IIT In News January To October'19

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IIT-Guwahati researchers develop lab-grown meat which is eco-friendly and more nutritious
IIT Guwahati researchers develop membranes that can separate oil and water
Prasar Bharati signed an MoU with IIT Kanpur for research collaboration in various areas, including Direct to Mobile Broadcasting, Convergence with 5G, Rural broadband, Artificial Intelligence and Next Generation Broadcasting Standards.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in collaboration with the IIT Kanpur, has developed a kit to spread awareness about sexual abuse among children by using interactive means to teach them about personal safety, respecting their body and overcoming guilt.
IIT-Kanpur scientists develop two-finger robotic hand to help paralysed stroke patients

Indian brain is smaller’: IIIT-Hyderabad researchers create Indian Brain Atlas
The average Indian brain is smaller in height, width, and volume as compared to the western and eastern population like the Chinese and Korean according to the first-ever ‘Indian Brain Atlas’ created by researchers of the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIITH).
ISRO chief K. Sivan
Chief guest – 50th convocation of IIT Delhi

Students at IIT Madras Develops ‘Smart Agricopter’

Purpose – to eliminate manual spraying of pesticides in agricultural fields as well as identify crop health by using a imaging camera.

IIT Kharagpur team develops app CARE4U for elderly people

A team of students of IIT Kharagpur has developed an app named ‘CARE4U’ which will inform the caregiver when the elderly person falls down with the exact location.
If there is a fall, it automatically calls the caregiver and emergency services along with the exact location of the elderly person.

IIT Kanpur, Ericsson partner to tackle Delhi’s air pollution

The Indian Institute of Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) and Ericsson will together deploy an NB-IoT (narrowband internet of things) based sensor network to monitor air pollution in Delhi.
Ericsson – Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden

IIT Hyderabad develops, eco-friendly solar cells using ‘kumkum dye’

The dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) is based on New Fuchsin (NF) dye with aqueous electrolyte and platinum-free counter electrodes
Solar cells today are made up of silicon and its costly so an alternative was needed

IIT Madras partners with NIOT to harness electricity from ocean waves

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras partnered with National Institute of Ocean Technology to harness electricity from ocean waves.
Both institutions will together develop turbines that can harness the power of ocean waves to generate electricity.
Ocean energy is now renewable energy as per GOI

IIT-Delhi students design world’s first selfstanding crutch, Flexmotiv

The crutches unlike, the traditional model, can be used in any terrain – even as support while trekking, as per the IITians who have created them.

IIT Madras introduced a method to recycle urine

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) introduced the Project Water Chakra to recycle urine.

IIT Kharagpur researchers develop low-cost blood test device

It can perform various pathological tests by using blood taken from a fingerprick.
The device requires only a paper strip based kit integrated with a smartphone to enable analytics and readout functions and an LED light for imaging.

Indian researchers develop bone substitutes from eggshells

Eggshells, routinely dumped as waste, have been turned into a potential material for bone implants by researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) and BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar.

IIT-Madras Researchers Launches Industrial and Field Robot ‘GraspMan’

Researchers at IIT Madras have developed a multimodal robot named as ‘GraspMan’ having Industrial and field applications.

IIT Kharagpur partners with Amazon Web Services for National Artificial Intelligence resource platform
IIT Kharagpur has collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop the National Artificial Intelligence Resource Portal (NAIRP)
NAIRP is a resource portal to promote learning and development in the artificial intelligence (AI)

Centre Launches Rs 125 Crore SATHI Initiative at IIT Kharagpur

IIT Delhi also chosen for SATHI Initiative
Sophisticated Analytical and Technical Help Institute (SATHI).
Objective – to extend help to the academic institutes in the neighbouring regions to use the sophisticated instruments.
Government to offer 1,000 PhD fellowships to ASEAN students at IITs
ACT east policy
IIT Kharagpur Team Devises One-Rupee Test to Measure Haemoglobin Levels

Through a series of chemical reactions, haemoglobin helps break down hydrogen peroxide to produce oxygen.
The device triggers just these reasons to produce oxygen, which is made to react with o-toluidine to produce a bluish green substance.
This substance absorbs light proportionally to its amount, so the more there is, the darker it will appear.

IIT Madras to collaborate with ExxonMobil for research in Energy and Biofuels

5-year joint-research agreement focuses on biofuels, data analytics, gas conversion and transport
ExxonMobil – USA

QS India University Rankings 2020: IIT Bombay tops again

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) has topped the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) India University Rankings 2020.
This is the second time QS has published separate ranking for top institutions in India. The first edition was released in 2019, and IITB had clinched the top place on the list even then.
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (at number 2)

Bio Bricks from Agri waste

The researchers from IIT Hyderabad and School of Architecture, Bhubaneswar have developed bio-bricks from agricultural waste. The product serves dual purposes of development of eco-friendly sustainable material and also waste management.

The Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI)

The Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI) was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT M)

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras collaborated with Teerthaa

To develop a device that can generate potable water from atmospheric air
Indian Institute of Technology-Madras will collaborate with Teerthaa, a sustainable technology company, to develop a device that can generate potable water from air.
Called ‘NERO,’ the ‘optimised desiccant solar-still device’ will produce 4-5 litres of potable water daily.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras has partnered with ESPNcricinfo

Indian Institute of Technology Madras has partnered with ESPNcricinfo to launch Superstats which is a next level artificial intelligence to analyse cricket statistics through machine learning and forecast.

Petroleum Waste-product Toluene Into Benzoic Acid

Scientists from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have successfully converted petroleum waste-product toluene into benzoic acid.
It uses environment friendly conversion process
Benzoic acid is used as food preservative (E210) and medicine for fungal and bacterial infection.

Cold Spray’ SMART Laboratory

American conglomerate, General Electric in association with IIT-Madras, established India’s first ‘Cold Spray’ SMART (Surface Modification and Additive Research Technologies) Laboratory

Bharati script

IIT Madras researchers have developed a method for reading documents in Bharati script using a multi-lingual optical character recognition (OCR) scheme.
The team has also created a finger-spelling method that can be used to generate a sign language for hearing-impaired persons.
The scripts that have been integrated include Devnagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil.

IIT-M has developed a portable solar-powered cold storage device

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) has developed a portable solar-powered cold storage device for storing vegetables, fruits, etc.
It has a capacity of 500 kg. It will help farmers store their produce for sufficient time.

Microprocessor AJIT

Engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have developed a microprocessor called AJIT which could reduce the country’s dependence on imports.

IIT-Madras Develops ‘India’s First Microprocessor’, Shakti

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) have designed and booted up India’s first microprocessor, Shakti, which could be used in mobile computing and other devices.

Oil PSUs sign pact with IIT-Bombay to set up centre of excellence

India’s seven bluechip oil firms including IOC and ONGC signed an agreement with IIT-Bombay to set up a Centre of Excellence in Oil, Gas and Energy.
The centre of excellence will collaborate to research and explore new frontiers of technology to improve quality, productivity and efficiency in the energy sector.

First Advanced Personal Robot Miko 2 For Kids

Graduates of Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay (IIT-B) who are Co-founders of a start-up called Emotix have launched India’s first advanced personal robot Miko 2 for Kids.

IIT Kharagpur students develop app to detect fake currency

The image processing application which can detect fake currency can be installed on smartphones and thus be used by people at various points to reduce the chances of fraud.

IIT KGP signs MoU with C-DAC for high performance computing

IIT Kharagpur has signed an MoU with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to set up a 1.3 Petaflop high-performance computing facility and data centre funded under the National Supercomputing Mission.

Wipro, IIT-Kharagpur partner for advanced research in 5G and AI

IT services major Wipro has partnered with IIT Kharagpur to collaborate on industry-focused applied research in the areas of 5G and artificial intelligence (AI).

CICMT: MoA signed between Ministry of Shipping and IIT Kharagpur

The Ministry of Shipping has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with IIT Kharagpur for setting up the Centre for Inland and Coastal Maritime Technology (CICMT) at IIT Kharagpur.
The centre is being set up the under the flagship Sagarmala Programme.

DotBook

Students and researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi have created a laptop for visually-impaired called “DotBook”.
Claimed to be the first in India, the laptop has an interface in form of dots or Braille instead of a visual one.

IIT Delhi

‘Sanfe‘, an IIT Delhi incubated startup has launched a stand and pee device for women.

Sanfe, has been launched with a #StandUpForYourself campaign
Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) has announced the launch of a full-fledged bachelor’s programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, a first for the country

Terra Drone, IIT Hyderabad to Build Drone Development Centre in India

In a bid to speed up the development of drones in India, Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, Terra Drone India and the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, announced that they have signed a pact to establish a first-of-its-kind Centre of Excellence for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in India.

IIT-Hyderabad researchers develop smart phone based system to detect adulteration in milk

Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad are working to develop smart phone based sensor to detect adulteration in milk.
They have developed detector system which can measure level of acidity in milk using indicator paper.

IIT Roorkee researchers identify new method to detect breast, ovarian cancer

The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee has identified a new method to detect breast and ovarian cancer.
They identified certain proteins present in the saliva that could act as salivary biomarkers in the diagnosis of breast and ovarian cancers

Roshni App

The, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar has developed an app Roshni that would help the Visually Impaired to recognise currency notes.
The app can recognise both old and new notes and gives audio information as to which note you are holding in your hands.

PM Modi inaugurates supercomputer ‘Param Shivay’ at IIT-BHU

PM Modi inaugurated ‘Param Shivay’ Supercomputer of 833 teraflop capacity built at the cost of Rs 32.5 crore under the National Super Computing Mission at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University (BHU).