IIT Madras to conduct E-Summit 2020 from January 17to 19

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras will be conducting the fifth edition of the E-Summit organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell at the institution. The E-summit will be conducted from January 17 to 19, 2020.

As per the statement released by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras the E-Summit attempts to promote entrepreneurship among the student community and also to motivate the potential entrepreneurs for starting their business which not only solves complex engineering challenges but also provides solutions to the society.

The E-Summit which is one of the biggest student-run entrepreneurial conferences in the country will consist of four summits including the Innovators Summit, the Start-up Summit, Youth Summit, and the Techno-Entrepreneurship Summit.

For this year’s E-summit social campaign conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Entrepreneurship Cell will be D-Well also known as ‘Digital Well Being’. The D-Well initiative involves organizing nostalgic activities and reminding people of how the world used to be before the digital era. The statement released further adds that the campaign will also feature discussions and debates on the future of digital media and what it has in store for us.

Alumni from IIT Madras donates Rs 1 crore for robotics research laboratory

An Alumni from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras has donated Rs. 1 Crore for Robotics Research and Teaching Laboratory in the department of engineering design.  The new robotics laboratory will provide the students with a learning experience for the students and also will enable in teaching and research in the fields of robotics.

The new laboratory will fill the gap in robotics education in the country and also promote learning and also increase the research output in the field. The new Robotics Research and Teaching Laboratory will include facilities like serial manipulators for collaborative manipulation, robotics vision system, aerial robotics, underwater robots, parallel manipulators, robot calibration systems, robotic automation systems, medical robots and haptic systems, controller design and analysis and robotic system design and programming.

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