Innovation

New Delhi : Robotics startup Genrobotics on Wednesday said it has raised Rs 2.5 crore in pre-series A round funding from existing investors led by Unicorn India Ventures, along with industrialist Anand Mahindra and SEA Fund. The Kerala-based firm, Genrobotics has been working with the Centre and state governments with a mission to eradicate manual scavenging from the entire country and has deployed its Bandicoot robots across 11 states. “The funds raised will be used for the  further scaling up production of Bandicoot to meet the growing demand in light…

Detel on Thursday launched a two-wheeler electric bike in India. Dubbed as Detel Easy, the newly launched electric bike costs is ₹19,999 (plus the GST) and it is available in India in three peppy colour variants, which includes jet Black, pearl White and metallic Red. It is available for purchase at Detel India’s website, Detel-india.com and on b2badda.com. The company has partnered with Bajaj Finserv for EMI finance schemes for the customers. As far as the features are concerned, the newly launched Detel Easy is powered by a 6 pipe…

The phase I trial in healthy adult volunteers began in April. More than 1,000 immunisations have been completed and follow-up is currently ongoing. The next study will enroll up to 10,260 adults and children and will involve a number of partner institutions across all over the country. The phase II part of the study involves expanding the age range of people the vaccine is assessed in, to include a small number of older adults and children’s: Aged 56-69 Aged over 70 Aged between 5-12 years For these groups, researchers will be assessing…

Vodafone Idea is reportedly working with food delivery platform Zomato and TechEagle Innovations for ‘beyond visual line of sight’ (BVLOS) drone trails that will be organised by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The civil aviation regulator has shortlisted 13 consortia what they have been given a green signal to start preliminary trials. Both Zomato and TechEagle come under the ClearSky consortium, one of the 13 shortlisted. Dunzo, Swiggy, Throttle Aerospace Systems, ShopX, Zipline, Spicexpress and Redwing are some of the other consortia that have received DGCA approvals to…

MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of Artificial brain synapses known as memristors — silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain. The researchers borrowed from principles of metallurgy to fabricate each memristor from alloys of silver and copper, along with silicon. When they ran the chip through several visual tasks, the chip was able to “remember” stored images and reproduce them many times over, in versions that were crisper and cleaner compared with…

Package delivery may be going to the dogs.In the race to automate the delivery of packages and food in urban areas, most companies have been focusing on wheeled robots. But the German automotive company Continental has another idea. At the consumer Electronics in Las Vegas last week, it showed off a four-legged delivery robot designed to walk packages right to customers’ front doors. In demonstrations at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the battery-powered ANYmal Robot — made by Swiss robotics manufacturer ANYbotics — hopped out of Continental’s CUbE autonomous vehicle, stepped…