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Over 60 innovative tech projects featured at IIT Madras CFI open house

IIT Madras Centre For Innovation (CFI)'s annual Open House' 2022 on Sunday featured over 60 innovative tech projects made by the students. The event returned to a physical mode after a gap of two years and showcased autonomous vehicles, rockets besides the first-ever electric formula car from the institute made completely by the Student Team 'Raftar.' Further, for the first time, this edition was also made accessible on a Metaverse platform called Gather Town' to limited audience this year to highlight their innovations to other stakeholders not physically present. Over 1,500 people, including around 100 eminent industrialists and IIT Madras alumni, participated in-person with another 500 taking part virtually through Gather Town'. Speaking after inaugurating the event, Prof V Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras, said this activity taken up by CFI provides not only a platform for young innovators to showcase their creations but also serves as a great source of inspiration for other ..

M&M signs pact with IIT Madras-incubated entity to launch campers in India

Many other state governments are expected to announce its Caravan tourism programme shortly

Larsen & Toubro Infotech, IIT Madras partner to innovate in 5G space

As part of this partnership, the two will promote research towards the development of a low-cost, low-frequency 5G network set-up for better connectivity in rural India

India's R value drops to 2.2 between January 7 and 13: IIT Madras analysis

India's 'R-value', which indicates how rapidly COVID-19 is spreading, was recorded at 2.2 between January 7 and 13, a drop from the previous 2 weeks, according to a preliminary analysis by IIT Madras

Covid-19: Study predicts India to witness third wave peak between Feb 1-15

India's R-naught value which indicates the spread of COVID-19 was recorded at 4 this week, suggesting a very high infection transmission rate, according to a preliminary analysis by IIT Madras

Atal Innovation rankings: Seven IITs among top 10; IIT Madras comes first

IISc Bengaluru has bagged the sixth rank

IIT Madras ends phase-1 placements with record 1,085 offers from 226 firms

With this, the premier institute has seen 73% of students who registered for placements receive job offers in phase-I of campus placements that began on December 1

Tata Power, IIT Madras sign agreement on technology research, solutions

Agreement includes campus recruitment opportunities for postgraduate students of the premier institute.

IIT Madras faculty founded 94 startups till Oct, valued at over Rs 1,400 cr

From a startup aiming to make hybrid aerial vehicles to the converting waste to crude oil, faculty members at IIT Madras founded at least 94 enterprises having a combined valuation of over Rs 1,400 cr

IIT-Madras records highest ever number of pre-placement offers

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, has recorded its highest ever number of pre-placement offers for its students, according to the institute's officials

IIT Madras bags record 227 pre-placements offers so far for 2021-22

The PPOs will continue to be made till the commencement of phase-1 of final campus placements, which is scheduled for December 1

Foxconn's Bharat FIH opens research, development centre in Chennai

Electronic manufacturing services firm Foxconn's subsidiary Bharat FIH, formerly known as Rising Stars Mobile India, has opened a research and development centre at the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai, the company said on Tuesday. It will be among the first R&D centres in India to design end-to-end 5G devices and will offer end-to-end services to customers, including product design, tooling and moulding, global sourcing and manufacturing services for smartphones and other products and services in the electronics segment. Bharat FIH makes devices for Xiaomi and Nokia. Bharat FIH Country Head and Managing Director Josh Foulger said there is a clear market need for innovative technologies and products with quick turnaround times in the ever-changing electronics segment. "Our India R&D will capitalise on our manufacturing strengths and collaborate with our global teams under the Foxconn Technology Group in product design, cost optimisation, customer experience, sourcing, ...

NIRF Rankings 2021: IIT Madras continues to be India's best institute

IISc, IIM-A top universities and B-schools in the 6th edition of Ministry of Education's rankings

IIT Madras ranked best institution in India, IISc in research: NRIF ranking

Eight IITs and two national Institutes of Technology (NITs) figured in the top ten engineering institutions in the country

No proposal to rename IIT Madras as IIT Chennai: Dharmendra Pradhan

Madras city was renamed as Chennai in 1996 by the Tamil Nadu government.

This AI-based algorithm will help identify cancer-causing cell alterations

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have developed an artificial intelligence-based mathematical model to identify cancer-causing alterations in cells.

How Indian engineering colleges are revamping medical R&D with new-age tech

Using tools such as AI, ML, data science and 3D printing, they are making breakthroughs in fields such as oncology, neurology, liver disease and premature deliveries

IIT Madras-incubated GalaxEye raises pre-seed from Speciale Invest

GalaxEye said it will use the funds to strengthen its space technology and build a "world class team" India.

IIT Madras startup sets Guinness record for upskilling people in Python

Beating the previous record by 50 times, IIT Madras-incubated startup GUVI and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has set the Guinness world record in upskilling Indians in Python programming language. They set the record for "most numbers of users to take a programming lesson in 24 hours".As many as 1,12,319 people participated in the 'AI-for-India' Initiative organized on April 24-25, 2021 by GUVI and AICTE which primary aim to reach out one million Indians and upskill them in the Python programme language."More than six lakh users across 28 states registered for their highly anticipated AI-For-India event and around 1.12 lakh users completed building the face recognition app in the online workshop," SP Balamurugan, Co-Founder & CEO, GUVI told ANI.Participants from various backgrounds like school kids, high school students, college graduates, job seekers, and experienced IT and non-IT professionals took part in the event."Students and working professionals from .

IIT-Madras studying Coronavirus' high transmission potential

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras researchers are studying the high transmission rate and mortality of SARS-CoV-2