KL UNIVERSITY · KONERU LAKSHMAIAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION · VADDESWARAM
The Product Studio Ecosystem
Five AI-native national Missions, seventeen Studios, six shared Fab Labs and a shared technology layer — capacity, products, tasks, impact, charters, funding, handholders, platforms and skills in one volume, built for 6,500 students, one team one product
Built from the Mission portfolio and the September 2026 research on benchmarks, centres of excellence, physical establishment, partner organisations, experts, funding and outcomes. Facts from the research carry a verified or verify tag; prices, pay and scheme terms are indicative and must be confirmed before commitment.
Contents
- Part A · The capacity model and the flow3
- Part B · The five Missions: products, tasks and impact10
- 1. Cognitive Spectrum Dominance11
- 2. Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute24
- 3. Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence36
- 4. Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response48
- 5. Food, Water and Climate Security62
- Part C · Seventeen Studio charters76
- Harvest Studio77
- Tide Studio89
- Traction Studio99
- Vahana Studio110
- Freight Studio122
- Habitat Studio133
- Aquifer Studio144
- Dynamo Studio155
- Forge Studio166
- Yantra Studio177
- Wafer Studio188
- Spectra Studio201
- Ledger Studio212
- Frontline Studio222
- Helix Studio232
- Astra Studio242
- Lattice Studio253
- Part D · The Fab Labs: five in the sports complex and the Heavy Fab Lab on campus
- Mechanical Fab Lab273
- Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility)276
- Electronics Fab Lab279
- Compute and Software Lab282
- Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab285
- Fabrication and Prototyping Services
- Part E · Costing: Studios, Fab Labs, Foundries, Missions and tasks290
- Part F · Fitting the seventeen Studios into the eight PBL labs of the sports complex305
- PBL Lab 1 — Mechanical Fab Lab, Traction, Forge, Fabrication Services and Stores, Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab303
- PBL Lab 2 — Design commons, Showcase gallery, Studio offices, Mission control303
- PBL Lab 3 — Harvest, Habitat303
- PBL Lab 4 — Dynamo, Helix, Tide, Aquifer303
- PBL Lab 5 — Vahana, Yantra, Freight303
- PBL Lab 6 — Electronics Fab Lab, Spectra303
- PBL Lab 7 — Compute and Software Lab, Ledger, Frontline303
- PBL Lab 8 — Wafer, Astra, Lattice303
- Heavy Fab Lab — the machine hall on the main campus444
- Part G · Safety, permissions and responsible deployment463
- Part H · Funding, consolidated and Mission-wise465
- Part I · Mission handholders and governance491
- Part J · Impact and SDG analytics499
- Part K · Shared technology platforms and CSE-allied participation501
- Part L · Skill clusters, recruiters and pay506
In the HTML every entry is a link; in the PDF the numbers are page numbers. The sticky bar at the top of the HTML jumps to any part or Studio; the search box filters products, tasks and vendors; every Studio charter folds.
Part A · The capacity model and the flow
6,500 students, teams of three or four, one team one complete product — Studio to Foundry to product to task to Mission
Cost per accomplished task
| Mission | Foundry capital | Tasks | Capital per task | Flagship products |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Spectrum Dominance | ₹14.98 Cr | 8 | ₹1.87 Cr | 60 |
| Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute | ₹17.64 Cr | 8 | ₹2.21 Cr | 57 |
| Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | ₹12.21 Cr | 8 | ₹1.53 Cr | 60 |
| Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response | ₹10.55 Cr | 8 | ₹1.32 Cr | 72 |
| Food, Water and Climate Security | ₹7.67 Cr | 8 | ₹0.96 Cr | 66 |
| Union of the five Missions (duplicate Foundry draws removed) | ₹51.25 Cr | 40 | ₹1.28 Cr | 315 |
Capital here is the Foundry cost from the line-level model in Part E — each Foundry carries its share of its Studio's exclusive equipment, fit-out and contingency plus its share of the Fab Labs. Summing the five Missions gives ₹63.05 Cr; 13 Foundries are drawn by more than one Mission and count once in the union, removing ₹11.80 Cr. Part E allocates the union to the forty tasks by the products each task uses; the union is an allocation, and the purchasable first-phase bill in Part E is larger because equipment is bought whole.
6,000 B.Tech students (CSE, CS&IT, AI&DS, IoT, ECE, EEE, ME, Civil, BioTech), 2,000 a year for three years, plus about 500 from BCA, BBA, B.Sc Agriculture, B.Sc Food Technology and B.Pharm — 250 a year, averaged over the two years those programmes take part; final-year students move to placements and knowledge transfer. In teams of three or four that is 1,857 teams: 1,575 product teams, 180 platform teams, and 102 Studio service teams (six per Studio a year) that run the test and consultancy services and the competition entries; the paid student-instructor roster (ten per Studio, Part E) is drawn from these and the Year-3 teams. 315 flagship products — three per Foundry draw, each stated against what exists today — anchor 315 flagship systems and 1,260 component and subsystem products in three tiers, and the platform layer carries 180 more teams. Tasks combine products across tiers, Foundries and Studios into the 40 Mission outcomes.
Students per Studio, three years
What the counts mean
| Term | Definition | Value in this plan |
|---|---|---|
| Annual entrants | B.Tech students admitted in a year | 2,000 |
| Concurrently enrolled participants | Students in Years 1–3 plus the other-programme cohort, at once | 6,500 |
| Teams | Unique teams of about 3.5 students over the three years | 1,857 |
| Teams per year-cohort | Teams to place in one year of the three-year programme (1,857 ÷ 3) | 619 |
| Slots | Product, integration, platform and service places available in a year; slots exceed teams by design | 630 · 630 · 637 by year |
| Physical seats | Bench and room places on the floor at once | counted from the items set out in the Part F sheets — bench places, workstation desks, console and gallery seats; two daily sessions give twice that in visits (about 810 at once by area is a planning check only); 2,000 in the full plan |
| Supervised hours | Mentor and technician hours a week | from the staffing model |
| Programme–product eligibilities | A product that a programme may staff; not a seat | computed in Part K |
Student-by-year allocation: does the catalogue carry each cohort?
| Year | Teams to place | Slots available | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 619 | 630 component-product slots (two per flagship family) | +11 |
| Year 2 | 619 | 630 subsystem-product slots (two per family) | +11 |
| Year 3 | 619 | 315 flagship-system slots + 40 Mission-integration teams (one per task) + 180 platform teams + 102 Studio service teams = 637 | +18 |
| Three years | 1,857 | 1,897 slots | +40 |
The 6,500 participants form 1,857 teams at once, 619 in each year-cohort. The family shape — two components, two subsystems, one system — gives Years 1 and 2 more slots than teams; Year 3 has enough only because each task also fields a Mission-integration team (the systems owner's team that integrates the task's products and runs its acceptance test) beside the platform and service teams. The surplus in each year is the room to rotate teams and to retire weak families. Team size, prerequisites, weekly hours, room demand, supervisor and assessment owner are set per term in the allocation workbook the curriculum supplies (below), which also allocates the other-programme cohort year by year.
Academic design: what a product is, how a student passes, what the curriculum must supply
| Assessment rubric (for academic adaptation) | Weight |
|---|---|
| Individual technical mastery | 25% |
| Design reasoning | 20% |
| Verification quality | 20% |
| Usable artefact and documentation | 15% |
| Collaboration and handover | 10% |
| Responsible practice and reflection | 10% |
Separate must-pass safety and integrity requirements apply; a risky deployment is not rewarded for looking impressive; a well-documented failed experiment can demonstrate strong learning; publications, patents, customer adoption and high TRL are advanced outcomes, not prerequisites for passing.
What the approved curriculum must supply before the first term
- Approved course and outcome mapping with credits and contact hours
- Prerequisites and multiple entry points with bridge modules
- Timetable and assessment calendar per term, with the reassessment route
- Team-change policy and a safe alternative when hardware or a partner is delayed
- Disclosure of AI assistance and dependencies; authorship verified by explanation and reproducibility
- Funded basic materials and accessible facilities so a result never depends on personal spending
Intellectual property and open engineering
- Background IP stays with its owner; foreground IP created in a Studio is owned by the university with named student inventors and a published revenue share
- Open-source obligations of every dependency are recorded before release; a sponsor obligation is disclosed to the team before work starts
- Publication review of ten working days for sponsored work; students may always publish their own learning
- Freedom-to-operate search before any commercial service; inventorship recorded at disclosure; complete-specification deadlines tracked
- Confidentiality only where a sponsor requires it and never over a student's assessment evidence
Why students should build products rather than settle for campus training
| Cluster, ranked | 2026 fresher pay and hiring volume |
|---|---|
| AI/ML and platform | Highest pay (fresher ₹6–38 LPA) and highest volume; GenAI/LLM the top sub-specialisation |
| VLSI and semiconductor | Fresher ₹4–12 LPA, product companies ₹18–28 LPA; volume surging on the India Semiconductor Mission (Tata-PSMC Dholera, Micron Sanand); a projected shortage of a million engineers by 2030 |
| Embedded and ADAS | Fresher ₹4–8 LPA, automotive-embedded band ₹7–35 LPA; ISO 26262 and AUTOSAR premium; large stable volume at Bosch, Continental, Aptiv, KPIT |
| Robotics and physical AI | Fresher ₹4–10 LPA, rising fast; growing volume at Addverb, GreyOrange, Ati |
| Fintech and payments | Tech fresher ₹10–22 LPA at top fintechs; concentrated but high-paying |
| Space | Fresher ₹6–15 LPA private, ₹10–12 LPA ISRO; smaller volume, fast growth |
| Quantum | Fresher ₹9–18 LPA but thin volume; emerging |
Sequencing the three years so Year-3 evidence matches the recruiter ask
Year 1 — component
Acquire the tool and earn the foundational credential (DGCA RPC, a cloud or EDA certificate, ISO 26262 awareness) and build the component that proves one named skill; deliverable: a working component plus its test data
Year 2 — subsystem
Integrate into a subsystem, add the standard and verification layer (UVM coverage, an assurance-case skeleton, an AIT plan) and produce the intermediate artefact recruiters recognise (a verified block, a subsystem flight test)
Year 3 — system, range and customer gates
Take the system through the exact gate the description names — a tape-out, a flight-test campaign with logs, a field season with deployment data, a CubeSat AIT and TVAC (and where possible launch), a customer pilot; deliverable: the headline artefact plus a one-page evidence case mapping it to the description's stated requirement
Placement-report benchmarks, 2025–26
| Institution | Reported | Source |
|---|---|---|
| KLEF (KL University) | B.Tech 2025: highest ₹75 LPA, average ₹11 LPA (up about 27%), median ₹7.6 LPA, 4,806 offers; EEE high ₹31 LPA, ECE ₹27 LPA; 2025–26 a ₹81 LPA international offer (Velagapudi Sathvik, Mechanical, Saudi firm) and MBA international offers of ₹35 and ₹33 LPA (Finland); volume recruiters TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Accenture, Cognizant, Amazon, ITC, DE Shaw, AB InBev; figures self-reported | Shiksha, Campusutra; ANI 11 April 2026 |
| IIT Bombay | 2025: UG four-year median ₹19.61 LPA, average ₹23.5 LPA (₹26.45 in one report), highest domestic ₹2.2 crore, international ₹3.67 crore; about 75% placed; CSE average about ₹28 LPA | CollegeDekho, Getmyuni, Shiksha, 2025 |
| BITS Pilani | Average ₹14–18 LPA, CSE and EEE higher; highest above ₹1 crore; median up about 10.3% year on year | Vedantu, KollegeApply, 2025 |
| VIT, SRM, Amrita | VIT and top private universities ₹9–22 LPA at the upper end; SRM average ₹7–9 LPA, highest about ₹40 LPA; Amrita comparable (Amrita 2025–26 median not found) | KollegeApply, 2025 |
| NITs | Median broadly ₹8–15 LPA by institute and branch (institute-specific 2025–26 medians not found for all) | Aggregated |
| Product-company share | At IITs engineering, IT and product roles dominate (IIT Bombay 2025: Engineering and Technology 429 offers, IT 393); at KLEF the mix skews to service and IT majors by volume and the product-company share is not separately disclosed | IIT Bombay report; KLEF reports |
The platform layer: skills, roles, recruiters and pay
Outcome regimes every Studio works under
Patent regime (all Studios)
Under the Patents (Amendment) Rules 2021 (effective 21 September 2021) recognised educational institutions, including private ones, pay the same reduced fees as a natural person, startup or small entity — an 80% reduction; per PIB (23 September 2021) total filing, publication and renewal cost falls from about ₹4,24,500 to about ₹85,000. Process: an invention disclosure and prior-art search; a provisional or complete specification (Form 2) with a request for grant (Form 1); Form 28 to claim the educational-institution fee category (it is a fee declaration, not the application); publication; a request for examination (Form 18) or, where the applicant falls in a category listed in Rule 24C as then in force, a request for expedited examination (Form 18A) — the 2021 amendment changed the educational-institution definition, fees and Form 28, not Rule 24C, so eligibility for expedited examination is checked case by case; the first examination report and grant. Patent counsel confirms the current forms, fees and Rule 24C basis for KLEF and each applicant. KLEF qualifies as a UGC-recognised deemed university. pib.gov.in PRID 1757202; ipindia.gov.in; patent counsel to confirm · V
TRL regime
India has no single binding TRL scale; the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser released a National Technology Readiness Assessment Framework (NTRAF) for consultation (open until 31 January 2026), grouping the nine NASA-origin levels as proof of concept (TRL 1–3), prototype development (TRL 4–6) and operational deployment (TRL 7–9). ISRO, DRDO (design validation committees), DST, DBT-BIRAC (sector-specific biotech definitions) and the EU Horizon programme all use NASA-derived nine-level scales. A system's TRL is the lowest TRL of any subsystem. psa.gov.in NTRAF draft; BIRAC TRL definitions · V
Cross-cutting competitions
Smart India Hackathon 2026 (Ministry of Education Innovation Cell and AICTE): SPOC and team registration June–August 2026, problem statements about August, grand finale (36-hour software, five-day hardware) about December; teams of six with at least one woman, institution-nominated through the SPOC; prizes ₹1,00,000+ per winning problem statement. DRDO Dare to Dream: individual prize ₹5 lakh, startup ₹10 lakh; blind-evaluated proposal. sih.gov.in; drdo.gov.in · V
Consultancy precedent and policy
IIT Madras crossed ₹1,000 crore of research and consultancy receipts in FY2021-22 — ₹768 crore government-sanctioned projects and ₹313 crore industry consultancy. Five top IITs earned ₹138.76 crore over 2015–18 from inventions, research, consultancy and patents (IIT Bombay ₹45.65 crore). IIT Delhi and Kanpur norms: faculty limited to about one day a week (about 90 days a year), payments routed through the institute, institute overhead 10–40%, the remainder paid as consultancy honorarium. NAAC key indicator 3.5 requires a policy on consultancy including revenue sharing; the Blueprint's illustrative Studio split is institute 30%, faculty 40%, student team 30%. home.iitd.ac.in; iitk.ac.in DORD guidelines; NAAC 3.5 · V
KLEF baseline
KLEF reports 26,270+ Scopus and WoS papers, 2,134+ patents, Scopus h-index 89 (WoS 71), 150 major and 2,100+ minor sponsored projects worth ₹210 crore, and 954 PhDs; the R&D page details 2,552 patents — 2,039 utility published, 46 utility granted, 467 design granted, 109 international granted — a wide file-to-grant gap for utility patents. NIRF #22 (2024), #26 (2025). The KLEF baseline is self-reported from the university's R&D pages, accessed 17 September 2026; publication, utility-patent, design and international counts overlap in category and period and cannot establish a grant conversion rate without matched cohorts and definitions. kluniversity.in R&D · V
Why the targets feed accreditation
In NIRF 2025 Engineering, Research and Professional Practice is 30% of the score: Publications 35 marks, Quality of Publications 40, IPR and Patents 15, Footprint of Projects and Professional Practice 10. IPR = IPG + IPP, where IPG (10 marks) scores patents granted over three years and IPP (5 marks) patents published — grants are worth twice publications, so filings must be converted to grants. FPPP rewards consultancy and sponsored earnings. NBA (outcome-based project and innovation criteria) and NAAC Criterion 3 reward the same outputs; log Studio KPIs in an auditable MIS mapped to these sub-parameters. nirfindia.org parameters · V
Annual outcome targets per Studio (100–260 teams)
| Outcome | Target and rationale |
|---|---|
| Research papers (indexed) | 8–20 a year — about one paper per 12–15 teams; weight toward IEEE Access, IEEE Sensors Journal and domain Q2 open-access venues for undergraduate-led work, with 2–4 targeting Q1 domain journals with faculty co-authorship |
| Patents filed | 6–15 a year — about one filing per 15–20 teams — at the ₹1,600 educational-institution fee with Form-28; software and algorithm-heavy Studios (Wafer, Spectra, Yantra, Lattice) skew higher, regulated hardware (Vahana, Astra) lower but higher-value |
| Patents granted (three-year cumulative) | 3–8 per Studio, contingent on filing Form-18A expedited examination early; do not let published-but-unprosecuted filings accumulate |
| Consultancy and sponsored revenue | ₹15–75 lakh a year per Studio at maturity through testing services and industry-sponsored projects under a codified revenue share |
| TRL milestones | 60–70% of teams reach TRL 3–4 (validated prototype), 20–30% reach TRL 5, the top 5–10% reach TRL 6–7 (field, on-orbit or type-certified) |
One target register
| Outcome | Definition | Seventeen Studios, a year |
|---|---|---|
| Indexed papers | Scopus- or WoS-indexed papers with a Studio team as authors, counted once in the year of publication | 122 |
| Patent filings | Applications filed with a complete specification in the year; provisional filings counted when completed | 94 |
| Patents granted | Grants in the year, three-year cumulative | about 94 over three years |
| Consultancy revenue | Invoiced revenue, not profit, in the year | ₹6.45 Cr at maturity |
| TRL milestones | Evidence-gated per product; a submitted tape-out or a balloon flight is not a level | per product, evidence-gated |
Charter tiles in Part C use the same ratios, so the register is their sum; revenue is not profit, filings are not grants, and counts are not quality.
The partner ecosystem around the campus
Andhra Pradesh is actively courting GCCs and manufacturing: ANSR drives a Visakhapatnam GCC push; Sri City hosts over 240 companies from 31 countries (November 2025), secured ₹20,250 crore through 43 MoUs in 2025, and targets 500 companies from 50 countries and 1.5 lakh direct jobs by 2029. KLEF has an unusually fresh set of in-state counterparts.
National talent schemes are the fastest public on-ramp: under ISM's Chips to Startup, EDA tools from Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, Renesas, Ansys and AMD are in 315 institutions with over 1.85 crore hours of tool usage (March 2026); Andhra Pradesh has 23 participating institutions and ISM 2.0 plans 500. NM-ICPS runs 25 Technology Innovation Hubs (₹3,660 crore, December 2018) that have produced 496 technological products including 46 new technologies; four high-performing hubs became Technology Translation Research Parks in 2025. IN-SPACe and RESPOND open ISRO; the National Quantum Mission anchors Amaravati Quantum Valley.
Precedent exists locally: KLEF has launched student satellites and signed industry MoUs, and nearby AP colleges run internships with BEL Hyderabad and Machilipatnam.
The thinnest in-reach coverage is Tide (no ocean-instrumentation GCC in reach; nearest serious organisations are NIOT and CIBA in Chennai plus Eruvaka and AquaExchange in-state), parts of Lattice (quantum hardware), Yantra (humanoids; Svaya Robotics in Hyderabad is the local anchor) and Freight (warehouse robotics; nearest are Bengaluru and Pune).
Four governance patterns the benchmarks share
Student-managed 24/7 makerspaces
The Maker Bhavan Foundation operates 23 Tinkerers' Labs (2025). IIT Bombay's, inaugurated 2014, is solely student-run under Prof. Ramesh Singh and has produced over 400 projects and 1,800+ course projects and contributed to 10 startups; IIT Hyderabad's covers ~1,600 sq ft; across the network more than 1,500 students visited weekly in 2024. This is the base operating model for all 17 Studios.
Directed-research verticals with a named external customer and milestone funding
DRDO DIA-CoEs (15 established) are 100% DRDO-funded against defined research verticals.
Shared-shuttle output cadence
ChipIN's quarterly tape-outs (254 designs to date) and Georgia Tech SSDL's annual CubeSats guarantee tangible output every cycle.
Consortium and industry-membership financing
Stanford CIFE (member dues plus advisory board), Fraunhofer IML enterprise labs (co-located company engineers), and the Hyundai CoE at IIT Delhi (single-OEM steering committee, about $3.5 million over two years, nine projects).
Part B · The five Missions: products, tasks and impact
Every flagship product with what exists today and what students build, who builds it, the tasks it serves; every task as an integration of products with its potential impact and SDG targets
Every product statement below is a hypothesis about a difference from what exists today, to be supported by a dated prior-art comparison before it is asserted; every task carries its scope and its evidence gate.
1Cognitive Spectrum Dominance Defence and national security
Radios that learn the threat, planners that act in milliseconds, and a spectrum picture the country owns. AI-native electronic warfare: RF foundation models trained on Indian spectrum, cognitive radios, agentic EW planning under human gates, autonomous sensing swarms and quantum-secured links, proved on a campus range and handed to the national laboratory.
Products by category (60 flagship systems; 240 component and subsystem products beneath them)
Sense — Products that learn what is in the spectrum and where it comes from
Spectrum Foundation Model
A model pre-trained on months of Indian spectrum that recognises emitters in its bounded set, its behaviour and its intent.
Cognitive Radio Core
A radio that chooses waveform, band and power itself as the model senses interference or jamming.
Interference Cartographer
A handheld that walks a site and draws a live map of every interfering source for a district spectrum officer.
Whisper Radar
A low-probability-of-intercept radar whose waveform is generated by a model so it rarely looks the same twice.
Passive Bistatic Net
A network of receivers with no transmitter that tracks aircraft from broadcast and mobile towers.
Bird-Strike Radar
A small radar at an airfield boundary that classifies bird flocks from drones and warns the tower.
Spectrum Inference Chip
An accelerator that runs the spectrum model at the antenna, on microwatts, so decisions happen before backhaul.
Beam-Steering Engine
A chip that computes phased-array weights from the model output so the array follows the threat.
Federated Spectrum Node
A node that learns from local spectrum without ever sending raw samples, sharing only model updates.
Wideband Digitiser
A direct-sampling analogue-to-digital front end for the receiver.
Low-Noise Bias Chip
A power and bias controller for receive chains that stays quiet enough not to be the limiting noise.
Time-to-Digital Chip
A picosecond timing chip for direction finding and radar ranging.
Diamond Magnetometer
A nitrogen-vacancy diamond sensor that detects the magnetic signature of a vehicle or cable at a distance.
Rydberg Receiver
An atom-based receiver with no antenna that spans the conventional spectrum and cannot be tuned out.
Atomic Clock Module
A chip-scale atomic clock that keeps a radio network synchronised when GNSS timing is denied.
Origami Array
A folded-metal phased array that unfolds from a backpack to a two-metre aperture.
Terrain Map Antenna
A conformal antenna printed onto a vehicle skin, invisible to the eye and shaped by the panel it lives on.
Reconfigurable Metasurface
A wall panel of tunable cells that steers and shapes radio coverage on command.
Decide — Agents that plan the electronic fight under a human gate
Reconfigurable Signal Engine
An FPGA fabric that swaps signal-processing personalities in flight: radar one minute, listener the next.
EW Planning Agent
An agent that proposes the electronic fight — what to sense, jam and protect — and executes only what the operator approves.
Waveform Sandbox
A protected FPGA partition where a student waveform runs beside the flight software without risking it.
Decoy Swarm Pod
A pod that releases a dozen small emitters flying as one aircraft's electronic shadow.
Threat Whisperer
An airborne warning receiver that tells the pilot not just that it is being tracked but what kind of system it is.
Missile-Approach Warner
A compact optical sensor that detects a launch plume and cues countermeasures on a small aircraft.
Fly — Autonomous platforms that carry the sensors and the effects
Quiet Hawk
A near-silent electric aircraft that carries a listening payload for hours.
Tether Mast
A tethered drone that lifts an antenna above tree line and stays there on ground power.
Sniffer Quad
A quadcopter that flies a grid and pinpoints a rogue transmitter by signal strength gradient.
Distributed Aperture Swarm
Drones that fly in formation so their antennas form one giant array.
Relay Chain
Drones that position themselves to carry a link around a hill or over a flood.
Swarm Spectrum Picket
A ring of drones that holds station around a site and reports every emission crossing the perimeter.
Dead-Reckon Core
A navigation module that holds position for an hour without satellites by fusing inertial, visual and magnetic cues.
Spoof Sentinel
A receiver that detects a counterfeit satellite signal by physics rather than content.
Signals-of-Opportunity Fix
A receiver that computes position from TV, FM and mobile towers when GNSS is gone.
Frequency-Selective Radome
A composite cover that lets only the sensor's band through and reflects the rest.
Featherweight Wing
A composite wing for the listening aircraft built for endurance and radar quietness.
Conformal Load-Bearing Antenna
A structural panel with the antenna woven into its fibres.
Communicate — Links that survive jamming and cannot be read
Mesh That Heals
A tactical mesh that reroutes around jammed nodes in milliseconds and degrades gracefully to text.
Burst Courier
A link that stores messages and fires them in millisecond bursts on frequencies chosen at the last instant.
Voice Over Chaos
A vocoder and link that keeps intelligible voice at a fraction of normal bandwidth under jamming.
Key Vault Radio
A field radio whose cryptography can be swapped without a firmware rebuild, ready for post-quantum algorithms.
Agile Gateway
A gateway that negotiates post-quantum keys over links too narrow for conventional exchange.
Crypto Inventory Scanner
A tool that finds every cryptographic dependency in a fleet of devices and rates its quantum risk.
Photon Key Link
A free-space quantum key link between two campus buildings, proving a key that cannot be copied.
Single-Photon Lidar
A ranging sensor that sees through haze by counting individual returned photons.
Quantum Random Beacon
A source of demonstrably random numbers for keys and frequency hopping.
Orbital Relay Terminal
A field terminal that talks to the student constellation when every terrestrial link is denied.
Anti-Jam Satcom Modem
A modem that hops and spreads across the satellite transponder under model control.
Pocket Satcom Messenger
A handheld that sends a text through the constellation when everything else is down.
Tamper Witness
A chip that records any attempt to open, probe or freeze a field device and reports it at next contact.
Attested Radio Controller
A controller that boots only signed software and proves it to the network before it may transmit.
Zeroise Guard
A circuit that erases keys in microseconds on tamper or command.
Prove — The range and the materials on which everything is tested
Campus Spectrum Range
An instrumented outdoor range where every emission is logged, so a test is evidence.
Range-in-a-Box
A shielded container that reproduces the range indoors for the monsoon.
Red-Team Emitter Rack
A rack of programmable adversary emitters that replay real threat waveforms on the range.
Waveform Foundry
A bench that lets a student design a waveform, test it on real hardware and score it against the model the same afternoon.
Power Amplifier Tile
A gallium-nitride amplifier tile that scales from a handheld to an array.
Digital Beamforming Receiver
A receiver that forms dozens of beams at once from one array.
Absorber Paint
A sprayable coating loaded with engineered particles that cuts radar reflection from a surface.
Salt-Fog Armour
A coating that keeps antenna hardware working after a season on the coast.
Anti-Icing RF Coating
A coating that keeps antennas ice-free at altitude without heaters.
Natural customers, sponsors and launch partners
| Organisation | Role | In reach |
|---|---|---|
| DRDO-DLRL, Hyderabad | Electronic warfare and RF; prime customer; DRDO RAC and lab MoU | yes |
| DRDO-RCI, Hyderabad | Avionics, seekers, navigation | yes |
| SAMEER, Chennai and Visakhapatnam | RF and radar; work-based learning internships | yes |
| C-DOT | Secure, optical and quantum communications | — |
| BEL, Hyderabad and Machilipatnam | Defence electronics; internship precedent at nearby AP colleges | yes |
| QNu Labs, Bengaluru | Post-quantum cryptography | yes |
| IDRBT, Hyderabad | Secure communications and audit | yes |
Tasks (8)
Task 1.1 · Give a coastal district a spectrum picture it owns
Goal. A district authority sees every transmitter on its coast, classified and located, on a model trained on Indian spectrum rather than bought abroad.
How they combine. The foundation model classifies, the inference chip does it at the antenna, the array and the swarm locate by direction, the range logs every finding as evidence, and the root of trust proves the sensor chain.
Reach: 2,000,000 residents of a coastal district — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: A sovereign spectrum picture for one district; interference incidents resolved in hours not weeks; a national-lab-grade dataset.
Task 1.2 · Keep a relief convoy moving and talking when GPS and radio are jammed
Goal. Ambulances and relief vehicles keep their position and their link through a deliberate jamming event.
How they combine. The Sentinel rejects the counterfeit signal, the Core holds position for an hour, the cognitive radio re-plans around the jammer, the mesh heals, and the constellation terminal is the last resort.
Reach: 50,000 people served by relief convoys in an event — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Convoys keep position for an hour and a link through jamming; response time in denied areas cut by half.
Task 1.3 · Plan an electronic fight in seconds, with a human in charge
Goal. An operator sees a proposed plan against what the sensors hear, approves or amends it, and every action is logged.
How they combine. The agent proposes, the signal engine and beam engine execute what is approved, the quiet radar and the decoy swarm shape what the adversary sees, and the warning receiver closes the loop.
Reach: 10,000 personnel protected — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Plan time from hours to seconds under a human gate; every action logged.
Task 1.4 · Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory
Goal. A student-built sensing chain goes from bench to a documented capability DLRL can evaluate.
How they combine. Silent sensing, student silicon at the sensitive point, an atom receiver, a radome that admits only its band, an indoor range for the monsoon, a tamper record, and a bench where the waveform was designed.
Reach: 500 students and lab engineers — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: A student sensing chain evaluated by DLRL; imported sensing capability substituted.
Task 1.5 · Send a quantum-secured key and a covert message across a campus link
Goal. Two sites exchange a quantum key over a campus link and then communicate in bursts that are hard to locate within the tested envelope.
How they combine. The photon link proves the key, the vault radio and gateway carry post-quantum crypto over a thin link, the courier fires bursts, the satcom modem hops, and the controller proves its software before it may transmit.
Reach: 100,000 users of secured links — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Post-quantum and quantum-safe links for public networks; migration path proven.
Task 1.6 · Map the interfering sources in a district and hand the officer the evidence
Goal. A district spectrum officer walks a site and leaves with a map of the interferers in the monitored bands, located and classified within a stated error, instead of a spectrum-analyser screenshot.
How they combine. The cartographer draws the sources as the officer walks, the federated node improves the model without moving raw data, the quad flies the gradient search to the rooftop, the metasurface reshapes coverage to fix it, and the signals-of-opportunity fix keeps position when GNSS is denied.
Reach: 2,000,000 district residents — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Interference cases closed same day; emergency and broadcast services protected.
Task 1.7 · Keep an airfield and a border post safe from birds, drones and ice
Goal. Two very different sites get sensing that is cheap, always on and honest about what it sees.
How they combine. The bird radar classifies flocks, the passive net tracks intruding aircraft and drones in silence, the picket ring re-forms around the post, the warner cues countermeasures, the coating keeps the antennas alive in ice, and the clock holds the network in time without satellites.
Reach: 5,000,000 passengers and residents protected — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Bird-strike and rogue-drone incidents reduced; timing held without GNSS.
Task 1.8 · Migrate a fleet to post-quantum security before the deadline
Goal. Every radio and gateway in a fleet is inventoried, re-keyed and updated to post-quantum cryptography without a single site visit.
How they combine. The scanner finds every dependency, the agile gateway negotiates the new keys over thin links, the beacon supplies keys nobody can predict, the guard erases the old ones on tamper, the attested controller accepts only signed software as the fleet is re-keyed, and the beamforming receiver keeps the fleet talking through it all.
Reach: 1,000,000 end users of a migrated fleet — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: A fleet migrated remotely; no site visits; keys erased on tamper.
Where this Mission's tasks land on the SDGs (sum of target weights)
Gates
- Bench gate: each Foundry proves its product against its own metric
- Range gate: the RF foundation model, cognitive radios and swarm work together on a logged campus range
- Customer gate: an integrated cognitive-EW capability demonstrated to the national laboratory
Three student journeys through this Mission
Ananya — Electronics and Communication
Spectra Studio · Software-Defined Radio & Spectrum Engineering
Ravi — Computer Science and Engineering
Wafer Studio · AI Accelerators & Domain-Specific Hardware
Meera — Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Vahana Studio · Swarm & Cooperative Autonomy
| Impact family | Sum over tasks (0–3 each) |
|---|---|
| Technical / Economic | 24 |
| Societal / Human | 15 |
| Environmental / Sustainability | 2 |
| Knowledge / Innovation | 21 |
2Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute Compute sovereignty and the semiconductor mission
The chips, the packages, the cluster and the toolchain that let India train and run its own intelligence. Indigenous edge NPUs and RISC-V AI SoCs, chiplet packaging, a student-run HPC and GPU cluster with its own scheduler and compilers, secure elements, photonic interconnect, and a data-centre that is cooled, powered and audited on campus.
Products by category (57 flagship systems; 228 component and subsystem products beneath them)
Silicon — The chips: accelerators, processors and the analogue that feeds them
Edge NPU 'Tarka'
An indigenous neural accelerator for cameras, drones and meters that runs models at milliwatts.
Transformer Tile
A chiplet that accelerates attention and matrix operations for on-device language and vision models.
Spiking Neuromorphic Core
An event-driven neural core for always-on sensing at microwatts.
Sovereign Core 'Shakti-K'
A RISC-V application core with vector and AI extensions, the processor inside the SoCs the Studios ship.
Safety Core Pair
A lock-step pair of RISC-V cores for vehicles, drones and satellites that must rarely compute wrongly.
Vector Kernel Library
Tuned kernels that let any model run fast on the sovereign core.
Vision SoC 'Netra'
A system-on-chip that joins the core, the NPU, a camera pipeline and secure boot for every camera product.
Meter SoC 'Ganita'
A metering and control SoC with the analogue front end, the core and the secure element on one chip.
Radio SoC 'Tarang'
A baseband and control SoC for the Mission radios.
Metering AFE
A metering-grade analogue front end accurate to national standard class.
Sensor Hub Chip
A low-power analogue hub that conditions a dozen sensors and wakes the NPU only when something changes.
Energy-Harvest PMIC
A power chip that runs a sensor from solar, vibration or RF energy.
Silent Anchor
A hardware root of trust that proves a device is genuine and its software untouched.
Model Vault
A secure enclave that holds a trained model's weights so they cannot be copied out of a deployed device.
Post-Quantum Crypto Core
A hardware accelerator for lattice-based signatures and key exchange.
Package — Joining chiplets, testing them and the materials beneath
Chiplet Stack
The core, NPU and radio chiplets stacked in one package, assembled at an Indian test facility.
Interposer Kit
A student-designed interposer and standard chiplet interface so any Studio chip can join the stack.
Thermal-Aware Package
A package with embedded heat spreaders designed by a thermal model.
Agentic Verifier
An agent that writes and runs verification tests against a chip design and reports the coverage it found.
Burn-In Rig
A rig that ages a chip a year in a week, so weak parts fail here rather than in the field.
Silicon Lifecycle Monitor
On-chip sensors that report ageing and marginality from the field.
Die-Attach Cell
A precision cell that places and bonds dies for the chiplet stack.
Test Socket Family
Machined test sockets for every student package so a chip can be tested the day it arrives.
Micro-Fixture Kit
Precision fixtures that hold dies and packages for bonding and test.
Wafer Sight
An optical and X-ray inspection station for bonded stacks and interposers.
Thermal Map Bench
A bench that images a chip's heat in operation to find hotspots the design missed.
Bond-Wire Inspector
A vision system that inspects every wire bond for loop shape and lift.
Photonic Waveguide Kit
A silicon-photonics building block for chip-to-chip light links.
Magnet Recovery Alloy
A rare-earth magnet material recovered from e-waste, characterised for motors and sensors.
Wide-Bandgap Test Structures
GaN and SiC device test structures characterised on the campus line.
E-Waste Refinery
A pilot line that recovers gold, copper and rare earths from discarded electronics.
Mineral Passport
A ledger record that traces a recovered material from source to package.
Urban-Mine Sorter
A vision-guided sorter that separates boards and components for recovery.
Compute — The cluster, its scheduler, compilers and interconnect
Campus Supercluster
A student-run GPU and accelerator cluster that trains every Mission model and runs every simulation.
Fair-Share Scheduler
A scheduler that allocates GPU time across Missions with cost accounting and pre-emption for gates.
Green Job Router
A scheduler that runs training when the campus solar is generating.
Tarka Compiler
A compiler and runtime that maps standard model formats onto the edge NPU and the transformer tile.
Boot Chain
Firmware that boots the sovereign core through the root of trust with measured, updatable stages.
Secure Update Client
Firmware that verifies and applies signed updates on every Mission device.
Rack Light Link
An optical interconnect between cluster nodes built from the photonic kit.
Co-Packaged Optics Module
Optics mounted on the chiplet package so data leaves the chip as light.
Photonic Switch Fabric
An optical switch that reconfigures cluster links without electrical conversion.
Quantum Job Gateway
A service that routes student workloads to cloud quantum processors and the campus simulator.
Hybrid Solver
A solver that splits an optimisation between the classical cluster and a quantum processor.
Quantum Error Playground
A teaching platform that lets students implement error-correction codes on simulators and real qubits.
House — The data-centre floor: cooling, power and cryogenics
Immersion Rack
A liquid-immersion rack that cools the cluster with a fraction of the fan power.
Twin of the Floor
A digital twin of the data-centre floor that predicts temperature and power before a job is scheduled.
Heat-Reuse Greenhouse
A greenhouse warmed by cluster waste heat, growing the Harvest Studio's seedlings.
Waste-Heat Loop
A heat-pump loop that reuses cluster heat for hot water and lab drying.
Solar-First Power Shelf
A power shelf that runs the cluster on rooftop solar and battery by preference.
Battery-Buffered Cluster
A storage system that shaves cluster peaks and rides through grid faults.
Cryo Test Stage
A cryostat stage for characterising devices and qubits at a few kelvin.
Vacuum Chamber Kit
A modular vacuum chamber for thin-film and device work.
Cryo-CMOS Test Chip
A chip characterised at four kelvin for future qubit control.
Trust — Proving what ran, on what, for whom
Compute Provenance Ledger
A ledger that records what model ran on which chip, with which data, for which Mission.
Model Card Printer
A tool that generates a signed, human-readable card for every model release.
Dataset Consent Ledger
A ledger that records consent and provenance for every dataset the foundation models train on.
Natural customers, sponsors and launch partners
| Organisation | Role | In reach |
|---|---|---|
| India Semiconductor Mission / C2S (MeitY, C-DAC ChipIN) | Sponsor and route: EDA access and SCL fabrication | — |
| SCL Mohali | Fabrication launch partner | — |
| Qualcomm, AMD, Micron, Hyderabad | Design partners and customers | yes |
| DRDO-GAETEC, Hyderabad | Compound-semiconductor foundry | yes |
| Amaravati Quantum Valley (IBM, TCS, L&T) | Compute launch partner | yes |
| C-DAC | HPC and compute | — |
Tasks (8)
Task 2.1 · Put an Indian chip in every camera the Missions deploy
Goal. A camera product runs its model on silicon designed, packaged and programmed on campus.
