Indian Institute of Technology

August 5, 2020

A Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Department of Defence (DoD) Ministry of Defence (MoD), Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) on 4 August 2020.They IIT Kanpur will develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Techniques to conduct exploratory and predictive analysis of Public Grievances.

July 16, 2020

Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Minister of State for HRD Sanjay Dhotre have launched the most affordable COVID-19 test Kit.
It has been produced by IIT Delhi and manufactured by New Tech Medical Devices.
COROSURE is one of the companies which has received the non exclusive license from IIT Delhi for the probe free RT-PCR based COVID-19 test kit.

July 15, 2020

IIT Kanpur has developed an Ultraviolet (UV) sanitizing device named Smartphone operated Handy Ultraviolet Disinfection Helper (SHUDH). This device has 6 UV lights of 15 Watts each that can be individually monitored from a distance. Initial testing has proved that the device at its full operation can disinfect a 10×10 squared feet room in about 15 minutes.
SHUDH can assist in killing the spread of coronavirus at the highly prone places such as hospitals, hotels, malls, offices and schools. The on/off, speed, and location of the product can be controlled remotely using your available smartphone while installing an android application

July 11, 2020

The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H) has collaborated with NVIDIA, a US-based multinational technology company, to establish India’s first ‘NVIDIA AI Technology Centre’(NVAITC) to accelerate research on Artificial Intelligence and its commercial adoption.
The centre will focus on advancing AI research in the areas of Agriculture and Smart Cities besides Language Understanding, increasing crop yield, support safer transportation systems and better ways of managing traffic, among others.

July 9, 2020

On 8th July 2020, an agreement has been inked between the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research- Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) and IIT Alumni Council for joint research work on COVID-19 and data of COVID-19 positive patients will also be analyzed jointly

July 4, 2020

The Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kanpur has prepared virtual classroom assistance, ‘Mobile Masterjee’ to support rural schools to overcome the teaching and learning difficulties created by the pandemic.

July 1, 2020

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras on 30th June declared that it has started the “world’s first” online BSc degree course in Programming and Data Science.
The course will be available to everyone who has passed class 12 with English and Maths at class 10 level and joined any on-campus undergraduate course.

May 28, 2020

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), paired with the University of North Texas and United States Army lab, has produced a magnesium alloy to substitute the steel and aluminum in the automobile industry to lessen the carbon footprint and improve fuel efficiency.

May 23, 2020

Researchers of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Guwahati) have developed a new way to reduce short-term memory losses due to Alzheimer disease that prevent accumulation of neurotoxic molecules in the brain that are responsible for short-term memory loss.

May 16, 2020

An interactive COVID-19 dashboard named as “MIR AHD Covid-19 Dashboard” has been made by the researchers at IIT Gandhinagar.
The dashboard targets to give key information to stakeholders and the public in order to make research-backed decisions during the time of crisis.

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