ISRO-NRSC and IIIT Hyderabad in India organized an AI for Space Immersion program for startup and student-research teams from across the country.
The day-long event brought together startups, students, researchers, and industry experts to foster innovation and explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the space sector.
Ideas were reviewed by the scientists and guidance was given to refine and improve the ideas. CIE-IIIT Hyderabad and ISRO, with support from IN-SPACe, organized the innovation event to seed interesting new ideas and solutions for space.
Through interactive ideation sessions, mentorship from ISRO scientists, interaction with IIITH faculty, pitch workshops, and inspiring talks, participants had the opportunity to validate their ideas and connect with potential mentors and investors.
The event received 177 applications, of these, 74 teams were invited for the immersion. The final six ideas included Green Propulsion for Satellites Delivery, AI-Powered Precision Rocket Control, Autonomous Swarm for Space Debris Cleanup, Precision Agriculture through crop surveys for accurate agricultural insights, and Democratizing Geospatial Data through a chat interface. The final winners were Expanse Cosmos (a startup based in Delhi) and Team Trishul (student team from Chandigarh).
CV Jawahar, Dean at IIIT Hyderabad, said: “CIE at IIITH is an initiative to nurture innovations and startups based on support from research. We are very happy that ISRO and IIITH enabled this convergence of scientists, faculty, research students, startups and space enthusiasts to collectively come up with very interesting deep tech-based solutions for space.”
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