How they combine. The SoC integrates the camera pipeline and the NPU, the compiler maps the model onto it, the stack packages it, the vault protects the weights, and the boot chain proves the software.
Reach: 20,000 devices deployed — counted as devices; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Camera products on sovereign silicon; import substitution per device; weights protected.
Task 2.2 · Train a Mission model on a cluster the students built
Goal. A foundation model is trained end to end on campus, with cost accounted per Mission and every result traceable.
How they combine. The cluster trains, the scheduler allocates and pre-empts for gates, the immersion rack keeps it cool, the light links join the nodes, the ledger records what ran, and the twin keeps the floor safe.
Reach: 6,000 students with cluster access — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Foundation models trained on campus; compute cost accounted per Mission; results traceable.
Task 2.3 · Tape out a sovereign SoC and test it the week it returns
Goal. A student SoC goes through verification, tape-out via C2S, packaging and test on campus.
How they combine. The core is verified by the agent, taped out, sockets are machined the day it arrives, it is bonded in the cell, inspected, aged in a week and thermally mapped.
Reach: 300 students through tape-out a year — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: One MPW tape-out a year; packaged tested silicon; C2S precedent.
Task 2.4 · Run a small language model in a village device
Goal. A local-language assistant runs on a low-power device with no cloud.
How they combine. The tile runs attention on a chiplet, the hub wakes it only on an event, and the card documents what shipped; the basic track runs on available hardware, and the interposer and co-packaged optics belong to an advanced track that is gated separately.
Reach: 500,000 villagers reached by an offline assistant — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: A local-language assistant with no cloud; access for 500,000 people offline.
Task 2.5 · Recover the critical materials the chips depend on
Goal. Rare earths and metals come back from e-waste with a provenance a buyer can trust.
How they combine. The sorter separates boards and components for value, the refinery recovers the metals, the alloy is qualified against a stated purity and a named buyer, and the passport records the chain; no recovered stream feeds a semiconductor or photonic line until its input specification is demonstrably met.
Reach: 200 tonnes of e-waste a year at pilot scale — counted as tonnes of material; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Gold, copper and rare earths recovered cleanly; provenance on a ledger.
Task 2.6 · Solve a scheduling problem on a quantum machine from a campus desk
Goal. A student splits a real routing problem between the cluster and a cloud quantum processor.
How they combine. The gateway routes the problem to a cloud quantum service, the solver splits the work with a strong classical baseline on the same instances, and the safety pair runs the classical side; no local cryogenic or vacuum plant is required by this task.
Reach: 2,000 students with quantum access — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: A hybrid solve on a real problem; undergraduate quantum access at scale.
Task 2.7 · Ship a sensor that runs a decade on harvested energy
Goal. A soil, structure or pipeline sensor runs for a decade on harvested energy and a neuromorphic core.
How they combine. The neuromorphic core computes only on events, the PMIC lives on harvested energy, the hub wakes the core, the lifecycle monitor reports the chip's own ageing, and the update client keeps it secure.
Reach: 100,000 sensors deployed — counted as devices; not summed with other units. Outcomes: A decade of sensing with no battery replacement; 100,000 batteries avoided.
Task 2.8 · Run the campus cluster on sunlight and grow food with its heat
Goal. The compute Mission's cluster follows the sun, buffers on batteries, and warms the seedlings of the food Mission.
How they combine. The router schedules training when the roof generates, the battery buffers the peaks, the greenhouse takes the heat, the photonic fabric switches the links as light, the package runs cooler, and the consent ledger proves what data the training used.
Reach: 250 kW of compute on renewables — counted as kilowatts; not summed with other units. Outcomes: A 250 kW cluster on solar with waste heat reused; consented training data.
Where this Mission's tasks land on the SDGs (sum of target weights)
Gates
- Bench gate: silicon passes verification and packaged parts meet spec
- Range gate: student silicon runs a model end to end on the campus cluster through the student toolchain
- Customer gate: an integrated accelerator, package and toolchain demonstrated to ISM, C-DAC and an Indian fab or OSAT
Three student journeys through this Mission
Kiran — Electronics and Communication
Wafer Studio · RISC-V Processor Systems
Divya — Computer Science and Engineering
Wafer Studio · High-Performance & Research Computing Infrastructure
Arjun — Mechanical Engineering
Forge Studio · Precision Manufacturing & Tooling
| Impact family | Sum over tasks (0–3 each) |
|---|---|
| Technical / Economic | 20 |
| Societal / Human | 10 |
| Environmental / Sustainability | 13 |
| Knowledge / Innovation | 21 |
3Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence Space, earth observation and disaster warning
A student constellation that thinks in orbit and a ground segment that turns every pass into a decision on the ground. Small satellites with onboard AI that triages imagery before downlink, an earth-observation foundation model for floods, crops and coasts, space situational awareness, quantum-key downlink and in-orbit software updates, flown through IN-SPACe and handed to ISRO and NDMA.
Products by category (60 flagship systems; 240 component and subsystem products beneath them)
Spacecraft — The bus, its brain and its power
Modular Bus 'Vyom'
A 6U bus built from student subsystems, repeated for every satellite in the constellation.
Bus Twin
A digital twin of the bus that predicts power, thermal and attitude for any orbit before it flies.
Bus-in-a-Box Trainer
A benchtop flat-sat that lets a first-year team command every subsystem.
Pointing Core
An attitude-control unit that holds an imager on a district using magnetorquers and wheels.
Formation Keeper
A controller that keeps several satellites in a planned formation with minimal propellant.
Star-Sun Fusion Estimator
An attitude estimator that fuses star, sun and magnetic sensors robustly through eclipse.
Folding Wing Array
A solar array hinge cycled ten thousand times before flight.
Passive Thermal Skin
A thermal design that holds the electronics in range without a heater.
Deployable Radiator
A hinged radiator that unfolds to dump payload heat.
Rad-Tolerant Controller
A flight computer on a radiation-tolerant FPGA that scrubs its own memory.
Orbit Reconfigurable Payload
An FPGA payload whose function can be reloaded from the ground after launch.
Single-Event Upset Logger
A payload that counts radiation upsets across the orbit to map the space environment.
Space Cell Qualifier
A test bench that characterises solar cells under a solar simulator and thermal cycling.
Ground Station Solar Roof
A solar-and-storage roof that rarely lets the ground station lose power.
Peak-Power Tracker
A power converter that squeezes maximum power from arrays at any sun angle.
See — Payloads and the intelligence that runs on them in orbit
Onboard Triage AI
An onboard model that discards cloud, detects flood and fire and sends only what matters.
Coastal Colour Sensor
A multispectral sensor tuned to erosion, algal bloom and sediment.
Methane Sniffer
A shortwave-infrared payload that finds methane plumes from landfills and gas fields.
Earth Foundation Model
A model pre-trained on Indian satellite imagery that fine-tunes to floods, crops and coasts.
Flood Extent Pipeline
A ground pipeline that turns a pass over a flooded district into a map within hours.
Crop-Loss Assessor
A pipeline that estimates crop loss after a cyclone for insurance payouts within days.
Orbital Inference Card
The edge NPU packaged for orbit, running triage models on the bus power budget.
Payload Data Compressor
A learned compressor that fits a pass into the downlink budget.
Orbital Model Updater
A system that uploads a new triage model to the satellite and validates it before switching.
Fibre Strain Sensor
A fibre-optic sensor bonded into the structure that reports strain through launch.
Star Sight
A photonic star tracker built from a campus image sensor and a learned star matcher.
Fibre-Optic Gyro Module
A compact fibre gyro for attitude rate sensing.
Link — Getting data down and keys down unreadably
Flexible Space Radio
A software radio for the bus that can be told from the ground to change band.
Store-and-Forward Payload
A payload that collects messages from remote sensors and delivers them on the next pass.
Inter-Satellite Link
A crosslink that lets satellites relay data across the constellation.
Deployable Helix
A helical antenna that unfurls to give a small satellite a real downlink.
Ground Array
A phased array on the campus roof that tracks satellites without moving.
Rooftop Tracking Array
A second ground array at a partner college for constellation coverage.
Laser Downlink Terminal
An optical terminal that brings a pass down in one shot.
Cloud-Dodging Ground Optic
A ground optic that watches the sky and picks the clear moment to receive.
Beacon Acquisition Tracker
A fine-pointing system that locks the laser link in seconds.
Entangled Source Payload
A compact source of paired light particles, a first step toward a quantum key from orbit.
Single-Photon Ground Receiver
A receiver that counts photons from the satellite one at a time.
Polarisation Reference
A payload that keeps polarisation calibrated for quantum key exchange.
Ground — Mission control, warning and the ground truth
Student Mission Control
A control room students run on shifts, with real passes and real decisions.
Agentic Pass Planner
An agent that plans every pass across the constellation for the districts that need it most.
Anomaly Whisperer
A model that watches telemetry and explains an anomaly before an operator asks.
Village Siren Node
A solar siren that sounds a warning triggered by the flood pipeline.
Voice Alert Relay
A relay that turns the warning into a local-language voice message on basic phones.
School Shelter Beacon
A beacon in every school that turns a warning into shelter instructions.
Embankment Sentinel
A ground sensor line that tells the flood model where an embankment is weakening.
Ground-Truth Kit
A field kit that records what the satellite saw against what is on the ground.
Landslide Sentinel
A slope sensor line that feeds the earth model in hill districts.
Build and qualify — Structures, printing and the tests that make it flight-worthy
Vibration Table
A campus shaker that qualifies every satellite to launch loads.
Thermal-Vacuum Chamber
A campus chamber that puts a satellite through the cold and heat of orbit.
High-Altitude Balloon Bus
A balloon platform that flight-tests payloads at thirty kilometres before orbit.
Grapple Arm
A small robotic arm for capturing a cooperative target in orbit, tested on an air-bearing table.
Drag-Sail Deorbit Kit
A sail that ends the mission responsibly so the satellite leaves no debris.
Air-Bearing Rover Table
A frictionless table for testing docking and formation manoeuvres.
Printed Bus Frame
A titanium-printed bus frame lighter than machined and made on campus.
Printed Antenna Feed
A printed waveguide feed for the downlink.
Printed Propellant Tank
A printed tank for the cold-gas system.
Composite Deck
A carbon deck for the payload that survives launch and holds alignment.
Mass Properties Rig
A rig that measures a satellite's centre of mass and inertia before flight.
Cyclone-Proof Ground Shelter
A composite shelter for the ground station on the coast.
Natural customers, sponsors and launch partners
| Organisation | Role | In reach |
|---|---|---|
| ISRO, IN-SPACe, NRSC | Customer and authoriser; RESPOND, internships; NRSC in reach | yes |
| NSIL | Commercial technology transfer | — |
| Skyroot and Dhruva Space, Hyderabad | Launch and satellite partners | yes |
| Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota | In-reach launch site | yes |
| INCOIS, Hyderabad | Earth-intelligence and ocean-data user | yes |
| Pixxel, Bengaluru | Earth-observation constellation partner | yes |
Tasks (8)
Task 3.1 · Deliver a flood map to a district within hours of the pass
Goal. A satellite pass over a flooded district becomes a validated map on the collector's desk the same day.
How they combine. The pipeline draws the map from existing satellite passes, the triage model discards cloud on archived scenes, the compressor fits a pass into the district link, and students run the pass from mission control; a flight mission that puts these on orbit is a separate, later gate.
Reach: 3,000,000 residents of flood-prone districts — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Flood extent in hours not days; relief targeted the same day.
Task 3.2 · Warn a village before the water arrives
Goal. A forecast from the constellation and the ground sensors becomes a siren and a voice message in the village.
How they combine. The model forecasts, the sentinel watches the embankment, the kit validates, the planner points the next pass at the district, and the siren and the voice reach the village.
Reach: 500,000 villagers under warning — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Warning minutes gained per village; sirens and voice in the village tongue.
Task 3.3 · Fly a constellation that updates in orbit and deorbits responsibly
Goal. Several student satellites fly in formation, update their software in orbit and deorbit responsibly.
How they combine. The keeper holds formation, the payload and radio are reloaded from the ground, the controller survives radiation, the twin predicts, and the sail ends the mission.
Reach: 100 students in constellation operations — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Student satellites updated in orbit; responsible deorbit; IN-SPACe precedent.
Task 3.4 · Hear a fishing boat beyond the horizon
Goal. A distress message from a boat out of coastal range reaches the coast guard through the constellation.
How they combine. The payload collects, the helix gives a real link, the array tracks without moving, the colour sensor confirms the sea state, and the ground station never loses power.
Reach: 100,000 fishers on the coast — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Distress messages from beyond coastal range; lives saved at sea.
Task 3.5 · Qualify a flight satellite on campus and send a quantum key from orbit
Goal. A satellite passes campus vibration and thermal-vacuum and then demonstrates a key exchange to the ground.
How they combine. The table and chamber qualify, the rig measures, the printed frame and carbon deck carry the payload, and the entangled source, the photon receiver and the optic prove a key from orbit.
Reach: 200 students in qualification — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Campus qualification to launch loads; a quantum key from orbit.
Task 3.6 · Find the methane leaks a state cannot see
Goal. Landfills, gas fields and rice paddies are watched from orbit and the plumes handed to the pollution board.
How they combine. The sniffer sees the plume, the updater improves the detector after launch, the crosslink passes the data along the ring, the partner-campus array adds contacts, and the whisperer keeps the constellation healthy.
Reach: 20,000,000 residents of a state with methane monitoring — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Plumes located and handed to the pollution board; leaks closed.
Task 3.7 · Pay a farmer for cyclone loss within days
Goal. A cyclone passes, the constellation assesses the loss, and insurance pays before the next sowing.
How they combine. The pass planner points the constellation at the district the morning after, the colour sensor and the assessor estimate the loss, the ground-truth kit validates it in the field, the beacons shelter the schools and the sentinel watches the slopes; the validated loss map is handed to the insurer, whose payout oracle in the Food Mission pays in days.
Reach: 300,000 farmers under insurance — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Loss assessed from orbit; payouts in days before the next sowing.
Task 3.8 · Fly a payload at the edge of space before it flies in orbit
Goal. Every payload is proved on a balloon at thirty kilometres, printed and qualified on campus, then flown.
How they combine. The balloon flies the payload first, the printed tank and radiator are proof-tested, the gyro senses rates, the logger maps radiation, the air table proves docking, and the shelter keeps the coastal ground station standing.
Reach: 400 students in flight test — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Payloads proven at 30 km; printed parts qualified; docking on an air table.
Where this Mission's tasks land on the SDGs (sum of target weights)
Gates
- Bench gate: each payload, bus subsystem and ground element proves its own metric
- Range gate: a flight-model satellite passes campus thermal-vacuum and vibration with the onboard AI running
- Customer gate: a pass over a flooded district produces a validated map for NDMA within hours
Three student journeys through this Mission
Sneha — Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Astra Studio · Earth Observation & Geospatial Systems
Vikram — Mechanical Engineering
Astra Studio · Small Satellite Bus Engineering
Priya — Computer Science and IT
Wafer Studio · FPGA & Reconfigurable Computing
| Impact family | Sum over tasks (0–3 each) |
|---|---|
| Technical / Economic | 20 |
| Societal / Human | 17 |
| Environmental / Sustainability | 13 |
| Knowledge / Innovation | 20 |
4Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response Embodied AI on Indian roads, in factories and at disaster sites
Machines that move, grip, climb and drive through Indian conditions, trained in simulation and proved on a campus range. One robot-learning stack across shuttles, drones, legged and humanoid robots, disaster-response machines and warehouse fleets; sim-to-real training on the shared GPU cluster; agentic fleet control under a safety monitor; assurance evidence a certifier and the NDRF can read.
Products by category (72 flagship systems; 288 component and subsystem products beneath them)
Drive — Autonomous ground vehicles for Indian roads
Skateboard Shuttle
A low-speed electric shuttle platform on which every campus autonomy experiment rides.
Tuk-Tuk Autonomy Kit
A retrofit kit that gives a three-wheeler assisted driving.
Campus Delivery Cart
An autonomous cart that carries parcels and lab samples between buildings.
Vehicle Nervous System
A vehicle architecture with zone controllers that any Studio can plug into.
Swap-Ready Module
A battery module a depot can swap in minutes.
Wheel-Hub Motor Module
A student-designed in-wheel motor for the shuttle.
By-Wire Redundant Steer
Steering with two independent motors and a certified fallback.
Mixed-Traffic Brake Assist
Brake assistance trained on cows, carts and pedestrians.
Driver Attention Guard
A cabin sensor that detects fatigue and hands control to the safety monitor.
Heat-Tolerant Pack
A battery pack that keeps its life through an Indian summer.
BMS With a Model
A battery manager that learns each cell's ageing and predicts failure a week early.
Second-Life Grader
A rig that grades used cells for a second life in cold rooms and microgrids.
Junction Beacon
A roadside beacon that tells vehicles what is around the blind corner.
Fleet Attestation
A service that proves every vehicle runs the software it should, daily.
Ambulance Green Wave
A V2X system that turns signals green ahead of an ambulance.
Perceive and learn — Seeing in Indian conditions and learning from simulation
Monsoon Perception
A perception stack trained on rain, glare and dust from Indian roads.
Indian Road Dataset
A labelled dataset of Indian mixed traffic released to every Indian team.
Thermal-Visible Fusion Camera
A camera module that fuses thermal and visible for night and smoke.
Rubble Eye
A perception module that sees through dust and dark inside a collapsed building.
Touch Map
A tactile sensing skin that lets a robot feel what it cannot see.
Acoustic Locator
A microphone array that finds a trapped person by voice or tapping.
Sim-to-Real Trainer
A pipeline on the campus cluster that trains a policy in simulation and deploys it to a real machine.
Negotiating Planner
A planner that negotiates junctions the Indian way, with intent shown and yielded.
Recovery Behaviour Library
Learned behaviours that get a stuck robot unstuck without an operator.
Perception Accelerator
The edge NPU packaged for vehicles and robots, running the perception stack at vehicle power.
Policy Chip
An accelerator that runs a learned control policy at a kilohertz on a robot.
Sensor-Fusion Chip
A chip that fuses camera, lidar and radar streams at the edge.
Rain-Proof Corner Radar
A radar tuned for Indian clutter and rain.
Through-Wall Radar
A radar that finds a heartbeat through rubble.
Drone Detection Radar
A small radar that spots unauthorised drones over a disaster zone.
Embody — Legs, hands, soft bodies and the platforms they ride on
Mule Platform
A rugged wheeled platform that carries payloads over broken ground.
Modular Actuator
A student-designed actuator with motor, gearing and control in one unit, used in every robot.
Stair-Climbing Cart
A tracked cart that carries supplies up collapsed stairwells.
Terrain Legs
A legged platform that climbs stairs and rubble.
Campus Humanoid
A humanoid research platform trained on the shared stack for warehouse and site tasks.
Quadruped Firefighter
A legged robot that drags a hose line into a burning structure.
Search Hand
A dexterous hand that moves debris and hands water to a trapped person.
Learned Grasp
A grasping model trained on thousands of Indian objects in simulation.
Valve Turner Hand
A hand that closes gas and water valves in a damaged plant.
Snake Scout
A soft snake robot that threads through rubble gaps a dog cannot enter.
Soft Gripper Kit
Pneumatic soft grippers for fragile objects and people.
Inflatable Lifting Bag Robot
A soft robot that lifts slabs a few centimetres to free a trapped limb.
Haptic Cockpit
A teleoperation station that lets a rescuer feel what the robot touches.
Shared Autonomy Handover
A handover that lets the operator take over and hand back without a lurch.
Gesture Command Glove
A glove that lets a responder direct robots with hand signals.
Respond — Machines for disaster sites, structures and the air
Rubble Team Kit
A crate with the snake, the legs, the through-wall radar and the cockpit, deployable by two people.
Mesh Beacon Set
Droppable beacons that give a collapsed site a network and a map.
Flood Rescue Raft Bot
An autonomous raft that ferries people across floodwater.
Roof Scout
A drone that maps a disaster site and hands the map to the ground robots.
Payload Drop Drone
A drone that delivers water, medicine and a radio to a trapped person.
Tethered Light Tower
A tethered drone that lights a disaster site all night.
Cargo Lifter
An electric vertical-lift aircraft for a hundred kilos over a flood.
Corridor Manager
A service that de-conflicts drones and aircraft over a disaster zone.
Medical Drone Corridor
A drone delivery service for blood and vaccines between district hospitals.
Shoring Robot
A robot that places shoring in an unsafe structure so people can enter.
Debris Sorter
A machine that sorts rubble for recovery and reuse.
Rapid Shelter Printer
A mobile printer that builds emergency shelters from local soil.
Building Pulse
A sensor kit that tells the responder whether a damaged building is still moving.
Bridge Watch
A monitoring node for bridges that reports strain and vibration to the fleet.
Aftershock Alarm
A network that warns when aftershocks make a structure unsafe.
Fleet and assure — Running many machines safely and proving it
Aisle Picker
A mobile manipulator on the shared stack that picks from Indian warehouse shelves.
Tote Runner
A fleet of small runners that move totes between pickers and packing.
Relief Kit Assembler
A cell that packs relief kits at speed during an emergency.
Agentic Fleet Controller
An agent that allocates tasks across shuttles, runners and drones and explains its choices.
Depot Choreographer
A system that charges, swaps and cleans a fleet overnight.
Relief Logistics Twin
A digital twin of a district's relief supply chain.
Safety Monitor
A watchdog designed for certification that overrides any learned policy when confidence drops.
Scenario Forge
A simulator that generates the edge cases Indian roads and disaster sites produce.
Runtime Verifier
A monitor that checks the planner's decisions against formal rules at every step.
Proved Brake Logic
Brake control logic proved correct with formal methods.
Assurance Case Builder
A tool that assembles the evidence a certifier needs from the gates the product passed.
Redundant Compute Module
A triple-redundant computer for the shuttle's safety functions.
Natural customers, sponsors and launch partners
| Organisation | Role | In reach |
|---|---|---|
| TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad | Autonomous-navigation testbed; partnerships route | yes |
| NDMA / NDRF | Disaster-response customer | yes |
| APSDMA, Vijayawada / Amaravati | State disaster authority; pilot host | yes |
| AP DISCOMs and AP Transport | Mobility and utility pilot hosts | yes |
| ideaForge, NewSpace, Asteria | UAS partners | yes |
| Bosch, Continental, Bengaluru | ADAS partners | yes |
Tasks (8)
Task 4.1 · Enter a collapsed building before a responder does
Goal. A two-person NDRF team deploys a kit that maps, enters, finds and reaches a trapped person.
How they combine. The drone maps, the snake threads the gap, the legs climb, the radar finds a heartbeat, the eye sees through dust, the cockpit lets a rescuer feel, and the drop drone delivers water and a radio.
Reach: 2,000 NDRF and SDRF responders — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: No responder enters an unsafe void first; survivors located by radar and sound.
Task 4.2 · Carry passengers across campus in the monsoon
Goal. A shuttle carries real passengers through rain and mixed traffic with a safety case a certifier can read.
How they combine. The platform, perception trained on rain, a planner that negotiates, a certified monitor, redundant steering, a beacon at the blind corner, and an agent that runs the fleet.
Reach: 20,000 campus passengers a year — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: A safety case a certifier can read; passengers carried in rain.
Task 4.3 · Train a robot in simulation on Monday and walk it on rubble on Friday
Goal. A policy trained on the campus cluster runs on a real legged robot within the week.
How they combine. The forge generates the scenarios, the trainer closes the gap, the chip runs the policy on the robot, the actuator moves it, and the grasp model lets it handle what it finds.
Reach: 1,000 students on the physical-AI stack — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Sim-to-real in a week on student silicon.
Task 4.4 · Measure a damaged structure before people enter
Goal. Responders know whether a building is still moving and shoring is placed by a machine first.
How they combine. The pulse and the watch measure, the robot shores, the mule carries, the sorter clears, and the beacons give the site a network.
Reach: 5,000 responders and residents — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Structures measured before entry; shoring placed by machine.
Task 4.5 · Attest a fleet's safety daily and keep it honest
Goal. Every vehicle in a fleet proves its software daily and every brake decision is proved correct.
How they combine. Attestation proves the software, the brake logic is proved, the builder assembles the certificate, the nervous system carries it all, the BMS predicts failure, and the depot keeps the fleet ready.
Reach: 500 vehicles in a certified fleet — counted as vehicles; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Daily attestation; proved brake logic; predicted battery failure.
Task 4.6 · Run an Indian warehouse with robots trained on Indian shelves
Goal. A picking fleet and a heavy-lift drone move goods and people's supplies in a real facility and over a flood.
How they combine. The picker and runners move the totes, the hand and soft gripper handle the fragile, the lifter carries a hundred kilos over water, and the corridor manager keeps the air safe.
Reach: 300 warehouse workers upskilled — counted as people directly trained or protected; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Picking on Indian shelves; heavy lift over floodwater.
Task 4.7 · Clear the road and fly the blood: an emergency corridor for a district
Goal. Ambulances get a green wave and blood flies between hospitals by drone corridor.
How they combine. The green wave clears the signals, the drone corridor moves blood and vaccines, the corridor manager de-conflicts the air, the attention guard watches the driver, and the redundant computer and runtime verifier keep every decision safe.
Reach: 2,000,000 district residents — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Ambulance delay cut at every signal; blood and vaccines by drone in minutes.
Task 4.8 · Fight a fire and print a shelter with machines
Goal. A legged robot drags the hose in, a hand closes the valves, a raft ferries people, and a printer builds shelter from local soil.
How they combine. The quadruped drags the hose, the hand closes the gas, the raft ferries people, the light tower keeps the site lit, the printer builds shelter, the assembler packs kits, and the twin plans the supply chain.
Reach: 10,000 people sheltered after an event — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Hose lines and valves handled by machines; shelters printed in days.
Where this Mission's tasks land on the SDGs (sum of target weights)
Gates
- Bench gate: each Foundry proves its product against its own metric
- Range gate: the shared stack drives a shuttle, a legged robot and a drone through the campus arena and the rubble pile
- Customer gate: a disaster-response demonstration to the NDRF and a passenger shuttle demonstration to a transit operator
Three student journeys through this Mission
Rahul — Computer Science and Engineering
Yantra Studio · Motion Planning & Learning Control
Lakshmi — Electrical and Electronics
Traction Studio · ADAS, X-by-Wire & Functional Safety
Imran — Mechanical Engineering
Frontline Studio · Disaster Response & Field Resilience Kits
| Impact family | Sum over tasks (0–3 each) |
|---|---|
| Technical / Economic | 24 |
| Societal / Human | 18 |
| Environmental / Sustainability | 6 |
| Knowledge / Innovation | 19 |
5Food, Water and Climate Security National resilience: crops, water, coasts and climate
Foundation models for crops and water, machines for the field and the gate, and a warning system that reaches every village. Crop and water foundation models, flood and drought digital twins, autonomous farm and post-harvest machines, aquifer and coastal intelligence, climate-resilient cold chain and a multilingual agentic advisor, delivered through ICAR, Jal Shakti, NDMA and the state.
Products by category (66 flagship systems; 264 component and subsystem products beneath them)
Know — Foundation models and sensing for crops, water and coasts
Crop Foundation Model
A model pre-trained on Indian field imagery and sensor data that fine-tunes to any crop and district.
Soil Passport
A probe and record that gives a plot a soil identity a buyer and a bank can trust.
Leaf Clinic Camera
A phone attachment that diagnoses leaf disease with the crop model offline.
Basin Digital Twin
A twin of a river basin fed by satellite, gauges and rain that forecasts flood and drought.
Village Change Detector
A pipeline that flags new construction, lost ponds and lost trees village by village.
Drought Early Warning
A pipeline that warns a district of drought weeks ahead from soil moisture and vegetation.
Aquifer Ear
A sensor that listens to a borewell and reports the water table daily.
Stubble Smoke Sentinel
An air-quality node that traces burning to a field within the hour.
Methane Digester Monitor
A sensor that measures gas yield and leaks from village digesters.
Coastal Buoy
A solar buoy that measures wave, current and salinity and reports by the constellation.
Erosion Watch
A shore camera and model that measures the shoreline every day.
Cyclone Surge Gauge
A hardened tide gauge that reports storm surge live to the warning chain.
Grow — Machines and biology that work the field
Half-Acre Robot
A robot that sows, weeds and sprays a smallholder plot on the shared learning stack.
Soft Harvest Hand
A gripper that picks soft fruit without a mark.
Transplanter Bot
A robot that transplants paddy seedlings at the right spacing.
Water-Aware Scheduler
An agent that schedules irrigation from the crop model, the aquifer and the power available.
Valve Network
Low-cost wireless valves that send water to the right furrow.
Fertigation Mixer
A dosing unit that mixes nutrients per crop stage into the drip line.
Pest Trap Camera
A trap that photographs and identifies its catch with the crop model.
Spot Sprayer
A sprayer that treats only what the model flags.
Pheromone Dispenser Network
Smart dispensers that release pheromone only when the trap model sees the pest.
Field Scout Wing
A fixed-wing drone that maps a village's fields for the crop model each week.
Scout-and-Spray Pair
A scout drone that finds the outbreak and a spray drone that treats only it.
Seed Ball Drone
A drone that reforests degraded slopes with seed balls.
Village Cold Cube
A solar cold room at the farm gate that runs through the night.
Seedling Nursery Controller
A controller that raises seedlings in a container for a village.
Mushroom Grow Cube
A controlled cube for oyster mushroom production from straw.
Bio-Coating for Fruit
An edible coating that adds a week to shelf life.
Biofertiliser Brewer
A village fermenter that turns digester residue into fertiliser.
Millet Fermenter
A fermenter that turns millets into probiotic foods for school meals.
Water — Treating, reusing and protecting water and aquaculture
Village Water Pod
A solar treatment unit that makes borewell water safe and reports its own quality.
Fluoride Catcher
A low-cost filter for the fluoride and arsenic that poison Indian aquifers.
Solar Still Array
A solar desalination array for a coastal village.
Grey-Water Loop
A treatment loop that reuses village grey water for irrigation.
Sanitation Sensor Kit
A kit that tells a panchayat which toilets and tanks need service.
Faecal Sludge Dryer
A solar dryer that turns sludge into safe soil conditioner.
Water Tower Controller
A controller that fills the village tank on solar power and reports it.
Tanker Ledger
A ledger that records every water tanker delivery so a village can prove what it received.
Leak Listener
An acoustic sensor that finds leaks in village pipelines.
Pond Doctor
A sensor and model that watches a fish pond and warns of disease.
Auto Feeder
A feeder that feeds by the fish's appetite, not the clock.
Shrimp Count Camera
An underwater camera that counts and sizes shrimp for harvest timing.
Crop Waste Digester
A village digester that turns straw into gas and compost.
Soil Microbe Reader
A field kit that reads what the soil's microbes are doing.
Algae Carbon Pond
A pond that captures digester CO2 into algae feed.
Keep — Post-harvest, cold chain and the last mile
Grain Grader
A grader that measures moisture, colour and damage, and both sides trust.
Solar Dryer Controller
A dryer controller that dries without scorching.
Mandi Weighbridge Truth
A tamper-proof weighing and grading station that both farmer and buyer trust.
Cold Trolley
A cold box that goes from the field to the gate.
Cold Cube Power Pack
A battery pack sized to run the cold cube through the night.
Milk Chiller Node
A solar milk chiller for a village collection point.
Breathing Crate
A crate that lets produce breathe and shows where value leaks.
Farm-to-Kitchen Planner
An agent that plans the overnight route from a hundred farms to a city kitchen.
Ripeness Tracker Tag
A tag in the crate that tracks ripening gas and predicts shelf life.
Farmer Wallet
A wallet that pays a farmer at the gate without a network and settles later.
Village Advisory Agent
A multilingual voice agent on basic phones that answers a farmer from the crop model and the twin.
Crop Insurance Oracle
A service that triggers insurance payouts from the satellite loss assessment.
Power and prove — Energy for the village and evidence for the climate
Solar Pump Kit
A solar pump sized to the plot and the aquifer.
Agrivoltaic Frame
A solar frame that shades a crop and powers the village.
Solar Cold Storage Container
A 20-foot container cold store on solar for an FPO.
Village Microgrid Controller
A controller that islands a village on its own solar when the grid fails.
Feeder Report Card
A public record of hours of supply per feeder.
Pump Load Scheduler
A controller that runs farm pumps when the feeder has spare solar.
Carbon MRV Node
A node that measures soil carbon and methane so a village can sell a credit it can prove.
Credit Ledger
A ledger that records measured carbon and pays the village.
Biochar Kiln
A kiln that turns crop waste into biochar that locks carbon in the soil.
Natural customers, sponsors and launch partners
| Organisation | Role | In reach |
|---|---|---|
| ICAR-CRIDA and ANGRAU | Agriculture customer and sponsor; live student-project routes; ANGRAU adjacent | yes |
| Jal Shakti, CGWB and NGRI | Water and aquifer | yes |
| Mandis and FPOs via ICAR-ATARI and NAARM | Market and adoption partners | yes |
| NIWE and NISE (MNRE) | Energy and climate | yes |
| NIOT and CIBA, Chennai | Water and aquaculture | yes |
| Niqo Robotics, Fasal, Cropin | Deployment partners | yes |
Tasks (8)
Task 5.1 · Run a smallholder's season on a model that knows the district
Goal. A half-acre plot is sown, watered, protected and harvested by machines guided by a crop model and the aquifer.
How they combine. The model knows the crop, the robot works the plot, the scheduler waters by the aquifer and the sun, the valves deliver, the passport records the soil, the pump is sized right, and the agent explains it in the village tongue.
Reach: 100,000 smallholder farmers in a district — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Yield up, water down, per plot, with a passport a bank trusts.
Task 5.2 · Catch a pest outbreak before it crosses the district
Goal. An infestation is detected at the first field and treated only there.
How they combine. The trap identifies, the wing maps the village weekly, the scout finds the hotspot, the spray drone and the sprayer treat only it, and the smoke sentinel keeps the air honest.
Reach: 100,000 farmers in a district — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Outbreaks treated at the first field; chemical use cut sharply.
Task 5.3 · Warn a basin of flood and drought from a digital twin
Goal. A river basin's twin, fed by the constellation and the ground, forecasts flood and drought for every village on it.
How they combine. The twin forecasts, the ear reports the aquifer daily, the buoy and the shore camera report the coast, the detector flags lost ponds, and the microgrid keeps the village lit when the warning comes.
Reach: 5,000,000 residents of a river basin — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Basin-wide flood and drought forecasts; villages lit through the warning.
Task 5.4 · Move a village's mangoes to a city kitchen overnight
Goal. Perishable produce from a hundred farms reaches a buyer without a break in the cold chain and with the farmer paid at the gate.
How they combine. Cold from the field, a solar cold room through the night, a coating that adds a week, a crate that breathes, an agent that plans the route, and a wallet that pays without a network.
Reach: 100,000 farmers on the cold chain — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Post-harvest loss cut; farmers paid at the gate.
Task 5.5 · Give a village safe water and prove every tanker
Goal. Borewell water is treated and reported, grey water is reused, and every delivery is on a ledger.
How they combine. The pod treats and reports, the catcher removes what poisons the aquifer, the loop reuses, the kit says what needs service, the controller fills the tank, and the ledger proves the tanker.
Reach: 50,000 villagers with safe water — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Safe water reported; grey water reused; every tanker on a ledger.
Task 5.6 · Turn straw into gas, fertiliser and a carbon credit the village can prove
Goal. Crop waste stops burning and becomes energy, fertiliser and measured, paid carbon.
How they combine. The digester takes the straw, the brewer makes fertiliser, the reader shows the soil responding, the MRV node measures the carbon, the ledger pays it, the frame shares land between crop and power, and the grader gets the harvest a fair price.
Reach: 20,000 farmers in a carbon programme — counted as people directly served; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Burning stopped; measured carbon paid; fertiliser made.
Task 5.7 · Warn a district of drought and give it a plan
Goal. Drought is called weeks ahead and a district gets a pump schedule, a leak map and a crop plan.
How they combine. The warning comes weeks early, the scheduler runs pumps on clean power, the listener finds the leaks, the mixer doses through the drip, the clinic camera diagnoses leaves offline, and the dispensers release only on evidence.
Reach: 2,000,000 residents of a drought-prone district — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Drought called weeks early; pumps on clean power; leaks found.
Task 5.8 · Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has
Goal. Saline wells become drinking water, straw becomes mushrooms, biochar and probiotic food, and shrimp are harvested at the right day.
How they combine. The still array makes the wells drinkable, the grow cube and fermenter turn straw and millets into food, the kiln locks carbon, the camera times the shrimp harvest, the algae pond eats the digester CO2, and the chiller and container keep the produce.
Reach: 20,000 residents of coastal villages — counted as people covered by a service; not summed with other units. Outcomes: Drinking water from saline wells; food and income from straw and millets; carbon locked.
Where this Mission's tasks land on the SDGs (sum of target weights)
Gates
- Bench gate: each Foundry proves its product against its own metric
- Range gate: a season on the campus farm with the crop model, irrigation, robot and cold chain working together, and a flood twin validated against a real event
- Customer gate: a district pilot with ICAR or the state, and a warning delivered to a village ahead of an event
Three student journeys through this Mission
Deepak — B.Sc (Hons) Agriculture
Harvest Studio · Farm Sensing, Soil & Crop Metrology
Nisha — Civil Engineering
Aquifer Studio · Environmental Instrumentation & Air Quality
Farhan — Computer Science and IT
Ledger Studio · Offline-First Transaction Infrastructure
| Impact family | Sum over tasks (0–3 each) |
|---|---|
| Technical / Economic | 17 |
| Societal / Human | 24 |
| Environmental / Sustainability | 22 |
| Knowledge / Innovation | 15 |
Part C · Seventeen Studio charters
Each Studio as the Missions require it: products, equipment and vendors, benchmarks, partners, advisors, skills and pay, funding, space, club, outcomes and the student journey
STUDIO 1 OF 17 · FARM-TO-FORK AGRITECH, FOOD & RURAL PRODUCT ENGINEERING
Harvest Studio
STUDIO 1 OF 17 · FARM-TO-FORK AGRITECH, FOOD & RURAL PRODUCT ENGINEERING
Harvest Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Run a smallholder's season on a model that knows the district; Catch a pest outbreak before it crosses the district; Move a village's mangoes to a city kitchen overnight; Turn straw into gas, fertiliser and a carbon credit the village can prove; Warn a district of drought and give it a plan; Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
21 flagship systems anchor 105 products in three tiers — 84 component and subsystem learning products and 21 system products — sized to the Studio's 105 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Crop Foundation Model; Soil Passport; Leaf Clinic Camera; Half-Acre Robot; Soft Harvest Hand; Transplanter Bot; Water-Aware Scheduler; Valve Network; Fertigation Mixer; Pest Trap Camera; Spot Sprayer; Pheromone Dispenser Network; Village Cold Cube; Seedling Nursery Controller; Mushroom Grow Cube; Grain Grader; Solar Dryer Controller; Mandi Weighbridge Truth; Cold Trolley; Cold Cube Power Pack; Milk Chiller Node.
