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“I built my first robot that could navigate around the house without bumping into any obstacles. That night a realisation hit me—it isn’t really that difficult to make things, and that was how I was initiated into the world of robotics.”

A former IIT Guwahati student, Himanshu Seth has come up with a low-cost medical kit that not only dispenses medicine for TB, but also educates the patient.

In an attempt to prevent the consumption of spurious milk, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has made a device called the Ksheer Tester, which can measure contaminants such as urea, salt, detergent, soap, soda, boric acid and hydrogen peroxide in milk through a single-button operation.

Gursimran Singh has made a device that visually impaired people can wear which will enable them to visualise the text being dictated by using the concept of binaural beats. He has been awarded a 20 lakh grant for the device to be produced at commercial level and distributed across the country.