Student Edition: Where Ideas Begin
Conversations in science and tech with the brightest minds at IITM—stories, insights, and breakthroughs shaped by students.
What does it take to innovate?
Here is a podcast about the tech-driven student teams from IIT Madras, crafting innovations in Student Formula Racing, Mars Surveillance, Hyperloop and so much more!
Some of these people have changed the course of life on earth.
Through these conversations, we try to find out what it takes to innovate, how one finds amazing problems to solve, and if there’s something at IITM that has to do with someone’s success.
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This IIT Madras team is building rovers & drones for MARS EXPLORATION
we go inside Team Anveshak, the space robotics team of IIT Madras, to understand how students design, build, and test Mars-style rovers, autonomous systems, drones, and astrobiology modules from scratch.
Featured Conversations
"The stakes are high. The environment is intense." | Raftar Formula Racing Team, IIT Madras
Join the Raftar Formula Racing Team of IIT Madras and their Captain, Aryan Varma; aerodynamics lead Ankith Suresh, and powertrain specialist Divyaratna as they take us for a mesmerizing behind-the-scenes look at one of India’s top student engineering projects.
“You have to be crazy to want to make silicon”
Sharan Srinivas J, CTO of Mindgrove Technologies, shares an insider's view of building India's 1st commercial microcontroller
"Brain drain isn't about salary. We want to be challenged"
Prof. Prabhu on Start-Ups & Research at IIT Madras
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This IIT Madras team is building rovers & drones for MARS EXPLORATION
we go inside Team Anveshak, the space robotics team of IIT Madras, to understand how students design, build, and test Mars-style rovers, autonomous systems, drones, and astrobiology modules from scratch.
From kangaroos to sudden explosions, this team is ready to face it all!
In this exclusive tour, Vidhi meets two of the team leads behind India’s most advanced student-built solar race car, designed to travel 3022 km across the Australian Outback, powered entirely by sunlight.
This team manipulates genes to create LIFE from SCRATCH!?
Join us as we go behind the scenes with Team iGEM, IIT Madras, in the second episode of the Student Edition of Best Place to Build Podcast.
These students make & drive Formula race cars all by themselves? 🤯
Team Raftar Formula Racing, IIT Madras’ Formula Student team that has been designing, building, and racing high-performance electric vehicles (EVs) for over a decade.
