Innovation
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When man meets machine: Using AI to improve productivity of factory workers
Rather than using artificial intelligence to replace humans, Drishti Technologies, a Silicon Valley and Bengaluru-based startup, is using computer vision and deep learning to improve human productivity
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Can Goodknight kill the mosquito incense stick market?
The mosquito incense market is largely illegal and unorganised. Goodknight hopes its Jumbo Fast Card will be the one-stop solution to slay both—the mosquitos and the competition
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Sanitary waste usually ends up in landfills and seas. This innovation recycles it to protect environment, empower women
Padcare Labs' innovation breaks down the toxic waste of sanitary napkins and recycles the disposed pads into cellulose that can be used in the packaging industry or to make vases, paver blocks, and more
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This duo incubates early-stage non-profits. Their goal: Bring 1 crore Indians out of poverty by 2025
It takes a village to create a successful, scalable non-profit startup, and Sudha Srinivasan and team at The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation have set out to build an infrastructure that promotes disruptive, differentiated thinking to solve critical social issues
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Eyes in the sky: GalaxEye's constellation of hybrid sensors may transform satellite imagery
Named Drishti, the IIT-Madras graduates' hybrid sensor attempts to combine the best of radar sensing and optical imagery and will provide data as a service to commercial customers
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Byju Innovation Labs: Bridging the teacher-student gap with AI, ML
With an aim to solve moonshot problems, Byju's lab initiative hopes to consistently innovate internally to solve education's biggest challenges with technology to avoid becoming obsolete
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Innovation during infection: On finding opportunities during a calamity
The Covid-19 pandemic is not the first infection in the past two decades to spur disruption—the SARS outbreak in China in 2002 spurred its internet economy and saw Jack Ma grabbing the opportunity with both hands. Now, coronavirus may have provided a once-in-a-lifetime launchpad for Indian companies
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Flying cars: The future of mobility?
There is an emerging flying car industry in the world and a lot of entrepreneurial action in the sector. In India, a few companies have taken the plunge, but concerns about technology, infrastructure and regulatory challenges remain
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Rethinking capitalism: The power of creative destruction
With the proper safeguards, creative destruction — the process by which the new replaces the old — remains the way to greater economic growth and prosperity
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Spirituality and Confucianism to embrace a better future of innovation
If we think it is necessary to (re)think about innovation with spiritual exercises, to what extent should Confucianist philosophy, for example, which is dominant in Asia, not be a way to follow?
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Spotlight on India's freedom to innovate
Robust funding to startups and efforts to remove bureaucratic hurdles in government-owned research labs augur well for the future. But freedom to innovate has not been used to solve the most pressing social and economic problems