Karnataka teacher Akshay Mashelkar wanted to make education more interactive for children in his village. So, he built Shiksha, a humanoid robot that imparts education to children under Class 4.
Kochi resident Charles Vijay Verghese built SAPER, the “world’s first coconut sap tapping robot” through his agri-tech startup. Watch this video to see how the robot is bettering the lives of farmers
Goa resident Bipin Kadam has built a ‘Maarobot’ that can feed his disabled daughter when he is off to work and his wife, who has vertigo, is indisposed. Here’s a look at his moving story.
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.
“The doctors, nurses and canteen staff have to regularly visit the patients’ room to provide their meals, water, refreshments and even for check-up rounds. They would have to wear a PPE kit and dispose it off immediately. That’s when we thought, why not create a cost-efficient robot that can help with these routine visits?"
“Stay hydrated. Beat the heat,” said their blue-eyed bot, Jasper, as it carried several bottles and quenched the thirst of Mumbaikars last month by giving free water!
Interestingly, these 'robo doggos' will not only have a nose for explosives, they will also be able to X-ray scan the luggage of passengers with their eyes!
Right from his childhood days, Nandalal was fascinated by the inner workings of electronic items and was quite fond of dismantling electronic toys to study them.