- Y1 · Crop Foundation Model — Dataset and labelling toolkit
- Y1 · Crop Foundation Model — Evaluation harness and reference kit
- Y2 · Crop Foundation Model — Core model or service
- Y2 · Crop Foundation Model — Integration SDK and console
- Y3 · Crop Foundation Model
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garuda AerospaceChennai | DGCA type-certified Kisan spraying drones; SMAM subsidy 40–100% | ₹4.5–10 lakh (8 L Kisan from about ₹4.5 lakh) | verified |
| ideaForgeMumbai | Q Series survey UAV; Ninja | Q Series about ₹12 lakh; Ninja about ₹4.5 lakh | verified |
| Marut Drones; IoTechWorld AgribotHyderabad; Gurugram | Agricultural drones | AG 365 about ₹9.89 lakh | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| DJI AgrasChina | T40 spraying drone; import-restricted and not SMAM-eligible | ₹16.5–18.9 lakh | verified |
| Conviron / PercivalCanada / USA | CEA growth chambers, import | Chamber class | partial |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Robu.in (Pune), Robokits India (Ahmedabad), Netafim India / Jain Irrigation (dealer network, AP), KisanKraft / VST dealers (Vijayawada-Guntur), Robu.in (Pune), Robokits India (Ahmedabad); international: FarmBot Inc. (USA), Emlid (EU), Seeed Studio (China), MicaSense/AgEagle (USA), Seeed Studio (SenseCAP), Adafruit / SparkFun (USA); Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (9, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (3 items) | ₹27.0 L | AMC ₹1.6 L after 2 warranty years | ₹3.0 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (23 lines, quantities for 100 concurrent teams) | ₹1.25 Cr | consumables ₹9.1 L at 6% (light class) | ₹13.9 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹42.0 L | — | ₹4.7 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹23.3 L | — | ₹2.6 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹5.0 L | ₹0.6 L / yr |
| Electricity (148 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹14.3 L | ₹1.6 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹2.17 Cr | ₹30.1 L | ₹24.1 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹93.4 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹10.4 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹3.11 Cr | ₹50.0 L | ₹34.5 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹2.84 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹31.3 L | ₹8.8 L / yr | 9% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L / yr | 6% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural robots and platformsField platforms | ₹2–20 lakh | ₹11.0 L | 1 | ₹11.0 L | band midpointIndian agri-robotics startups; import |
| Cold room and solar cold-chain units; grain graderSolar cold room; grader | Cold chain ₹3–20 lakh; grader ₹2–15 lakh | ₹11.0 L | 1 | ₹11.0 L | band midpointIndian cold-chain makers |
| DGCA-type-certified spray dronesGaruda Kisan 8 L; Marut AG 365 10 L; IoTechWorld Agribot; General Aeronautics; ideaForge | Garuda Kisan from ~₹4.5 lakh; Marut AG 365 ₹9.89 lakh (Marut Dronetech listing); overall ₹4.5–10 lakh; SMAM covers 40–50% up to ₹5 lakh | ₹5.0 L | 1 | ₹5.0 L | band midpointGaruda Aerospace (Chennai), Marut Drones (Hyderabad), IoTechWorld (Gurugram), General Aeronautics (Bengaluru), ideaForge (Mumbai) |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (23 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FarmBot Genesis/Express (imported, shared unit)CNC growing, precision seeding/weeding, plus a free CC0 curriculum | Genesis ~$2,900+, Express ~$1,600+ — import, freight-heavy | ₹2.9 L | 8 | ₹23.4 L | listed price |
| Drip/fertigation skids (Netafim/Jain, dealer-quoted)CEA and precision-irrigation products | Rs 50,000–5,00,000 for a demonstration plot skid from Netafim or Jain Irrigation — dealer-quoted | ₹2.8 L | 8 | ₹22.0 L | band midpoint |
| Research soil-moisture probes (TDR/capacitance)Ground truth for cheap sensors, agronomy studies | Rs 40,000–3,00,000 for a METER Group, Delta-T or Campbell Scientific probe — imported, quote required | ₹2.0 L | 8 | ₹16.3 L | band midpoint |
| Atlas Scientific EZO DO/pH/ammonia probe set for aquaculture + aerator relay controllersReuses the existing Atlas EZO stack; incremental probe cost only | Rs 15,000–60,000 for the probe set with aerator relay control | ₹0.4 L | 24 | ₹9.0 L | band midpoint |
| Grow chambers / climate cabinets (shared)Reproducible CEA experiments | from Rs 1,05,000 for a single chamber; Rs 3–8 L for a larger walk-in from Remi, Osaw or Star Scientific | ₹1.1 L | 8 | ₹8.4 L | listed price |
| Agricultural droneSpraying, mapping, sensing | IoTechWorld/Garuda, Rs 1.5–12 lakh, shared or rented ~Rs 500/acre | ₹6.8 L | 1 | ₹6.8 L | band midpoint |
| Seeed SenseCAP LoRaWAN soil/weather sensors (IP66, 10-yr battery)Calibration reference for student-built nodes; deployable networks | Rs 8,000–40,000 per sensor depending on the parameter set | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.8 L | band midpoint |
| Multispectral camera (MicaSense RedEdge class, shared, quote-based)NDVI/crop-health mapping, phenotyping, disease scouting | RedEdge-P kit quoted Rs 5.75 L to about Rs 10 L in India against a USD 8,495 list; confirm the kit is complete and authorised before order | ₹5.8 L | 1 | ₹5.8 L | listed price |
| Chawki climate chamber (heater, humidifier, fan, controller) for sericulture; cocoon vision-grader on Pi + cameraOpen Arduino/Pi designs published; reuses existing MCU stock | Rs 2–6 L for the rearing chamber; the cocoon vision-grader adds Rs 15,000–40,000 on a Pi and camera | ₹4.0 L | 1 | ₹4.0 L | band midpoint |
| HiMedia plant tissue-culture media + laminar-flow/UV cabinet + TC growth chamberTC teaching kits at Rs 5,000–8,000; unlocks the nursery-automation and horticulture value-chain line | Rs 2–6 L for media, laminar-flow cabinet and a tissue-culture growth chamber | ₹4.0 L | 1 | ₹4.0 L | band midpoint |
| Spray patternator (lab rig)Nozzle and spray characterisation for sprayer products | Rs 1.5–6 L, usually fabricated locally rather than bought | ₹3.8 L | 1 | ₹3.8 L | band midpoint |
| Implement dynamometer (lab rig)Tillage and implement draft testing | Rs 1.5–6 L, fabricated or Osaw class | ₹3.8 L | 1 | ₹3.8 L | band midpoint |
| Pixhawk / ArduPilot flight & rover controllersAutonomous rovers, sprayer retrofits, unmanned ground and surface craft | ~Rs 8k–20k | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹3.4 L | band midpoint |
| Seed germinator chamber + seed counter + coating drum (Osaw/Indosaw class)ICAR-approved seed-lab equipment at Indian institutional prices | germinator from Rs 1,05,000; seed counter and coating drum Rs 40,000–2,00,000 from Osaw or Indosaw | ₹1.1 L | 2 | ₹2.1 L | listed price |
| Atlas Scientific EZO pH/EC/DO/ORP kitsHydroponics and aquaponics chemistry, water quality | ~$46–90 each | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹1.6 L | band midpoint |
| OpenAg-style grow controllers (built from the above)Grow chambers, climate logging | built from ESP32/Pi stock, Rs 3k–10k per chamber | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹1.6 L | band midpoint |
| Egg incubator (100-egg, Rs 4,800 entry; large from Rs 75,000) + candler + weigh-crate load cellsThe AP poultry belt entry point; the Rs 4,800 incubator is a student-buildable design target | ₹0.5 L | 2 | ₹1.0 L | planning price set | |
| CO2/O2/moisture sensor packs for hermetic bags and silos (reuses ThingsBoard/Node-RED stack)A documented monitoring gap in hermetic grain storage; pure IoT extension of the existing platform | Rs 20,000–80,000 per hermetic-storage sensor pack | ₹0.5 L | 2 | ₹1.0 L | band midpoint |
| Load-cell hive scale + temperature/humidity/CO2/acoustic sensors for apiculture monitoring (reuses ESP32/LoRa stack already in the studio)Incremental capital only; OSBeehives firmware is open | Rs 15,000–60,000 per instrumented hive using the ESP32 and LoRa stack already in the Studio | ₹0.4 L | 2 | ₹0.8 L | band midpoint |
| Open weather-station kitsMicroclimate sensing, spray advisories, evapotranspiration | Rs 5k–15k | ₹0.1 L | 2 | ₹0.2 L | band midpoint |
| Open soil sensors — capacitive, DS18B20, tensiometersMoisture/temperature nodes, irrigation triggers | Rs 100–1,500 | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.2 L | band midpoint |
| LoRa modules + LoRaWAN gateway on ChirpStackField sensor networks, long-range telemetry | modules Rs 300–800; gateway Rs 8k–20k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| Grain/seed moisture meters (Sensegood/Orca class) Rs 2,200–3,800 + bench colorimeter for curcumin/chilli colourThe post-harvest metrology bench — the studio’s highest immediate economic impact per rupee spent | ₹0.0 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): OpenCV + PlantCV; ChirpStack; PX4 / ArduPilot; FarmOS + Tania; PlantVillage open dataset.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (4 lines, ₹13.2 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹11.4 L |
| Raspberry Pi 4/5 + camera | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹1.7 L |
| Arduino Uno/Mega/Nano + ESP32/ESP8266 | ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.1 L |
| RTK GNSS | GNSS / RTK positioning | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹0.0 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. Purdue's NSF-ERC three-pillar structure (sensing, communications, response) plus a named OEM co-development project (the John Deere model): bind each Harvest product to one industry pull-problem with a patent target.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANNAM.AIIIT Ropar | — | AWaDH TIH (NM-ICPS/DST); India–Australia joint CoE with Western Sydney University | Precision farming, digital twins, agri-robotics; spun the EAgriS IoT and aerial-robotics platform | https://awadh.iitrpr.ac.insecondary source |
| CoE in AI for Precision AgricultureIIT Bhubaneswar | 2024 | AHRC | ML for crop yield, water and soil-health optimisation | https://www.iitbbs.ac.inverified |
| ARISA Agri-Robotics LaboratoryPJTAU, Hyderabad | 2025 | SBI Foundation | Automation, UAS, sensors, farm management | —secondary source |
| ICAR-CIAE Bhopal and ICAR-IARI New DelhiICAR | — | Government agri-engineering | AgriBots programme; Wi-Fi robotic precision planter | https://iari.res.inverified |
| CoE for Digital Farming Solutions (robots, drones, AGVs)CTARA, IIT Bombay | — | IIT Bombay | Digital labs across climate, seed and nursery, portable machines, food-processing automation | https://www.prayog.ctara.iitb.ac.inverified |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IoT4Ag NSF Engineering Research CenterPurdue, Penn and partners, USA | — | NSF ERC | Sensing, communications/energy and response pillars; Purdue–John Deere Auto-Unload project with a provisional patent | https://ag.purdue.eduverified |
| Kantor Lab / CASCCMU Robotics Institute, USA | — | CMU | Fruit detection, pruning, yield prediction | https://labs.ri.cmu.edu/kantorlabverified |
| SMART LabPurdue, USA | — | Purdue | Field and service robotics | https://www.purdue.eduverified |
| Wageningen UniversityNetherlands | — | — | Global leader in agri-robotics and controlled-environment agriculture | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- ICAR and ANGRAU (Lam, Guntur) — ANGRAU is ~30 km from KLEF and runs an RKVY-RAFTAAR Agri Innovations & Entrepreneurship Development Cell; seed partners include Syngenta, Nuziveedu, UPL and Bayer. verified
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- ARTPARK @ IISc and TiHAN @ IIT Hyderabad — Robotics and autonomy CoEs with test arenas, GPU compute and pre-venture acceleration. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Deere India Technology & Digital CenterPune, Bengaluru | GCC / MNC centre | Precision agriculture, autonomy, agri-robotics | John Deere university and technology-relations routeconfirm URL |
| Bayer / BASF Digital FarmingBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Crop protection and digital agronomy | CSR and university routeconfirm URL |
| Niqo Robotics (formerly TartanSense)Bengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | AI spot-spray and RoboWeeder; 50+ units in India including Andhra Pradesh; users cut chemical use by up to 90%; targeting profitability FY2026-27 | Careers and pilot route, niqorobotics.comcorroborated |
| FasalBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | IoT and AI crop sensing and irrigation optimisation | Company partnership pagecorroborated |
| CropinBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Plot-level analytics SaaS | Company partnership pagecorroborated |
| KheytiHyderabad · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Greenhouse-in-a-box for smallholders | Company partnership pagecorroborated |
| ICAR-CRIDAHyderabad (~270 km) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Dryland agriculture and climate adaptation; scientists guide ANGRAU, Osmania and JNTU students and take 1–6 month project students; KVK at Hayathnagar | icar-crida.res.incorroborated |
| ANGRAULam, Guntur (adjacent) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | State agricultural university with an agri-engineering department | angrau.ac.in academic collaborationcorroborated |
| ICAR-ATARI Zone X and ICAR-NAARMHyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Extension; FPO export-readiness training | atari-hyderabad.org.in; naarm.org.incorroborated |
| Microsoft (FarmBeats)Global | Global company or institution | IoT and AI for smallholder farms | Academic grant routeconfirm URL |
| Omnivore–Wageningen UniversityNetherlands | Global company or institution | Agri knowledge-transfer MoU precedent | Wageningen partnershipscorroborated |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (3)
| John DeerePune | Genuine engineering for tractors and precision-agriculture electronics |
| Bayer Crop ScienceBengaluru / Thane | Crop science R&D and digital farming |
| Corteva, Syngenta, AGCO, YaraHyderabad / Pune | Agri-input R&D and equipment engineering |
Indian startups and product companies (5)
| NinjacartBengaluru | India’s most-funded agritech — $514M total by Aug 2026 (Tracxn); last valued ~$815M in May 2022, funding since stalled |
| DeHaatPatna / Gurugram | $270M+ raised, near-unicorn full-stack farmer platform |
| StellappsBengaluru | Dairy IoT; $65.3M by Dec 2024; IIT-Madras incubated |
| EcozenPune | Solar cold-chain and pumps; $70M |
| WayCoolChennai | ~$307M raised — NOW SHUT DOWN. A cautionary case on unit economics. |
Global companies and institutions (10)
| Small Robot CompanySalisbury, United Kingdom | Proved ninety per cent herbicide savings and still died in the hardware valley of death; technical success is not survival |
| InfarmBerlin, Germany | Energy cost was the hidden variable and the unit economics collapsed when power prices doubled |
| eFisheryBandung, Indonesia | About twenty-four thousand feeders were deployed against four hundred thousand claimed; fleet claims must be auditable |
| Guardian AgricultureUnited States | Awards do not shorten agricultural adoption cycles |
| Iron OxSan Carlos, United States | Full autonomy of a greenhouse consumed more capital than the value it created |
| AeroboticsCape Town, South Africa | Fusing cheap satellite coverage with high-resolution drone passes cuts the cost per acre |
| Naïo TechnologiesToulouse, France | Constrain the environment first; structured rows make autonomy tractable |
| Saga RoboticsOslo, Norway | A light modular robot doing one high-value task beats a machine that tries to do everything |
| SolinftecAraçatuba, Brazil | Emerging-market agricultural hardware at row-crop scale, retrofitted onto existing machinery |
| InstacropsChile | Design low-cost sensing for rural connectivity and power gaps |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaisimha RaoBengaluru | Founder and CEO, Niqo Robotics | Built AI spot-spraying (Niqo Sense) and RoboThinner deployed across Indian and US farms | 4, 5 | niqorobotics.com/about; blume.vcV/S |
| Awais AhmedBengaluru | Founder and CEO, Pixxel | Hyperspectral earth observation for crop health and methane; leads the IN-SPACe public–private EO constellation | 3, 5 | linkedin.com/in/awaisahmednaS |
| Dr M. L. JatNew Delhi | Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR | Systems agronomist; climate-smart and conservation agriculture; three-year term from April 2025 | 5 | pib.gov.in PRID 2123110V |
Coverage: Fewer than eight verified. Candidate leads: DeHaat, Fasal, Cropin, ICAR-CRIDA and ICAR-IIOR/IIRR (Hyderabad), TNAU precision-agriculture faculty.
The Studio's full advisory bench (12 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Ravishankar G. ShiroorBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Stellapps Technologies | Oversees a dairy technology device network spanning in-line milk analysers, cattle wearables and cold-chain automationrespark.iitm.ac.in |
| Praveen NaleBengaluru, India · in reach | Chief Technology Officer, Stellapps Technologies | Leads the dairy internet-of-things hardware and the analytics on ittheorg.com |
| Krishna KumarBengaluru, India | Co-founder and CEO, Cropin | Cropin Cloud and SmartFarm; agricultural intelligence deployed across millions of acrescropin.com |
| Shashank KumarGurugram and Patna, India | Co-founder and CEO, DeHaat | DeHaat full-stack farmer platform covering inputs, advisory and market linkagedehaat.com |
| Devendra GuptaPune, India | Co-founder and CEO, Ecozen Solutions | Ecofrost solar cold storage and Ecotron solar-pump controllerecozensolutions.com |
| Ranjith MukundanBengaluru, India | Co-founder and CEO, Stellapps Technologies | SmartMoo dairy IoT platform and the mooMark consumer linestellapps.com |
| Ramesh RamachandranMumbai, India | Managing Director and CEO, Mahindra Agri Solutions | Krish-e farming-as-a-service and the Krish-e Smart Kit; ran Krish-e centres in Telanganamahindra.com |
| Dilip Kumar PratiharKharagpur, India | Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur | Tracked agricultural robot and mobile manipulator for disease detection and targeted sprayingiitkgp.ac.in/department/ME |
| Virendra Kumar TewariKharagpur, India | Professor and former Director, Agricultural & Food Engineering, IIT Kharagpur | Farm machinery and power, ergonomics and worker safety, precision agricultureiitkgp.ac.in |
| Girish ChowdharyUrbana, USA | Professor, Distributed Autonomous Systems Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; co-founder, EarthSense | Under-canopy agricultural field robots, autonomy for small farmsece.illinois.edu |
| Manoj KarkeeProsser, USA | Professor and Director, Center for Precision & Automated Agricultural Systems, Washington State University | Machine-vision robotics for orchards, robotic harvesting and pruninglabs.wsu.edu/karkee |
| Rajiv KhoslaUSA | Professor of Precision Agriculture | In-field soil and crop spatial variability, precision nutrient management— |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drones and unmanned aircraft systems | UAS engineer, Flight-test engineer, Drone pilot | ₹4–8 LPA | ₹8–15 LPA | ideaForge, Garuda Aerospace, Marut Drones, General Aeronautics, Dhaksha |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Agri-tech and precision agriculture | Agri-robotics engineer, Precision-agriculture engineer, Agronomy-tech specialist | ₹4–10 LPA; John Deere India entry about ₹7–18 LPA | ₹8–18 LPA | John Deere India, Mahindra Agri, DeHaat, Ninjacart, Garuda Aerospace |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1 (agri-engineering department)
- F-A3
- F-A5
- F-A15 (agri-bio)
- F-A11 (remote sensing for agriculture)
- F-A14 (crop AI)
- F-A20 (Reliance Foundation, Godrej Agrovet, Mahindra, Bharti)
After products exist
- F-B7 SMAM, Namo Drone Didi, NABARD (demand side; R-ABI host uncertain)
- F-B10
- F-B6 (agri-biotech via the incubator)
- F-B1 (agri-logistics dual-use)
- F-B13 (I4F irrigation, AISRF)
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A5AICTE IDEA Lab | About ₹1.1 Cr total; AICTE up to about ₹30 lakh or 50% | YES (conditional) | Annual; 2024-25 list published; 2026-27 expected | AICTE portal |
| F-A15DBT-BIRAC BioNEST (bio-incubator) | Capital plus three-to-five-year support; at least 8,000 sq ft | YES (host) | Periodic call | birac.nic.in BioNEST call |
| F-A11ISRO RESPOND and Space Technology Cells | Project-based R&D grants, fellowships, facility set-up | YES | RESPOND Basket annual (2025 basket published); proposals rolling against the basket | isro.gov.in Sponsored Research; PRL for science topics |
| F-A14IndiaAI Mission — compute | Over 38,000 GPUs at about ₹65 an hour, with government paying up to 40% of the bill for priority use cases; outlay ₹10,371.92 Cr over five years (March 2024) | YES | Rolling | indiaai.gov.in AI Compute Portal |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B7ICAR, NABARD, RKVY-RAFTAAR, SMAM and Namo Drone Didi (agri demand side) | R-ABI host support; SMAM 100% institutional demonstration up to ₹10 lakh per drone; Namo Drone Didi 80% up to ₹8 lakh | R-ABI host likely NO; demand-side YES | Rolling | Agriculture ministry; NABARD; agrimachinery.nic.in |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B6DBT-BIRAC BIG (₹50 lakh, 18 months) and SBIRI | BIG ₹50 lakh | Via startup | Calls about 1 January and 1 July yearly | birac.nic.in |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: IIT Madras CFI (Automagri); Georgia Tech Invention Studio. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Baseline plus an outdoor test plot. Anchor: ~6–9k sq ft baseline plus outdoor plot.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 504 |
| Integration & Staging | 84 |
| Digital & Simulation | 116 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 122 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 108 |
| Covered Machinery Yardclear 6.0 m | 300 |
| Post-Harvest & Cold Roomclear 3.0 m | 45 |
| Instrumented Field Plotclear 0 m | 1000 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
10. Club: Kisan Yantra Collective
Studio-specific: Season-long campus-farm trials with ANGRAU; Farmer field days in three villages each semester; Post-harvest loss audit for a district mandi. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | Elsevier | IF 10.3 (latest JCR), Q1; APC ~US$3,680 | verified |
| Biosystems Engineering | Elsevier | Q1 | partial |
| Precision Agriculture | Springer | Q1 | partial |
| IEEE Sensors Journal | IEEE | IF 4.5 (2024), Q1; hybrid OA | verified |
| Smart Agricultural Technology | Elsevier, OA | UG-led applied work: yes | partial |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | IF 3.4–3.9, Q2; gold OA APC ~US$1,995; UG-led: yes | verified |
| Sensors | MDPI | Q1/Q2 | unverified |
Conferences: IEEE INDICON (December, rotating Indian host, student track); IEEE Sensors (October–November); ASABE Annual International Meeting (USA, July). Indian venue: INDICON found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC A01 (agriculture), A01C (planting), A01G (horticulture, CEA), A01M (crop protection), G01N (sensing), A23 (post-harvest and food). Precedent: IIT Kharagpur FarmBot semi-automatic tracked mobile manipulator, filed 2019, granted 2024 (number not public).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Soil, water and produce testing (NABL), precision-irrigation audits, cold-chain validation, drone-spray trials; no published Indian fee schedule found.
Competitions: Smart India Hackathon (agriculture theme, ₹1,00,000+); DST and ICAR agri-hackathons; Hult Prize food and agriculture tracks.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 2 OF 17 · OCEANTECH & BLUE ECONOMY
Tide Studio
STUDIO 2 OF 17 · OCEANTECH & BLUE ECONOMY
Tide Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Warn a basin of flood and drought from a digital twin; Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
6 flagship systems anchor 30 products in three tiers — 24 component and subsystem learning products and 6 system products — sized to the Studio's 30 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Coastal Buoy; Erosion Watch; Cyclone Surge Gauge; Pond Doctor; Auto Feeder; Shrimp Count Camera.
- Y1 · Coastal Buoy — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Coastal Buoy — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Coastal Buoy — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Coastal Buoy — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Coastal Buoy
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIOT-linked fabricatorsChennai | Buoy hulls and moorings — thin Indian vendor base | Per build | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea-Bird ScientificUSA | CTD | Import via agents; DSIR-exemptible | partial |
| Teledyne RDIUSA | ADCP | Import | partial |
| EdgeTech / KleinUSA | Side-scan sonar | Import | partial |
| ValeportUK | Ocean instrumentation | Import | partial |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Aqua One Center / Sagar Aquaculture suppliers (Vijayawada–Nellore belt), Robokits India (Ahmedabad), Marine Electricals / Elcome dealers (Chennai/Vizag), Tenet Technetronics (Bengaluru), Robu.in / Macfos (Pune), Robokits / ThinkRobotics / Campus Component; international: Blue Robotics (USA), Water Linked (Norway), Atlas Scientific (USA), In-Situ / YSI-Xylem (USA, via Indian channel), Blue Robotics (USA), Water Linked (Norway); Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (6, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (1 items) | ₹2.5 L | AMC ₹0.1 L after 2 warranty years | ₹0.4 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (15 lines, quantities for 71 concurrent teams) | ₹1.41 Cr | consumables ₹11.4 L at 8% (wet class) | ₹23.4 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹45.0 L | — | ₹7.5 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹22.6 L | — | ₹3.8 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹4.0 L | ₹0.7 L / yr |
| Electricity (114 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹11.0 L | ₹1.8 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹2.11 Cr | ₹26.6 L | ₹35.1 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹72.7 L | ₹15.4 L | ₹12.1 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹2.83 Cr | ₹42.1 L | ₹47.2 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹2.98 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L / yr | 5% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L / yr | 3% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquaculture sensing kitDissolved oxygen, pH, ammonia, camera; auto-feeder actuators | ₹1–4 lakh per pond | ₹2.5 L | 1 | ₹2.5 L | band midpointIndian aquaculture-equipment vendors |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (15 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlueROV2Inspection ROV base; vision, sonar and manipulator payload host | acrylic 100 m / aluminium 300 m rating; from ~$4,600 + duty | ₹4.6 L | 8 | ₹37.1 L | listed price |
| Ping sonar / Ping360 scanning sonarROV navigation, obstacle avoidance, bathymetry — half the price of competing scanning sonars | $1,975; 750 kHz, 50 m range, 300 m rated | ₹2.0 L | 8 | ₹15.9 L | listed price |
| Water Linked M64 acoustic modems (~$2,000-class/pair) and A50 USBLThe underwater comms and positioning foundry | ₹1.7 L | 8 | ₹13.6 L | planning price set | |
| Optical DO probes and water test kits (thousands of Rs)Pond and hatchery QA | Rs 15,000–3,00,000 across Atlas Scientific, Hach and YSI tiers | ₹1.6 L | 8 | ₹12.6 L | band midpoint |
| Hanna portable multiparameter (HI98194 ~Rs 1.4 lakh) + HI83303 aquaculture photometerField water chemistry and the hatchery lab bench | ₹1.4 L | 8 | ₹11.2 L | planning price set | |
| OpenCTDResearch-grade conductivity-temperature-depth profiling — proof an instrument can be student-built | Oceanography for Everyone; ~$300–600 in parts, Adafruit Feather M0 | ₹0.5 L | 24 | ₹10.9 L | band midpoint |
| Multiparameter sondes — YSI ProDSS/EXO2, In-Situ Aqua TROLL 500/600Reference-grade calibration truth for every student-built sensor | quote-only via Xylem/In-Situ India; ~Rs 4–17 lakh by config | ₹10.5 L | 1 | ₹10.5 L | band midpoint |
| Pressure test pot, test tank/flume, salt-spray chamber (fabricate locally or import)Underwater-technology validation | pressure pot Rs 3–15 L fabricated locally; salt-spray chamber Rs 2–6 L from CM Envirosystems or Envisys | ₹9.0 L | 1 | ₹9.0 L | band midpoint |
| Pixhawk / ArduPilot autopilotsASV autonomy, rover and boat control | Rs 15k–40k clone to genuine | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.6 L | band midpoint |
| T200/T500 thrusters + Basic ESCROVs, ASVs, crawlers, pumps — the actuation standard | T500 $690; ESC $44; T200 spare $252 | ₹0.7 L | 8 | ₹5.6 L | listed price |
| Underwater cameras and lights, thrust-test rig, marine-grade toolsAll robotics work | Rs 1–5 L for cameras, lights and a thrust-test rig combined | ₹3.0 L | 1 | ₹3.0 L | band midpoint |
| Watertight enclosures, end-caps, WetLink penetrators, Bar30 depth sensor (tens of $ each)Any pressure housing or instrument students design | Bar30 ~$85; enclosures and penetrators ~$40–200 each — Blue Robotics import | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹2.1 L | listed price |
| Atlas Scientific EZO circuits — DO/pH/EC/tempPond controllers, buoys, student-built CTDs and sondes | EZO-DO Rs 6,289 at MG Super Labs | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹1.5 L | listed price |
| Open wave-buoy, turbidity and DO sensor designs (BOM cost)The whole coastal-monitoring foundry | build BOM Rs 1k–6k per sensor | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.8 L | band midpoint |
| LoRa / GSM / Swarm / Iridium telemetryBuoys, beacons, drifters, farm networks | LoRa modules Rs 300–1,500 | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.2 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): ArduSub / ArduPilot + QGroundControl + BlueOS; OpenCV; GNU Radio; OpenFOAM + WEC-Sim.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (1 lines, ₹0.1 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / Jetson | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.1 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. NIOT's mission-vertical model — each product tied to a national ocean mission — with student teams embedded as junior contributors; secure NIOT and INCOIS partnership for sea trials. Gap: No undergraduate ocean product studio exists in India; NIOT and INCOIS are government R&D, not student-team shops.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)Chennai | 1993 | Ministry of Earth Sciences | Ocean Electronics builds profiling floats, gliders and submerged fish-cage systems; leads the Deep Ocean Mission | https://niot.res.inverified |
| INCOISHyderabad | 1998 | MoES | ARGO floats; Indian Tsunami Early Warning System, a globally designated Tsunami Service Provider | https://incois.gov.inverified |
| Advanced Marine Station for Ocean Biology (AMSOB)NIOT | — | Deep Ocean Mission Vertical 6 | Aquaculture and mariculture capacity building | https://amsob.inverified |
| Department of Ocean EngineeringIIT Madras | — | — | NIOT-linked labs | —unverified |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIT–WHOI Joint Program in OceanographyUSA | — | — | Instrumentation and AUVs | —unverified |
| Coastal and aquaculture engineeringNUS and NTU, Singapore | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- NIOT (Chennai) and INCOIS (Hyderabad), Ministry of Earth Sciences — Moored and tsunami buoys, ROVs, ocean-observation instrumentation; INCOIS in Hyderabad is the nearest ocean-data CoE. verified
- IN-SPACe / ISRO student-satellite programme (17 authorised, 11 launched) — Authorisation, mentoring, integration and launch for student satellites; RAC-S is the outreach route. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eruvaka TechnologiesVijayawada / Guntur · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Pond automation and aquaculture sensors; adjacent to campus | Company page — strong local candidate to confirmconfirm URL |
| AquaExchangeVisakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Aquaculture IoT and energy automation; 5,800+ farmers across five states, about $9.9M raised, NABARD and APGB IoT-loan partnership (August 2025); ownership status unresolved — a PitchBook entry records acquisition by nextaqua (January 2024) against 2025–26 reporting of independent operation | inc42.com; company pageconfirm URL — confirm ownership |
| NIOTChennai (~400 km), MoES · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Ocean instrumentation, desalination, marine sensors; student internships and project training across ~15 areas | niot.res.in HRD (confirm exact internship link)corroborated |
| INCOISHyderabad (~270 km), MoES · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Ocean data and tsunami warning; the closest ocean lab | incois.gov.in/site/itcoocean training courses and student projectscorroborated |
| ICAR-CIBAChennai · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Brackishwater aquaculture; six-month PG projects | ciba.res.in HRD Cellcorroborated |
| ICAR-CMFRIKochi HQ; Visakhapatnam regional centre · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Marine fisheries; project-internship guidelines | cmfri.org.in/guidelinescorroborated |
| Sonardyne / Teledyne MarineUK / USA | Global company or institution | Hydrography and subsea instrumentation | Academic and OEM routeconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (6)
| Wärtsilä, Maersk technology centresBengaluru / Pune | Marine and logistics engineering — largely digital |
| Liquid Robotics (a Boeing company)via Sagar Defence Engineering | MoU to co-develop Autonomous Surface Vessels in India |
| MAN Energy Solutions IndiaAurangabad, Bengaluru, Pune and Vadodara | Four-stroke marine and power engines and turbomachinery, run as a Global Engineering Centre serving the group worldwideabout 600 engineers; the clearest example of genuine marine design work done in India |
| DNVPune, Mumbai and Chennai | Marine classification, naval architecture, structural and geotechnical engineering and decarbonisation studiesover 900 people; Chennai is reachable from this campus |
| Kongsberg Maritime IndiaNavi Mumbai and Kochi, with personnel in Visakhapatnam | Propulsion, waterjets and navigation, largely service and assembly rather than designhas people in Visakhapatnam, which makes it locally relevant |
| Alfa Laval IndiaPune | Marine separators, heat exchangers and pumps; a global manufacturing hub with a large service engineering groupmanufacturing and service; the core research stays in Denmark |
Indian startups and product companies (5)
| Eruvaka TechnologiesVijayawada, Andhra Pradesh | Pond sensors and aquaculture automation — now Nutreco/Skretting-owned. Closest relevant company to campus. |
| AquaConnectChennai | Aquaculture advisory, inputs and financing |
| Sea6 EnergyBengaluru | Mechanised seaweed farming to biofuels and bioplastics; in BIRAC’s 2026 RDI-fund cohort |
| Captain FreshBengaluru | Seafood supply chain; unicorn |
| AquaExchangeVijayawada, Andhra Pradesh | Designing and mass-producing rugged farm hardware in the district where the customers are; the first firm to automate more than a quarter of India’s shrimp farms |
Global companies and institutions (8)
| SaildroneAlameda, United States | Sailing for a year on under a hundred watts against a research ship burning thousands a day — energy frugality is the product |
| Sofar OceanSan Francisco, United States | Many cheap buoys beat a few expensive moorings; swarm the sensing |
| Bedrock OceanNew York, United States | Reframing survey as a data service replaces the crewed vessel |
| Notilo PlusMarseille, France | Navigating without satellite positioning is the hard part of the underwater medium |
| AquabyteBergen, Norway | Computer vision underwater replaces manual fish counting and feeding judgement |
| Open Ocean RoboticsVictoria, Canada | A small team can build an endurance surface vessel around a solar energy budget |
| MinestoGothenburg, Sweden | A tethered kite moves faster than the current itself, raising energy capture in slow tides |
| Carnegie Clean EnergyFremantle, Australia | Submerging the device trades some capture for survivability in storms |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr T. M. Balakrishnan NairHyderabad | Director, INCOIS (MoES) | Built India's operational ocean forecast and tsunami early-warning services; founder-member of INCOIS | 3, 5 | incois.gov.in/site/director.jspV |
| Prof. Balaji RamakrishnanChennai | Director, NIOT (MoES), since 6 September 2024 | National ocean-technology programmes | 5 | amsob.in/NIOT/WhosWhoPageS |
Coverage: Fewer than eight verified. Candidate leads: CMFRI and CIBA (Chennai), NIO Goa, AP fisheries-technology startups such as Aquaconnect.
The Studio's full advisory bench (12 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Sreeram RaaviVijayawada, India · in reach | Founder and Managing Director, Eruvaka Technologies | PondGuard, PondMother and ShrimpTalk acoustic feeders — aquaculture IoT now part of the Nutreco grouperuvaka.com |
| Pavan KosarajuVijayawada, Andhra Pradesh · in reach | Founder and Chief Executive, AquaExchange | Built the aeration controller and the solar feeder, and a platform now monitoring more than eighty thousand acres of aquaculture across five Indian states and three other countriesaquaexchange.com |
| Hemasundar DhaviliVijayawada, Andhra Pradesh · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, AquaExchange | Co-built and scaled the device operations behind the farm hardwarelinkedin.com |
| Kareemullah MohammodVijayawada, Andhra Pradesh · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Information Officer, AquaExchange | Oversees the information systems behind the farm automation devicestracxn.com |
| Kiran Kumar B. N.Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Business Officer, AquaExchange | Leads customer development for the aquaculture hardwarelinkedin.com |
| Chinni Raja SamanthVijayawada, Andhra Pradesh · in reach | Chief Technology Officer, AquaExchange | Leads the automation hardware and the analytics platform on top of ityourstory.com |
| Rajamanohar SomasundaramChennai, India | Founder and CEO, Aquaconnect | AquaCONNECT satellite and AI platform and FarmMOJO, serving the Andhra aquaculture beltaquaconnect.blue |
| Johns T. MathaiKochi, India | Co-founder and CEO, EyeROV | EyeROV TUNA underwater inspection ROV and the iBoat Alpha surface vessel; Indian Navy contractseyerov.com |
| Kannappa PalaniappanKochi, India | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, EyeROV | Underwater inspection ROV design and marine robotic droneseyerov.com |
| Balaji RamakrishnanChennai, India | Director, National Institute of Ocean Technology | Ocean engineering; oversees the CMARS marine-robotics centre and the Matsya-6000 crewed submersibleniot.res.in |
| G. A. RamadassChennai, India | Scientist and Group Head, Deep Sea Technologies, NIOT | Strategic AUVs, deep-water vehicles, underwater navigation and powerniot.res.in |
| Hanumant SinghBoston, USA | Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern University | SeaBED-class AUVs, under-ice and polar autonomous marine roboticscoe.northeastern.edu |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1
- F-A3
- F-A11 (ocean colour, INCOIS)
- MoES NIOT and INCOIS collaborative projects (confirm academic call windows)
- F-A15 (aquaculture bio)
- AP Maritime Policy 4.0 adjacency (confirm)
After products exist
- F-B1 (naval and underwater dual-use)
- F-B2 (naval sensors, consortium)
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A11ISRO RESPOND and Space Technology Cells | Project-based R&D grants, fellowships, facility set-up | YES | RESPOND Basket annual (2025 basket published); proposals rolling against the basket | isro.gov.in Sponsored Research; PRL for science topics |
| F-A15DBT-BIRAC BioNEST (bio-incubator) | Capital plus three-to-five-year support; at least 8,000 sq ft | YES (host) | Periodic call | birac.nic.in BioNEST call |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B2DRDO Technology Development Fund (TDF) | Up to ₹50 Cr per project (from ₹10 Cr, approved 8 June 2022); up to 90% of cost; consortium of industry with industry or academia allowed; separate ₹500 Cr deep-tech vertical | CONDITIONAL (consortium) | Rolling | tdf.drdo.gov.in rolling EoIs |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: TU Delft Solar Boat and Hydro Motion teams. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Baseline plus water tank and wet bay. Anchor: Baseline plus tank.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 360 |
| Integration & Staging | 60 |
| Digital & Simulation | 82 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 88 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 77 |
| Tank Hallclear 5.0 m | 140 |
| Wet Laboratory — aquacultureclear 3.0 m | 55 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
10. Club: Blue Horizon Club
Studio-specific: Coastal buoy deployment camp with INCOIS; Aquaculture pond week with fish-farmer societies; Wave-flume design sprint. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | Elsevier | IF ~6.0, Q1; APC ~US$3,690 (unverified) | partial |
| IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering | IEEE | IF 5.6 (2025), Q1; UG-led: yes | verified |
| Aquacultural Engineering | Elsevier | IF 5.44 (2024), Q1; APC US$3,600 | verified |
| Applied Ocean Research | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Sensors Journal | IEEE | IF 4.5, Q1 | verified |
| Aquaculture | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
Conferences: IEEE OCEANS (twice yearly, one often Asia-Pacific); IEEE INDICON; MTS/IEEE regional. Indian venue: INDICON found; no dedicated Indian ocean-technology student track found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC B63 (marine), G01C (hydrographic survey), A01K (aquaculture), G01N and G01S (sensing, sonar), E02B (coastal works).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Hydrographic survey, aquaculture water-quality monitoring, sensor calibration; NIOT and NIO-style sponsored projects; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: Smart India Hackathon (marine and fisheries); RoboSub and RoboBoat (international); no dedicated Indian ocean student competition found.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 3 OF 17 · MANNED ELECTRIC MOBILITY
Traction Studio
STUDIO 3 OF 17 · MANNED ELECTRIC MOBILITY
Traction Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response.
