{
  "id": 17006226,
  "title": "Students win Viksit Bharat Buildathon for bomb-diffusing robot, smart glasses",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/students-win-viksit-bharat-buildathon-for-bomb-diffusing-robot-smart",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-29T03:34:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times",
    "slug": "hindustan-times",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/students-win-viksit-bharat-buildathon-for-bomb-diffusing-robot-smart-glasses-101793244869866.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025, a national-level innovation competition, has crowned ten winning teams with a combined prize money of ₹17.50 lakh. The event, organized by the Union Education Ministry in collaboration with NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission and the AICTE, set a Guinness World Record for being the largest innovation solution competition with 287,967 project submissions from across India.\n\nThe winning teams showcased a diverse range of solutions addressing issues like public safety, renewable energy, urban pollution, environmental sustainability, and livelihoods. Among the top projects is the Assam-developed spider-shaped bomb-diffusing robot, \"Vadiffuse,\" which won in the prototype track. Similarly, students from Delhi’s Modern Public School won for their renewable energy project, while Gujarat’s PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 developed the \"Urban Breathing Pole.\"\n\nOther notable winners include the \"Guardian Bridge\" from Srinagar’s Green Valley Educational Institute and \"EchoLens,\" affordable bone-conduction smart glasses from Uttar Pradesh’s Step by Step School. The competition involved a three-tier assessment process, culminating in the selection of 10 national awardees, 100 state awardees, and 1,000 district awardees. This pioneering initiative aims to foster grassroots innovation among school students in India.",
  "summary": "The national winners included students from Assam, Delhi, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}