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Indian farmers are embracing frontier technologies like AI-powered sprayers, IoT sensors, and drones to cut costs, boost yields, and build climate resilience. Innovations once seen as futuristic are now mainstream, reshaping agriculture into a more sustainable and data-driven practice. Institutions like NITI Aayog are helping scale these solutions nationwide.

From robotic boats to duckweed-powered wastewater treatment, five innovative ways that are reimagining river cleanup with community impact, proving that young changemakers can revive India’s lifelines.

Christened as the ‘robo coastal observer’ (RCO), this life-saving innovation can be operated from the shore with the assistance of a remote control.

And no, he is not taking over the jobs of humans or the world (at leastfor now)!

The space research organisation has planned to build ‘lunar habitats,’ which will serve as an “outpost” for future missions and exploration.

Despite passing laws like the Employment of Manual Scavenging and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act in 1993 (which was revised two decades later in 2013), manual scavenging continues to dig its claws into the social ecosystem of different parts of India.

These young innovators created over 45 robots and swept an area of 750 square feet clean, putting all of them to use in less than 15 minutes.

With her new design, the Bee Saver Bot, Kavya is hoping to represent India at the First Lego League - European Open championship in Denmark, and collaborate with the Indian government she returns. It's all in a days work for this twelve-year-old.

e-Yantra is a popular annual robotics competition conducted by IIT Bombay that encourages innovative thinking among engineering students.

A team of seven robotics enthusiasts from Pune are prepping up to go to Spain for FIRST LEGO League - Open European Championships 2016. The teens take out time from their school and on weekends to design prototypes and sort out challenges, mentored by Chris Bastianpillai at Robominds.