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Chief Minister of Kerala inaugurates country’s first Super Fab Lab

Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurates India’s 1st Super Fab Lab in Kochi, Kerala. Fab Labs are fabrication laboratories that offer digital fabrication and computation. The Super Fab Lab is being installed in collaboration with KSUM (Kerala Startup Mission). The laboratory will break down barriers between the physical world and the digital world.

The lab is built in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is spread across an area of 10,000 sq ft. The Super Fab Lab will have state-of-the-art machines worth more than ₹7 crore, enabling researchers, innovators and developers to go beyond the scope of existing fab labs in the state. At present, Kerala has two electronic Fab Labs – one at Thiruvananthapuram and the other at Kochi.