Tasks its products serve: Carry passengers across campus in the monsoon; Attest a fleet's safety daily and keep it honest; Clear the road and fly the blood: an emergency corridor for a district.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
12 flagship systems anchor 60 products in three tiers — 48 component and subsystem learning products and 12 system products — sized to the Studio's 60 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Vehicle Nervous System; Swap-Ready Module; Wheel-Hub Motor Module; By-Wire Redundant Steer; Mixed-Traffic Brake Assist; Driver Attention Guard; Heat-Tolerant Pack; BMS With a Model; Second-Life Grader; Junction Beacon; Fleet Attestation; Ambulance Green Wave.
- Y1 · Vehicle Nervous System — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Vehicle Nervous System — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Vehicle Nervous System — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Vehicle Nervous System — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Vehicle Nervous System
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neware via Wee ScientificsShenzhen; Chennai | CT-4000-5V6A/12A cell cycler — lowest-cost route with India support | About ₹2.5 lakh (the one firm India price found) | verified |
| Dynomerk ControlsPune | EV motor and powertrain dynamometers; no import duty; local commissioning | University bench tens of lakh; 100–350 kW back-to-back ₹1–3 crore+ | verified |
| SAJ Dyno; NeometrixPune; Noida | Dynamometers | Dyno class | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbin InstrumentsCollege Station, Texas; India office | Precision cyclers | ₹15–60 lakh+ (price unverified) | verified |
| BioLogicSeyssinet, France; BioLogic India, Mumbai since 2010 | BCS-900 cyclers, potentiostats, EIS | Cycler class | verified |
| dSPACEPaderborn; dSPACE India | SCALEXIO HIL, EcoLine entry, MicroAutoBox | HIL class | verified |
| OPAL-RTMontréal; OPAL-RT India, Bengaluru since 2012 | RT-LAB and HYPERSIM HIL; strong Indian academic base | HIL class | verified |
| Typhoon HIL via Quarbz IndiaSerbia / Switzerland | Affordable controller HIL; good academic fit | HIL class | verified |
| Vector InformatikStuttgart; Vector India, Pune and Bengaluru | CANoe, CANalyzer and VN hardware; direct India support | Tool class | verified |
| Kvaser via Element14, Can AutomotionSweden; Chennai | USB-CAN interfaces | ₹15,000–60,000 | verified |
| Intrepid Control SystemsDetroit; India office | neoVI, ValueCAN, Vehicle Spy | Tool class | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Robokits India / Robu.in, Amara Raja / Exide (institutional channels, AP), Scientech / Tesca Technologies, ExpressOthers: Keysight/Tek channel partners (Hyderabad), Robu.in / Robokits, Technobotix / Zbotic / amiciKart; international: Texas Instruments / STMicroelectronics (university programs), Neware (China, via Indian channel), OpenEVSE (USA), HBK / Magtrol (EU, via channel), Flipsky / Maytech / Hobbywing (China), Trampa (UK); Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (8, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (2 items) | ₹28.0 L | AMC ₹1.7 L after 2 warranty years | ₹3.5 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (13 lines, quantities for 86 concurrent teams) | ₹72.8 L | consumables ₹8.1 L at 8% (physical class) | ₹9.1 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹55.0 L | — | ₹6.9 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹18.7 L | — | ₹2.3 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹8.0 L | ₹1.0 L / yr |
| Electricity (157 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹15.2 L | ₹1.9 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹1.74 Cr | ₹32.9 L | ₹21.8 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹2.71 Cr | ₹42.2 L | ₹33.8 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹4.45 Cr | ₹75.2 L | ₹55.6 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹3.61 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹1.74 Cr | ₹23.2 L / yr | 20% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹43.1 L | ₹5.6 L / yr | 9% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹24.4 L | ₹6.9 L / yr | 7% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹20.3 L | ₹1.9 L / yr | 9% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN and automotive network toolsVector / Kvaser | ₹1–10 lakh | ₹5.5 L | 1 | ₹5.5 L | band midpointVector India; import |
| ADAS sensor suites; by-wire actuators; functional-safety toolingCamera, radar, lidar suites; steer / brake actuators; ISO 26262 tooling | Sensor suites ₹5–30 lakh; actuators and safety tooling ₹5–40 lakh | ₹22.5 L | 1 | ₹22.5 L | band midpointImport; Indian integrators |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (13 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery-rated thermal chambers (safety-vented)Abuse-adjacent testing within safety limits | Rs 5–20 L for a safety-vented cell and pack chamber from CM Envirosystems or Envisys | ₹12.5 L | 1 | ₹12.5 L | band midpoint |
| Thermal cameras (FLIR class)Pack and inverter hot-spot watch during cycling | FLIR EX-series Rs 1,21,750; Hikmicro and FLIR C-series entry units Rs 40,000–1,20,000 | ₹1.2 L | 8 | ₹9.7 L | listed price |
| EV charging testThe charging foundry’s validation line | EVSE testers, CCS dev kits, EVerest-compatible bench | ₹8.0 L | 1 | ₹8.0 L | planning price set |
| CAN analysersProfessional bus debug | PCAN/Kvaser Rs 15k–50k vs CANable alternatives | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹7.8 L | band midpoint |
| PixhawkDrive-by-wire bench autopilot | Holybro Pixhawk 6C Rs 26,749; 6C Mini Rs 22,949; Cube Orange Rs 40k–75k | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.4 L | listed price |
| Insulation / hipot testersAccumulator sign-off and the service-tool product line | Kyoritsu-class, ~Rs 77k range | ₹0.8 L | 8 | ₹6.2 L | listed price |
| OpenInverter (Hubner/Maguire community)Reuse production EV inverters (Leaf, Tesla, i3) for conversion engineering | community boards ~Rs 12k–30k landed | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.0 L | band midpoint |
| ODrive (open lineage, hardware now partly commercial)Precision dual-motor control for x-by-wire and robotics benches | S1/Pro $229 each, ~Rs 24–25k landed; firmware now closed — legacy 3.6 remains fully open | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.5 L | listed price |
| OpenEVSE controller kitsAC charge-point products students rebuild and extend | ~$100–200, ~Rs 8.5k–17k landed | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹3.6 L | band midpoint |
| VESC ecosystem — Flipsky FSESC 6.7 ~$60–110, 75100/75200 ~$110+, Trampa VESC6 premiumMotor control for 2Ws, karts and micro-mobility — the open ESC standard | India ~Rs 8k–20k via Robu/Technobotix | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹3.4 L | band midpoint |
| foxBMS (Fraunhofer IISB — first fully open BMS) / ENNOID-BMS (STM32 + LTC68xx, to 400 V)Open accumulator BMS development, cell-tap harnesses, balancing | foxBMS 2 is a research reference design — quote required; ENNOID/DIY-BMS build Rs 4k–15k | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹2.3 L | band midpoint |
| Pack spot weldersAll pack building at squad scale | DIY NY-D01-class Rs 2,000–3,500; amiciTools 5 kW ~Rs 10,500; Cruxweld pro units higher | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.7 L | band midpoint |
| Open CAN toolsBus analysis and the fault-code-reader product line | CANable/candleLight adapters (Rs 1,500–4,000) + SavvyCAN | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.7 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): VESC Tool; foxBMS suite (foxBMS 2 is a research reference design quote required; ENNOID/DIY-BMS build Rs 4k–15k); OpenInverter web UI (community boards ~Rs 12k–30k landed); SavvyCAN; EVerest (Linux Foundation Energy); SteVe / CitrineOS; PyBaMM; OpenModelica + SUMO; AVL / GT-Suite academic (optional).
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (7 lines, ₹69.1 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power analysers (Yokogawa/Hioki class, lakhs) | Power analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹35.6 L |
| Battery cell cyclers | Battery cyclers & cell testers | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹20.0 L |
| Motor dynamometers — small regen dynos + Indian makes (SAJ, Dynomerk); 2W roller/chassis dyno | Motor & drive test rigs | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹7.9 L |
| Isolated oscilloscopes + HV differential probes | Oscilloscope | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹3.3 L |
| TI C2000 LaunchPad + BOOSTXL-DRV kits; ST motor-control Nucleo packs | ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Compute and Software Lab | ₹1.3 L |
| MIG/TIG welding + tube bender (AISI 4130 chromoly work) and CMM basics | Welding & fabrication | Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹0.8 L |
| Arduino / ESP32 / STM32 | ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.2 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. The Hyundai CoE's single-OEM steering committee (industry and faculty co-chairs) with a multi-project portfolio; an Mcity-style closed-course track for ADAS and V2X products.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART)IIT Delhi | — | IIT Delhi | Cell, module and pack battery testing; master–slave BMS with cloud BMS and digital twin; automotive health-monitoring and NVH labs | https://www.iitd.ac.inverified |
| Hyundai CoE for Future Mobility TechnologyIIT Delhi | 2025 (opened 23 April; announced 3 December 2024) | Hyundai Motor Group and Kia, about 5 billion won (~$3.5 million) over two years, nine projects; steering committee co-chaired by Hyundai EVP Chang Hwan Kim and Prof. B. K. Panigrahi | Battery cells and systems, BMS, energy density, safety and diagnostics; expansion planned to other IITs | —secondary source |
| IIT Roorkee–MaxVolt Energy CoEIIT Roorkee | — | MaxVolt Energy | AI-driven BMS and second-life reusability detection | —secondary source |
| Webber ElectroCorpIIT Kharagpur startup | — | — | ICAT-certified indigenous BMS | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McityUniversity of Michigan, USA | — | — | Closed-course connected and autonomous-vehicle test facility (ADAS, V2X) | —unverified |
| WMG and UK Battery Industrialisation CentreUniversity of Warwick, UK | — | — | Battery scale-up | —unverified |
| EV powertrain labsStanford and Berkeley, USA | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- ARTPARK @ IISc and TiHAN @ IIT Hyderabad — Robotics and autonomy CoEs with test arenas, GPU compute and pre-venture acceleration. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosch Global Software TechnologiesBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | ADAS, powertrain, mobility software | University relations and CSRconfirm URL |
| ContinentalBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | ADAS, vehicle electronics | University relationsconfirm URL |
| QualcommHyderabad · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Snapdragon Digital Chassis and automotive SoCs, within its 18,000+ engineer centre | Qualcomm university relationscorroborated |
| Ather EnergyBengaluru / Hosur · in reach | Indian startup or product company | EV two-wheelers with in-house BMS; about ₹650 Cr planned investment by 2027 | Company pagecorroborated |
| Ola ElectricBengaluru / Krishnagiri · in reach | Indian startup or product company | EVs and indigenous cells (20 GWh PLI allocation) | Company pagecorroborated |
| Exponent EnergyBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | 15-minute rapid charging and BMS | Company pagecorroborated |
| Log9 MaterialsBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Cells and BMS — admitted to insolvency by NCLT Bengaluru on 14 November 2025 (about ₹200 Cr debt; near-shutdown May 2025); not a partner route | inc42.com; NCLT ordercorroborated — removed as a route |
| ARAI / iCATPune / Manesar | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Vehicle testing and homologation | Academic routeconfirm URL |
| AP Transport (RTA)Andhra Pradesh · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | V2X and fleet pilot host | State routeinference |
| Amara RajaTirupati / Chittoor · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Battery major with gigafactory plans, in AP | Company pageconfirm URL |
| NXP, Infineon, Texas Instruments University ProgramsGlobal | Global company or institution | Automotive MCUs and BMS ICs | Vendor university programmesconfirm URL |
| MathWorks, dSPACE, SiemensGlobal | Global company or institution | Model-based design, HIL | Academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (5)
| BoschBengaluru / Coimbatore | Powertrain, battery management, automotive electronics |
| Mercedes-Benz R&D IndiaBengaluru | One of the largest captive automotive R&D centres outside Germany |
| Continental, ZF, Magna, BorgWarner, Aptiv, ValeoPune / Bengaluru / Chennai | E-mobility components and electronics |
| GM Technical Centre India, Ford, Stellantis, Nissan DigitalBengaluru / Chennai | Vehicle engineering and simulation |
| Harman (Samsung)Bengaluru | Automotive electronics and audio |
Indian startups and product companies (5)
| Ather EnergyBengaluru | IPO 2025; valued ~$2.5B post-listing |
| Ola ElectricBengaluru | Listed; ~38% e-2W market share Q4 2025 |
| UltravioletteBengaluru | F77 electric motorcycle; TVS-backed |
| Euler MotorsDelhi | Electric three-wheeler cargo |
| Battery Smart / Sun Mobility / Exponent EnergyDelhi / Bengaluru | Swapping networks and rapid charging |
Global companies and institutions (10)
| NorthvoltStockholm, Sweden | Raised fifteen billion and reached one gigawatt-hour of a sixteen gigawatt-hour target; scaling cell manufacture is brutal |
| BritishvoltBlyth, United Kingdom | A site and a business plan is not a factory; it died without a commercial cell |
| ArrivalLondon, United Kingdom | A novel manufacturing thesis still has to meet cost and throughput |
| LightyearHelmond, Netherlands | The first product was scoped too ambitiously for the manufacturing reality |
| SpiroNairobi, Kenya | Battery swapping answers range and weak grids at once; the pack and the network are one design |
| RoamNairobi, Kenya | Ruggedise for local duty cycles rather than importing a generic design |
| GogoroTaipei, Taiwan | The swap network rather than the scooter is the defensible asset |
| RimacSveta Nedelja, Croatia | A halo car earned the credibility to sell the enabling technology as a supplier |
| AmpersandKigali, Rwanda | Pay-per-swap aligns the hardware with a gig rider’s daily cash flow |
| VinFastHai Phong, Vietnam | Negative gross margins show that cost parity, not launch, is the real contest |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
No advisor for this Studio was verified in this pass; see the candidate leads below and the Studio bench.
Coverage: no adviser confirmed yet. Candidate leads: Ather Energy (Tarun Mehta, Swapnil Jain), Ola Electric R&D, Bosch and Continental GCCs (Bengaluru), ARAI; C-DAC's C-V2X technology-transfer programme as an institutional anchor.
The Studio's full advisory bench (9 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Vikramadithya GourineniTirupati and Mahabubnagar, India · in reach | Executive Director, Amara Raja Energy and Mobility | The lithium-ion cell Giga Corridor in Telangana, and battery packs and charging for light electric vehiclesamararaja.com |
| Harshavardhana GourineniTirupati, India · in reach | Executive Director for automotive and industrial batteries, Amara Raja Energy and Mobility | Automotive and industrial battery lines and a lead-recycling plantamararajaeandm.com |
| Jayadev GallaTirupati, India · in reach | Chairman and Managing Director, Amara Raja Energy and Mobility | Grew Amara Raja past ten thousand crore in revenue; governor of the Global Battery Allianceamararajaeandm.com |
| Niraj RajmohanBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Ultraviolette Automotive | Led the hundred-volt battery architecture and the powertrain behind the company’s motorcycle and scooterultraviolette.com |
| Sanjay ByalalBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Exponent Energy | Leads the battery pack and the rapid-charging hardware that fills it in fifteen minutesdzero.vc |
| Swapnil JainBengaluru, India | Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director, Ather Energy | Ather 450X, the in-house battery pack, battery-management system and motor controller, and the Ather Grid charging networkatherenergy.com |
| Arun VinayakBengaluru, India | Co-founder and CEO, Exponent Energy | The fifteen-minute rapid-charge pack, pump and plug stack; previously Chief Product Officer at Ather, leading the 450Xexponent.energy |
| B. K. PanigrahiNew Delhi, India | Professor and Head, Centre for Automotive Research & Tribology, IIT Delhi | EV charging infrastructure, smart grids, powertrain testingee.iitd.ac.in |
| Nikolce MurgovskiGothenburg, Sweden | Professor, Systems & Control, Chalmers University of Technology | Optimal energy and thermal management for battery electric vehicleschalmers.se |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded systems and firmware, secure embedded, hardware security | Embedded engineer, Firmware engineer, Hardware-security engineer | ₹4–8 LPA (₹8–12 for Tier-1 graduates with ARM, AUTOSAR or embedded Linux) | ₹8–14 LPA | Bosch, Continental, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung |
| Automotive electronics, ADAS, ISO 26262, EV powertrain and battery | ADAS engineer, Functional-safety engineer, BMS and powertrain engineer | ₹4–8 LPA | ₹10–20 LPA | Bosch, Continental, ZF, Aptiv, KPIT |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1
- F-A3
- F-A5
- F-A6
- F-A9 (automotive silicon)
- F-A14 (ADAS AI)
- F-A20 (Bosch, Hyundai, Mahindra, Amara Raja, Bajaj)
After products exist
- F-B1 and F-B2 (military-mobility dual-use)
- F-B10
- F-B8 (V2G pilots)
- F-B13 (IGSTC mobility)
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A5AICTE IDEA Lab | About ₹1.1 Cr total; AICTE up to about ₹30 lakh or 50% | YES (conditional) | Annual; 2024-25 list published; 2026-27 expected | AICTE portal |
| F-A6AICTE MODROBS | Up to ₹20 lakh; two-year projects | YES (conditional) | Annual | AICTE RID Bureau |
| F-A9MeitY Chips to Startup (C2S) | Umbrella ₹250 Cr over five years; per-institution EDA access and design support (secondary reports cite about ₹15 lakh per project) | YES | Rolling call cycles | MeitY / C-DAC ChipIN Centre |
| F-A14IndiaAI Mission — compute | Over 38,000 GPUs at about ₹65 an hour, with government paying up to 40% of the bill for priority use cases; outlay ₹10,371.92 Cr over five years (March 2024) | YES | Rolling | indiaai.gov.in AI Compute Portal |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B2DRDO Technology Development Fund (TDF) | Up to ₹50 Cr per project (from ₹10 Cr, approved 8 June 2022); up to 90% of cost; consortium of industry with industry or academia allowed; separate ₹500 Cr deep-tech vertical | CONDITIONAL (consortium) | Rolling | tdf.drdo.gov.in rolling EoIs |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B8Ministry of Power RDSS pilots and DISCOM pilots | Pilot-based | Demand side | Rolling | Utility route |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: IIT Delhi CART; TiHAN. Specialised overlay for this Studio: HV lab and thermal-runaway battery abuse cell; track access. Anchor: HV protocols above 60 V, Class 0 gloves, LOTO; vented battery cell.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 432 |
| Integration & Staging | 72 |
| Digital & Simulation | 99 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 105 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 86 |
| Battery Test & Abuse Cellclear 3.5 m | 55 |
| Battery Storeclear 3.0 m | 25 |
| High-Voltage Bayclear 3.6 m | 45 |
| Powertrain Dynamometer Cellclear 4.5 m | 60 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
High-voltage EV lab safety
HV threshold above 60 V DC (ISO 6469, ECE R100); arc-flash concern above 150 V DC. Class 0 insulating gloves rated 1000 VAC / 1500 VDC to ASTM D120, retested every six months, with leather protectors; 1000 V insulated tools; CAT III 1000 V meters; LOTO to OSHA 1910.147 and NFPA 70E; an electrically safe work condition verified with a proximity tester; rescue hook; two-person rule; signage and barriers. tuvsud.com; ASE xEV electrical safety standard
Battery test-lab safety (UL 9540A, NFPA 855 2026)
Thermal runaway ejects about 66% of cell mass, generates up to 3 L of gas per Ah, overpressures above 200 kPa and releases HF and H₂ (over 140,000 ppm inside enclosures). Vented or explosion-rated enclosures, gas and fire detection, a SIL-rated safety PLC with interlocks, dedicated exhaust, a remote dunk-tank quench and thermally isolated steel tables. batterydesign.net; totalshield.com; cdc.gov
10. Club: Volt Motion Club
Studio-specific: Campus EV conversion challenge; Battery safety week with a cell maker; Functional-safety bootcamp for industry (ISO 26262). Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics | IEEE | IF ~8.2 (2024), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics | IEEE | IF 7.2 (2024), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| Applied Energy | Elsevier | IF 11.0 (2024), Q1; APC US$4,210 | verified |
| Journal of Power Sources | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | IEEE | IF ~7.9, Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2; APC ~US$1,995 | verified |
Conferences: IEEE ITEC-India (biennial); IEEE PES and PELS India symposia; IEEE VTC. Indian venue: ITEC-India found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC B60L (electric propulsion), H02J and H02M (power, charging), G01R (battery testing), B60W (ADAS and control), H04W (V2X).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Battery and BMS testing, EMC pre-compliance, motor-drive characterisation, ARAI and ICAT homologation support; no published university battery-lab fee schedule found.
Competitions: Formula Bharat (January; combustion and electric, autonomous from 2027; registration March–April 2026; 60+ teams at FB2026); BAJA SAEINDIA (mBAJA, eBAJA, hBAJA, aBAJA; January; NATRAX; about 90 eBAJA and 21 hBAJA teams in 2026); SUPRA SAEINDIA (2–5 September 2026, BIC Greater Noida); Shell Eco-marathon.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 4 OF 17 · AUTONOMOUS & UNMANNED SYSTEMS
Vahana Studio
STUDIO 4 OF 17 · AUTONOMOUS & UNMANNED SYSTEMS
Vahana Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response; Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Give a coastal district a spectrum picture it owns; Keep a relief convoy moving and talking when GPS and radio are jammed; Plan an electronic fight in seconds, with a human in charge; Map the interfering sources in a district and hand the officer the evidence; Keep an airfield and a border post safe from birds, drones and ice; Enter a collapsed building before a responder does; Carry passengers across campus in the monsoon; Train a robot in simulation on Monday and walk it on rubble on Friday; Attest a fleet's safety daily and keep it honest; Run an Indian warehouse with robots trained on Indian shelves and more.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
33 flagship systems anchor 165 products in three tiers — 132 component and subsystem learning products and 33 system products — sized to the Studio's 165 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Decoy Swarm Pod; Threat Whisperer; Missile-Approach Warner; Quiet Hawk; Tether Mast; Sniffer Quad; Distributed Aperture Swarm; Relay Chain; Swarm Spectrum Picket; Dead-Reckon Core; Spoof Sentinel; Signals-of-Opportunity Fix; Skateboard Shuttle; Tuk-Tuk Autonomy Kit; Campus Delivery Cart; Monsoon Perception; Indian Road Dataset; Thermal-Visible Fusion Camera; Roof Scout; Payload Drop Drone; Tethered Light Tower; Cargo Lifter; Corridor Manager; Medical Drone Corridor; Safety Monitor; Scenario Forge; Runtime Verifier; Proved Brake Logic; Assurance Case Builder; Redundant Compute Module; Field Scout Wing; Scout-and-Spray Pair; Seed Ball Drone.
- Y1 · Decoy Swarm Pod — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Decoy Swarm Pod — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Decoy Swarm Pod — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Decoy Swarm Pod — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Decoy Swarm Pod
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| ideaForge, Garuda, Dhaksha, MarutMumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad | Airframes and autopilots | Platform class | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holybro / CubePilotvia Indian hobby distributors | PX4 and ArduPilot autopilots | ₹15,000–60,000 | partial |
| Velodyne / Ouster / LivoxUSA / China | Lidar | Import | partial |
| OptiTrack / ViconUSA / UK | Motion capture | ₹30 lakh–₹1 crore | partial |
| u-bloxSwitzerland | GNSS RTK | Module class | partial |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Robu.in / Robokits India, ideaForge / Throttle Aerospace (institutional), CoreEL Technologies (Bengaluru), ThinkRobotics (Bengaluru), Robu.in, Robokits India; international: Holybro (China), Bitcraze (Sweden), Clearpath Robotics (Canada), Luxonis / Intel RealSense channel (USA), Holybro / CUAV, Bitcraze (Sweden); Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (10, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (2 items) | ₹4.7 L | AMC ₹0.3 L after 2 warranty years | ₹0.5 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (27 lines, quantities for 91 concurrent teams) | ₹2.11 Cr | consumables ₹17.2 L at 8% (physical class) | ₹21.1 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹46.0 L | — | ₹4.6 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹31.4 L | — | ₹3.1 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹6.0 L | ₹0.6 L / yr |
| Electricity (133 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹12.9 L | ₹1.3 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹2.93 Cr | ₹36.4 L | ₹29.3 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹1.29 Cr | ₹23.8 L | ₹12.9 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹4.22 Cr | ₹60.2 L | ₹42.2 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹4.54 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹28.5 L | ₹3.7 L / yr | 6% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹31.3 L | ₹8.8 L / yr | 9% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹34.1 L | ₹3.2 L / yr | 15% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTK GNSSEmlid / u-blox class | ₹0.5–3 lakh | ₹1.8 L | 1 | ₹1.8 L | band midpointRobu.in; Indian survey distributors |
| LiDARLivox Mid-70, Avia, HAP, TELE-15; Ouster OS0 / OS-Dome; Velodyne VLP-16 | Livox Mid-70 ~₹0.36 lakh, Avia ~₹1.56 lakh, HAP ~₹1.50 lakh, TELE-15 ~₹1.60 lakh; Ouster ₹5.5 lakh; VLP-16 ₹3.97 lakh | ₹2.9 L | 1 | ₹2.9 L | band midpointRobu.in; TradeIndia listings |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (27 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crazyflie 2.1+ with Lighthouse/Loco positioningThe academic swarm-research standard | Lighthouse swarm bundle ~$4,050; Loco ~$5,000–7,200 | ₹4.1 L | 8 | ₹32.7 L | listed price |
| Motion captureGround truth for control research | Vicon/OptiTrack Rs 20 L+ (Lighthouse is the practical low-cost alternative) | ₹25.0 L | 1 | ₹25.0 L | planning price set |
| Micro-Doppler radar module and calibrated acoustic arrayThe detection tier of the counter-unmanned-aircraft array | Rs 80,000–4,00,000 | ₹2.4 L | 8 | ₹19.2 L | band midpoint |
| Reference drones — indigenous (ideaForge class); DJI CBU import is bannedBenchmarking against certified platforms | Rs 5–25 L depending on class; import of complete DJI airframes is restricted | ₹18.0 L | 1 | ₹18.0 L | band midpoint |
| Small wind tunnel + environmental test rigsSubscale eVTOL and aero research | a small subsonic tunnel Rs 8–40 L, engineered to order — quote required | ₹15.0 L | 1 | ₹15.0 L | planning price set |
| F1TENTH spec — Traxxas chassis + Jetson + lidar + VESCThe academic autonomous-racing standard | ~$1,850 kit; ~$5,000 loaded | ₹1.9 L | 8 | ₹14.9 L | listed price |
| Netted-arena materials + flight-test instrumentationThe default legal early-flight environment | Rs 3–15 L for netting, gantry, tether rigs and an emergency-stop network | ₹9.0 L | 1 | ₹9.0 L | band midpoint |
| ADS-B receiver and transponder-awareness kitCooperative detect-and-avoid | Rs 15,000–60,000 | ₹0.4 L | 24 | ₹9.0 L | band midpoint |
| Two-axis motion table for stabilisation measurementThe instrument that turns a stabilisation claim into a microradian number | quote required | ₹8.0 L | 1 | ₹8.0 L | planning price set |
| Thrust standsMotor and propeller characterisation | Tyto/RCbenchmark class, ~$300–1,500 | ₹0.9 L | 8 | ₹7.3 L | band midpoint |
| Pixhawk 6C + PX4/ArduPilotThe standard autopilot — students tune their own controllers on every airframe | Holybro 6C ~Rs 26,749; 6C Mini ~Rs 22,949 in India | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.4 L | listed price |
| Pixhawk and ArduPilot flight controllersPlatform integration and flight test for payload trials | Holybro Pixhawk 6C Rs 26,749; 6C Mini Rs 22,949 | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.4 L | listed price |
| Holybro/CUAV dev kitsComplete airframe + autopilot development platforms | X500 V2 ~$705–830, X650 ~$1,207–1,348 (imported as components) | ₹0.8 L | 8 | ₹6.2 L | band midpoint |
| Battery chargers/analysers (iCharger/ISDT class) + LiPo fleet managementSafe fleet energy operations | Rs 8,000–40,000 per charger-analyser with LiPo fleet management | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.8 L | band midpoint |
| Ruggedised enclosure stock, conformal coating and vibration isolatorsEnvironmental hardening of the mission computer | Rs 20,000–1,20,000 | ₹0.7 L | 8 | ₹5.6 L | band midpoint |
| Open UGV bases — ODrive/VESC hub-motor builds, Linorobot-classCustom ground robots engineered, not bought | Linorobot2 build BOM Rs 35k–70k; TurtleBot3 Burger Rs 95,549 incl GST | ₹0.5 L | 8 | ₹4.2 L | band midpoint |
| Duckietown platformLow-cost AV education at cohort scale | ~$400–600 per Duckiebot | ₹0.5 L | 8 | ₹4.0 L | band midpoint |
| Class 1 eye-safe laser rangefinder at 1550 nmGeolocation of an observed object; never designation for engagement | quote required | ₹4.0 L | 1 | ₹4.0 L | planning price set |
| Two-axis gimbal mechanics, torque motors and slip ringsThe stabilisation platform the imaging core is mounted in | Rs 60,000–3,00,000 | ₹1.8 L | 2 | ₹3.6 L | band midpoint |
| Mesh radios (Meshtastic) + ELRS/mLRS long-range linksLong-range and mesh communications | RadioMaster/Jumper radios ~Rs 10–15k | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹3.0 L | band midpoint |
| Uncooled LWIR core, 640×512 at sub-nine-hertzThe imaging payload; the sub-nine-hertz specification is what makes it lawfully procurable | Boson-class, Rs 50,000–1,60,000; Lepton-class Rs 7,000–17,000 | ₹1.1 L | 2 | ₹2.1 L | band midpoint |
| Carbon plate/tube frame stock (Robu.in stocks S500/F450/carbon frames)Custom frame-up airframes — the core pedagogy | S500/F450 frames Rs 1.5k–4k; plate and tube stock Rs 500–3k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.7 L | band midpoint |
| UWB modules (Qorvo DWM3000 class, imported as components)GNSS-denied positioning products | DWM1000/DWM3000 class Rs 1.5k–4k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.7 L | band midpoint |
| Open inertial measurement units and BLDC gimbal motor driversTwo-axis stabilisation loop development before committing to a commercial gimbal | Rs 1,500–9,000 | ₹0.1 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| Open gimbal controllers (STorM32/BaseCam)Stabilised payload products | STorM32 Rs 2.5k–6k; genuine BaseCam Rs 8k–12k | ₹0.0 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| Open ground-station hardwareMission-control benches for every foundry | SiK telemetry Rs 2k–3.5k; RFD900 Rs 18k–25k landed | ₹0.0 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| Environmental and EMI qualification at a NABL laboratoryMIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461 evidence; SAMEER, CPRI and accredited private laboratories | quote required per campaign | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | planning price set |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): PX4 + ArduPilot + QGroundControl/Mission Planner; Autoware; ORB-SLAM3 / VINS-Fusion / FAST-LIO / RTAB-Map; Kalibr; Crazyswarm2 + MAVSDK/MAVROS; F1TENTH stack; Foxglove + rosbag tooling; MATLAB/Simulink UAV Toolbox (campus licence); NVIDIA Omniverse/Isaac (edu licensing); Vector CANoe-class bus tools (or open alternatives).
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (8 lines, ₹43.5 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super and Raspberry Pi 5 | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹11.4 L |
| Depth cameras | Cameras & machine vision | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹9.5 L |
| 3D lidar tiers | LiDAR | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹8.6 L |
| ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / Jetson Orin family | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹7.2 L |
| RTK GNSS | GNSS / RTK positioning | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹3.8 L |
| RPLIDAR A1M8 ~Rs 6,777 / A2M12 ~Rs 26,904; Livox Mid-360 ~Rs 90k–125k | LiDAR | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹1.6 L |
| RTL-SDR, HackRF One and ADALM-PLUTO | Software-defined radio | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹1.4 L |
| GNU Radio, PX4, ROS 2, OpenCV | ROS / robotics middleware | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.0 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. DIA-CoE's 100%-funded directed-research vertical with DRDO as the customer: give every Vahana product a defence or civil end-user and milestone-gated funding.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRDO Industry–Academia CoE (DIA-CoE)IIT Jodhpur | 2024 (inaugurated 19 April by DRDO Chairman Dr Samir V. Kamat) | DRDO, 100% project funding | Futuristic omni-mobility drones and desert-warfare technologies | https://iitj.ac.in/dia-coeverified |
| DIA-CoE network15 institutions incl. IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, University of Hyderabad, Gujarat University, Mizoram University, Bharathiar University | — | DRDO | Directed research verticals | https://drdo.gov.inverified |
| Aerial robotics (EAgriS) and IIT drone labsIIT Ropar and others | — | — | — | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotic Systems LabETH Zurich | — | — | Autonomous drones and legged systems | —unverified |
| UAV autonomy labs; UAS Test SiteStanford, MIT, Georgia Tech; University of Maryland; TU Delft; TU Munich | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- ARTPARK @ IISc and TiHAN @ IIT Hyderabad — Robotics and autonomy CoEs with test arenas, GPU compute and pre-venture acceleration. verified
- DRDO Industry–Academia Centres of Excellence (15 established, 82 verticals) — SDR at IIT Kanpur; Emerging RF Technologies at IIT Roorkee; Compound Semiconductors at IIT Bombay; Cryptography & Information Security at IIT Kharagpur; Omni-mobility and AI at IIT Jodhpur. Nearest: University of Hyderabad DIA-CoE. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honeywell AerospaceBengaluru, Hyderabad · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Avionics, navigation | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Collins AerospaceBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Avionics, survivability | University relationsconfirm URL |
| ideaForgeMumbai, Bengaluru | Indian startup or product company | VTOL and ISR UAVs; about 50% of the Indian unmanned-systems market; 400,000+ flights | Company pagecorroborated |
| NewSpace Research & TechnologiesBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Swarm drones, loitering munitions; AI swarms tested for the IAF | Company pagecorroborated |
| Dhaksha Unmanned SystemsChennai · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Defence UAVs | Company pagecorroborated |
| Asteria Aerospace (Reliance-backed)Bengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Enterprise and defence drones; Indian Army AT-15 contract | Company pagecorroborated |
| Garuda AerospaceChennai · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Drone-as-a-service and a defence drone facility near Chennai | Company pagecorroborated |
| TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (NM-ICPS)Hyderabad (~270 km) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Autonomous-navigation testbed (UAV, UGV, V2X); the strongest MoU candidate | tihan.iith.ac.in/partnerships.html internships and institutional MoUscorroborated |
| DRDO-ADE and CAIRBengaluru · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | UAV and AI robotics | RAC and internship routeconfirm URL |
| NRSCHyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Geospatial and perception data | Student internship via nrsc.gov.incorroborated |
| NVIDIA (Jetson, academic grants)Global | Global company or institution | Edge autonomy and perception | NVIDIA academic programmesconfirm URL |
| Ansys, MathWorksGlobal | Global company or institution | Autonomy verification and simulation | Academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (5)
| Boeing India Engineering & Technology CentreBengaluru / Chennai | 5,500+ engineers; Rs 1,600 Cr, 43-acre Devanahalli campus opened January 2024 — Boeing’s largest facility outside the US |
| Collins AerospaceBengaluru / Hyderabad | ~5,000 engineers; flight controls and systems |
| Honeywell AerospaceBengaluru | Avionics and controls |
| Bosch / Continental autonomy teamsBengaluru | Perception and ADAS engineering |
| NetradyneBengaluru / San Diego | Driver-assistance and edge vision |
Indian startups and product companies (5)
| ideaForgeMumbai (IIT-Bombay origin) | ~50% of India’s defence and security drone market; IPO 2023 |
| Raphe mPhibrNoida | Swarm-capable defence drones; $145M raised, 600+ staff |
| Garuda AerospaceChennai | Drone-as-a-Service, 40+ models; $12M Series B March 2025 |
| Asteria AerospaceBengaluru | Majority-owned by Reliance Jio Platforms; A200/A410 platforms |
| Aarav Unmanned Systems, Marut Drones, ZuppaBengaluru / Hyderabad | Survey, agri and defence drones |
Global companies and institutions (8)
| LiliumMunich, Germany | An elegant but complex configuration ran out of cash before certification |
| VolocopterBruchsal, Germany | Flying prototypes were not enough; certification and capital outran revenue |
| WayveLondon, United Kingdom | A different architectural bet: learn driving end to end rather than hand-coding the rules |
| Shield AISan Diego, United States | Autonomy that survives loss of satellite positioning is the differentiator |
| SkydioSan Mateo, United States | Onboard visual autonomy rather than remote piloting is what makes the aircraft useful |
| Exyn TechnologiesPhiladelphia, United States | Three-dimensional simultaneous localisation and mapping underground where positioning fails |
| XMobotsSão Carlos, Brazil | Certification with the national regulator is itself an engineering discipline |
| Gilmour SpaceGold Coast, Australia | A fourteen-second maiden flight still validates the pad, telemetry and team |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankit MehtaMumbai | Co-founder and CEO, ideaForge | India's leading indigenous UAV maker for defence and homeland security; member of the government UTM Committee and Drone Task Force | 1, 4 | weforum.org/stories/authors/ankit-mehta; acr.iitbombay.orgV/S |
| Director, DRDO Centre for AI and Robotics (CAIR) — incumbent to be confirmedBengaluru | Director, DRDO CAIR | Autonomy and robotics for defence; the September 2026 audit could not confirm the current director from a DRDO primary source (an earlier public record listed Dr U. K. Singh); seat held for the office, name on confirmation | 1, 4 | drdo.gov.inU — audit: unverifiable |
Coverage: Fewer than eight verified. Candidate leads: NewSpace Research & Technologies, Garuda Aerospace, Raphe mPhibr, ADE-DRDO, IISc drone-autonomy faculty.
