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🚨 Bengaluru-based Sarla Aviation has successfully completed the integrated flight-test for Sylla 1.0, their half-scale eVTOL technology demonstrator. This was designed, built and flown in just 12 months.

🚨 Hyderabad-based Harvested Robotics has built Rakshak, their prototype AI-powered laser-weeder that can be mounted on a tractor. It can scan, detect and burn weeds in less than 0.5 seconds with an accuracy of 5mm. The final product will have an accuracy of 1-2mm.

🚨 Bengaluru-based Mandrake Bio just raised ₹16 crore in their pre-seed round led by Activate and Antler. They are developing new programmable gene-editing enzymes using AI, instead of relying on natural proteins.

🚨 HSR Layout-based Panoculon Labs (@panoculonlabs) is building cutting-edge egocentric data capture rigs for American, Chinese, and Indian robotics labs.

🚨 Chennai-based Meine Electric has successfully developed a first-of-its-kind Fast Charge Long Discharge (FCLD) iron-air battery. These batteries charge in just 6 hours, and have now cleared external validation from US-based CES (Customized Energy Solutions).

🚨 Bengaluru-based Vimag Labs has been granted a fifth patent for their magnet-free electric motor. This is fully indigenous and uses just copper, steel and standard electronics.

@sparshselim Thank you for the shout out Sparsh! 🙏

i have to second this. i recently found out about our own "expansion plans" on random news websites. absolutely bizarre to see so many inaccurate, unverified, and stubbornly incorrect reporting taking place about early stage private companies. once such news pieces are disputed, journalists and editors refuse to even issue erratas. when they do, it's buried deep behind the paywall. the headline which has done damage will still remain. i think its important to point out that startups anyway have odds stacked against them. we could do with some better reporting at the very least. shoutout to some folks doing this well: - @RuntimeBRT by @caleb_friesen - @RahulSanghi1 @AaryamanVir at tigerfeathers - @SwarajyaMag's latest pieces on indian science/tech - @neutranino's deep pieces in @the_hindu - @ShadmaShaikh's in depth features

@shinemeriz We're glad the algo is recommending these videos to folks in SF! Much of the world is totally unaware of the innovation happening here.

@RuntimeBRT wow this kind of stuff i would love to watch from India, thanks BRT

Iran's Shahed drone (Shahed-238) moves at 520km/h. This makes it very difficult to intercept. India now has an answer to Shahed. Hyderabad-based Apollyon Dynamics is developing Nightshade ADX-1, a jet-powered UAV that: - Strikes at 700km/h - Has a 70kg MTOW - Travels 150km

Most of India's PCB prototyping still happens in China, with JLCPCB offering ultra-low cost, consistent quality, and ease of use for small quantities. Indian PCB manufacturers exist, but they struggle to compete with China on price. Now though, there's a new kid on the block. @ivishaltejwani is building PlaceStation, a made-in-India PCB manufacturing product ecosystem (based on open-source systems) that combines accelerated stenciling, component pick and place automation, and a custom reflow oven. By bringing all of these together in a desktop-sized assembly line, Vishal and team are unlocking unprecedented access to affordable in-house PCB prototyping for Indian startups. We visited Vishal Tejwani's R&D office in Mumbai to see how he's making it happen.

Learn more at @hackerfabindia

Indian students are DIYing a semiconductor fab at IIT Bombay. In just 10 months they've built: 1. A DLP-based lithography machine. 2. A tube furnace to oxidise silicon. 3. A DC plasma sputter. Total cost: ₹30 lakh. Here's a rare behind-the-scenes look at HackerFab IITB.

🚨 Sarvam AI has raised $234M in the first close of their $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation. We visited their HQ in Indiranagar, Bengaluru for a rare behind-the-scenes look at India's newest sovereign AI unicorn.

India has <200 satellites in orbit. The United States has 10,000+. This gap is partially due to launch capacity. Skyroot isn't commercialised yet. But another limitation is satellite manufacturing. Which is why Hyderabad-based Dhruva Space plans to make two satellites DAILY!

The world's best commercial MCED liquid biopsies detect early-stage cancer at just 25-30% accuracy. Then there's Dognosis, an Indian deeptech company. Their dogs detect all stages with >90% accuracy in Bengaluru (as published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology). Here's how.

🚨 Indian defencetech startup Armory is putting their indigenous anti-drone jammer system into production. After securing a ₹100 crore order from the Ministry of Defence, @ArmoryShield has built a one-acre factory in Gurugram to manufacture their modular C-UAS, SURGE.

🚨 Gurugram-based spacetech founder Shreyans Jain is building a rockoon system that carries launch vehicles 20 km above Earth's surface. His startup is called @celestial_aero.

Every wonder how Indian Railways inpects bedsheets? @SakarRobotics, a Pune-based robotics startup, has built an AI-powered machine that does exactly that. They've now deployed these machines across Pune, Jaipur, and Jodhpur, and will expand to other cities across India soon.

Most of India's drone motors come from China. In 2019, the founders of Vector Technics, @prudhvirajp + Karna Raj, set out to change that in a 400 sq. ft. Hyderabad office. Today, @vectortechnics is India's largest indigenous drone motor manufacturer, producing 5k motors/month.