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Kerala’s Genrobotics Wins Medicall Made in India Innovation Golden Award

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Pallipuram, KERALA :

Genrobotic Innovations, a company based in Pallippuram, Kerala has been conferred with the Medicall Made in India Innovation 2023 Golden Award for developing the advanced robotic gait trainer G-Gaiter that helps patients recover rapidly from paraplegic disabilities. Afsal Muttikkal, Regional Director, Genrobotics Medical and Mobility received the award from Shyam Vasudevarao, Founder and Director of Forus Health, Renalyx, and Rx DHP.

The company’s flagship medical product, the G-Gaiter is an advanced gait training robot which has earned this prestigious acknowledgement for its unwavering dedication to driving innovation within the health-tech sector. The G-Gaiter’s services are currently accessible in numerous hospitals across Kerala.

Instituted by Chennai-based Medicall Innovation, the award is given for promoting and recognising advanced technological innovations in the healthcare industry.

G-Gaiter assists patients with paraplegic conditions caused by stroke, traumatic spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy to increase their mobility, consistency, and quality of gait pattern.

G-Gaiter’s AI (Artificial Intelligence)-powered natural human gait pattern and top-notch rehabilitation functions aim to increase mobility as well as the consistency and quality of gait patterns. It helps patients with paraplegic disorders achieve their goal of re-walking flawlessly.

Taking off as a startup, Genrobotics has displayed innovation in solving different social issues and emerged as one of the most impactful companies through various robotic solutions. It made a big socio-technological impact by developing the world’s first robotic manhole cleaner, ‘Bandicoot’, aimed at phasing out manual scavenging.

source: http://www.radiancenews.com / Radiance News / Home> Pride of the Nation> Awards / by Radiance News Bureau / August 24th, 2023

Three Keralites behind ‘Bandicoot’ win Infosys Gold award

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KERALA :

Bandicoot has already made its way into 12 states and the company has also grown to the strength of 100.

Rashid K, co-founder of Bandicoot, receiving the award on Wednesday
Rashid K, co-founder of Bandicoot, receiving the award on Wednesday

Thiruvananthapuram :

Malayalis Rashid K, Vimal Govind MK and Nikhil NP of startup ‘Genrobotics’ won the gold award instituted by Infosys Foundation. The award was given for their innovation ‘Bandicoot’, a robot developed by the startup. ‘Bandicoot’ is stated to be the world’s first manhole cleaning robot. It’s the second edition of the Aarohan Social Innovation awards.

The innovation won the award in the sustainability category. The award carries a purse of `20 lakh. Other award categories included healthcare, rural development and destitute care. Rashid, Govind and Nikhil are the core founders of Genrobotics and Bandicoot has been designed by nine engineers from Kerala.

After its successful trial in Thiruvananthapuram by clearing manholes filled with plastic and other kinds of waste, it is being used successfully by the Kerala Water Authority for various purposes.“Through our innovation, we aim to eliminate manual scavenging completely from our country. We were able to create awareness with the support of the government and other organisations.”

“We are happy to receive this prestigious award and we hope that we will be able to end manual scavenging in five years,” said Govind, the chief executive officer, Genrobotics.

Bandicoot has already made its way into 12 states and the company has also grown to the strength of 100. “We plan to expand in more states thereby reducing the number of manhole deaths,” according to Govind
“Besides Bandicoot, we are also working on other projects for the welfare of the society,” he said.In  healthcare category, three awards were presented.

Recipients include Partha Pratim Das Mahapatra from Kolkata, who developed a non-invasive, non-contact, portable device to measure human bilirubin, oxygen saturation and haemoglobin levels without drawing blood from the body; Dr Binita S Tunga and Dr Rashbehari Tunga from Bengaluru.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Kerala / by Express News Service / February 20th, 2020