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DigiKey India Opens New Bengaluru Office BENGALURU, India – DigiKey, the global distribution leader of electronic components and automation products, proudly announces the opening of its new Bengaluru office, home to DigiKey India’s Global Capability Center (GCC), supporting innovation, technology enablement and business operations for teams worldwide. The company held an inauguration ceremony on Oct. 5, 2026, at its new office at… |
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India's First 5.56 km Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution Link Shown by QNu Labs, BISAG-N, IIT Gandhinagar Indian researchers and engineers have successfully established a free-space quantum key distribution link spanning 5.56 km, marking the country’s first such demonstration at this distance. The field trial, conducted on the night of 27-28 September 2026, connected the Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) with IIT Gandhinagar. QNu Labs supplied… |
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Indian Team Trains Unitree G1 Humanoid for Classical Dance Using Motion Capture and Reinforcement Learning A humanoid robot named “Maya” has attracted attention in India after appearing on India's Got Latent, where it danced, rapped and interacted with people on stage. Maya is built on a Unitree G1 humanoid robot, but the Indian team behind the project added its own AI software, voice system, personality and custom movements. The team, associated with Tuesday Labs and students from Masters' Union,… |
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Messe Muenchen India and dmg events Announce Partnership to Launch AiX DataWorld 2027 Mumbai: As India’s data centre market expands rapidly alongside growing demand for artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital services, Messe Muenchen India, in partnership with dmg events, will launch AiX DataWorld 2027, a dedicated conference and platform with two editions in Mumbai and Chennai for the country’s data centre industry. The partnership announcement reflects a defining… |
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Genrobotics to Manufacture Sewer-Cleaning Robots and Wilboar Units in Tamil Nadu, ₹150 Cr Bet Kerala-based robotics firm Genrobotics has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu government to set up a manufacturing facility for its robotics product line, with plans to invest ₹150 crore over the next five years. The MoU was inked at the Vettri Tamil Nadu Investment Conclave 2026, held in Chennai, where the state government signed agreements with 97 companies for a… |
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Mindgrove & AtumX to Put Dev Boards Built on Indian Chips in Hands of 1,000 Chennai Students Chennai-based fabless semiconductor startup Mindgrove Technologies has teamed up with ed-tech company AtumX to launch AGNI, a developer board built around an indigenously designed chip, aimed at government school classrooms. The initiative marks one of the first attempts to put a domestically designed SoC directly into the hands of students rather than professional engineers. The… |
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Andhra Pradesh Launches Twin AI Centres to Give DeepTech Startups GPU Power and Mentorship Andhra Pradesh has set up two new AI-focused facilities, one in Amaravati and one in Visakhapatnam, which began operating on July 28. The initiative comes with backing from the central government's electronics and IT ministry, working alongside the state's own IT and electronics department. Both sites will run under the… |
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Paras Defence to Expand Beyond Defence With ₹6,200 Crore Semiconductor Packaging Bet Paras Defence and Space Technologies has announced a ₹6,200 crore investment through its subsidiary Paras Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd. to establish a greenfield advanced semiconductor packaging facility in Madhya Pradesh. The project marks the company’s expansion into the semiconductor packaging segment alongside its existing defence and space-related operations. The company said the… |
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NPCI Reportedly Developing Offline UPI Tap-to-Pay via NFC for Payments Up to ₹2,000 The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is developing a new offline UPI payment feature that would let users pay at merchant terminals without an internet connection, according to a Business Standard report. The system uses near-field communication (NFC) technology, allowing customers to tap an NFC-enabled smartphone on a compatible point-of-sale (PoS) terminal to complete… |
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Seoul Semiconductor Considers India LED Facility to Access ISM 2.0 Incentives South Korea's Seoul Semiconductor is evaluating plans to establish a manufacturing facility in India, with discussions underway with multiple state governments, including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat. The optoelectronics company is assessing possible sites as India sharpens its pitch to global electronics and semiconductor-linked manufacturers under the next phase of its chip and… |
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Hyderabad's Raghu Vamsi Aerospace Raises $40 Million, Led by Norwest and Skegen Raghu Vamsi Aerospace Group (RVAG), a Hyderabad-headquartered precision manufacturing and deep-tech company serving the aerospace, defence and energy sectors, announced on July 20, 2026, that it has raised $40 million, approximately ₹400 crore, in its latest funding round. The round was led by Norwest and Skegen Asset Management, with participation from Indus Bridge Ventures, GJNX Ventures and… |
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Skyroot's Vikram-1 Reaches Orbit, India's First Private Orbital Rocket Launch Skyroot Aerospace launched Vikram-1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July 18, 2026, with the upper stage reaching its planned 450-kilometer low Earth orbit 15 minutes after liftoff. The mission, called Aagaman, made Skyroot the first Indian private company to place a rocket into orbit on its maiden attempt, putting India among a small group of nations alongside the United… |