The Studio's full advisory bench (15 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Astra Microwave Products leadershipHyderabad, India · in reach | Radio-frequency and microwave subsystems | Airborne and ground radio-frequency subsystems, transmit and receive modulesastramwp.com |
| Zen Technologies leadershipHyderabad, India · in reach | Simulators and counter-unmanned-aircraft detection | Training simulators and anti-drone detection systemszentechnologies.com |
| Sameer JoshiBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, NewSpace Research and Technologies | A former fighter pilot who leads India’s first swarming drone system and a loitering platform, under an army contractlinkedin.com/company/newspacert |
| Ankit MehtaMumbai, India | Co-founder and CEO, ideaForge Technology | SWITCH, NETRA and Q-series UAVs; over 850,000 cumulative flights and a million customer missions, with a major Army mini-UAV order in 2025ideaforgetech.com |
| Arvind LakshmikumarBengaluru, India | Founder and Chief Executive, Tonbo Imaging | Stabilised electro-optical and infrared imaging systems including the Hummingbird and Avenger gimbal families; doctorate in robotics from Carnegie Mellontonboimaging.com |
| Sudeep GeorgeBengaluru, India | Vice-President, Engineering, Tonbo Imaging | Engineering leadership across cooled and uncooled imaging payloads and gimbal integrationtonboimaging.com |
| Ankit KumarBengaluru, India | Co-founder and Chief Business Officer, Tonbo Imaging | Applied vision products for airborne and ground platforms; previously at Sarnofftonboimaging.com |
| Data Patterns (India) leadershipChennai, India | Avionics, radar and electronic-warfare subsystems | Airborne mission computers, avionics and test systemsdatapatterns.co.in |
| Vikash MishraNoida, India | Founder and Chairman, Raphe mPhibr | Leads in-house design and manufacture of every unmanned aircraft subsystem, from engines and airframes to flight controllers, across a six-hundred-thousand square foot facility3ds.com |
| Vivek MishraNoida, India | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Raphe mPhibr | Leads engineering and manufacturing as the fleet moves to medium-altitude long-endurance platforms, following the largest private funding round in the Indian drone sector in June 2025therobotreport.com |
| Abhishek KumarKanpur, India | Professor, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur; Helicopter & VTOL Lab; co-founder, EndureAir Systems | VTOL UAVs and autonomous rotorcrafthome.iitk.ac.in/~abhish |
| Dwaipayan MukherjeeMumbai, India | Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay | GPS-free vision-based drone swarms, cooperative autonomyee.iitb.ac.in |
| Debopam DasKanpur, India | Professor, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur | MAV and UAV design, autonomous navigation, indigenous autopilothome.iitk.ac.in/~das |
| Shashi Ranjan KumarMumbai, India | Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay | Guidance and control of autonomous vehicles, obstacle avoidance, path planningaero.iitb.ac.in/~shashi |
| A. K. GhoshKanpur, India | Professor, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur | Flight-data parameter estimation, GPS/INS navigation, UAV flight testingiitk.ac.in/aero |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotics, autonomy, perception, SLAM, motion planning, ROS | Robotics engineer, Perception engineer, Autonomy engineer | ₹4–10 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Ati Motors, Addverb, GreyOrange, Bosch, Ola Electric |
| Drones and unmanned aircraft systems | UAS engineer, Flight-test engineer, Drone pilot | ₹4–8 LPA | ₹8–15 LPA | ideaForge, Garuda Aerospace, Marut Drones, General Aeronautics, Dhaksha |
| Automotive electronics, ADAS, ISO 26262, EV powertrain and battery | ADAS engineer, Functional-safety engineer, BMS and powertrain engineer | ₹4–8 LPA | ₹10–20 LPA | Bosch, Continental, ZF, Aptiv, KPIT |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A17 (academic R&D up to ₹20 lakh, confirm; CoE hosting)
- F-A1
- F-A5
- F-A8 (UAV verticals, conditional)
- F-A11 (PNT)
After products exist
- F-B1 DISC, Prime and ADITI (drones, anti-drone, swarms) — prime target
- F-B2 (up to ₹50 Cr, consortium)
- F-B7 Namo Drone Didi and SMAM (demand)
- F-B9 (disaster drones)
- F-B11
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A17AP Drone Policy 4.0 (G.O.Ms. 18, 19 November 2024; 2024–29; ₹500 Cr) | Academic R&D up to ₹20 lakh per project (secondary); 50 drone-technology CoEs in engineering colleges, polytechnics and ITIs; proof-of-concept reimbursement up to ₹5 lakh; 20% capital subsidy for AP-registered companies | YES | Policy period to 2029 | AP Drones Corporation; Infrastructure and Investment (Airports) Department |
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A5AICTE IDEA Lab | About ₹1.1 Cr total; AICTE up to about ₹30 lakh or 50% | YES (conditional) | Annual; 2024-25 list published; 2026-27 expected | AICTE portal |
| F-A8DRDO DIA-CoE (Industry–Academia Centre of Excellence) | Grant-in-aid, multi-vertical; 15 CoEs, 82 research verticals (2025 realignment) | CONDITIONAL | Expansion by DRDO decision | DRDO DFTM |
| F-A11ISRO RESPOND and Space Technology Cells | Project-based R&D grants, fellowships, facility set-up | YES | RESPOND Basket annual (2025 basket published); proposals rolling against the basket | isro.gov.in Sponsored Research; PRL for science topics |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B2DRDO Technology Development Fund (TDF) | Up to ₹50 Cr per project (from ₹10 Cr, approved 8 June 2022); up to 90% of cost; consortium of industry with industry or academia allowed; separate ₹500 Cr deep-tech vertical | CONDITIONAL (consortium) | Rolling | tdf.drdo.gov.in rolling EoIs |
| F-B7ICAR, NABARD, RKVY-RAFTAAR, SMAM and Namo Drone Didi (agri demand side) | R-ABI host support; SMAM 100% institutional demonstration up to ₹10 lakh per drone; Namo Drone Didi 80% up to ₹8 lakh | R-ABI host likely NO; demand-side YES | Rolling | Agriculture ministry; NABARD; agrimachinery.nic.in |
| F-B9NDMA and NDRF technology adoption | Procurement or adoption, not a grant | Demand side | Rolling | ndma.gov.in; NDRF battalions |
| F-B11Challenge prizes: Smart India Hackathon, DRDO Dare to Dream, IN-SPACe CANSAT India, ISRO Robotics Challenge, XPRIZE | Prizes | YES (students) | Annual | Programme sites |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: TiHAN; UTSA cage. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Netted flight arena at 6–8 m clear height. Anchor: Arena with DIN 4102 B1 netting.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 461 |
| Integration & Staging | 77 |
| Digital & Simulation | 106 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 112 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 105 |
| Netted Flight Arenaclear 8.0 m | 260 |
| Ground Robot Test Padclear 3.6 m | 120 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Drone flight arena
Educational netted arenas: 9 ft 6 in clear head height standard (TentCraft), kits 10 × 10 to 20 × 20 ft; research-grade outdoor cage (UTSA) 150 × 100 × 60 ft on poles and wire net, fully enclosed to sit outside Part 107 constraints; netting flame-retardant to DIN 4102 B1. TiHAN's 2-acre testbed has runways, a hangar, ground control, rain simulators, smart poles and V2X. KLEF: at least 6–8 m clear height for swarms and air mobility. dronelife.com; tentcraft.com; tihan.iith.ac.in
10. Club: Skyward Autonomy Club
Studio-specific: Netted-arena swarm league; DGCA RPTO pilot certification cohort; Assurance-case clinic with a certifier. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | IEEE | IF 5.3 (2024), Q1; OA APC ~US$2,045 | verified |
| Journal of Field Robotics | Wiley | IF 5.2 (2024), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems | IEEE | IF ~6.6 (2024), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Robotics | IEEE | IF 11.1 (2025), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | IEEE | IF ~7.9, Q1 | verified |
| Autonomous Robots | Springer | Q1 | unverified |
| Drones | MDPI | Q1/Q2 | unverified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2 | verified |
Conferences: IEEE ICRA (annual, rarely in India); IEEE/RSJ IROS; IEEE INDICON; AIAA SciTech. Indian venue: INDICON found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC B64C and B64U (aircraft, UAS), G05D (autonomous control), G01C and G01S (navigation, sensing), G08G (airspace management).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: DGCA drone type-certification support (about 3–6 months; QCI testing body 60 days plus DGCA 15 days; National Test House offers UAS type certification at about ₹1.5 lakh — the one published rate found); RPTO training; survey and inspection services; a type certificate is mandatory for Digital Sky registration.
Competitions: ISRO Robotics Challenge IRoC-U (URSC Bengaluru; Fly Me on Mars autonomous UAV; prizes ₹27 lakh+; 2026 edition scheduled); SAE Aerothon; Smart India Hackathon; DRDO Dare to Dream (₹5–10 lakh).
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 5 OF 17 · LOGISTICS, WAREHOUSING & TRANSIT
Freight Studio
STUDIO 5 OF 17 · LOGISTICS, WAREHOUSING & TRANSIT
Freight Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response; Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Carry passengers across campus in the monsoon; Attest a fleet's safety daily and keep it honest; Run an Indian warehouse with robots trained on Indian shelves; Fight a fire and print a shelter with machines; Move a village's mangoes to a city kitchen overnight.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
9 flagship systems anchor 45 products in three tiers — 36 component and subsystem learning products and 9 system products — sized to the Studio's 45 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Aisle Picker; Tote Runner; Relief Kit Assembler; Agentic Fleet Controller; Depot Choreographer; Relief Logistics Twin; Breathing Crate; Farm-to-Kitchen Planner; Ripeness Tracker Tag.
- Y1 · Aisle Picker — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Aisle Picker — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Aisle Picker — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Aisle Picker — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Aisle Picker
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addverb Technologies (Reliance-owned)Noida | AMRs (Dynamo, Veloce), robotic conveyors | AMR class | verified |
| GreyOrange; Unbox Robotics; Ati Motors (Sherpa); Hi-Tech Robotic SystemzGurugram; Pune; Bengaluru | Warehouse robotics | AMR class | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUKA / FANUC / ABB / Universal RobotsIndia offices | Robot arms; UR cobots | ₹15–35 lakh | verified |
| Zebra / HoneywellIndia offices | Barcode and RFID | Device class | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Godrej Storage Solutions / Craftsman (institutional), Robokits India / Robu.in, Armes Maini / Addverb (education outreach), Tesca / Scientech, Robu.in / Robokits, IndiaMART conveyor-component makers; international: SICK / ifm (via Indian channel), igus (Germany, Indian channel), Interroll / regional conveyor OEM channel, Open Robotics community (Open-RMF), STEPPERONLINE / OMC, igus India; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (6, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (1 items) | ₹14.0 L | AMC ₹0.8 L after 2 warranty years | ₹2.3 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (14 lines, quantities for 86 concurrent teams) | ₹87.1 L | consumables ₹8.1 L at 8% (physical class) | ₹14.5 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹44.0 L | — | ₹7.3 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹17.4 L | — | ₹2.9 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹5.0 L | ₹0.8 L / yr |
| Electricity (136 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹13.2 L | ₹2.2 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹1.63 Cr | ₹27.1 L | ₹27.1 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹1.06 Cr | ₹19.7 L | ₹17.6 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹46.8 L | ₹44.7 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹2.44 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹32.1 L | ₹4.5 L / yr | 15% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L / yr | 5% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L / yr | 6% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMR platformsAddverb, GreyOrange (India) | ₹3–25 lakh | ₹14.0 L | 1 | ₹14.0 L | band midpointAddverb (Noida); GreyOrange (Gurugram) |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (14 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform scales + dimensioning (DWS) conceptsBilling-grade weight and volume capture | Rs 15,000–5,00,000 from platform scale to a full dimensioning-weighing-scanning station | ₹2.6 L | 8 | ₹20.6 L | band midpoint |
| Traffic hardware — signal heads, radar speed guns, ANPR cameras; model railway signalling hardwareThe ITS and rail teaching labs | Rs 20,000–3,00,000 for signal heads, a radar speed gun and an ANPR camera | ₹1.6 L | 8 | ₹12.8 L | band midpoint |
| Industrial AIDC — Zebra/Honeywell scanners and label printers; TVS Electronics (Indian)Professional scanning and labelling | Rs 8,000–60,000 per scanner or label printer across Zebra, Honeywell and TVS Electronics | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹8.2 L | band midpoint |
| Siemens S7-1200 PLC line + TIA Portal (the India training/placement standard; Delta/Mitsubishi as alternates)Industrial control skills recruiters demand; buy CPUs and build own panels to save over imported trainer bundles | S7-1200 starter kit with STEP 7 Basic Rs 80,000–1,20,000; Delta or Mitsubishi alternates Rs 15,000–50,000; TIA academic bundles quote-only with a 21-day trial available | ₹1.0 L | 8 | ₹8.0 L | band midpoint |
| UHF RAIN RFID readers/modules (Impinj E710/R2000 class) + barcode scan enginesTrack-and-trace, tote identification, the AIDC product line | Impinj E710/R2000 class Rs 25k–1.5L — quote required; barcode scanners Rs 1.5k–15k | ₹0.9 L | 8 | ₹7.0 L | band midpoint |
| CAN/RS485/Modbus toolkits + camera modules + e-ink shelf labels + LoRaIndustrial comms, vision QC, smart-shelf and yard products | interface modules Rs 150–2k; e-ink shelf labels Rs 300–1.5k each | ₹0.8 L | 8 | ₹6.1 L | band midpoint |
| Industrial sensors — SICK/ifm/Pepperl+Fuchs photoeyes and encoders; Autonics/Fotek budget alternates via RobuDetection chains on every cell | SICK, ifm and Pepperl+Fuchs Rs 5,000–40,000 each; Autonics and Fotek alternates Rs 800–5,000 | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.4 L | band midpoint |
| HMIs, VFDs + geared motorsConveyor and crane drives with real industrial commissioning | Rs 10,000–1,00,000 each across Delta, Siemens and Bonfiglioli | ₹0.6 L | 8 | ₹4.4 L | band midpoint |
| Open AMR bases — Linorobot2, ROS 2 + micro-ROS AGVs, OpenTCS-compatible drivers (OpenTCS-NeNa bridges ROS 2)Fleet-managed warehouse robots engineered, not bought | build BOM Rs 35k–70k; TurtleBot3 Burger Rs 95,549 incl GST | ₹0.5 L | 8 | ₹4.2 L | band midpoint |
| Lab MHE — hand pallet jack, semi-electric stacker; Godrej Storage selective + carton-flow rackingA real, safe mini warehouse | bay Rs 8–25k; push-back to Rs 5 L | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹4.0 L | band midpoint |
| Safety PLCs, light curtains, e-stopsSafety engineering as taught discipline and product line | Pilz/SICK class; light curtains from ~Rs 15,000 | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹3.6 L | listed price |
| Open PLC class — OpenPLC, Arduino Opta, CODESYS on PiVolume control benches before the Siemens line | OpenPLC on Pi Rs 8k–15k; Arduino Opta ~Rs 22k–28k | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹2.8 L | band midpoint |
| Freight stock — NEMA 17/23/34 steppers (Rs 500–2,500) + closed-loop drivers; V-slot 2020/4040 extrusionAS/RS frames, conveyors, gantries, lockers | Rs 150–700/section | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| Load cells + HX711 (Rs 150–400), ToF/ultrasonic sensors, GPS/GSM trackersWeight verification, dimensioning, yard and fleet tracking | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): OpenTCS (Fraunhofer IML); Odoo Community + ERPNext (Indian, Frappe); SUMO + TraCI; JaamSim / Salabim; Google OR-Tools; OpenCV; FlexSim / AnyLogic EDU; Siemens TIA Portal; PTV Vissim EDU.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (3 lines, ₹33.2 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobot palletising cell — Dobot CR-series (via Jendamark India; UR5e-class specs at under half the price), UFactory xArm | Robot arms (collaborative) | Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹26.6 L |
| Vision — Cognex (premium) vs OpenCV on industrial cameras (budget) | Cameras & machine vision | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L |
| ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / Jetson Orin Nano | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.1 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. Fraunhofer IML's Enterprise Lab model — a named logistics company co-locates engineers on campus to build swarm-robotics products — paired with MIT Megacity's data-driven last-mile design briefs.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FedEx SMART CentreIIT Madras | — | FedEx | Operations-research hub for logistics efficiency and green supply chains | https://web1.iitm.ac.in/logisticsverified |
| Autonomous Systems LabIIT Madras | 2021 | Accenture–IITM CoE and SERB start-up research grant (Dr Bijo Sebastian) | Multi-agent cooperative transport, intelligent grasping | https://asl-iitm.github.ioverified |
| IHFC (robotics TIH)IIT Delhi | — | DST NM-ICPS, a Section-8 company | Incubates warehouse mobile robots and drone-logistics startups | https://www.ihfc.co.inverified |
| IITI DRISHTI CPS FoundationIIT Indore | — | NM-ICPS TIH | Near the Pithampur Multi-Modal Logistics Park | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIT CTL Megacity Logistics LabMIT, USA | 2012 | Founding director Edgar Blanco; now Matthias Winkenbach | Data-driven last-mile network design; drone last-mile studies | https://megacitylab.mit.eduverified |
| Supply Chain and Logistics InstituteGeorgia Tech, USA | 30+ years | Georgia Tech; a 2011 Coca-Cola Bottling Consolidated KUKA-robot gift | Manufacturing-logistics lab; Panama and Singapore arms | https://www.scl.gatech.eduverified |
| Fraunhofer IMLDortmund, Germany | 1981 | Fraunhofer; KION LoadRunner swarm-robot enterprise lab (2020) | Founded the Open Logistics Foundation | https://www.iml.fraunhofer.deverified |
| Amazon Robotics (Kiva lineage)USA | — | Raffaello D'Andrea, Peter Wurman | Industry benchmark; no single campus lab confirmed | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- ARTPARK @ IISc and TiHAN @ IIT Hyderabad — Robotics and autonomy CoEs with test arenas, GPU compute and pre-venture acceleration. verified
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| AmazonHyderabad, Bengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Fulfilment robotics and operations science | AWS and academic routeconfirm URL |
| FedEx GCCHyderabad, Mumbai · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Logistics technology | Company pagecorroborated |
| GreyOrangeGurugram | Indian startup or product company | Warehouse robotics and AMRs | Company pageconfirm URL |
| Unbox RoboticsPune | Indian startup or product company | Parcel-sorting robots | Company pagecorroborated |
| Ati MotorsBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Autonomous industrial cargo AMRs | Company pagecorroborated |
| Addverb Technologies (Reliance-backed)Noida | Indian startup or product company | Intralogistics robotics | Company pageconfirm URL |
| PM Gati Shakti / ConcorNational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Logistics PSU | MoU routeinference |
| Visakhapatnam Port Authority / AP Maritime BoardVisakhapatnam · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Intralogistics pilot host | Authority routeinference |
| Siemens Digital Logistics, Dematic, Zebra TechnologiesGlobal | Global company or institution | Warehouse automation | Academic routeconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (4)
| DHL, FedEx, MaerskBengaluru / Chennai | Logistics technology centres |
| AmazonHyderabad / Bengaluru | Robotics and supply-chain technology — largely software |
| Wabtec, through its India Technology CentreBengaluru and Hyderabad | Rail freight and transit engineering: component design, propulsion, braking, signalling and additive manufacturing, with a laboratory holding more than thirty custom test rigs including a fifteen-hundred-kilonewton fatigue rig2,700 people in India of whom more than a thousand are engineers; the Hyderabad base is close to this campus |
| Alstom Transport IndiaHyderabad for design and Savli for assembly | Rolling-stock design; the Namo Bharat regional trainsets were designed in Hyderabad and assembled at Savlidesign authority genuinely sits in Hyderabad rather than in Europe |
Indian startups and product companies (8)
| Addverb TechnologiesNoida | Warehouse robots and AMRs; Reliance-backed — the strongest India-based benchmark |
| GreyOrangeIndia-origin, now US-HQ | Picking and sortation robotics |
| Ati MotorsBengaluru | Autonomous industrial vehicles |
| ZetwerkBengaluru | Manufacturing marketplace; unicorn |
| Unbox RoboticsPune | Swarm robotics is the interesting part, but reaching profitability in hardware is the rarer achievement |
| Anscer RoboticsBengaluru | A hybrid navigation stack, built by founders who came out of an established Indian robotics company |
| Rapyuta RoboticsBengaluru, with headquarters in Japan | Orchestrating many robots from the cloud rather than making each robot cleverer |
| Hi-Tech Robotic SystemzGurugram | Vision-based navigation integrated with factory execution systems |
Global companies and institutions (8)
| ZumeMountain View, United States | The cheese slid off in transit; abundant capital hid the absence of a real problem |
| ExotecLille, France | Exploiting vertical space beats adding more flat mobile robots |
| Starship TechnologiesSan Francisco and Tallinn | Small, slow and on the pavement beats road autonomy for the last hundred metres |
| NuroMountain View, United States | Removing the driver simplifies the vehicle, but delivery economics forced a pivot |
| Geek+Beijing, China | Retrofitting robots into an existing warehouse avoids rebuilding the building |
| MagazinoMunich, Germany | Item-level picking is far harder than moving totes; perception is the bottleneck |
| Speedbird AeroSão Paulo, Brazil | The first Latin American operator certified by the national regulator designed for regulation first |
| FabricTel Aviv, Israel | Put the automated warehouse inside the city rather than outside it |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saurabh ChandraBengaluru | Founder and CEO, Ati Robotics (formerly Ati Motors) | Sherpa Tug has logged over 500,000 km across 50+ factories; $20M Series B led by Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital (total over $37M) | 4 | yourstory.com (7 January 2025); indiatechreport.inV/S |
Coverage: Fewer than eight verified. Candidate leads: GreyOrange, Addverb Technologies, Unbox Robotics, Rapyuta Robotics.
The Studio's full advisory bench (13 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Gajan MohanarajahTokyo, Japan, with engineering at Chennai · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Rapyuta Robotics | Built the cloud robotics platform and the pick-assist and storage-retrieval fleets on it; doctorate from ETH Zurichrapyuta-robotics.com |
| Naveen ArulselvanBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Ati Motors | Leads the Sherpa family of industrial autonomous mobile robots and the fleet platform behind them; doctorate in electrical engineering from Northwesternforbesindia.com |
| Saurabh ChandraBengaluru, India · in reach | Founder and Chief Executive, Ati Motors | Hundreds of robots deployed across forty manufacturers, with the flagship tug having logged more than five hundred thousand kilometres across fifty factoriesforbesindia.com |
| Ribin MathewBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Anscer Robotics | Leads hybrid autonomous mobile robots, guided vehicles and pallet-lifting robots with natural navigationlinkedin.com/company/anscer-robotics |
| Raj MohanBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Anscer Robotics | Drove a modular robot architecture through the semiconductor shortagelinkedin.com/company/anscer-robotics |
| Rakesh JainBengaluru, India · in reach | Vice President, Digital Electronics and Site Leader, Wabtec India Technology and Engineering Center | Leads Wabtec’s largest global engineering centre across freight rail, transit, train control, electronic air brake and signallingwabteccorp.com |
| Sangeet KumarNoida, India | Co-founder and CEO, Addverb Technologies | Mobile robots, automated storage and retrieval, pick-by-voice; the Bot-Verse factory built for 100,000 robots a yearaddverb.com |
| Samay KohliGurugram, India | Co-founder and Group CEO, GreyOrange | Butler autonomous mobile robots and AI fulfilment orchestrationgreyorange.com |
| Akash GuptaGurugram, India | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, GreyOrange | Mobile robot and warehouse automation hardwaregreyorange.com |
| Saurabh GuptaAtlanta, United States | Chief Technology Officer, GreyOrange | Leads GreyOrange global engineering and its warehouse orchestration platform; earlier led software for several iPod generations and the first iPhone at Apple, and autonomous systems at Amazonretailtechinnovationhub.com |
| Pramod GhadgePune, India | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Unbox Robotics | Built a swarm parcel sortation system now deployed in India and the United Statesthenewwarehouse.com |
| Shahid MemonPune, India | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Unbox Robotics | Technical lead for the swarm-intelligence sorter handling ten-kilogram parcels with vertical stackingforbesindia.com |
| Dominique HunzikerTokyo, Japan | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Rapyuta Robotics | Co-developed the cloud engine and the autonomy stack behind the company’s mobile robotsrapyuta-robotics.com |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| Physical AI, robot learning and sim-to-real | Robot learning engineer, Simulation engineer, Physical-AI research engineer | ₹8–15 LPA | ₹18–40 LPA | Nvidia, Ati Motors, Addverb, GreyOrange, Tata Elxsi |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1
- F-A5
- F-A6
- F-A14 (fleet AI)
- F-A12 spike partnership (robotics, unfunded)
- F-A20 (Reliance, logistics majors)
After products exist
- F-B1 (logistics dual-use)
- F-B10
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A5AICTE IDEA Lab | About ₹1.1 Cr total; AICTE up to about ₹30 lakh or 50% | YES (conditional) | Annual; 2024-25 list published; 2026-27 expected | AICTE portal |
| F-A6AICTE MODROBS | Up to ₹20 lakh; two-year projects | YES (conditional) | Annual | AICTE RID Bureau |
| F-A14IndiaAI Mission — compute | Over 38,000 GPUs at about ₹65 an hour, with government paying up to 40% of the bill for priority use cases; outlay ₹10,371.92 Cr over five years (March 2024) | YES | Rolling | indiaai.gov.in AI Compute Portal |
| F-A12NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs and spokes | Hubs large (iHub-AWaDH ₹110 Cr); spokes smaller | NO / CONDITIONAL | Rolling hub EoIs | Individual hub EoIs |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: Georgia Tech Invention Studio; CoEAMT. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Baseline plus an AMR floor area. Anchor: Baseline plus robot floor.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 432 |
| Integration & Staging | 72 |
| Digital & Simulation | 99 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 105 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 99 |
| Automated Materials Handling Floorclear 6.0 m | 320 |
| Cold Chain Test Roomclear 3.0 m | 30 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Electronics ESD and bench spacing (ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021)
A written programme, personnel grounding, ESD-safe work surfaces, wrist straps tested to S1.1, grounding to S6.1, conductive flooring 2.5×10⁴–1.0×10⁶ Ω (dissipative to ~10⁹ Ω), isolated-conductor limit under 35 V; protects to 100 V HBM / 200 V CDM. Bench density benchmark: Georgia Tech Hive runs 20+ stations each with soldering, oscilloscope, generator, supply and multimeter plus LPKF PCB fabrication. blog.ansi.org; techmade.gatech.edu
10. Club: FlowState Logistics Club
Studio-specific: Warehouse robotics cup on Indian shelving; Route-planning hackathon with a city kitchen; Packaging design sprint with an FPO. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | IEEE | IF 5.3, Q1 | verified |
| International Journal of Production Research | Taylor & Francis | Q1 | unverified |
| Transportation Research Part E | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | IEEE | IF ~7.9, Q1 | verified |
| Computers and Industrial Engineering | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2 | verified |
Conferences: IEEE CASE; IEEE ICRA; IEEE INDICON. Indian venue: INDICON found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC B65G (conveying, storage), B25J (manipulators), G06Q (logistics and operations), G05B (control), B65B (packaging).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Warehouse-automation pilots, AGV and AMR integration, packaging-line optimisation; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: Smart India Hackathon (logistics); Flipkart and Amazon supply-chain hackathons, Amazon HackOn.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 6 OF 17 · BUILDTECH & RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Habitat Studio
STUDIO 6 OF 17 · BUILDTECH & RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Habitat Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence; Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response.
Tasks its products serve: Give a coastal district a spectrum picture it owns; Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory; Train a Mission model on a cluster the students built; Run the campus cluster on sunlight and grow food with its heat; Warn a village before the water arrives; Pay a farmer for cyclone loss within days; Measure a damaged structure before people enter; Fight a fire and print a shelter with machines.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
15 flagship systems anchor 75 products in three tiers — 60 component and subsystem learning products and 15 system products — sized to the Studio's 75 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Campus Spectrum Range; Range-in-a-Box; Red-Team Emitter Rack; Immersion Rack; Twin of the Floor; Heat-Reuse Greenhouse; Embankment Sentinel; Ground-Truth Kit; Landslide Sentinel; Shoring Robot; Debris Sorter; Rapid Shelter Printer; Building Pulse; Bridge Watch; Aftershock Alarm.
- Y1 · Campus Spectrum Range — Dataset and labelling toolkit
- Y1 · Campus Spectrum Range — Evaluation harness and reference kit
- Y2 · Campus Spectrum Range — Core model or service
- Y2 · Campus Spectrum Range — Integration SDK and console
- Y3 · Campus Spectrum Range
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netweb / TyroneFaridabad | Data-centre racks and CDUs | Rack class | partial |
| Indian SHM integratorsIndia | Structural-health monitoring | Per project | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| HBK (HBM)Germany | Strain and DAQ | Import | partial |
| Luna / Micron OpticsUSA | Fibre-optic strain | Import | partial |
| MTS / ServotestUSA / UK | Shake tables | Import | partial |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Aimil Instruments (Delhi, AP service), HEICO / Associated Instruments, Robu.in / Evelta, Everest Instruments / local survey dealers (Vijayawada), Aimil, HEICO / EIE Instruments / Accro-tech / Shambhavi Impex; international: WASP (Italy), HBM/HBK (Germany, Indian channel), Emlid (EU), Retrotec/TEC (USA, via channel), WASP (Italy) / COBOD (Denmark), Screening Eagle / Proceq (Switzerland); Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (10, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (0 items) | ₹0.0 L | AMC ₹0.0 L after 2 warranty years | ₹0.0 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (22 lines, quantities for 86 concurrent teams) | ₹2.23 Cr | consumables ₹13.4 L at 6% (light class) | ₹22.3 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹46.0 L | — | ₹4.6 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹32.2 L | — | ₹3.2 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹6.0 L | ₹0.6 L / yr |
| Electricity (133 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹12.9 L | ₹1.3 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹3.01 Cr | ₹32.2 L | ₹30.1 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹1.22 Cr | ₹23.2 L | ₹12.2 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹4.23 Cr | ₹55.4 L | ₹42.3 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹4.94 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹28.5 L | ₹3.7 L / yr | 6% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹31.3 L | ₹8.8 L / yr | 9% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹27.2 L | ₹2.5 L / yr | 12% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No big-ticket item beyond the Studio register; every high-value class this Studio needs is either on the register below or in a Fab Lab. | |||||
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (22 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar bending/cutting machines, batching/pan mixer, formwork and scaffolding samplesConstruction-methods teaching | Rs 50,000–8,00,000 across bar bending and cutting, batching, pan mixer and formwork samples | ₹4.2 L | 8 | ₹34.0 L | band midpoint |
| Single-phase immersion tank with dielectric fluidImmersion cooling at bench scale; single-phase because two-phase fluid supply is broken | Rs 15–50 L | ₹30.0 L | 1 | ₹30.0 L | planning price set |
| Open concrete-printing designs (WASP-inspired gantry on V-slot/ballscrews)The additive-construction learning platform | WASP-inspired gantry build BOM Rs 1.5L–5L | ₹3.2 L | 8 | ₹26.0 L | band midpoint |
| Coolant distribution unit for direct-to-chip coolingThe heart of the liquid-cooling rig and the thing students learn to size and control | Rs 15–40 L | ₹25.0 L | 1 | ₹25.0 L | planning price set |
| Calibrated flow, temperature and thermal-imaging instrumentsThe measurement chain that turns a cooling claim into evidence | Rs 10–25 L | ₹17.5 L | 1 | ₹17.5 L | band midpoint |
| Data loggers (HBM/Dewesoft premium vs budget) + environmental/curing chambersInstrumented testing and accelerated ageing | HBM or Dewesoft Rs 5–25 L; a budget DAQ-based logger Rs 20,000–2,00,000 | ₹15.0 L | 1 | ₹15.0 L | band midpoint |
| Instrumented server load banks and dummy heat loadsA repeatable thermal load without burning real compute | Rs 10–30 L | ₹15.0 L | 1 | ₹15.0 L | planning price set |
| Rear-door heat exchangerThe retrofit path most Indian data centres will actually take | Rs 8–20 L | ₹14.0 L | 1 | ₹14.0 L | band midpoint |
| Laboratory uninterruptible supply and battery test benchPower-chain efficiency and battery-room thermal and ventilation practice | Rs 8–20 L | ₹14.0 L | 1 | ₹14.0 L | band midpoint |
| Printer drive-train — screw/progressive-cavity pump, nozzle, gantry drivesThe student concrete printer | Rs 5–20 L to build the pump, nozzle and gantry drives for concrete printing | ₹12.5 L | 1 | ₹12.5 L | band midpoint |
| NDT quartetThe structural-audit service line | Indian digital rebound hammer (Rs 45–49k), Indian UPV (Rs 85k–1.65 L), half-cell corrosion meter, cover meter (from Rs 5k); imported Proceq as calibration reference | ₹0.6 L | 8 | ₹4.5 L | band midpoint |
| Universal Testing Machine 100–1000 kNSteel, rebar and flexure testing | Rs 3.0–5.75 lakh | ₹4.4 L | 1 | ₹4.4 L | band midpoint |
| Compression Testing Machine 2000 kNThe concrete lab’s backbone — cubes, cores, blocks | ~Rs 1.6 lakh, Aimil-class, IS:14858 | ₹1.6 L | 2 | ₹3.2 L | listed price |
| Weather station, sound-level and lux metersSite and building-performance measurement | Rs 5,000–2,00,000 depending on whether the weather station is research grade | ₹1.0 L | 2 | ₹2.0 L | band midpoint |
| ADXL355 MEMS accelerometers (~25 µg/√Hz — the class ADI markets for SHM)Structural-health monitoring at research grade on student budgets | ADXL355 breakout Rs 6k–9k; ADXL345 Rs 250–500 | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹1.8 L | band midpoint |
| Concrete lab set — moulds (Rs 800–1,950), slump (Rs 4.5–8.5k), vibrating table (~Rs 29.5k), curing tank (~Rs 22.5k), sieve shaker (~Rs 22.5k), flexure rig (Rs 35k), pan mixerThe full IS-code concrete workflow | Rs 60k | ₹0.6 L | 2 | ₹1.2 L | listed price |
| BMS trainer + energy/power-quality analyser (Rs 15–70k) + pro thermal imagerThe smart-buildings and energy-audit bench | ₹0.5 L | 2 | ₹1.0 L | planning price set | |
| LoRa nodes + open crack/tilt metersWireless SHM networks on bridges, tanks and buildings | LoRa nodes Rs 1.5k–2.8k; tilt/crack build Rs 2k–6k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.5 L | band midpoint |
| Open BMS — ESPHome / Home Assistant / Tasmota + Shelly/Sonoff actuatorsBuilding automation without licence cost | Rs 600–2,500 | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.4 L | band midpoint |
| CO2/PM/VOC stock (SCD40, PMS5003, SGP40) + PZEM-004T smart-meter designsAir-quality and energy-metering products | SCD40 Rs 1,468; SCD41 Rs 1,663–1,816; PMS5003 Rs 1.5k–2.5k; SGP40 Rs 1.2k–2k; PZEM-004T Rs 500–900 | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.4 L | listed price |
| Entry thermal cameras + open uniaxial shake table + soil-moisture/pore-pressure experimentsAudits, seismic teaching, geotech products | MLX90640 Rs 3.5k–6k; handheld Topdon/UNI-T Rs 15k–45k; shake-table build Rs 40k–1.2L | ₹0.0 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| Strain gauges + HX711/ADS1256 DAQLoad and strain measurement across structures and test rigs | gauges Rs 50–300 each; HX711 Rs 100–250; ADS1256 Rs 1.2k–2k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.0 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): OpenSees; Ladybug/Honeybee + EnergyPlus + OpenStudio + Radiance; Home Assistant / ESPHome; Autodesk AEC Collection EDU; Bentley STAAD.Pro EDU; CSI ETABS / SAP2000 / SAFE EDU; Tekla EDU; MSP / Primavera P6 EDU; Estimation tools (PlanSwift/CostX-class or Indian).
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (7 lines, ₹36.7 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Precision power analysers and branch-circuit metering | Power analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹17.5 L |
| Raspberry Pi and ESP32 sensor mesh for temperature, humidity, differential pressure and flow | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹6.5 L |
| Survey — total station (Sokkia/Topcon Rs 2.7–2.85 L; South N6+ Rs 1.95 L), auto level (Rs 8–20k), DGPS RTK base+rover pair | Photogrammetry & survey | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹5.7 L |
| Open photogrammetry rigs + survey drone (from Vahana) + WebODM | Photogrammetry & survey | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹4.0 L |
| u-blox ZED-F9P RTK GNSS | GNSS / RTK positioning | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹3.0 L |
| ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / Jetson | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.1 L |
| openDCIM with Grafana and Prometheus | Cloud & container platform | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.0 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. Stanford CIFE's industry-membership consortium (dues fund student research plus an advisory board) and ETH dfab's flagship demonstrator-building cadence — one shared DFAB-House-style build per cycle.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Centre for Safety of Heritage Structures (NCSHS)IIT Madras | 2013 (July) | Ministry of Education (Prof. Arun Menon) | Seismic risk of masonry; non-invasive testing | —secondary source |
| Department of Earthquake EngineeringIIT Roorkee | 1960 (first in India) | IIT Roorkee | Shake-table, pseudo-dynamic and soil-dynamics labs; authored India's seismic codes; runs PESMOS strong-motion programme | https://eq.iitr.ac.inverified |
| Civil Engineering (structural, SHM)IISc Bengaluru | — | — | — | —unverified |
| AICTE IDEA Labs (national scheme)AICTE | 2021 (1 January) | AICTE | Grants of about ₹1.28–1.52 crore; at least 5,000 sq ft, 24×7; design, 3D-printing and robotics zones | https://www.aicte-india.orgverified |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCCR Digital Fabrication (dfab) / Robotic Fabrication LabETH Zurich | 2014 | SNSF; Prof. Matthias Kohler | DFAB House, In-situ Fabricator, concrete 3D printing, HEAP autonomous excavator | https://dfab.chverified |
| Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE)Stanford, USA | 1988 | Industry-membership model | Virtual design and construction (BIM/4D), digital twins | https://cife.stanford.eduverified |
| Construction RoboticsTU Munich | Since 1997 | Prof. Thomas Bock; Prof. Kathrin Dörfler; DFG TRR 277 | Digital fabrication | https://www.arc.ed.tum.de/en/dfverified |
| Smart Structures Technology LabUIUC, USA | 2002 | B. F. Spencer Jr. | SHM and smart sensors | https://sstl.cee.illinois.eduverified |
National CoE families to join:
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- ARTPARK @ IISc and TiHAN @ IIT Hyderabad — Robotics and autonomy CoEs with test arenas, GPU compute and pre-venture acceleration. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schneider ElectricBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Data-centre and thermal, energy management | University and CSR routeconfirm URL |
| Vertiv / Siemens Smart InfrastructureBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Data-centre thermal | University routeconfirm URL |
| Larsen & ToubroChennai, Hyderabad · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Construction technology; building the Amaravati Quantum Valley infrastructure | L&T CSR and university relationscorroborated |
| Visakhapatnam data city (TCS, Cognizant allotments)Visakhapatnam · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | India's largest planned data city; data-centre partners in reach | State and company routescorroborated |
| C3iHub, IIT Kanpur (NM-ICPS)Kanpur | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Cyber-physical security ranges | c3ihub.orgcorroborated |
| NDMA / NDRFNew Delhi; AP battalion · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Disaster-resilient infrastructure | MoU routeconfirm URL |
| CSIR-SERCChennai · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Structural health monitoring | Academic routeconfirm URL |
| Autodesk, Bentley Systems, TrimbleGlobal | Global company or institution | Construction and SHM software | Academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (5)
| L&TChennai / Mumbai | Engineering and construction — Indian major and mass recruiter |
| Bentley Systems, Autodesk, TrimblePune / Chennai | Construction technology and BIM — software-heavy |
| AECOMBengaluru | Infrastructure design services |
| Saint-Gobain Research IndiaChennai, at the IIT Madras Research Park | Coated and facade glass, abrasives, high-performance ceramics, gypsum and acoustic and thermal building solutions designed for hot and humid climates, with pilot lines on siteone of eight global research hubs of the group, in a 120,000 square foot centre |
| JCB India, the India Design CentrePune | Earthmoving and construction machinery design, with an engine development centre, vehicle development, prototyping and a test and evaluation functionthree to four hundred engineers; the largest JCB design centre outside the United Kingdom |
Indian startups and product companies (5)
| TvastaChennai (IIT-Madras origin) | 3D-printed construction |
| Infra.MarketMumbai | Construction materials; unicorn |
| CarbonStrongIndia | Materials substitution is the fastest available lever on construction carbon |
| AngirusIndia | Turning waste into a certified building product is a standards problem before it is a materials problem |
| NovacretIndia | Concrete chemistry is where construction emissions are actually won or lost |
Global companies and institutions (8)
| Mighty BuildingsOakland, United States | A novel curing material never reached viable scale |
| ICONAustin, United States | Printed whole communities, yet a study found only a marginal carbon advantage over timber — question whether the material fits |
| COBODCopenhagen, Denmark | Sell the printer rather than the house; the arms-dealer model de-risks the business |
| MonumentalAmsterdam, Netherlands | Robotise one trade precisely instead of the whole site |
| Toggle IndustriesNew York, United States | Automate the repetitive, ergonomically punishing task first |
| OkiboIsrael | Interior finishing is mobile manipulation on a live, changing site |
| ConvergeLondon, United Kingdom | Measuring strength in real time lets a crew strike formwork sooner and safely |
| Hilti JaibotSchaan, Liechtenstein | Target the task with the worst injury record before the rest |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
No advisor for this Studio was verified in this pass; see the candidate leads below and the Studio bench.
