Hyderabad-based startup to make India’s first AI lab in Space

A Hyderabad-based abstraction tech startup has announced its ambitious task to marque abstraction sciences probe much accessible to radical by launching India’s archetypal Artificial Intelligence (AI) – driven laboratory successful space. The startup Take Me 2 Space intends to motorboat an AI powered outer laboratory into abstraction that tin beryllium remotely operated by students successful schools and universities of India.

In India, abstraction entree is constricted to the government, defence agencies, and the champion probe institutes. The steadfast aims to equalise abstraction entree by offering students, researchers, and businessmen real-time entree to satellites. 

According to an interrogation published successful The Analytics India Mag (AIM), the company’s founder, Ronak Kumar Samantray, said, “You don’t person to beryllium astatine NASA, ISRO, oregon an IIT to tally an experimentation successful space. Sitting successful Kerala, Delhi, oregon adjacent Antarctica, you should beryllium capable to run a satellite.” 

He further added that, “If you’re funny successful space, the astir you tin bash contiguous is work a probe insubstantial oregon possibly play with an electronics kit.” He stated that, “Nobody gets to task their satellite.”

The company’s people is to capable these gaps by launching an AI-powered outer lab. Schools and universities tin subscribe to it by permitting their students to log successful remotely, upload codification successful Python oregon C++, and interact with a existent satellite. 

Ronak Kumar added that, “Just similar however schools person machine labs, electronics labs, and robotics labs, we judge determination should beryllium a outer lab,” said Samantray. “Our satellites volition beryllium openly accessible for students to tally their experiments.”

As per the reports, Out of 20 customers who person signed up, lone 4 are successful the tract of acquisition sector, the remaining 16 are from GIS (geographic accusation systems) and information analytics companies.

Samantray emphasized, “Our purpose is not conscionable to supply outer data, we privation to springiness users power of the outer itself.”

He further said that, “We are enabling radical to power a satellite, which means we person to beryllium 2 steps up successful presumption of information and our strategy is designed to preemptively halt immoderate harmful actions earlier they occur, alternatively than reacting aft the fact.”  

He explained that, “We privation to physique information centres successful orbit wherever AI and computing hap successful space, not connected Earth.”

Samantray clarified that, “We’re gathering for backstage businesses, not conscionable defence oregon authorities customers.” 

This twelvemonth aft the objection ngo with ISRO, the adjacent measurement of the steadfast is to motorboat 2 afloat operational satellites, with a semipermanent entity to physique the aboriginal of computing successful orbit. 

However, If the steadfast succeeds, the startup tin reconsider the planetary interactions with satellites, making abstraction an accessible laboratory for everyone.

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