New Delhi, Feb 6: The recent surge in demand for professionals with skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving premier engineering institutions to direct their attention towards the area. The government's push on AI has also intensified the focus on the field. Most of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are designing and offering new courses from undergraduate to master's levels and incubating AI based start-ups. IIT Madras is doing extensive work on AI beginning with dual degree specialisations in data sciences and robotics launched last year. Under the five year program, students would earn a bachelor's degree in any discipline of engineering and master's in data science.