Coverage: no adviser confirmed yet. Candidate leads: IIT Madras SHM faculty, CBRI Roorkee, L&T Construction R&D, data-centre operators CtrlS (Hyderabad) and Yotta; RBCDSAI at IIT Madras for cyber-physical work.
The Studio's full advisory bench (7 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Anand Yashavant MahajanChennai, India · in reach | Director, Saint-Gobain Research India | Senior research leadership in construction materials, covering coated glass, abrasives and materials characterisation at the group’s Indian research centrezaubacorp.com |
| Adithya V. S.Chennai, India | Co-founder and CEO, Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions | India’s first 3D-printed house and first 3D-printed villa, and an indigenous concrete 3D printertvasta.construction |
| Vidyashankar ChandrasekaranChennai, India | Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions | 3D-printed bus shelters and a recycled-aggregate concrete mix developed with Godrejtvasta.construction |
| Parivarthan ReddyChennai, India | Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions | The 3D-printed villa at Godrej Eden Estates and recycled-material constructiontvasta.construction |
| Suresh BhallaNew Delhi, India | Professor, Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi; Smart Structures & Dynamics Lab | Piezo-based structural health monitoring, engineered bamboo structuresweb.iitd.ac.in/~sbhalla |
| Sauvik BanerjeeMumbai, India | Professor, Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay | SHM via wave propagation, ultrasonic NDE, FRP retrofittingcivil.iitb.ac.in |
| Ramesh NayakaDharwad, India | Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, IIT Dharwad | 3D concrete printing, sustainable construction materials, ML-based SHMrameshnayaka.github.io |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| HPC, GPU programming and AI infrastructure | GPU software engineer, ML infrastructure engineer, HPC engineer, Compiler engineer | ₹10–24 LPA | ₹20–45 LPA | Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1
- F-A3
- MeitY CoE and C3iHub cyber-physical partnership (confirm)
- F-A8 (cyber-physical, conditional)
- F-A20 (L&T, Adani data centres, Siemens)
After products exist
- F-B1 (cyber ranges)
- F-B8 (grid-edge infrastructure)
- F-B9 (resilient infrastructure adoption)
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A8DRDO DIA-CoE (Industry–Academia Centre of Excellence) | Grant-in-aid, multi-vertical; 15 CoEs, 82 research verticals (2025 realignment) | CONDITIONAL | Expansion by DRDO decision | DRDO DFTM |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B8Ministry of Power RDSS pilots and DISCOM pilots | Pilot-based | Demand side | Rolling | Utility route |
| F-B9NDMA and NDRF technology adoption | Procurement or adoption, not a grant | Demand side | Rolling | ndma.gov.in; NDRF battalions |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: CoEAMT. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Baseline plus a structural test bay and a cyber-physical range. Anchor: Structural bay; the data-centre floor for the Compute Mission.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 432 |
| Integration & Staging | 72 |
| Digital & Simulation | 99 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 105 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 89 |
| Structural Testing Bay with Strong Floorclear 7.5 m | 180 |
| Materials & Curing Roomclear 3.0 m | 45 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
Data-centre room for the ~250 kW student cluster
GPU racks draw 40–80 kW (H100-class) up to ~120 kW nominal for GB200 NVL72 (130–132 kW observed) against a 7.6 kW industry-average rack; above about 30 kW a rack, direct liquid cooling is the design baseline; 100 kW racks spread over ~40 sq ft steel platforms, slabs thicken to 12–18 in (adding $50–75 per sq ft); short rows of 8–12 racks with CDU alcoves and wider aisles. KLEF: 2–6 high-density racks plus CDU and N+1 cooling in a dedicated 800–1,500 sq ft hall with liquid cooling, redundant power and a reinforced slab; fix the rack-density intent before the slab is specified. intuitionlabs.ai; fibermall.com; introl.com; arXiv 2502.01647
10. Club: Resilient Ground Club
Studio-specific: Rubble-pile build and NDRF drill week; Structural-health monitoring of a campus bridge; Data-centre floor commissioning practicum. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automation in Construction | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Structural Health Monitoring | SAGE | Q1 | unverified |
| Journal of Building Engineering | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics | IEEE | IF ~11.7, Q1 | partial |
| Applied Energy (data-centre thermal) | Elsevier | IF 11.0, Q1; APC US$4,210 | verified |
| Engineering Structures | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2 | verified |
Conferences: IEEE INDICON; ISHMII structural-health workshops; IEEE ICCPS (cyber-physical systems). Indian venue: INDICON found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC E04 (building), E02 (foundations, hydraulic), G01M and G01N (SHM, testing), G06F (cyber-physical security), F24F and H05K (thermal, data centre).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: SHM instrumentation, NABL materials testing, seismic-retrofit assessment, data-centre thermal audits; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: Smart India Hackathon (disaster management); NDMA disaster-technology challenges; IEEE student contests.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 7 OF 17 · WATER, ENVIRONMENT & CIRCULAR ENGINEERING
Aquifer Studio
STUDIO 7 OF 17 · WATER, ENVIRONMENT & CIRCULAR ENGINEERING
Aquifer Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Recover the critical materials the chips depend on; Catch a pest outbreak before it crosses the district; Warn a basin of flood and drought from a digital twin; Give a village safe water and prove every tanker; Turn straw into gas, fertiliser and a carbon credit the village can prove; Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
15 flagship systems anchor 75 products in three tiers — 60 component and subsystem learning products and 15 system products — sized to the Studio's 75 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: E-Waste Refinery; Mineral Passport; Urban-Mine Sorter; Aquifer Ear; Stubble Smoke Sentinel; Methane Digester Monitor; Village Water Pod; Fluoride Catcher; Solar Still Array; Grey-Water Loop; Sanitation Sensor Kit; Faecal Sludge Dryer; Carbon MRV Node; Credit Ledger; Biochar Kiln.
- Y1 · E-Waste Refinery — Formulation and process definition
- Y1 · E-Waste Refinery — Bench-scale process and analytics
- Y2 · E-Waste Refinery — Batch record, QA and scale-up plan
- Y2 · E-Waste Refinery — Validated method, SOP and safety file
- Y3 · E-Waste Refinery
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ion Exchange; ThermaxMumbai; Pune | Membrane test skids | Skid class | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agilent IndiaUSA; India offices | ICP-MS | ₹60 lakh–₹1.2 crore | verified |
| Metrohm IndiaSwitzerland; India | Ion chromatography, electrochemistry | Instrument class | verified |
| Thermo Fisher IndiaUSA; India | ICP-MS and IC | Instrument class | verified |
| PerkinElmerUSA; India | Analytical instruments; India calibration | Instrument class | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Ion Exchange / Thermax channel (institutional), Aimil / Netel India, Robu.in / Evelta, Local fabricators (Vijayawada MSME cluster), RO membrane channels (Vontron/LG/Toray/CSM dealers) + Kent/Aquaguard spares market, Systronics / LabIndia / ESICO / Deep Vision; international: Precious Plastic (Netherlands), Atlas Scientific (USA), Hach / Xylem (via Indian channel), Alphasense/SPEC (via channel), Atlas Scientific (via MG Super Labs), Hach; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (9, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (0 items) | ₹0.0 L | AMC ₹0.0 L after 2 warranty years | ₹0.0 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (19 lines, quantities for 80 concurrent teams) | ₹1.78 Cr | consumables ₹14.2 L at 8% (wet class) | ₹19.7 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹42.0 L | — | ₹4.7 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹26.4 L | — | ₹2.9 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹3.5 L | ₹0.4 L / yr |
| Electricity (132 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹12.8 L | ₹1.4 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹2.46 Cr | ₹30.5 L | ₹27.3 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹72.7 L | ₹15.4 L | ₹8.1 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹3.19 Cr | ₹45.9 L | ₹35.4 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹2.52 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L / yr | 5% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L / yr | 3% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No big-ticket item beyond the Studio register; every high-value class this Studio needs is either on the register below or in a Fab Lab. | |||||
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (19 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO test skids + pilot MBBR/SBR/UV/ozone skidsTreatment pilots at lab scale | custom Rs 1–8 L | ₹4.5 L | 8 | ₹36.0 L | band midpoint |
| Multiparameter sondes (YSI/Aqua TROLL class; Rs 1.5–6 L) — shared with TideField, river and buoy monitoring | ₹3.8 L | 8 | ₹30.0 L | band midpoint | |
| Open turbidity sensors + open colorimetersLow-cost optical water quality | IO Rodeo / Public Lab; Rs 500–5k DIY | ₹2.5 L | 8 | ₹20.2 L | band midpoint |
| Peristaltic dosing pumps (Rs 800–3k) + LoRa/GSM nodesChlorination dosing and remote telemetry | Rs 500–1.5k | ₹2.5 L | 8 | ₹20.1 L | band midpoint |
| Biogas kits (Sistema.bio, local fabricators) + briquetting pressesBioenergy from chilli-stalk and paddy-straw residue | Jay Khodiyar, Rajkot; Rs 5–20.9 L industrial | ₹12.9 L | 1 | ₹12.9 L | band midpoint |
| Weather stations (Davis vs Indian AWS) + DWLR loggersClimate and groundwater telemetry | Acorn Controls, Pune; Rs 45–47.5k CGWA-compliant | ₹0.5 L | 24 | ₹11.1 L | band midpoint |
| E-waste dismantling stations — hand tools, mechanical onlyComponent salvage without wet chemistry | Rs 40,000–1,50,000 for hand tools and mechanical-only benches | ₹0.9 L | 8 | ₹7.6 L | band midpoint |
| Full IS 10500 lab setThe complete drinking-water and wastewater testing workflow | COD digester (Rs 22.5–40k), BOD incubator (Rs 35k–1.2 L), jar-test apparatus (Rs 25–75k), autoclave, membrane-filtration coliform bench, muffle furnace, oven, analytical balance | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹7.5 L | band midpoint |
| UV-VIS/COD spectrophotometerAbsorbance methods, COD, nutrients — Indian first, Hach for calibration transfer | Systronics Rs 52.8k–1.15 L; Hach DR3900 ~Rs 3.85–5 L as Stage-3 reference | ₹0.8 L | 8 | ₹6.7 L | band midpoint |
| OWC composters — Excel/Earth Care/COMPOSTO/ReddonaturaOrganic waste to compost | Rs 75k at 10–15 kg/day to Rs 2–3.5 L at 100–500 kg/day | ₹0.8 L | 8 | ₹6.0 L | listed price |
| Sound-level meters (Rs 8–40k) + drone water-sampling attachments (Vahana tie)Noise mapping and remote sampling | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.8 L | band midpoint | |
| Benchtop pH / EC-TDS / turbidity meters — Systronics, LabIndia, ESICOThe core Indian water lab | pH Rs 12–28k; turbidity Rs 9.6–29k | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹4.8 L | band midpoint |
| Fluoride ion-selective electrode + interfaceField fluoride quantification — the AP flagship parameter | Rs 12–25k; needs TISAB buffer | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹4.4 L | band midpoint |
| AQ sensor stock — PMS5003 (Rs 1.5–2.5k), SPS30 (Rs 3–4k), SCD40 (Rs 3–4k), Alphasense-class gas cellsThe monitor-network foundry | Rs 4–12k | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹1.9 L | band midpoint |
| Precious Plastic open machines — shredder/extruder/injection/sheet-pressThe global student plastic-recycling standard | Indian fabricators from ~Rs 50k | ₹0.5 L | 2 | ₹1.0 L | listed price |
| Flow, level & pressure — YF-S201 (Rs 250–500), ultrasonic level, pressure transducersWater-ATM metering and DWLR piezometer builds | Rs 1.5–6k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.9 L | band midpoint |
| Tipping-bucket rain gauges, open composter controllers, open biogas instrumentation, electrocoagulation rigsFlood networks, organics and fluoride experiments — fabricated in-house | rain gauge Rs 1.5k–4k; controller build Rs 2k–8k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.7 L | band midpoint |
| Atlas Scientific EZO stack — pH/EC/DO/ORP/RTDLab-grade water chemistry embedded in any product — the shared standard with Tide | via MG Super Labs; ~Rs 3.5–6k per circuit | ₹0.0 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| Reference air-quality: no BAM purchase — calibration-transfer via APPCB CAAQMS partnershipAnchors low-cost network accuracy without Rs 20 L+ instruments | no purchase — calibration transfer through the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board monitoring network at no capital cost | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | free |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): EPANET; HEC-RAS / HEC-HMS / SWAT; OpenFOAM; openLCA / Brightway2; PHREEQC (free); Bentley WaterGEMS / SewerGEMS EDU; SimaPro / GaBi EDU.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (1 lines, ₹0.1 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / Jetson | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.1 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. IIT Bombay's multi-institution consortium with a shared instrumentation facility, and ICCW's train-the-water-professional plus early industry technology-transfer access.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Centre for Clean Water (ICCW)IIT Madras | 2018 | IIT Madras | Wastewater, desalination, atmospheric water harvesting, greywater recycling; geo-specific purifier bottles | https://www.iitm.ac.inverified |
| CoE on Membrane Technologies for Desalination, Brine Management and Water RecyclingIIT Bombay | 2023 (August) | DST Water Technologies cell; five-IIT consortium (Bombay, Delhi, Kharagpur, Tirupati, Hyderabad) | Shared advanced instrumentation | —secondary source |
| CSIR labsCSIR-IICT, CSIR-NEERI, CSIR-CGCRI | — | CSIR | Polyurea RO/UF membranes; electrocoagulation fluoride removal; arsenic ceramic-membrane pilot | https://csir.res.inverified |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J-WAFS (Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab)MIT, USA | — | — | — | —unverified |
| Environmental Research Institute; carbon capture; water managementNUS; Yale; TU Delft | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- NIOT (Chennai) and INCOIS (Hyderabad), Ministry of Earth Sciences — Moored and tsunami buoys, ROVs, ocean-observation instrumentation; INCOIS in Hyderabad is the nearest ocean-data CoE. verified
- ICAR and ANGRAU (Lam, Guntur) — ANGRAU is ~30 km from KLEF and runs an RKVY-RAFTAAR Agri Innovations & Entrepreneurship Development Cell; seed partners include Syngenta, Nuziveedu, UPL and Bayer. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xylem / Veolia / Ecolab IndiaIndia | GCC / MNC centre | Water-treatment engineering centres | University routeconfirm URL |
| Carbon Clean Global Innovation CentreIndia | GCC / MNC centre | Carbon capture | Company pagecorroborated |
| Boson Whitewater / Uravu LabsBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Water and atmospheric water | Company pagesconfirm URL |
| AquaconnectChennai · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Aquaculture and water data | Company pageconfirm URL |
| CSIR-NGRIHyderabad (~270 km) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Groundwater and aquifer mapping, critical minerals | ngri.res.in Student Academic Cell internshipscorroborated |
| Jal Shakti / CGWBNational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Groundwater | MoU routeconfirm URL |
| AP Pollution Control BoardAndhra Pradesh · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Air-quality instrumentation pilot host | Board routeinference |
| Siemens Water, DuPont Water SolutionsGlobal | Global company or institution | Water technology | Academic routeconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (3)
| XylemBengaluru | Water-technology product engineering |
| GrundfosChennai | Pump R&D and testing |
| Veolia, SUEZ, EcolabMumbai / Bengaluru | Water and environmental services engineering |
Indian startups and product companies (5)
| Attero RecyclingNoida / Roorkee | E-waste and lithium-ion battery recycling |
| Carbon CleanIndia / UK | Industrial carbon capture; well funded |
| Uravu LabsBengaluru | Atmospheric water generation |
| Banyan NationHyderabad | Plastic recycling |
| Tan90Chennai | Phase-change cold chain |
Global companies and institutions (10)
| NotplaLondon, United Kingdom | Scaling a novel biopolymer to injection moulding while meeting the legal definition of plastic-free |
| ClimeworksZurich, Switzerland | The technology works; cost per tonne is the whole problem, and thermodynamics sets the floor |
| CarbiosClermont-Ferrand, France | Enzymes break plastic back to monomers, which is what circularity actually requires |
| GradiantBoston, United States | Industrial water reuse is a larger market than drinking water; follow the industrial demand |
| DesolenatorAmsterdam, Netherlands | Using solar heat directly avoids membrane fouling and the energy of reverse osmosis |
| Mission Zero TechnologiesLondon, United Kingdom | Attack the dominant cost driver, which is the energy of regeneration |
| AquaporinCopenhagen, Denmark | Embedding a biological water channel in a membrane buys selectivity |
| Clarity MovementBerkeley, United States | Dense cheap sensors are only credible when calibrated against a reference station |
| SunfireDresden, Germany | Choose the electrochemistry that wins on energy rather than on capital cost alone |
| Breathe Battery TechnologiesLondon, United Kingdom | More can be extracted from existing cells by charging them more intelligently |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
No advisor for this Studio was verified in this pass; see the candidate leads below and the Studio bench.
Coverage: no adviser confirmed yet — priority to fill. Candidate leads: NEERI Nagpur, IIT Madras water and desalination centre, ICAR-CRIDA, carbon-MRV startups.
The Studio's full advisory bench (11 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Abhay DeshpandeHyderabad, India · in reach | Founder and CEO, Recykal | The Recykal extended-producer-responsibility platform, managed marketplace, deposit refund system and SmartSkanrecykal.com |
| Vikram PrabakarHyderabad, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Recykal | SmartSkan AI sorting and QR-coded waste segregationrecykal.com |
| Yagna Prasad KogantiChennai, India · in reach | Chief Technology Officer, VA Tech Wabag | Oversees engineering and research across drinking water, wastewater, zero liquid discharge and desalination; doctorate in chemical engineering from IIT Madraswatertoday.org |
| Amir BashaChennai, India · in reach | Chief Technology Officer for Desalination and Head of the Nemmeli plant, VA Tech Wabag | Leads desalination technology and runs a hundred-million-litre-a-day seawater reverse osmosis planttheorg.com |
| Rajiv MittalChennai, India | Chairman, Managing Director and Group CEO, VA Tech Wabag | Large-scale desalination, drinking-water and wastewater plants — over 6,500 projects deliveredwabag.com |
| Nitin GuptaNoida, India | Co-founder and CEO, Attero Recycling | Electronic-waste and lithium-ion battery recycling with more than forty-five patentsattero.in |
| Swatantra Pratap SinghMumbai, India | Professor-in-Charge, Centre of Excellence on Membrane Technologies for Desalination, Brine Management & Water Recycling, IIT Bombay | Desalination membranes, laser-induced-graphene filters, brine managementswatantraiitb.in |
| S. SenthilmuruganGuwahati, India | Professor, Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati; Water & Energy Nexus Lab | Membrane separation, novel desalination, smart water gridsiitg.ac.in/chemeng |
| Ankush Kumar JaiswalHyderabad, India | Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, IIT Hyderabad | Waste-heat-driven water purification and evaporative systemsmae.iith.ac.in |
| Pradip Kumar TewariJodhpur, India | Chair, Jal Jeevan Mission, IIT Jodhpur | Nuclear desalination, nanocomposite membranes, rural water purificationiitj.ac.in |
| Nidal HilalAbu Dhabi, UAE | Global Network Professor, NYU; Director, NYUAD Water Research Center | Desalination, membrane technology, water treatmentnyuad.nyu.edu |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1 (water technology)
- F-A3
- F-A15 (environmental biotech)
- MoES and Jal Shakti academic projects (confirm)
- F-A20 (Wadhwani critical-minerals vertical, corporate water CSR)
After products exist
- F-B7 NABARD (watershed)
- Carbon-market MRV buyers (commercial)
- F-B10
- F-B13 (UKRI water)
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A15DBT-BIRAC BioNEST (bio-incubator) | Capital plus three-to-five-year support; at least 8,000 sq ft | YES (host) | Periodic call | birac.nic.in BioNEST call |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B7ICAR, NABARD, RKVY-RAFTAAR, SMAM and Namo Drone Didi (agri demand side) | R-ABI host support; SMAM 100% institutional demonstration up to ₹10 lakh per drone; Namo Drone Didi 80% up to ₹8 lakh | R-ABI host likely NO; demand-side YES | Rolling | Agriculture ministry; NABARD; agrimachinery.nic.in |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: ICT-CEB; NFPA 45 wet lab. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Wet lab with fume hoods and environmental instrumentation. Anchor: NFPA 45 and Z9.5 ventilation.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 403 |
| Integration & Staging | 67 |
| Digital & Simulation | 92 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 98 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 83 |
| Pilot Plant Hallclear 6.0 m | 150 |
| Environmental Analysis Benchclear 3.0 m | 45 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
Wet lab and bioprocess pilot
BSL-1/2 layout with NFPA 45 ventilation, autoclave and decontamination; pilot scaling from 0.25–10 L bench to 25–1,000 L pilot; NREL Bioprocessing Pilot Plant is an 8,000 sq ft BSL-1 large-scale reference; ICT Mumbai's DBT Centre for Energy Biosciences (about $10 million) integrates chromatographic reactors and pilot plants. docs.nrel.gov; ictmumbai.edu.in; gfi.org
10. Club: Clear Water Club
Studio-specific: Village water-quality census; Grey-water loop installation camp; Carbon MRV measurement week with a Gold Standard auditor. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Research | Elsevier | IF ~12.4, Q1; APC US$4,760 | verified |
| Journal of Membrane Science | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Desalination | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Chemical Engineering Journal | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Separation and Purification Technology | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Environmental Science and Technology | ACS | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Sensors Journal (air quality) | IEEE | IF 4.5, Q1 | verified |
| npj Clean Water | Nature, OA | — | unverified |
Conferences: IWA World Water Congress; IEEE INDICON. Indian venue: INDICON found; no dedicated Indian water-technology student track found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC C02F (water and wastewater treatment, confirmed), B01D (separation, membranes), G01N (analysis), B01J (catalysis, capture), C22B (minerals recovery).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: NABL water-quality testing, effluent and ETP validation, air-quality monitoring, MRV. KLEF's own water-management model won CII-SR Water Stewardship 2026, TERI, UNDP and Jal Shakti recognition and second prize in the 5th National Water Awards (best institution, October 2024); no per-test fee schedule found.
Competitions: Smart India Hackathon (Jal Shakti themes); National Water Awards; XPRIZE water and carbon; DST water-technology challenges.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 8 OF 17 · ENERGY, ELECTRIFICATION & CLIMATE
Dynamo Studio
STUDIO 8 OF 17 · ENERGY, ELECTRIFICATION & CLIMATE
Dynamo Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence; Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Run the campus cluster on sunlight and grow food with its heat; Hear a fishing boat beyond the horizon; Run a smallholder's season on a model that knows the district; Warn a basin of flood and drought from a digital twin; Turn straw into gas, fertiliser and a carbon credit the village can prove; Warn a district of drought and give it a plan; Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
12 flagship systems anchor 60 products in three tiers — 48 component and subsystem learning products and 12 system products — sized to the Studio's 60 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Waste-Heat Loop; Solar-First Power Shelf; Battery-Buffered Cluster; Space Cell Qualifier; Ground Station Solar Roof; Peak-Power Tracker; Solar Pump Kit; Agrivoltaic Frame; Solar Cold Storage Container; Village Microgrid Controller; Feeder Report Card; Pump Load Scheduler.
- Y1 · Waste-Heat Loop — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Waste-Heat Loop — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Waste-Heat Loop — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Waste-Heat Loop — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Waste-Heat Loop
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian PV-test firmsIndia | PV test benches | Bench class | partial |
| Typhoon HIL / OPAL-RT (India)via India | Microgrid controller HIL | HIL class | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keysight / ChromaUSA / Taiwan; India | PV and solar simulators, power-electronics loads | Instrument class | verified |
| FLIR / TeledyneUSA; India | Thermal imaging | Camera class | verified |
| YokogawaJapan; India | Power analysers | Instrument class | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Tata Power Solar / Waaree / Premier (institutional), Scientech / Tesca / Ecosense, Exicom / Delta India (institutional), Robu.in / Evelta, Waaree / Vikram / Adani dealers + Loom Solar + the IndiaMART solar cluster, Sungrow / GoodWe / Growatt / Deye distributors + Luminous/Microtek/V-Guard + Victron India; international: Texas Instruments / Infineon / STMicro (university programs), EPC / GaN Systems channel, Chroma / ITECH (via Indian channel), OpenEnergyMonitor (UK), Victron, Neware; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (9, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (2 items) | ₹57.5 L | AMC ₹3.4 L after 2 warranty years | ₹6.4 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (16 lines, quantities for 86 concurrent teams) | ₹88.3 L | consumables ₹11.7 L at 8% (physical class) | ₹9.8 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹50.0 L | — | ₹5.6 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹23.5 L | — | ₹2.6 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹6.0 L | ₹0.7 L / yr |
| Electricity (144 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹13.9 L | ₹1.5 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹2.19 Cr | ₹35.1 L | ₹24.4 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹1.16 Cr | ₹21.9 L | ₹12.9 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹3.35 Cr | ₹56.9 L | ₹37.2 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹2.97 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹43.1 L | ₹5.6 L / yr | 9% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹24.4 L | ₹6.9 L / yr | 7% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L / yr | 6% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grid simulatorsTyphoon HIL / OPAL-RT | ₹15 lakh–1 crore | ₹35.0 L | 1 | ₹35.0 L | planning price setImport; Indian representatives |
| Smart-meter test bench; storage testMeter test bench; battery storage test | Meter bench ₹5–30 lakh; storage test ₹5–40 lakh | ₹22.5 L | 1 | ₹22.5 L | band midpointIndian meter-test vendors |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (16 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial IV tracers (Seaward/HT class) + thermal camera (shared Habitat)The solar O&M service line | Seaward PV210 roughly Rs 3.2–4 L landed and HT Instruments I-V400w roughly Rs 2.5–3.8 L; neither has an Indian listing — quote required | ₹4.3 L | 8 | ₹34.6 L | band midpoint |
| Regenerative DC supplies + programmable loads (ITECH/Chroma vs budget)Converter and pack characterisation | ITECH IT8500-class electronic load Rs 33,000–2,50,000; Chroma and regenerative supplies Rs 2–5 L — quote required | ₹1.4 L | 8 | ₹11.3 L | band midpoint |
| Hybrid inverters + LFP rack batteriesThe ESS integration bench | Deye-class 5 kW ~Rs 94k–1 L; 48 V/51.2 V 100 Ah rack ~Rs 99k–1.19 L, ~Rs 20–23k/kWh | ₹1.0 L | 8 | ₹7.8 L | band midpoint |
| Fuel-cell/electrolyzer education kits (Horizon class), small wind kit, small biogas genset, TEG modulesThe pioneer-cohort benches | Horizon kits Rs 5,000–50,000 from school to vocational tier; wind kit, small biogas genset and thermoelectric modules Rs 5,000–1,00,000 | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.6 L | band midpoint |
| String inverters — Sungrow/GoodWe/Growatt 3–10 kW education fleetCommissioning and grid-code behaviour on real hardware | Rs 55,000–90,000 for a 5 kW unit; Rs 1–1.6 L for 10 kW | ₹0.7 L | 8 | ₹5.8 L | band midpoint |
| Victron SmartSolar MPPT (100/50 ~Rs 18–25k) + anti-islanding relays (ROCOF/vector-shift)Charge control and the grid-tie protection layer | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.2 L | band midpoint | |
| Variacs + isolation transformersThe lab-safety backbone — mandatory before any mains work | Rs 3,000–40,000 across single and three-phase units | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.2 L | band midpoint |
| Clamp/PQ meters — Fluke vs Hioki vs Meco/Metravi (CAT-rated only) + insulation/earth testersInstaller and audit instrumentation | Fluke 376 FC Rs 63,500 and 393 FC Rs 66,820; Meco and Metravi CAT-rated clamps from about Rs 1,500; insulation testers Rs 5,409–49,920; earth testers Rs 8,639–28,449 | ₹0.6 L | 8 | ₹5.1 L | listed price |
| VESC motor controllers (open FOC standard, STM32-based, VESC Tool auto-tuning)The drive-development spine shared with Traction | Flipsky Rs 6k–12k; genuine Trampa VESC 6 Rs 22k–30k landed | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹2.6 L | band midpoint |
| Open BMS — foxBMS/ENNOID class + DIY-BMS ecosystemsStationary pack engineering without black boxes | foxBMS 2 is a research reference design — quote required; ENNOID/DIY-BMS build Rs 4k–15k | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹2.3 L | band midpoint |
| Open microgrid controllers — ESP32+relays, OpenEMS Edge, Home Assistant energyThe flagship controller stack | ESP32 + relay build Rs 2k–8k | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹1.2 L | band midpoint |
| Commercial battery spot welder + arc-flash PPE basics + lockout kits + classed gloves + rooftop harnessesThe pack line and the safety regime | Sunkko 737G+ Rs 18,372 before tax or Rs 29,750 inclusive; arc-flash personal protective equipment, lockout kits, classed gloves and harnesses Rs 5,000–50,000 per set | ₹0.2 L | 2 | ₹0.4 L | listed price |
| Open energy monitors — OpenEnergyMonitor/IoTaWatt class, PZEM-004T/JSY modules, CT clampsSubmetering and audit instrumentation built in-house | PZEM-004T Rs 500–900; JSY-MK-194T Rs 1.2k–2k; IoTaWatt/emonPi ~Rs 16k–21k imported | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.2 L | band midpoint |
| Open solar MPPT designs + open IV-curve tracer buildsCharge-controller and diagnostics products | build BOM Rs 3k–12k per unit | ₹0.1 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| LoRa/RS485/Modbus toolkits + MeshtasticIndustrial comms and outage-resilient telemetry | RA-02 Rs 300–550; RFM95W Rs 700–1.2k; Heltec/TTGO LoRa32 Rs 1.5k–2.8k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| PV module stock — Waaree/Vikram/AdaniInstall practice from 10 Wp lab panels to utility modules | DCR ~Rs 23–26/Wp, non-DCR ~Rs 15/Wp; 550 W panel Rs 9–14k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.0 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): OpenEMS + Home Assistant energy; pandapower + PyPSA; OpenDSS + GridLAB-D; OpenEVSE firmware + open OCPP (SteVe/OCPP-Go); PVsyst (Student CHF 25/yr, Education CHF 420/yr); HOMER Pro EDU; ETAP / DIgSILENT PowerFactory EDU (one or two seats — pricing is steep).
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (5 lines, ₹44.7 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scopes with power analysis + differential probes; power analyzers (Yokogawa/Hioki vs budget) | Oscilloscope | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹35.6 L |
| DIY spot welders (strict safety framing), open electronic loads, cell IR meters, open PMU/frequency experiments | Electronic load | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹5.3 L |
| Neware battery cycler (CT-4008 class ~Rs 2.5 L) vs BioLogic research grade | Battery cyclers & cell testers | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹2.5 L |
| TI C2000 LaunchPads + high-voltage kits, STM32 motor-control kits, GaN dev boards | ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Compute and Software Lab | ₹1.2 L |
| ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / Jetson | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.1 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. NISE's NABL-accredited testing-lab plus product-development model: build certified, market-ready energy products (solar cold storage, chillers), not just prototypes.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE)Gurugram | 2013 (from the 1980s Solar Energy Centre) | MNRE, autonomous | 200-acre campus; NABL-accredited PV, lighting and battery test labs; 1 MW solar-thermal R&D with IIT Bombay; green-hydrogen plant; products include solar dryers, cold storage and bulk-milk chillers | https://nise.res.inverified |
| NCPRE and Department of Energy Science and EngineeringIIT Bombay | — | — | — | —unverified |
| State microgrid programmesWith NISE technical partnership | — | — | — | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraunhofer ISEFreiburg, Germany | — | — | World-leading solar-energy institute | —unverified |
| NREL university partnerships; ETH/EPFL energy; Stanford PrecourtUSA, Switzerland | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- ICAR and ANGRAU (Lam, Guntur) — ANGRAU is ~30 km from KLEF and runs an RKVY-RAFTAAR Agri Innovations & Entrepreneurship Development Cell; seed partners include Syngenta, Nuziveedu, UPL and Bayer. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schneider Electric, ABB, Siemens EnergyBengaluru, Hyderabad · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Grid and energy management | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Hitachi EnergyBengaluru, Chennai · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | HVDC and grid | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Amara Raja / Tata Power RenewablesTirupati; national · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Storage, solar | Company pagesconfirm URL |
| Sterling & WilsonMumbai | Indian startup or product company | Solar EPC | Company pageconfirm URL |
| NISEGurugram, MNRE | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Solar testing and skilling | nise.res.in via the MNRE channel (confirm internship page)corroborated |
| NIWEChennai, MNRE · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Wind; Academic Associate Programme, about 100 internships a year | niwe.res.incorroborated |
| AP DISCOMs (APSPDCL, APEPDCL, APCPDCL)Andhra Pradesh · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Smart-grid and microgrid pilot hosts | DISCOM routeinference |
| NTPC / POWERGRIDNational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Power PSUs | MoU routeconfirm URL |
| Analog Devices, Texas InstrumentsGlobal | Global company or institution | Grid and energy-metering ICs | University programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (5)
| Enphase EnergyBengaluru | Solar micro-inverter product engineering |
| Schneider ElectricBengaluru | Power electronics, smart metering, energy management |
| Shell Technology CentreBengaluru | Genuine energy R&D |
| GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, VestasBengaluru / Chennai | Grid, wind and power systems |
| BP, TotalEnergiesPune / Bengaluru | Energy transition technology |
Indian startups and product companies (9)
| Log9 MaterialsBengaluru | Battery and materials — in insolvency (NCLT Bengaluru, 14 November 2025); listed for record, not a partner route |
| Exponent EnergyBengaluru | 15-minute rapid charging |
| Amara Raja Energy & MobilityTirupati, AP | Gigafactory build-out — in-state incumbent |
| Chargezone / StatiqVadodara / Delhi | Charging infrastructure |
| Cygni EnergyHyderabad | Battery pack engineering and gigafactory automation, including error-proofing and liquid-cooled modules, done within reach of this campus |
| NewtraceBengaluru | Removing the membrane is an electrochemistry decision taken to make manufacturing tractable |
| Ather EnergyBengaluru | Vertical integration of vehicle, software and charging infrastructure as one product |
| Ultraviolette AutomotiveBengaluru | High-voltage battery systems engineered with aerospace practice |
| Vayve MobilityPune | Announced but not yet delivered; a live lesson in the distance between a launch and a shipped vehicle |
Global companies and institutions (10)
| Form EnergySomerville, United States | Iron and existing steel supply chains beat lithium for multi-day storage; the chemistry was chosen for cost |
| Sun KingNairobi, Kenya | A mobile lock built into the device makes the financing model possible; hardware design is the business model |
| M-KOPANairobi, Kenya | Embedded-system reliability decides whether credit-linked hardware survives in weak infrastructure |
| Commonwealth Fusion SystemsDevens, United States | Betting everything on one enabling breakthrough shrank the reactor |
| Stegra, formerly H2 Green SteelStockholm, Sweden | A first-of-a-kind industrial plant is a financing problem as much as an engineering one |
| MaltaCambridge, United States | Storing electricity as heat uses cheap, abundant materials |
| Antora EnergySunnyvale, United States | Target the industrial heat load that electrification finds hardest |
| Fervo EnergyHouston, United States | Borrowing shale drilling technique for geothermal is cross-industry technology transfer |
| SunfireDresden, Germany | Efficiency-first electrolysis for green hydrogen |
| NorthvoltStockholm, Sweden | The cautionary battery story: capital is not execution |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
No advisor for this Studio was verified in this pass; see the candidate leads below and the Studio bench.
Coverage: no adviser confirmed yet. Candidate leads: NISE, IISc DESE, Grid-India (POSOCO), NIWE, Telangana and AP DISCOM SCADA leads.
