a live viva with a named Wartens engineer, who co-signs your certificate) or a 1:1 (₹499), or upgrade to Mentored.
+-Will my college accept it?
Your college decides, so ask your training and placement officer before you book. We give you the documents colleges ask for, in AICTE's formats, and the completion certificate states your verified hours and their credit equivalence at 45 hours a credit. We recommend Mentored for credit, because a named Wartens engineer supervises your work and signs your diary and evaluations. Self-Paced documents state that the work was AI-assessed: some colleges accept that for skill development but not for credit.
+-I study under KTU. Can this be my mandatory internship?
Not the regulated 4 to 8 week B.Tech internship: KTU requires a stipend of at least ₹10,000 a month for it, and a fee-based internship cannot meet that. KTU students can still take ours as industrial training or skill development. Some universities and state schemes also accept only hosts listed on their own portals, and AICTE's internship portal lists free internships only.
+-What is the refund rule?
Full refund within 7 days of paying, if less than 25% of your plan is done and no completion document has been issued. After that, a pro-rata refund only for a Team internship whose cohort has not started yet. Otherwise there is no refund. Add-ons already delivered are not refunded. The full terms are on our refund page.
+-Can I start on Self-Paced and move up later?
Yes. Start Self-Paced, upgrade any time and pay only the difference. Upgrades close 14 days before your planned end date, so your mentor has time to know your work. On a 4-week plan, moving from Self-Paced to Mentored costs ₹2,499. Your work so far carries over.
+-Is it online? Do I work on real equipment?
Online, on simulators: LADX Mini in your browser, plus CODESYS, OpenPLC, FUXA and other tools. The AI mentor will not give instructions for live plant. If you want real PLCs, drives and robots, a lab week at the Wartens office in Electronic City, Bangalore can be added from your portal after you book (₹4,999, accommodation not included).
+-How many hours is it?
Full time is about 8 hours a day and part time about 4. On Self-Paced you choose your hours, and the portal counts verified work, not time with a page open. Under 60 verified hours the documents call it industrial training and you receive an Industrial Training Certificate; from 60 hours you receive the internship documents. On Mentored and Team a Letter of Recommendation becomes possible from 120 hours, on merit only.
+-Can I fail?
Yes, and that is what makes the documents worth having. At every level you must pass your mandatory industrial project (60 out of 100), pass every PLC task's tests and reach a final score of at least 50 out of 100. Self-Paced also needs 60% of the planned hours as verified work and the AI viva; Mentored needs 70%, the final evaluation and the live viva; Team needs at least 80% attendance (90% if your college asks), the evaluations and the viva. If you fall short, your documents say only what you completed.
+-What if I can't finish by the planned end date?
Self-Paced and Mentored have a finish-by date after the planned end: on a 4-week plan, 2 grace weeks on Self-Paced and 1 on Mentored. On Self-Paced you can buy more time a week at a time (₹299 a week). Team runs to your cohort's calendar. Mentored and Team include one free pause of up to 2 weeks, for exams or illness.
+-Can I buy the experience letter or a recommendation?
No. The experience letter comes with Mentored and Team, issued only if you earn it, and never for Self-Paced work, because nobody supervised it: upgrade to Mentored if you need one. A Letter of Recommendation is written by your mentor or Team Lead, only when your work earns it, and is never sold.
+-How can AI marking be trusted?
Your brief has your own parameters, so a copied answer fails. PLC tasks are tested by what the program does, not by comparison with a model answer. The viva asks about your own project and your own work. And every document states how the work was assessed, so nobody reading it is misled.
+-Which internships are open?
One: the Industrial Automation & Robotics internship. More tracks will follow once it has run end to end.
+-Is this a job? Is there a stipend?
No to both. You are an intern on a structured training programme run by Wartens. You do not join the Wartens payroll, no stipend is paid, and every document says the internship was not employment. Your projects are educational, built from Wartens practice, and never billed to a client.
+-Who is Wartens?
Wartens, an industrial automation and AI group with companies in India and the UK. Its businesses include Wartens automation and robotics integration, iUNI (AI, simulation and AR), Oscabe (recruitment), roboTED (robot subscription), Wemelt / Nomelt (3D printing) and the EDWartens training platforms. Internships in India are run and issued by Wartens Automation Private Limited, Electronic City, Bangalore.