ISRO Immersion Challenge on Artificial Intelligence in Space Innovation was held at IIITH

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Hyderabad (Telangana) (India), August 6: ISRO-NRSC and IIIT Hyderabad organized AI for Space Immersion program for startups and student research teams from across the country. The day-long event brought together a vibrant community of startups, students, researchers and industry experts to foster innovation and explore the transformative potential of AI in the space sector.

The ideas were reviewed by scientists and guidance was given to refine and improve them. CIE-IIIT Hyderabad and ISRO, with support from IN-SPACe, organized this innovation event to seed interesting new ideas and solutions for space. Through interactive ideation sessions, mentoring by ISRO scientists, interaction with IIITH faculty, pitch workshops and inspiring talks, participants had an opportunity to validate their ideas and connect with potential mentors and investors. The speakers at the inauguration and finale were Anand Rajagopalan from TM2Space, Naga Bharath from Skyroot, Vinod Bothala (Eminent Scientist) from ISRO, Vijaya Bhanu (PD Director) from IN-SPACe, KV Ramana (Associate Director) from NRSC-ISRO and PJ Narayanan (Director) from IIITH.

The ISRO Immersion Challenge saw a huge response, with 177 entries received. Out of these, 74 teams were invited for the immersion. The final 6 ideas included Green Propulsion for Satellites Delivery, AI-Powered Precision Rocket Control, Autonomous Swarm for Space Debris Cleanup, Precision Agriculture through Crop Research for Accurate Agricultural Information, and Democratizing Geospatial Data through a Chat Interface. The final winners were Expanse Cosmos (a Delhi-based startup) and Team Trishul (a student team from Chandigarh).

Prof. CV Jawahar, Dean, IIIT Hyderabad, said, “CIE at IIITH is an initiative to foster innovation and startups based on research support. We are very happy that ISRO and IIITH have facilitated this coming together of scientists, faculty, student researchers, startups and space enthusiasts to come up with some very interesting deep technology solutions for space.”

ABOUT IIIT Hyderabad

CIE at IIIT Hyderabad is a technology incubator with 16 years of rich experience in creating, nurturing and scaling DeepTech, MedTech, Mobility and MediaTech. With a core mandate of research-led innovation, CIE IIITH focuses on strengthening technology and IP by creating collaborative research and co-creation models for startups to collaborate with research groups at IIITH. CIE is an ecosystem enabler, supporting communities that build and scale emerging technology solutions, innovations and startups.

About IIIT Hyderabad

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) is an autonomous research university established in 1998 that focuses on the core areas of information technology such as computer science, electronics and communication and their applications to other fields through interdisciplinary research with greater societal impact. Some of its research areas include visual information technologies, human language technologies, data engineering, VLSI and embedded systems, computer architecture, wireless communication, algorithms and information security, robotics, building science, earthquake engineering, computational life sciences and bioinformatics, educational technology, energy systems, agricultural IT and e-government.

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First published: August 6, 2024 | 12:40 PM IST