The Studio's full advisory bench (11 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Jayadev GallaTirupati, India · in reach | Chairman and Managing Director, Amara Raja Energy and Mobility | Energy storage, the lithium Giga Corridor and a fifty-megawatt captive solar installationamararajaeandm.com |
| Venkat RajaramanHyderabad, India · in reach | Founder and Chief Executive, Cygni Energy | Built direct-current solar systems and lithium storage packs that have electrified tens of thousands of homes, and the gigafactory behind themlinkedin.com/company/cygni-energy-private-limited |
| Prasanta SarkarBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Newtrace | A former aerospace engineer driving the membrane-less electrolyser stack towards productionnewtrace.io |
| Rochan SinhaBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Newtrace | Leads the advanced-electrode and membrane-less electrolyser hardwarenewtrace.io |
| Dr Markus TackeBengaluru, India and Newark, United States | Chief Executive Officer, Ohmium International | PEM hydrogen electrolysers and the Bengaluru electrolyser gigafactory scaling from half a gigawatt toward twoohmium.com |
| Arne BallantineNewark, United States and Bengaluru, India | Co-founder and former Chief Executive, Ohmium International | Built Ohmium’s PEM supply chain and its Bengaluru gigafactoryohmium.com |
| Avik Kumar RoyKolkata, India | Chief Executive and Managing Director, Exide Industries; President, Indian Battery Manufacturers Association | Lead-acid and lithium-ion energy storage at national scaleexideindustries.com |
| Pramod KumbharPune, India | President and Chief Technology Officer, Praj Matrix | Leads bioenergy and electro-fuel process plant technologypraj.net |
| S. DasappaBengaluru, India | Professor, Centre for Sustainable Technologies and Chair, Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research, IISc | Green hydrogen from biomass oxy-steam gasification, fuel-cell-grade hydrogeniisc.ac.in · dasappa@iisc.ac.in |
| Anand ShivapujiBengaluru, India | Senior Research Scientist, Combustion, Gasification & Propulsion Laboratory, IISc | Biomass gasification and hydrogen systems engineeringcgpl.iisc.ac.in |
| B. K. PanigrahiNew Delhi, India | Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi | Smart grids, microgrids, grid power electronicsee.iitd.ac.in |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power electronics, smart grid, metering, renewable energy | Power-electronics engineer, Grid engineer, Metering engineer | ₹3–8 LPA (₹5–10 in premium EV and hub firms) | ₹8–20 LPA | Bosch, Hitachi Energy, Secure Meters, L&T, Exicom |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1
- F-A3
- MNRE and NISE academic R&D and solar test facilities (confirm window)
- F-A20 (Adani, Tata Power, Schneider, Siemens)
After products exist
- F-B8 Ministry of Power RDSS and DISCOM pilots (microgrid and metering demand)
- F-B10
- F-B13 (IGSTC and AISRF clean energy)
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B8Ministry of Power RDSS pilots and DISCOM pilots | Pilot-based | Demand side | Rolling | Utility route |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: NISE (layout not published); general Studio. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Baseline plus PV array and roof, and a power lab. Anchor: HV practices for the power lab.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 432 |
| Integration & Staging | 72 |
| Digital & Simulation | 99 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 105 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 80 |
| Outdoor Solar Test Arrayclear 0 m | 250 |
| Hydrogen & Electrochemistry Bayclear 4.0 m | 55 |
| Grid & Power Electronics Test Benchclear 3.6 m | 60 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
High-voltage EV lab safety
HV threshold above 60 V DC (ISO 6469, ECE R100); arc-flash concern above 150 V DC. Class 0 insulating gloves rated 1000 VAC / 1500 VDC to ASTM D120, retested every six months, with leather protectors; 1000 V insulated tools; CAT III 1000 V meters; LOTO to OSHA 1910.147 and NFPA 70E; an electrically safe work condition verified with a proximity tester; rescue hook; two-person rule; signage and barriers. tuvsud.com; ASE xEV electrical safety standard
10. Club: Gridforge Club
Studio-specific: Village microgrid islanding drill; Rooftop solar audit of every campus building; Power-electronics teardown series. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Energy | Elsevier | IF 11.0 (2024), Q1; APC US$4,210 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| Renewable Energy | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Solar Energy | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics | IEEE | IF ~8.2, Q1 | verified |
| Energy | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2 | verified |
Conferences: IEEE PES ISGT-India; IEEE PVSC; IEEE INDICON; national power conferences. Indian venue: ISGT-India and INDICON found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC H02J (grid, distribution), H02S (PV), H01L 31 (solar cells), F24S (solar thermal), G05F (regulation).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: PV performance testing, microgrid design and energy audits, grid-integration studies; no published fee schedule found.
Competitions: Solar Decathlon India (annual, building energy); Shell Eco-marathon; Smart India Hackathon (power and energy).
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 9 OF 17 · ADVANCED MANUFACTURING & INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
Forge Studio
STUDIO 9 OF 17 · ADVANCED MANUFACTURING & INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
Forge Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence.
Tasks its products serve: Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory; Keep an airfield and a border post safe from birds, drones and ice; Tape out a sovereign SoC and test it the week it returns; Qualify a flight satellite on campus and send a quantum key from orbit; Fly a payload at the edge of space before it flies in orbit.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
18 flagship systems anchor 90 products in three tiers — 72 component and subsystem learning products and 18 system products — sized to the Studio's 90 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Frequency-Selective Radome; Featherweight Wing; Conformal Load-Bearing Antenna; Absorber Paint; Salt-Fog Armour; Anti-Icing RF Coating; Die-Attach Cell; Test Socket Family; Micro-Fixture Kit; Wafer Sight; Thermal Map Bench; Bond-Wire Inspector; Printed Bus Frame; Printed Antenna Feed; Printed Propellant Tank; Composite Deck; Mass Properties Rig; Cyclone-Proof Ground Shelter.
- Y1 · Frequency-Selective Radome — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Frequency-Selective Radome — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Frequency-Selective Radome — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Frequency-Selective Radome — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Frequency-Selective Radome
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipro 3D; Intech AdditiveBengaluru | Metal AM | Machine and bureau | verified |
| Jyoti / BFWRajkot / Bengaluru | 5-axis machining | Machine class | verified |
| FIEIchalkaranji | Hardness and tensile testers | Tester class | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| EOS / SLM SolutionsGermany | Metal AM | ₹2–4 crore+ | verified |
| DMG Mori / MazakGermany-Japan; India offices | 5-axis | Machine class | verified |
| Zeiss / HexagonGermany / Sweden; India | CMM | CMM class | verified |
| ZwickRoell / InstronGermany / USA; India | Tensile testers | Tester class | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Ace Micromatic / MTAB (institutional), Festo India Didactic, Ador Welding / ESAB India, Mitutoyo India / Insize channel, WOL3D (exclusive Bambu channel, 11+ centres) / 3Dexter / Numakers / 3Idea, BFW / Jyoti CNC / ACE Micromatic / LMW / Lokesh + used-machine clusters (Ludhiana/Rajkot/Coimbatore); international: Universal Robots, FANUC, KUKA, ABB Robotics, Yaskawa, Prusa Research; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (11, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (4 items) | ₹4.34 Cr | AMC ₹26.0 L after 2 warranty years | ₹39.5 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (8 lines, quantities for 74 concurrent teams) | ₹97.6 L | consumables ₹53.2 L at 10% (heavy class) | ₹8.9 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹36.0 L | — | ₹3.3 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹68.1 L | — | ₹6.2 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹5.0 L | ₹0.5 L / yr |
| Electricity (184 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹17.8 L | ₹1.6 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹6.36 Cr | ₹1.02 Cr | ₹57.8 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹4.53 Cr | ₹67.7 L | ₹41.2 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹10.89 Cr | ₹1.70 Cr | ₹99.0 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹3.32 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹84.2 L | ₹11.7 L / yr | 40% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹3.22 Cr | ₹43.0 L / yr | 36% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹24.4 L | ₹6.9 L / yr | 7% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L / yr | 3% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Composites autoclave and ovenAutoclave; curing oven | ₹15 lakh–1 crore | ₹40.0 L | 1 | ₹40.0 L | planning price setIndian autoclave makers |
| Metal 3D printersDMLS class | ₹1–5 crore | ₹2.50 Cr | 1 | ₹2.50 Cr | planning price setImport; Indian representatives |
| 5-axis CNCFive-axis machining centre | ₹40 lakh–3 crore | ₹1.20 Cr | 1 | ₹1.20 Cr | planning price setJyoti CNC, Ace Micromatic; import |
| CMM metrologyBridge CMM | ₹8–40 lakh | ₹24.0 L | 1 | ₹24.0 L | band midpointIndian metrology distributors |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (8 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Used/refurbished Fanuc/KUKA/ABB industrial arm (via Difacto/Grey Matter)The smart caged-cell buy at a fraction of new | a used six-axis arm from Rs 3.5–4 L through Indian integrators; budget the same again for integration, safety fencing and training | ₹3.8 L | 8 | ₹30.0 L | band midpoint |
| SLS entry — Sinterit Lisa / Formlabs FuseNylon powder parts — buy only against proven Stage-3 demand | Rs 15–40 L | ₹25.0 L | 1 | ₹25.0 L | planning price set |
| Entry Indian VMCReal CNC machining — Stage 2 with a dedicated technician | ACE MCV-400 ~Rs 18.5 L class; BFW/Jyoti Rs 15–30 L; used Rs 8–12 L | ₹18.5 L | 1 | ₹18.5 L | listed price |
| MetrologyDimensional QC, NDE and the reverse-engineering service line | Mitutoyo/Insize bulk sets; SJ-210 roughness ~Rs 1.15–1.34 L (budget from Rs 45k); hardness Rs 1–4 L; UT gauge Rs 50k–1.5 L; used CMM; 3D scanners Revopoint Rs 50k–2 L / Shining3D Rs 3–8 L; pneumatic trainers (Janatics/Festo/SMC); compressors | ₹1.2 L | 8 | ₹10.0 L | band midpoint |
| LasersCutting capability by stage | CO2 Rs 3–8 L; fiber sheet-metal Rs 15–40 L (honest tiers) | ₹5.5 L | 1 | ₹5.5 L | band midpoint |
| Benchtop injection molding (Rs 2–8 L) + vacuum formerThe productization line’s tooling | Rs 0.5–3 L | ₹1.8 L | 2 | ₹3.5 L | band midpoint |
| Klipper/Mainsail + OpenPnPPrint-farm firmware and pick-and-place (Wafer tie) | Klipper host Pi + BTT board Rs 8k–15k; OpenPnP build Rs 1L–3L | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹2.8 L | band midpoint |
| LinuxCNC + servo/stepper retrofit kits, GRBL/FluidNC, PrintNC/MPCNC buildsMachine-building and the manual-to-CNC retrofit product line | retrofit Rs 40k–2L by machine; GRBL/FluidNC boards Rs 800–3k; PrintNC/MPCNC build Rs 40k–1.2L | ₹1.2 L | 2 | ₹2.4 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): LinuxCNC + Klipper/Mainsail + OpenPnP (Klipper host Pi + BTT board Rs 8k–15k; OpenPnP build Rs 1L–3L); PrusaSlicer/OrcaSlicer + CloudCompare/MeshLab; Mastercam EDU; RoboDK (education pricing); Ignition SCADA; Netfabb/Magics awareness.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (7 lines, ₹64.3 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / Jetson Orin | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹21.4 L |
| Bambu Lab fleet | 3D printers (FDM / resin) | Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹20.0 L |
| Cobots | Robot arms (collaborative) | Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹8.9 L |
| Resin printers | 3D printers (FDM / resin) | Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.0 L |
| CNC router (Rs 3–8 L), manual lathe/mill (Rs 2–5 L), bandsaw/coldsaw, tool grinders | Laser cutter / CNC router | Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹5.5 L |
| Welding MIG/TIG/spot (Rs 30k–2 L/station) + mandatory fume extraction | Welding & fabrication | Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹2.0 L |
| ESP32 + MEMS accelerometer nodes | ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.5 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. IIT Kharagpur's ministry-plus-industry-consortium 40,000 sq ft shared facility open to MSMEs and startups; Sheffield AMRC's Boeing-anchored translational model.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIA-CoEIIT Hyderabad | — | DRDO with DRDL and industry partners | Large-Area Additive Manufacturing system (1 m × 1 m × 3 m, blown-powder DED for rocket components), among India's largest metal-AM machines | https://pib.gov.inverified |
| CoE in Advanced Manufacturing Technology (CoEAMT)IIT Kharagpur | — | Ministry of Heavy Industries plus industry consortium | 40,000 sq ft; 5-axis hybrid metal AM, robotic friction-stir welding, 450 kV CT | https://coeamt.iitkgp.ac.inverified |
| CoE in Additive Manufacturing (IoE); AMTZ CoE (MeitY, medical devices)IIT Madras; Visakhapatnam | — | IIT Madras IoE; MeitY | — | https://coe.amtz.inverified |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIMP-3D; additive manufacturingPenn State; MIT; CMU, USA | — | — | — | —unverified |
| AMRC (Boeing-anchored); Fraunhofer IAPTUniversity of Sheffield, UK; Hamburg | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- ARTPARK @ IISc and TiHAN @ IIT Hyderabad — Robotics and autonomy CoEs with test arenas, GPU compute and pre-venture acceleration. verified
- Chips to Startup (C2S) chip-design network — About 1 lakh individuals from 400 organisations (300 academic, 95 startups) on shared EDA; 6 SCL-Mohali (180 nm) wafer runs enabled 122 submissions from 46 institutions and 56 fabricated student chips. Andhra example: SVECW Bhimavaram. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| GE Aerospace, John F. Welch Technology CentreBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Additive manufacturing and materials | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Siemens Digital IndustriesPune, Bengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Manufacturing and PLM | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Sri City manufacturing belt: Kobelco, Isuzu, Proterial/MetglasSri City (~250 km) · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Advanced materials and manufacturing | Sri City and company routescorroborated |
| Wipro 3D / Intech AdditiveBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Metal additive manufacturing | Company pagesconfirm URL |
| DRDO-DMRLHyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Advanced alloys, powder metallurgy, composites | DRDO routecorroborated |
| CSIR-ARCIHyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Surface engineering, additive manufacturing | Academic routeconfirm URL |
| Dassault Systèmes, Ansys, PTC, Renishaw, KeysightGlobal | Global company or institution | Design, simulation, metrology | Academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (8)
| Siemens, ABB, Schneider Electric, Rockwell AutomationBengaluru / Pune | Industrial automation product engineering |
| FestoBengaluru | 71,000 sq ft GCC near Electronics City, scaling toward ~600 professionals by 2030 |
| Caterpillar, Cummins, John Deere, EatonChennai / Pune / Bengaluru | Machine and engine engineering |
| Emerson, Honeywell, Danfoss, Parker HannifinPune / Bengaluru | Process and motion control |
| ZF Group, Tech Center IndiaHyderabad, with Chennai, Coimbatore and Pune | Driveline and chassis systems, advanced driver assistance, autonomous driving, functional safety, cybersecurity and simulation; this is the largest ZF software hub anywhere in the groupabout three thousand at Hyderabad today, growing towards five thousand engineers; the single most relevant large engineering employer within reach of this campus |
| Continental, Technical Center IndiaBengaluru | Driver assistance, single-channel antilock braking for two-wheelers, automotive electronics and softwarea thousand to thirteen hundred engineers |
| Copeland, Engineering and Technology CenterPune, opened March 2025 | Refrigeration and low global-warming-potential compressor engineering with firmware and softwaremore than three hundred engineers behind a five hundred crore rupee investment |
| FANUC IndiaBengaluru | Computer numerical controls, robots, machining centres and injection-moulding machines — sales, service and integration rather than core researchlisted honestly: this is an integration centre, not a design centre |
Indian startups and product companies (7)
| ZetwerkBengaluru | Manufacturing marketplace; unicorn |
| Intech AdditiveBengaluru | Metal additive manufacturing |
| Ethereal MachinesBengaluru | 5-axis CNC |
| Fabheads AutomationChennai | Automating composite manufacture, with the national space agency and aerospace firms as customers |
| Ethereal MachinesBengaluru | Multi-axis machining for aerospace, medical and satellite parts |
| Intech Additive SolutionsBengaluru | Building an indigenous metal printer rather than importing one |
| Sastra RoboticsKochi | Robotic quality assurance is an underserved and practical robotics market |
Global companies and institutions (8)
| Universal RobotsOdense, Denmark | Making robots safe and easy enough for small manufacturers opened an entire market |
| FormlabsSomerville, United States | Affordable professional resin printing required engineering the printer, the resin and the software together |
| Desktop MetalBurlington, United States | Binder jetting suits volume metal parts, but the listing-era promises met slow adoption |
| MarkforgedWaltham, United States | Printing composite parts strong enough to replace metal is a materials innovation |
| Bright MachinesSan Francisco, United States | Bringing software flexibility to the assembly line |
| VentionMontreal, Canada | Democratising the design of factory tooling shortens the automation cycle |
| Additive IndustriesEindhoven, Netherlands | Industrial metal printing is about repeatability, not peak capability |
| MonumentalAmsterdam, Netherlands | Single-trade robotic precision on a live site |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
No advisor for this Studio was verified in this pass; see the candidate leads below and the Studio bench.
Coverage: no adviser confirmed yet. Candidate leads: ARCI Hyderabad, CMTI Bengaluru, IIT Hyderabad additive-manufacturing faculty, Wipro3D, HAL.
The Studio's full advisory bench (14 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Dhinesh KanagarajChennai, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Fabheads Automation | Former space agency engineer who built Asia’s first carbon-fibre printer and automated fibre-placement systemsfabheads.com |
| Abhijeet RathoreChennai, India · in reach | Co-founder, Fabheads Automation | Co-founded the robotic composite manufacturing systems now used by the space agency and aerospace firmsdealroom.co |
| Kaushik MuddaBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Ethereal Machines | Built India’s first five-axis machining centres and a sub-ten-micron platform, and won a top innovation award for a hybrid machineblume.vc |
| Navin JainBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder, Ethereal Machines | Co-designed the five-axis and hybrid additive and subtractive machinesavataar.vc |
| Sridhar BalaramBengaluru, India · in reach | Founder and Chief Executive, Intech Additive Solutions | India’s first metal printer manufacturer, with multi-laser machines exported to Germany, Japan, Korea and Greece, and its own build-preparation softwareintechadditive.com |
| Srinivas ShastryBengaluru, India · in reach | Director, Intech Additive Solutions | Leads the move from a printing bureau to multi-laser shop-floor systemslinkedin.com |
| Amit B. KalyaniPune, India | Vice-Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Bharat Forge | Forged and machined components for automotive, aerospace, defence and electric vehicles; chairs the CII Smart Manufacturing Councilbharatforge.com |
| Baba N. KalyaniPune, India | Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Forge | The world’s second-largest forging company; front axle beams, steering knuckles, crankshafts and defence artillery systemsbharatforge.com |
| Suryakumar SimhambhatlaHyderabad, India | Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, IIT Hyderabad | Wire-arc additive manufacturing of large metal parts, design for AMmae.iith.ac.in |
| K. P. KarunakaranMumbai, India | Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay; Rapid Manufacturing Lab | Hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing, CNC and automationrmlabiitb.github.io |
| Arvind KumarKanpur, India | Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur | Selective laser melting, melt-pool simulation, metal additive manufacturinghome.iitk.ac.in/~arvindkr |
| Prateek SaxenaMandi, India | Assistant Professor and Head, Additive Manufacturing Lab, IIT Mandi | Extrusion-based metal AM and powder-bed fusionresearch.iitmandi.ac.in/amlab |
| Amit BandyopadhyayPullman, USA | Boeing Distinguished Chair Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Washington State University | 3D printing of metals and ceramics for biomedical and structural usewsu.edu |
| John NorrishWollongong, Australia | Professor Emeritus, University of Wollongong | Welding processes, intelligent fabrication, wire-arc AMuow.edu.au |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Manufacturing, composites, additive manufacturing, metrology | Manufacturing engineer, Additive-manufacturing engineer, Metrology engineer | ₹3–7 LPA | ₹7–15 LPA | Tata Advanced Systems, L&T, HAL, Imaginarium |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A2 PURSE — VIT's ₹21.39 Cr PURSE was additive manufacturing, a strong precedent
- F-A1 Level-III (up to ₹20 Cr for metrology and additive equipment)
- F-A6
- F-A20 plus in-kind (Siemens, Bosch, L&T; Ansys and Dassault tools)
After products exist
- F-B1 and F-B2 (defence-grade parts, consortium)
- F-B10
- F-B13 (IGSTC manufacturing)
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A2DST-PURSE (Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence) | Large, tiered by i10-index, h-index and NIRF | YES (caps) | Periodic under the restructured PURSE; confirm the 2026 call | DST, NIRF-linked nomination |
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A6AICTE MODROBS | Up to ₹20 lakh; two-year projects | YES (conditional) | Annual | AICTE RID Bureau |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B2DRDO Technology Development Fund (TDF) | Up to ₹50 Cr per project (from ₹10 Cr, approved 8 June 2022); up to 90% of cost; consortium of industry with industry or academia allowed; separate ₹500 Cr deep-tech vertical | CONDITIONAL (consortium) | Rolling | tdf.drdo.gov.in rolling EoIs |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: IIT Kharagpur CoEAMT. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Machine-shop overlay: dust extraction, welding bay, metrology room. Anchor: Dust, welding and laser controls.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 374 |
| Integration & Staging | 62 |
| Digital & Simulation | 86 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 91 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 93 |
| Machine Shopclear 6.0 m | 260 |
| Additive Manufacturing Roomclear 3.6 m | 70 |
| Metrology Roomclear 3.0 m | 45 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Laser lab safety (ANSI Z136.1-2022)
Class 3B (5–500 mW) and Class 4 (over 500 mW) need a Laser Controlled Area with interlocked entry controls, a nominal hazard zone or whole-room designation, Z535 danger signage and a lit Class 4 warning, OD-rated eyewear (one OD unit is 10× attenuation), barriers, written SOPs and restricted access. blog.ansi.org; ehs.yale.edu
10. Club: Makers Guild
Studio-specific: Print-to-flight composite challenge; Metrology olympiad; Additive manufacturing training for MSMEs. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additive Manufacturing | Elsevier | IF ~10–11 (2024), Q1; APC ~US$3,880 (unverified) | partial |
| Journal of Materials Processing Technology | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| CIRP Annals | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Composites Part B | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Virtual and Physical Prototyping | Taylor & Francis | Q1 | unverified |
| Precision Engineering | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
Conferences: IEEE INDICON; national and international additive-manufacturing conferences; ASME MSEC. Indian venue: INDICON only; no dedicated Indian AM student track found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC B33Y (additive manufacturing), B22F (metal powders), B23 (machining, tooling), G01B (metrology), C23C (coatings), B29C (composites).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: AM part-fabrication bureau, CMM and metrology (NABL), materials characterisation, tooling design; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: Smart India Hackathon (manufacturing); DRDO Dare to Dream (materials); SAE design challenges.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 10 OF 17 · PLATFORM ROBOTICS
Yantra Studio
STUDIO 10 OF 17 · PLATFORM ROBOTICS
Yantra Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response.
Tasks its products serve: Enter a collapsed building before a responder does; Carry passengers across campus in the monsoon; Train a robot in simulation on Monday and walk it on rubble on Friday; Measure a damaged structure before people enter; Run an Indian warehouse with robots trained on Indian shelves; Fight a fire and print a shelter with machines.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
21 flagship systems anchor 105 products in three tiers — 84 component and subsystem learning products and 21 system products — sized to the Studio's 105 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Rubble Eye; Touch Map; Acoustic Locator; Sim-to-Real Trainer; Negotiating Planner; Recovery Behaviour Library; Mule Platform; Modular Actuator; Stair-Climbing Cart; Terrain Legs; Campus Humanoid; Quadruped Firefighter; Search Hand; Learned Grasp; Valve Turner Hand; Snake Scout; Soft Gripper Kit; Inflatable Lifting Bag Robot; Haptic Cockpit; Shared Autonomy Handover; Gesture Command Glove.
- Y1 · Rubble Eye — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Rubble Eye — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Rubble Eye — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Rubble Eye — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Rubble Eye
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| SystemanticsBengaluru | ASYSTR, the first fully India-made cobot | Cobot class | verified |
| Svaya RoboticsHyderabad | Cobots | Cobot class | verified |
| Ati MotorsBengaluru | Autonomous platforms | Platform class | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| UnitreeChina; via importers | Go2 and H1 quadruped and humanoid | ₹8 lakh–₹1 crore | partial |
| Boston DynamicsUSA | Spot | Import | partial |
| Universal Robots / Franka EmikaDenmark / Germany; India | Cobots | ₹15–35 lakh | verified |
| OptiTrack / ViconUSA / UK | Motion capture | ₹30 lakh–₹1 crore | partial |
| Force Dimension / 3D SystemsSwitzerland / USA | Haptic devices | Import | partial |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Robu.in / Robokits India, Systemantics / Addverb / difacto (education outreach), XBOOM (Unitree India channel), ThinkRobotics / Robocraze, Robu / Robokits / ThinkRobotics / Robocraze, XBOOM (Unitree India channel); international: Robotis, Trossen Robotics, ODrive Robotics, CubeMars, myActuator, Unitree Robotics; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (8, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (3 items) | ₹50.0 L | AMC ₹3.0 L after 2 warranty years | ₹6.2 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (9 lines, quantities for 63 concurrent teams) | ₹1.30 Cr | consumables ₹14.4 L at 8% (physical class) | ₹16.2 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹22.0 L | — | ₹2.8 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹24.2 L | — | ₹3.0 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹3.0 L | ₹0.4 L / yr |
| Electricity (110 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹10.6 L | ₹1.3 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹2.26 Cr | ₹31.0 L | ₹28.2 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹86.5 L | ₹18.0 L | ₹10.8 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹3.12 Cr | ₹49.1 L | ₹39.1 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹1.48 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹24.4 L | ₹6.9 L / yr | 7% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L / yr | 6% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rubble pile and disaster test rangeA campus rubble structure with instrumented voids, stairs and a collapsed-floor section | ₹10–30 lakh | ₹20.0 L | 1 | ₹20.0 L | band midpointCivil contractor with the Habitat Studio |
| Collaborative armsUniversal Robots, Doosan, Kinova; Indian makers Addverb, Difacto | ₹8–30 lakh | ₹19.0 L | 1 | ₹19.0 L | band midpointAddverb (Noida), Difacto (Bengaluru); UR India |
| Mobile platforms; grippers; force-torque sensorsAMR base; Robotiq / OnRobot grippers; ATI / Robotiq F/T | Platforms ₹3–20 lakh; grippers ₹2–8 lakh; F/T sensors ₹2–10 lakh | ₹11.0 L | 1 | ₹11.0 L | band midpointIndian robotics distributors |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (9 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Humanoid LiteThe flagship humanoid — fully open, fall-repairable | ~$4,312 US / ~₹3.6 L BOM; 3D-printed cycloidal gearboxes on a 200 mm FDM bed | ₹4.3 L | 8 | ₹34.8 L | listed price |
| ALOHA-style leader–follower rig (open BOM) + VR HMDsTeleoperation and imitation-learning data collection | published ALOHA BOM ~$20k–32k; LeRobot SO-101 from ~$100 BOM is the teaching substitute; Quest 3S ~Rs 36k–45k | ₹26.2 L | 1 | ₹26.2 L | band midpoint |
| LEAP Hand16-DOF anthropomorphic dexterous hand, ~4-hour assembly | ~$2,000 BOM; simple version $200–300 | ₹2.0 L | 8 | ₹16.1 L | listed price |
| Unitree Go2 (from Rs 2.49 L via XBOOM) + G1 humanoidCommercial locomotion references — one Go2 in Stage 1, G1 only if whole-body control demands it | $13,500 base; ~$16k street; Stage-3 only | ₹13.6 L | 1 | ₹13.6 L | listed price |
| AR4-MK3 (~$1,790 kit) + PAROL6 open arms + open grippersFull 6-axis manipulation owned down to the firmware | ₹1.5 L | 8 | ₹12.0 L | planning price set | |
| Overhead gantry + tether rigs, netted test arena, e-stop networkThe legged-robot test infrastructure — safety hardware before the first step | Rs 3–15 L fabricated locally, including the emergency-stop network | ₹9.0 L | 1 | ₹9.0 L | band midpoint |
| CubeMars AK-series / MyActuator / Steadywin QDD actuatorsHumanoid, quadruped and exoskeleton joints with MIT-mode torque control | ~$130–400 each + duty | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.4 L | band midpoint |
| Stanford Pupper / CHAMP stacksEntry legged robotics before the Go2 | Pupper kit ~$600–900, ~Rs 50k–75k landed | ₹0.8 L | 8 | ₹6.0 L | band midpoint |
| ODrive / VESC / mjbots moteus / SimpleFOC driversBLDC control — building actuators from motor + planetary gearset | ODrive S1 $229; Flipsky VESC Rs 6k–12k; moteus ~$199; SimpleFOC Rs 1.5k–4k | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.5 L | listed price |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): OpenCV + LeRobot + WebRTC teleop stacks; RoboDK (education pricing).
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (3 lines, ₹36.6 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / Jetson Orin | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹21.4 L |
| Sim/RL workstation pair (RTX-class) + fleet NAS | GPU workstation | Compute and Software Lab | ₹8.0 L |
| Depth cameras & LiDARs | LiDAR | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹7.2 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. IIT Genoa's platform-family approach — one reusable robot platform iterated across projects — plus EUROBENCH-style standardised prototype benchmarking.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotics and Intelligent Systems LabIIT Hyderabad | — | IIT Hyderabad | Humanoids, biped and quadruped, search-and-rescue robots | https://mae.iith.ac.inverified |
| IoT and IoE TIH; IHFC robotics TIHIIT Bombay; IIT Delhi | — | NM-ICPS | — | https://www.ihfc.co.inverified |
| Robotics centresIIT Madras and IIT Kanpur | — | — | — | —unverified |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaGenoa, Italy | — | IIT (Italy) | HHCM and Dynamic Legged Systems labs; COMAN, WALK-MAN, CENTAURO, HyQ; ESA MIRROR space robot; EUROBENCH standardised benchmarking | https://hhcm.iit.itverified |
| CMU Robotics Institute; MIT CSAIL; ETH RSL (ANYmal); KAIST (DRC-Hubo)USA, Switzerland, Korea | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- ARTPARK @ IISc and TiHAN @ IIT Hyderabad — Robotics and autonomy CoEs with test arenas, GPU compute and pre-venture acceleration. verified
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- DRDO Industry–Academia Centres of Excellence (15 established, 82 verticals) — SDR at IIT Kanpur; Emerging RF Technologies at IIT Roorkee; Compound Semiconductors at IIT Bombay; Cryptography & Information Security at IIT Kharagpur; Omni-mobility and AI at IIT Jodhpur. Nearest: University of Hyderabad DIA-CoE. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosch, ABB RoboticsBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Industrial robotics | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Svaya RoboticsHyderabad · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Humanoids and cobots; the strong local anchor | Company pageconfirm URL |
| CynLrBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Visual robotic manipulation | Company pagecorroborated |
| SystemanticsBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Six-axis cobots designed and made in India | Company pagecorroborated |
| General Autonomy / Ati MotorsBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Autonomous and humanoid (Atom 01) | Company pagecorroborated |
| GenroboticsThiruvananthapuram | Indian startup or product company | Bandicoot sewer robot, exoskeletons | Company pagecorroborated |
| NM-ICPS robotics TIHsIIT hubs | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Robotics hubs | DST hub routescorroborated |
| DRDO-CAIRBengaluru · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Robotics and AI | DRDO routeconfirm URL |
| BHEL / HALNational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Platform robotics | PSU routeconfirm URL |
| NVIDIA (Isaac), MathWorks, Universal Robots AcademyGlobal | Global company or institution | Robot learning and simulation | Academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (3)
| Medtronic surgical roboticsHyderabad | Robotic surgery platform engineering |
| ABB / Bosch robotics teamsBengaluru | Industrial robotics |
| Amazon Robotics-adjacent teamsHyderabad | Warehouse automation |
Indian startups and product companies (7)
| CynLrBengaluru | Visual-manipulation robotics — genuinely deep-tech |
| GenroboticsKerala | Bandicoot sewer-cleaning robot — strong social-impact story |
| Addverb, Ati Motors, SystemanticsNoida / Bengaluru | Industrial and mobile robots |
| Svaya RoboticsHyderabad | Vertically integrated cobot, actuator and perception design, achieved without venture funding — and a plain lesson in the capital constraint on hardware |
| Anscer RoboticsBengaluru | A hybrid navigation stack for factory logistics |
| Rapyuta RoboticsBengaluru and Japan | Multi-robot orchestration from the cloud |
| Hi-Tech Robotic SystemzGurugram | Vision navigation integrated into factory systems |
Global companies and institutions (10)
| Figure AISan Jose, United States | Vertical integration is real, but a 39 billion dollar valuation on negligible revenue is the clearest study of hype against shipping |
| UnitreeHangzhou, China | Cost engineering and volume are themselves a competitive weapon |
| 1X TechnologiesMoss, Norway | Pricing for the home forces cost discipline back into the mechanical design |
| Agility RoboticsCorvallis, United States | Use legs only where they earn their keep, which is fitting human spaces |
| ApptronikAustin, United States | Owning the actuator is how you own the cost of a humanoid |
| Sanctuary AIVancouver, Canada | Dexterous manipulation remains the hardest unsolved problem in robotics |
| Shadow RobotLondon, United Kingdom | Nearly four decades on a single hard problem |
| Fourier IntelligenceShanghai, China | Actuation know-how earned in rehabilitation transfers directly to humanoids |
| ANYboticsZurich, Switzerland | Legged robots found a commercial niche where wheels cannot go |
| RIVRZurich, Switzerland | Combining wheels and legs handles both stairs and speed |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Balaraman RavindranChennai | Professor (CSE) and Head, Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI and Centre for Responsible AI, IIT Madras | Deep reinforcement learning and learning control; responsible-AI assurance | 1, 4 | rbcdsai.iitm.ac.inV |
| Saurabh ChandraBengaluru | Founder and CEO, Ati Robotics | Learning-based industrial autonomy | 4 | yourstory.comV/S |
| V. VinayBengaluru | Co-founder, Ati Motors; IISc computer scientist; co-inventor of the Simputer | Robotics and computing pioneer (note: departed Ati) | 4 | forbesindia.comS |
Coverage: Fewer than eight verified. Candidate leads: IISc Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, IIT Madras Engineering Design robotics lab, humanoid startups such as Svaya Robotics.
The Studio's full advisory bench (10 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Vijay R. SeelamHyderabad, India · in reach | Founder and Chief Executive, Svaya Robotics | Leads full-stack collaborative robots and India’s first indigenous quadruped, developed with the national defence laboratorieslinkedin.com/in/vijay-seelam-9163931 |
| Vimal Govind M. K.Thiruvananthapuram, India | Co-founder and CEO, Genrobotics | The Bandicoot sewer-cleaning robot and the G-Gaiter gait-rehabilitation robotgenrobotics.org |
| Nikhil RamaswamyBengaluru, India | Co-founder and CEO, CynLr | The CyRo visual robot and the CLX-01 robotic vision stackcynlr.com |
| Gokul N. A.Bengaluru, India | Co-founder, CynLr | CyRo and the CLX-01 vision system, including event imagingcynlr.com |
| Jagannath RajuBengaluru, India | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Systemantics India | The ASYSTR 400 and 600 industrial robot arms — the first six-axis robot designed in Indiasystemantics.com |
| Shishir KolathayaBengaluru, India | Assistant Professor, Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, IISc; Stochastic Robotics Lab | Legged and quadruped robots, safety-critical and learning controlcps.iisc.ac.in |
| Ashitava GhosalBengaluru, India | Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IISc | Robot kinematics and dynamics, manipulators, quadruped designmecheng.iisc.ac.in |
| Bharadwaj AmruturBengaluru, India | Professor, Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc | Robotics systems, sensors, cyber-physical platformsece.iisc.ac.in/~amrutur |
| Claudio SeminiGenoa, Italy | Head, Dynamic Legged Systems Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | Hydraulic quadruped robots and legged locomotion controliit.it |
| Katherine J. KuchenbeckerStuttgart, Germany | Director, Haptic Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems | Haptics, tactile sensing, physical human-robot interaction, teleoperationis.mpg.de/person/kjk · kjk@is.mpg.de |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotics, autonomy, perception, SLAM, motion planning, ROS | Robotics engineer, Perception engineer, Autonomy engineer | ₹4–10 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Ati Motors, Addverb, GreyOrange, Bosch, Ola Electric |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| Physical AI, robot learning and sim-to-real | Robot learning engineer, Simulation engineer, Physical-AI research engineer | ₹8–15 LPA | ₹18–40 LPA | Nvidia, Ati Motors, Addverb, GreyOrange, Tata Elxsi |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1
- F-A3
- F-A12 IHFC (IIT Delhi cobotics) spike partnership (unfunded)
- F-A8 (robotics, conditional)
- F-A14 (robot learning)
- F-A20 plus NVIDIA hardware
After products exist
- F-B1 and F-B2 (teleoperated and legged military robotics)
- F-B10
- F-B11 ISRO Robotics Challenge
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A12NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs and spokes | Hubs large (iHub-AWaDH ₹110 Cr); spokes smaller | NO / CONDITIONAL | Rolling hub EoIs | Individual hub EoIs |
| F-A8DRDO DIA-CoE (Industry–Academia Centre of Excellence) | Grant-in-aid, multi-vertical; 15 CoEs, 82 research verticals (2025 realignment) | CONDITIONAL | Expansion by DRDO decision | DRDO DFTM |
| F-A14IndiaAI Mission — compute | Over 38,000 GPUs at about ₹65 an hour, with government paying up to 40% of the bill for priority use cases; outlay ₹10,371.92 Cr over five years (March 2024) | YES | Rolling | indiaai.gov.in AI Compute Portal |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B2DRDO Technology Development Fund (TDF) | Up to ₹50 Cr per project (from ₹10 Cr, approved 8 June 2022); up to 90% of cost; consortium of industry with industry or academia allowed; separate ₹500 Cr deep-tech vertical | CONDITIONAL (consortium) | Rolling | tdf.drdo.gov.in rolling EoIs |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B11Challenge prizes: Smart India Hackathon, DRDO Dare to Dream, IN-SPACe CANSAT India, ISRO Robotics Challenge, XPRIZE | Prizes | YES (students) | Annual | Programme sites |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: Stanford PRL; TU Delft Project MARCH. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Baseline plus a robotics arena and teleoperation station. Anchor: Arena and rubble range.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 317 |
| Integration & Staging | 53 |
| Digital & Simulation | 73 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 174 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 77 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 65 |
| Robot Cells with Guardingclear 4.5 m | 120 |
| Field Robotics Apronclear 0 m | 100 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Electronics ESD and bench spacing (ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021)
A written programme, personnel grounding, ESD-safe work surfaces, wrist straps tested to S1.1, grounding to S6.1, conductive flooring 2.5×10⁴–1.0×10⁶ Ω (dissipative to ~10⁹ Ω), isolated-conductor limit under 35 V; protects to 100 V HBM / 200 V CDM. Bench density benchmark: Georgia Tech Hive runs 20+ stations each with soldering, oscilloscope, generator, supply and multimeter plus LPKF PCB fabrication. blog.ansi.org; techmade.gatech.edu
10. Club: Embodied Intelligence Club
Studio-specific: Legged-robot rubble challenge; Sim-to-real weekend on the cluster; Haptic teleoperation open lab. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Robotics | IEEE | IF 11.1 (2025), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | IEEE | IF 5.3 (2024), Q1; OA APC ~US$2,045 | verified |
| Science Robotics | AAAS | Very high IF, Q1 | partial |
| International Journal of Robotics Research | SAGE | Q1 | unverified |
| Soft Robotics | Mary Ann Liebert | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Haptics | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| Autonomous Robots | Springer | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2 | verified |
Conferences: IEEE ICRA; IEEE/RSJ IROS; RoboCup; IEEE INDICON; AIR (Advances in Robotics, India). Indian venue: INDICON found; AIR unverified.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC B25J (manipulators, robots), B62D (legged locomotion), G05B and G05D (control), G06N (learning), A61 (assistive).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Robot integration, gripper and end-effector design, teleoperation systems; IIT Madras CFI precedent (student drone swarm, humanoid S.A.M.V.I.D); no fee schedule found.
Competitions: ISRO Robotics Challenge IRoC-U (₹27 lakh+); RoboCup; DD Robocon India (ABU Robocon national); Smart India Hackathon.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 11 OF 17 · SILICON & ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS
Wafer Studio
STUDIO 11 OF 17 · SILICON & ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS
Wafer Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence; Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response.
