Innovation

Fibroheal Wound Care, a Bengaluru-based startup founded by Vivek Mishra, Bharat Tandon and Subramanian S, makes silk protein-derived bandages that help heal wounds, amputations and treat burn victims.

Called HomoSEP, this robot has been developed by researchers at IIT-Madras and Solinas Integrity, an IIT-M incubated startup, in close coordination with the Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA), a non-profit dedicated to the elimination of manual scavenging in India.

Researchers at NIT Calicut have come up with a smart solar stove that has no operating costs, with multiple versions for homes, restaurants and roadside vendors.

Deepak Rajmohan and Vijay Anand founded GreenPod Labs in 2019 intending to minimise fresh produce loss by introducing cost-effective packaging solutions which are an alternative to expensive cold storage systems.

Researchers from IIT-Madras and Harvard University have developed a novel Machine Learning algorithm named ‘CombSGPO’ (Combined Security Game Policy Optimization) that can help in saving wildlife from poaching.

Given the abundance of zinc in India, researchers at IIT-Madras are developing mechanically-rechargeable zinc-air batteries as an alternative to Lithium-ion batteries which are used in electric vehicles.

A team of engineering students from the Mysuru Vidyavardhaka Engineering College have come up with a solar mobile refrigerator for vegetable vendors, which is a low-cost way of storing vegetables for a longer time.

A boiler invention of Subhash Ola, the CEO and founder of Geniusenergy Critical Innovation Pvt Ltd, has won the 'Startup of The Year' India award from the 'Amazon Possible Entrepreneurship Challenge'.

Watch this video to see how sarpanch Pal Singh Brar from Punjab is helping the state battle the perennial problem of farm fires with an innovative solution.

S Kavin Prabhu a native of Pollachi, Tamil Nadu and a third year third year mechanical engineering student in Vellore Institute of Technology has developed a CNC machine out of scrap using Rs 1500.