Tasks its products serve: Give a coastal district a spectrum picture it owns; Plan an electronic fight in seconds, with a human in charge; Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory; Send a quantum-secured key and a covert message across a campus link; Map the interfering sources in a district and hand the officer the evidence; Migrate a fleet to post-quantum security before the deadline; Put an Indian chip in every camera the Missions deploy; Train a Mission model on a cluster the students built; Tape out a sovereign SoC and test it the week it returns; Run a small language model in a village device and more.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
51 flagship systems anchor 255 products in three tiers — 204 component and subsystem learning products and 51 system products — sized to the Studio's 255 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Spectrum Inference Chip; Beam-Steering Engine; Federated Spectrum Node; Wideband Digitiser; Low-Noise Bias Chip; Time-to-Digital Chip; Reconfigurable Signal Engine; EW Planning Agent; Waveform Sandbox; Tamper Witness; Attested Radio Controller; Zeroise Guard; Edge NPU 'Tarka'; Transformer Tile; Spiking Neuromorphic Core; Sovereign Core 'Shakti-K'; Safety Core Pair; Vector Kernel Library; Vision SoC 'Netra'; Meter SoC 'Ganita'; Radio SoC 'Tarang'; Metering AFE; Sensor Hub Chip; Energy-Harvest PMIC; Silent Anchor; Model Vault; Post-Quantum Crypto Core; Chiplet Stack; Interposer Kit; Thermal-Aware Package; Agentic Verifier; Burn-In Rig; Silicon Lifecycle Monitor; Photonic Waveguide Kit; Magnet Recovery Alloy; Wide-Bandgap Test Structures; Campus Supercluster; Fair-Share Scheduler; Green Job Router; Tarka Compiler; Boot Chain; Secure Update Client; Rad-Tolerant Controller; Orbit Reconfigurable Payload; Single-Event Upset Logger; Orbital Inference Card; Payload Data Compressor; Orbital Model Updater; Perception Accelerator; Policy Chip; Sensor-Fusion Chip.
- Y1 · Spectrum Inference Chip — Architecture and RTL specification
- Y1 · Spectrum Inference Chip — Verification suite and coverage
- Y2 · Spectrum Inference Chip — Physical design and sign-off
- Y2 · Spectrum Inference Chip — Test board and bring-up kit
- Y3 · Spectrum Inference Chip
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCL Mohali via C2SMohali | Fabrication and test access | Subsidised | verified |
| C-DAC ChipIN CentreBengaluru | EDA and design infrastructure | Free via C2S | verified |
| Indian distributorsIndia | FPGA and RISC-V boards | Board class | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD-XilinxUSA; University Program | Versal and Zynq boards | Programme pricing | verified |
| IntelUSA; university programme | Agilex, Quartus | Programme pricing | verified |
| FormFactor / MPIUSA / Taiwan | Probe stations | Import | verified |
| KeysightUSA; India | Wafer test | Instrument class | verified |
| TPT / HesseGermany | Wire bonders | Import | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Element14/Farnell India, Mouser India, DigiKey India desks, CoreEL Technologies / Entuple (Bengaluru/Hyderabad), Sahasra / VVDN channel (education outreach), Testronix / Tektronix-Keysight partners (Hyderabad), Element14/Farnell, Mouser, DigiKey India + Robu/Evelta, CoreEL Technologies / Entuple; international: Digilent, Terasic, AMD University Program, Intel FPGA Academic Program, ChipFoundry, Tiny Tapeout; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (16, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (6 items) | ₹4.80 Cr | AMC ₹28.8 L after 2 warranty years | ₹30.0 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (17 lines, quantities for 86 concurrent teams) | ₹6.06 Cr | consumables ₹1.52 Cr at 14% (clean class) | ₹37.9 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹34.0 L | — | ₹2.1 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹1.34 Cr | — | ₹8.4 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹9.0 L | ₹0.6 L / yr |
| Electricity (173 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹16.7 L | ₹1.0 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹12.55 Cr | ₹2.07 Cr | ₹78.4 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹1.37 Cr | ₹25.7 L | ₹8.6 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹13.92 Cr | ₹2.32 Cr | ₹87.0 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹10.09 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹57.8 L | ₹7.5 L / yr | 12% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹31.3 L | ₹8.8 L / yr | 9% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L / yr | 6% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU training nodes for the Campus Supercluster8-GPU nodes (NVIDIA H100/H200 or AMD MI300 class); student-racked | ₹1.5–3 crore per node (import) | ₹2.00 Cr | 2 | ₹4.00 Cr | planning price set · importIndian system integrators (Netweb, Tyrone); NVIDIA and AMD partners |
| Semiconductor parameter analyserKeysight B1500A class | ₹15–40 lakh | ₹27.5 L | 1 | ₹27.5 L | band midpointKeysight India |
| Teaching cleanroom ISO 7/8 equipmentAir handling, gowning, benches, wet bench, hoods | ₹50 lakh–3 crore | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | planning price setIndian cleanroom contractors |
| Wire bonder (manual)Manual wedge / ball bonder | ₹8–25 lakh | ₹16.5 L | 1 | ₹16.5 L | band midpointImport via distributor |
| AMD Versal / RFSoC boardsZCU111, VCK190 class | ₹3–15 lakh | ₹9.0 L | 4 | ₹36.0 L | band midpointElement14 India; AMD University Program (in-kind possible) |
| Tape-out and packagingSCL-Mohali via C2S; OSAT partners | Per-run quotation; subsidised via C2S | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | quote onlyC-DAC; Indian OSAT |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (17 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleanroom-lite suite at ISO class 7The honest tier: ISO 7 at roughly Rs 3,000–8,000 per square foot, not an ISO 5 semiconductor cleanroom costing tens of crore | Rs 1–3 Cr for a modest bench | ₹1.50 Cr | 1 | ₹1.50 Cr | planning price set |
| Maskless direct-write lithography, Heidelberg µMLA or MLA-classOne-micrometre features on the tabletop class and about half a micrometre on the MLA class, with no photomask cost or lead time — the correct choice for iteration-heavy university work | Rs 85 L–2.5 Cr | ₹1.20 Cr | 1 | ₹1.20 Cr | planning price set |
| Reactive-ion and plasma etcherPattern transfer with measured etch rate and selectivity | Rs 60 L–2 Cr | ₹80.0 L | 1 | ₹80.0 L | planning price set |
| Sputtering and thermal evaporation systemsThin-film deposition with measurable thickness uniformity | Rs 40 L–1.5 Cr | ₹60.0 L | 1 | ₹60.0 L | planning price set |
| InfiniBand or high-speed Ethernet fabric — switches, adapters and cablesWhere cluster budgets silently fail; a poor fabric strands compute at low utilisation | from Rs 50 L | ₹50.0 L | 1 | ₹50.0 L | planning price set |
| Parallel filesystem nodes with NVMe tiersAggregate throughput and IOPS, and the reason many clusters underperform their benchmark | Rs 30–80 L | ₹45.0 L | 1 | ₹45.0 L | planning price set |
| Direct-liquid or immersion cooling for the clusterBuilt jointly with the Habitat thermal Foundry, which supplies the measurement | Rs 15 L–1 Cr | ₹45.0 L | 1 | ₹45.0 L | planning price set |
| MEMS bench — single-axis rate table, pressure controller, climatic mini-chamber; manual probe station + stereo microscopesCalibration-grade sensor and die-level test | Rs 10–50 L assembled across rate table, pressure controller, climatic mini-chamber and probe station — quote required | ₹25.0 L | 1 | ₹25.0 L | planning price set |
| Precision SMUDevice characterisation for silicon bring-up and MEMS | Keithley 2450 (200 V/1 A/20 W, 6½-digit) ~Rs 5.25 L India street ($4,795 native); Keysight B2901B-class alternative | ₹6.3 L | 1 | ₹6.3 L | listed price |
| ChipWhispererThe de-facto side-channel teaching standard | Nano (entry), Lite ~$250-class, Husky ~$500 target (NewAE, via Mouser) | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.0 L | listed price |
| Tiny Tapeout devkit ~€300 + €50–70/tile per shuttleIndividual student silicon at course-fee prices — the diversified secondary shuttle route | digital $250/chip + $50/tile; analog EUR 70/tile, min 2 tiles; devkit ~EUR 300 | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.0 L | listed price |
| Open baseboard-management, IPMI and Redfish telemetry with metered rack power distributionOut-of-band control and the per-node power data behind gigaflops per watt | Rs 3–8 L | ₹5.5 L | 1 | ₹5.5 L | band midpoint |
| Desktop SMT lineThe production line — the highest-leverage asset in the studio | Neoden 4 pick-and-place ~Rs 5 L (10,000 CPH, vision), matching reflow (indicative Rs 1.5–3.5 L, quote-based) + stencil printer + AOI; Charmhigh budget tier | ₹5.0 L | 1 | ₹5.0 L | listed price |
| Open-source DLP maskless stepper as the teaching tierRoughly two-micrometre features for a few lakh; every student can understand and rebuild it | about Rs 2.5 L | ₹2.5 L | 1 | ₹2.5 L | listed price |
| Open PDKs: SkyWater Sky130, GF180MCU, IHP SG13G2Zero-cost process design kits behind the whole open flow | free and open — no licence cost | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | free |
| Slurm, OpenHPC, Rocky Linux, Spack, Lustre and BeeGFSThe entire cluster software stack, which is genuinely open and industry-standard | free, no licence cost | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | free |
| Graphics-processor compute nodes, four to eightThe compute itself; power and cooling provisioning is the hidden cost students must learn to plan | Rs 25–40 L per accelerator; a dense eight-accelerator node draws about 10.2 kW | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | planning price set |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): NVIDIA AI Enterprise or Base Command, and Altair PBS Professional.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (7 lines, ₹82.3 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oscilloscope fleet | Oscilloscope | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹28.2 L |
| T&M-foundry anchor — 6½-digit DMM + calibration artefact set (reference resistors/voltage standards) | Multimeter / bench meter | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹22.0 L |
| PCB mills — Bantam Tools $2,499–3,299 (6-mil traces); LPKF ProtoMat quote-only new | PCB prototyping | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹9.1 L |
| Environmental test — Envisys/CM Envirosystems/SAMS thermal & humidity chambers; Saraswati Dynamics electrodynamic shakers + Spandon controllers | Environmental / thermal chamber | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹8.0 L |
| AMD KV260 Vision AI kit ~$284 + Jetson Orin Nano/NX modules | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹6.9 L |
| PYNQ-Z2 ~$199 (Rs 22–28k landed), Arty Z7-20 ~$521 incl. GST, Cora Z7 $99–149, Zybo Z7-20 ~$399, Nexys A7 ~$405 | FPGA development boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹4.8 L |
| ULX3S/ECP5 open boards $115–160, iCE40 boards $25–50 | FPGA development boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹3.3 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. ChipIN's quarterly shared-shuttle tape-out cadence (which guarantees silicon output) and Berkeley's open RISC-V ecosystem: every Wafer team targets one MPW tape-out a year.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChipIN CentreC-DAC Bengaluru | — | MeitY, C2S nodal | Shared EDA and design infrastructure; designs aggregated quarterly and fabricated at SCL Mohali (180 nm); PARAM Utkarsh HPC; distributed FPGA boards; 4,855+ support requests resolved | https://www.c2s.gov.inverified |
| Chips-to-Startup (C2S) programmeMeitY | 2022, ₹250 Cr over 5 years | MeitY | 315 universities; 68,000+ students trained (target 85,000); 254 chip designs taped out — 175 at 180 nm at SCL Mohali and 79 at overseas foundries | https://c2s.gov.inverified |
| NSUT design labs; IIT Delhi (nodal, VLSI/6G/AI chips); SVECW (edge-AI co-processor)Delhi; Bhimavaram | — | — | — | —secondary source |
| L&T Semiconductor–C-DAC–IIT Gandhinagar Secure IC CentreIIT Gandhinagar | 2025 (about September) | Tripartite | Secure chips with smart-card OS for e-passports and digital identity | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley (ADEPT/SLICE); Stanford SystemX; MIT MTL; imec/TU DelftUSA, Belgium, Netherlands | — | — | RISC-V origin; industry-affiliate systems research | —unverified |
| Efabless / Google–SkyWater open MPW shuttle; TSMC University Shuttle; Intel and NVIDIA campus programmesUSA, Taiwan | — | — | University tape-out ecosystems | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- Chips to Startup (C2S) chip-design network — About 1 lakh individuals from 400 organisations (300 academic, 95 startups) on shared EDA; 6 SCL-Mohali (180 nm) wafer runs enabled 122 submissions from 46 institutions and 56 fabricated student chips. Andhra example: SVECW Bhimavaram. verified
- DRDO Industry–Academia Centres of Excellence (15 established, 82 verticals) — SDR at IIT Kanpur; Emerging RF Technologies at IIT Roorkee; Compound Semiconductors at IIT Bombay; Cryptography & Information Security at IIT Kharagpur; Omni-mobility and AI at IIT Jodhpur. Nearest: University of Hyderabad DIA-CoE. verified
- Amaravati Quantum Valley — Foundation stone 7 February 2026 at Uddandarayunipalem; IBM Quantum System Two with a Heron processor (156 qubits per IBM; some launch reports say 133 — unsettled). The one anchor cluster local to KLEF. verify
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| QualcommHyderabad · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Snapdragon SoC, modem, AI accelerators; targeting 20,000 employees by 2027; Hyderabad is its largest design hub outside San Diego | Qualcomm university relationscorroborated |
| AMDHyderabad, Bengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | CPU, GPU, adaptive SoC; about $400M over five years (announced 28 July 2023) for a Bengaluru campus that is AMD's largest design centre, about 3,000 new engineering roles by end-2028 on a base of over 6,500 India staff, taking AMD to ten India office locations | AMD University Programcorroborated |
| MicronHyderabad · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | DRAM, NAND and HBM design; crossed 3,000 employees in 2021 and targets 4,000 engineers by 2027 (a current figure of about 3,500 is not directly sourced) | Micron university and CSR pagescorroborated |
| NXP, Analog Devices, Marvell, NVIDIA, Silicon LabsHyderabad · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Silicon design teams | University relationscorroborated |
| Ceremorphic, Cyient SemiconductorsHyderabad · in reach | Indian startup or product company | SoC and design services | Company pagescorroborated |
| Saankhya Labs (Tejas Networks)Bengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | SDR chipsets | Company pagecorroborated |
| Mirafra, Tessolve, SmartSoCHyderabad · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Design services | Company pagescorroborated |
| India Semiconductor Mission — Chips to StartupC-DAC ChipIN Centre, Bengaluru | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Free EDA (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, Renesas, Ansys, AMD) in 315 institutions, SCL Mohali fabrication; AP already has 23 C2S institutions (IIT Tirupati, IIITDM Kurnool, NIT-AP, VIT-AP, SRM-AP) | c2s.gov.in portal via C-DACcorroborated |
| SCL MohaliMohali | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Fabrication of student designs | Via C2Scorroborated |
| DRDO-GAETECHyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Compound-semiconductor foundry | DRDO routecorroborated |
| Arm Academic Access; AMD/Xilinx University Program; Synopsys and Cadence university programmes; Intel; SamsungGlobal | Global company or institution | IP, tools and boards | Vendor academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (9)
| Qualcomm India Design CentreHyderabad | Over 18,000 engineers, targeting 20,000 by 2027 — Qualcomm’s largest presence outside San Diego. Snapdragon, modem and AI-accelerator IP; 2nm tapeouts. |
| MicronHyderabad | DRAM, NAND and HBM design and verification; crossed 3,000 employees in 2021, targeting 4,000 engineers by 2027 |
| AMDHyderabad / Bengaluru | CPU and GPU microarchitecture, physical design, verification |
| IntelBengaluru | Largest R&D centre outside the US |
| NXPBengaluru / Hyderabad | 3,000+ engineers; over $1B committed to double R&D |
| TI, Analog Devices, Applied Materials, Lam ResearchBengaluru | Analog, equipment and process engineering |
| Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens EDABengaluru / Hyderabad / Noida | EDA tool development and verification |
| Marvell, Infineon, Renesas, MediaTek, Western Digital, MicrochipBengaluru / Hyderabad / Pune | SoC and storage design |
| Tessolve SemiconductorVisakhapatnam and Hyderabad, with the head office at Bengaluru | Semiconductor test and product engineering across very-large-scale integration, radio frequency, mixed signal, printed circuit boards and embedded designhas an office in Visakhapatnam, which makes it one of the few semiconductor engineering employers inside Andhra Pradesh |
Indian startups and product companies (5)
| MosChipHyderabad | ASIC, IP and silicon design services |
| Mindgrove TechnologiesChennai (IIT-Madras) | RISC-V SoCs |
| InCore SemiconductorsChennai | RISC-V core IP |
| Saankhya LabsBengaluru | 5G and broadcast chips |
| Netrasemi, Morphing MachinesKerala / Bengaluru | Edge-AI and reconfigurable silicon |
Global companies and institutions (8)
| SiFiveSanta Clara, United States | Commercialising an open instruction set means selling the blueprint rather than the chip |
| RebellionsSeongnam, South Korea | Staying fabless and specialising in inference keeps capital low while coupling tightly to a foundry |
| GroqMountain View, United States | A compiler-first, deterministic architecture rethinks the chip around the software |
| TenstorrentToronto, Canada | Open architecture combined with chiplets is a credible route around monolithic scaling |
| Axelera AIEindhoven, Netherlands | In-memory compute attacks the memory wall; architecture matters more than transistor count |
| SiPearlMaisons-Laffitte, France | Sovereignty, not performance alone, can be the reason a chip exists |
| QuintaurisMunich, Germany | An industry consortium can build an ecosystem no single firm could |
| Rockley PhotonicsOxford, United Kingdom | Silicon photonics is scientifically strong and commercially unforgiving |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. V. KamakotiChennai | Director, IIT Madras | Led SHAKTI, India's first indigenous RISC-V microprocessor family | 2 | incoresemi.com; careers360V/S |
| G. S. MadhusudanChennai | Co-founder and CEO, InCore Semiconductors | Commercial RISC-V processor IP, two families shipping | 2 | forbesindia.comS |
| Neel GalaChennai | Co-founder and CTO, InCore Semiconductors | RISC-V processor IP | 2 | inc42.comS |
| Arjun MenonChennai | Co-founder and Chief Engineer, InCore Semiconductors (co-founder Gautam Doshi is Chief Architect) | RISC-V processor IP | 2 | tracxn.com InCoreV — audit corrected title |
| E. Magesh (Magesh Ethirajan)Pune | Director General, C-DAC | National Supercomputing Mission, VEGA RISC-V, microprocessor development | 2 | cdac.in/index.aspx?id=dg_messageV |
| Naga Bharath DakaHyderabad | Co-founder and COO, Skyroot Aerospace | IIT Madras M.Tech microelectronics and VLSI; avionics and FPGA | 2, 3 | newkerala.comS |
| Vinod DhamUSA / India | Semiconductor veteran; contributor, NITI Aayog semiconductor roadmap (May 2026) | "Father of the Pentium" | 2 | niti.gov.inS |
| Ashok ChandakBengaluru | President, SEMI India and IESA | Semiconductor industry body | 2 | semiconductor-digest.comS |
| Gokul V. SubramaniamBengaluru | Intel India; contributor, NITI Aayog semiconductor roadmap | Semiconductor strategy | 2 | niti.gov.inS |
| Vrinda KapoorIndia | Co-founder, 3rdiTech; contributor, NITI roadmap | Semiconductor strategy | 2 | niti.gov.inS |
Coverage: Fully populated (ten verified or secondary).
The Studio's full advisory bench (15 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Sharan Srinivas JagathrakshakanChennai, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Mindgrove Technologies | Co-designed India’s first commercial-grade high-performance microcontroller system-on-chip at twenty-eight nanometresmindgrovetech.in |
| Srini ChinamilliBengaluru, with a centre at Visakhapatnam · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Tessolve Semiconductor | Co-founded and leads end-to-end semiconductor test and productisation servicestessolve.com |
| Ravi Kumar ChiruguduBengaluru, with a centre at Visakhapatnam · in reach | President and Chief Operating Officer, Tessolve Semiconductor | A former space agency engineer on imaging payloads who has led productisation of more than a thousand productstessolve.com/leadership |
| Shashwath T. R.Chennai, India | Co-founder and CEO, Mindgrove Technologies | Secure IoT, India’s first commercial indigenous high-performance microcontroller — a 28-nanometre RISC-V part running at 700 megahertzmindgrovetech.in |
| G. S. MadhusudanChennai, India | Co-founder and CEO, InCore Semiconductors | RISC-V core generators and the Azurite processor, spun out of the SHAKTI programmeincoresemi.com |
| Neel GalaChennai, India | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, InCore Semiconductors | RISC-V cores, deep-learning accelerators and SoC design toolingincoresemi.com |
| Himamshu KhasnisBengaluru, India | Founder and CEO, Signalchip Innovations | The Agumbe 4G and 5G modem chips and SCRF1401, India’s first indigenous RF transceiversignalchip.com |
| Anand RamamoorthySanand and Hyderabad, India | Vice-President and Managing Director, Micron India | The Sanand assembly and test facility, India’s first semiconductor ATMP, and made-in-India memorymicron.com |
| Dr Randhir ThakurDholera and Bengaluru, India | Chief Executive and Managing Director, Tata Electronics | India’s first commercial 300-millimetre fabrication plant at Dholera and the Jagiroad assembly and test facilitytataelectronics.com |
| Kamakoti VeezhinathanChennai, India | Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras; leads the SHAKTI RISC-V programme | Indigenous RISC-V processors and systems on chipcse.iitm.ac.in |
| Rudra PratapBengaluru, India | Professor, Centre for Nano Science & Engineering, IISc; founding Vice-Chancellor, Plaksha University | MEMS and NEMS: microphones, ultrasound transducers, inertial sensorscense.iisc.ac.in · pratap@iisc.ac.in |
| Navakanta BhatBengaluru, India | Professor, Centre for Nano Science & Engineering, IISc | Integrated CMOS gas sensors, biosensors, semiconductor devicescense.iisc.ac.in |
| Chester RebeiroChennai, India | Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras | Hardware security, secure processors, design-for-test and side-channel analysiscse.iitm.ac.in/~chester · chester@cse.iitm.ac.in |
| Krste AsanovićBerkeley, USA | Professor, EECS, UC Berkeley; co-founder and Chief Architect, SiFive | RISC-V instruction set architecturepeople.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste |
| Srini DevadasCambridge, USA | Professor of EECS, MIT CSAIL | Silicon physical unclonable functions, secure processors, device authenticationpeople.csail.mit.edu/devadas |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VLSI and ASIC design, analogue and mixed-signal, verification, physical design, FPGA | Design engineer, Verification engineer, Physical design engineer, DFT engineer, FPGA engineer | ₹6–7.5 LPA median; ₹18–35 LPA at top product companies | ₹15–26 LPA | Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments |
| Embedded systems and firmware, secure embedded, hardware security | Embedded engineer, Firmware engineer, Hardware-security engineer | ₹4–8 LPA (₹8–12 for Tier-1 graduates with ARM, AUTOSAR or embedded Linux) | ₹8–14 LPA | Bosch, Continental, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung |
| Power electronics, smart grid, metering, renewable energy | Power-electronics engineer, Grid engineer, Metering engineer | ₹3–8 LPA (₹5–10 in premium EV and hub firms) | ₹8–20 LPA | Bosch, Hitachi Energy, Secure Meters, L&T, Exicom |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A9 C2S — the core establishment route (EDA and design support)
- F-A19 (design via the central DLI)
- F-A1 (fab-lab equipment)
- F-A14 compute (HPC and GPU)
- In-kind: Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, Arm, AMD/Xilinx, Intel, TI
After products exist
- Central Design Linked Incentive (up to 50%, design companies)
- F-B1 (secure silicon)
- F-B10
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A9MeitY Chips to Startup (C2S) | Umbrella ₹250 Cr over five years; per-institution EDA access and design support (secondary reports cite about ₹15 lakh per project) | YES | Rolling call cycles | MeitY / C-DAC ChipIN Centre |
| F-A19AP Semiconductor and Display Fab Policy 4.0 (G.O.Ms. 7, 14 November 2024; 2024–29) | State 30% capital subsidy on top of ISM 50% (up to 80% combined) for fabs, OSAT, ATMP and compound semiconductors | CONDITIONAL | To 2029 | ITE&C Department |
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A14IndiaAI Mission — compute | Over 38,000 GPUs at about ₹65 an hour, with government paying up to 40% of the bill for priority use cases; outlay ₹10,371.92 Cr over five years (March 2024) | YES | Rolling | indiaai.gov.in AI Compute Portal |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: C-DAC ChipIN (layout not published); IISc CeNSE. Specialised overlay for this Studio: ISO 7/8 teaching cleanroom (400–1,000 sq ft, ISO 7 at $400–650 per sq ft), ESD EPA, HPC access. Anchor: Cleanroom class and the GPU hall.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 432 |
| Integration & Staging | 72 |
| Digital & Simulation | 99 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 105 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 88 |
| Teaching Cleanroom — ISO Class 7 core with Class 8 supportclear 3.6 m | 130 |
| Wet Bench & Chemical Handlingclear 3.0 m | 45 |
| Probe Station & Characterisationclear 3.0 m | 40 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Cleanroom class and cost (ISO 14644)
ISO 8 $250–450 per sq ft; ISO 7 $400–650; ISO 6 $600–950; ISO 5 $1,000–1,800; semiconductor ISO 4 $2,500–7,500; HVAC and filtration are 35–55% of the budget; softwall ISO 7/8 from $100–150 per sq ft. Satellite AIT class is ISO 8. ISRO/URSC AIT guidance: a spacecraft needs a minimum cleanroom of 8 × 6 m, working area 4 × 4 m, 5 m height at the crane hook, a door 3.5 m wide by 4 m high, an airlock of 9 × 5 m, and particle counts twice daily. terrapincg.com; labs-usa.com; ssdl.gatech.edu/facilities; isro.gov.in URSC AIT infrastructure PDF
Electronics ESD and bench spacing (ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021)
A written programme, personnel grounding, ESD-safe work surfaces, wrist straps tested to S1.1, grounding to S6.1, conductive flooring 2.5×10⁴–1.0×10⁶ Ω (dissipative to ~10⁹ Ω), isolated-conductor limit under 35 V; protects to 100 V HBM / 200 V CDM. Bench density benchmark: Georgia Tech Hive runs 20+ stations each with soldering, oscilloscope, generator, supply and multimeter plus LPKF PCB fabrication. blog.ansi.org; techmade.gatech.edu
Data-centre room for the ~250 kW student cluster
GPU racks draw 40–80 kW (H100-class) up to ~120 kW nominal for GB200 NVL72 (130–132 kW observed) against a 7.6 kW industry-average rack; above about 30 kW a rack, direct liquid cooling is the design baseline; 100 kW racks spread over ~40 sq ft steel platforms, slabs thicken to 12–18 in (adding $50–75 per sq ft); short rows of 8–12 racks with CDU alcoves and wider aisles. KLEF: 2–6 high-density racks plus CDU and N+1 cooling in a dedicated 800–1,500 sq ft hall with liquid cooling, redundant power and a reinforced slab; fix the rack-density intent before the slab is specified. intuitionlabs.ai; fibermall.com; introl.com; arXiv 2502.01647
10. Club: Silicon Sangam
Studio-specific: Annual tape-out cohort through C2S; RISC-V core design league; Cluster operations night shifts (student SRE). Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits | IEEE | IF ~5.6, Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems | IEEE | IF ~3.8 (2024), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Computers | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Micro | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2; APC ~US$1,995 | verified |
Conferences: VLSID — International Conference on VLSI Design and Embedded Systems (39th, 5–7 January 2026, JW Marriott Pune; VSI; about 2,000 attendees; Design Contest student track); IEEE INDICON; ISSCC and DAC (international); ASP-DAC. Indian venue: VLSID found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC H01L (semiconductor devices, confirmed), G06F (computing, architecture), H03K (pulse, logic), G11C (memory), B81B (MEMS).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: IP-core licensing, chip tape-out through C2S and SCL Mohali shared wafer runs, FPGA prototyping, DFT and test services. C2S: 122 chip-design submissions from 46 institutions, 56 student chips fabricated, packaged and delivered, 75+ patents filed, 500+ IP cores, ASICs and SoCs, six shared wafer runs, ₹250 crore outlay.
Competitions: VLSID Design Contest; Smart India Hackathon (hardware); India Semiconductor Mission and C2S hackathons.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 12 OF 17 · RF, COMMUNICATIONS & CONNECTED SYSTEMS
Spectra Studio
STUDIO 12 OF 17 · RF, COMMUNICATIONS & CONNECTED SYSTEMS
Spectra Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence; Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response.
Tasks its products serve: Give a coastal district a spectrum picture it owns; Keep a relief convoy moving and talking when GPS and radio are jammed; Plan an electronic fight in seconds, with a human in charge; Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory; Send a quantum-secured key and a covert message across a campus link; Map the interfering sources in a district and hand the officer the evidence; Keep an airfield and a border post safe from birds, drones and ice; Migrate a fleet to post-quantum security before the deadline; Train a Mission model on a cluster the students built; Run the campus cluster on sunlight and grow food with its heat and more.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
33 flagship systems anchor 165 products in three tiers — 132 component and subsystem learning products and 33 system products — sized to the Studio's 165 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Spectrum Foundation Model; Cognitive Radio Core; Interference Cartographer; Whisper Radar; Passive Bistatic Net; Bird-Strike Radar; Origami Array; Terrain Map Antenna; Reconfigurable Metasurface; Mesh That Heals; Burst Courier; Voice Over Chaos; Key Vault Radio; Agile Gateway; Crypto Inventory Scanner; Waveform Foundry; Power Amplifier Tile; Digital Beamforming Receiver; Rack Light Link; Co-Packaged Optics Module; Photonic Switch Fabric; Fibre Strain Sensor; Star Sight; Fibre-Optic Gyro Module; Deployable Helix; Ground Array; Rooftop Tracking Array; Laser Downlink Terminal; Cloud-Dodging Ground Optic; Beacon Acquisition Tracker; Rain-Proof Corner Radar; Through-Wall Radar; Drone Detection Radar.
- Y1 · Spectrum Foundation Model — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Spectrum Foundation Model — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Spectrum Foundation Model — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Spectrum Foundation Model — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Spectrum Foundation Model
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| TenettechBengaluru | SDRs | Distribution | partial |
| Indian anechoic-chamber firmsIndia | Chambers | Chamber class | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keysight / Rohde & Schwarz / AnritsuUSA / Germany / Japan; India | VNAs to 40 GHz | ₹40 lakh–₹1.5 crore | verified |
| Ettus (NI) USRP; LimeSDR; ADALM-Plutovia Indian distributors and Mouser | SDRs | B210 about ₹1.2 lakh; LimeSDR ₹25–40,000; Pluto ₹18–25,000 | verified |
| Qorvo / WolfspeedUSA | GaN amplifier evaluation | Kit class | verified |
| ID QuantiqueSwitzerland | QKD demonstrators | Import | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Keysight / Rohde & Schwarz university programs (Indian partners), Ettus/NI channel + Indian SDR resellers, Astra Microwave & the Hyderabad RF cluster (industry linkage), Element14 / Mouser India (RF lines), Wafer.to.Lab + NI/Ettus India channel, Keysight / R&S / Anritsu India + Siglent/Rigol distributors (Testronix/Scientech class); international: Analog Devices, Great Scott Gadgets, Nuand, Lime Microsystems, NanoVNA ecosystem, Ettus Research; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (9, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (1 items) | ₹40.0 L | AMC ₹2.4 L after 2 warranty years | ₹4.4 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (6 lines, quantities for 57 concurrent teams) | ₹19.8 L | consumables ₹3.6 L at 6% (light class) | ₹2.2 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹16.0 L | — | ₹1.8 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹9.1 L | — | ₹1.0 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹3.0 L | ₹0.3 L / yr |
| Electricity (94 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹9.1 L | ₹1.0 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹84.9 L | ₹18.1 L | ₹9.4 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹1.54 Cr | ₹25.0 L | ₹17.1 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹2.39 Cr | ₹43.1 L | ₹26.5 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹93.0 L | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹1.02 Cr | ₹13.3 L / yr | 22% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹10.6 L | ₹3.0 L / yr | 3% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L / yr | 3% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNSS simulator for spoofing and jamming testsSafran / Spirent / Orolia | ₹25 lakh–1 crore+ (import) | ₹40.0 L | 1 | ₹40.0 L | planning price set · importImport via distributor |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (6 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fusion splicerThe fibre-splicing economy’s tools; FBG interrogators (Rs 15–40 L+) explicitly NOT bought early | Chinese core-alignment Rs 60k–1.5 L, Fujikura/Sumitomo Rs 2.5–6 L; OTDR Rs 2–6 L | ₹1.1 L | 7 | ₹7.4 L | band midpoint |
| Outdoor backhaulRural and campus backhaul products, cyclone-rated mounting via Forge | Ubiquiti airMAX/LTU/60 GHz, Mikrotik Rs 8–40k per link + OpenWrt-capable routers | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹5.8 L | band midpoint |
| Table-top/portable anechoic box (JV Micronics/DMCRF class) + turntable + reference horns; walk-in antenna chamber ~Rs 15 L+ deferredHonest antenna measurement — cabled/near-field/OATS first, the room later | ₹3.0 L | 1 | ₹3.0 L | planning price set | |
| sysmoISIM-SJA5 test SIMs (10-pack €80.92, ADM keys, 999-70 test PLMN) + OMNIKEY readers ~€36 (10-pack from sysmocom — EUR price to confirm at order)Programmable SIMs — the unglamorous key to COTS handsets on the testbed | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹2.4 L | planning price set | |
| Intel i210/i225 TSN NICs Rs 2–4kOpen Linux TSN on cheap PCs — deterministic networking without eval-kit prices | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.7 L | planning price set | |
| Meshtastic nodesThe village-mesh fleet on license-exempt 865–867 MHz | LILYGO T-Beam/Heltec LoRa32 V3 (SX1262) Rs 1.5–3.5k, T-Echo ~Rs 8.9k | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.6 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): srsRAN Project (5G CU/DU, O-RAN 7.2, E2) + srsRAN 4G; OpenAirInterface (5G SA gNB/UE; O-RAN 7.2 fronthaul) + Open5GS / free5GC cores + UERANSIM; OSC near-RT RIC / FlexRIC + GNU Radio + Osmocom + program_uicc; OpenWrt + Meshtastic + field-survey tooling; MATLAB/Simulink (5G, Antenna, Phased Array, RF toolboxes) via campus TAH; Keysight ADS/PathWave (education).
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (6 lines, ₹54.4 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| USRP B210 ~$1,100–2,000 (Rs 2–3 L landed) | Software-defined radio | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹16.5 L |
| Education VNAs (Keysight/R&S/Anritsu 2–4 port) Rs 8–25 L | Vector network analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹16.5 L |
| RTL-SDR v4 ~Rs 3–3.5k; ADALM-Pluto ~$200–280 (Rs 22–28k landed); HackRF One ~$300–340 | Software-defined radio | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹10.1 L |
| Siglent SVA1032X spectrum analyser + VNA to 3.2 GHz ~$3,991 | Spectrum / signal analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹4.6 L |
| LimeSDR Mini 2.0 / BladeRF 2.0 micro ~$400–700 | Software-defined radio | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹3.9 L |
| NanoVNA/LiteVNA Rs 5–15k; TinySA Ultra Rs 10–17k; LibreVNA ~$600–700 | Spectrum / signal analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹2.9 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. SAMEER's distributed specialised-centre model plus shared CATR and anechoic test ranges, driven by its product-development-by-user-requirement mandate.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAMEERMeitY; Mumbai (IIT Bombay campus), Chennai, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati | 1984 (from TIFR's 1977 Special Microwave Products Unit) | MeitY | Antennas, radar, 5G/6G, high-power microwave tubes; mmWave CATR at Kolkata; E3 at Visakhapatnam | https://sameer.gov.inverified |
| Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE)IIT Delhi | — | IIT Delhi | Antenna measurement to 20 GHz; device characterisation to 110 GHz; anechoic chamber | https://care.iitd.ac.inverified |
| RF and microwave facilitiesIIT Kanpur | — | — | Metamaterial absorbers, MIMO antennas | https://iitk.ac.inverified |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElectroScience Lab; GTRI; MIT Lincoln LaboratoryOhio State; Georgia Tech; MIT, USA | — | — | Radar and antenna | —unverified |
| Microwave sensing; communicationsTU Delft; KAIST; NTU | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- DRDO Industry–Academia Centres of Excellence (15 established, 82 verticals) — SDR at IIT Kanpur; Emerging RF Technologies at IIT Roorkee; Compound Semiconductors at IIT Bombay; Cryptography & Information Security at IIT Kharagpur; Omni-mobility and AI at IIT Jodhpur. Nearest: University of Hyderabad DIA-CoE. verified
- Amaravati Quantum Valley — Foundation stone 7 February 2026 at Uddandarayunipalem; IBM Quantum System Two with a Heron processor (156 qubits per IBM; some launch reports say 133 — unsettled). The one anchor cluster local to KLEF. verify
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| QualcommHyderabad · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | 5G modem and RF | University relationscorroborated |
| Nokia / EricssonBengaluru, Chennai · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Mission-critical communications, 5G | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Keysight / Rohde & SchwarzBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | RF test | University programmesconfirm URL |
| Saankhya LabsBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | SDR and 5G | Company pagecorroborated |
| QNu LabsBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Post-quantum and QKD products (QShield); ₹60 Cr Series A led by the National Quantum Mission | Company pagecorroborated |
| AstromeBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | mmWave communications | Company pageconfirm URL |
| DRDO-DLRLHyderabad (~270 km) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Electronic warfare, RF systems; the natural Spectra customer | DRDO RAC and lab MoUcorroborated |
| SAMEERChennai; Visakhapatnam centre, MeitY · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | RF, microwave, radar; work-based learning internships | sameer.gov.in; wblp.incorroborated |
| C-DOTBengaluru, Delhi | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Optical, 6G and quantum communications; paid internship targets top-30 NIRF, so pursue the CoE and MoU route | cdot.incorroborated |
| NRSCHyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Radar and earth observation | nrsc.gov.incorroborated |
| Keysight University, Rohde & Schwarz, Analog Devices, MathWorks RF Toolbox, Ansys HFSSGlobal | Global company or institution | RF design and test | Academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (6)
| NokiaBengaluru | One of Nokia’s largest R&D centres; 5G and 6G |
| EricssonChennai / Bengaluru | 5G research and development |
| QualcommHyderabad | 5G modem design |
| CiscoBengaluru | Large networking R&D presence |
| Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, ViaviBengaluru / Gurugram | Test and measurement engineering |
| Skyworks, Qorvo, JuniperHyderabad / Bengaluru | RF front-end and networking |
Indian startups and product companies (5)
| SignalchipBengaluru | Indigenous 5G and 4G baseband chips |
| Saankhya LabsBengaluru | Software-defined radio and broadcast chips |
| AstromeBengaluru | mmWave backhaul and satcom |
| WiSig NetworksHyderabad | Full-stack design from chip to network, incubated at IIT Hyderabad — and an honest lesson in how hard it is to fund Indian silicon to volume |
| Lekha Wireless SolutionsBengaluru | Radio frequency, antenna, hardware, software and mechanical design carried out under one roof |
Global companies and institutions (8)
| SynspectiveTokyo, Japan | Miniaturising radar into a small satellite buys all-weather imaging that optical cannot |
| ICEYEEspoo, Finland | The first small-radar constellation made persistent imaging possible from small platforms |
| AstranisSan Francisco, United States | Right-sizing a satellite to one region rather than one continent |
| Morse MicroSydney, Australia | Choosing the underserved standard can be better than competing on the crowded one |
| Blu WirelessBristol, United Kingdom | Radio design at the frequency frontier, where propagation fights you |
| Pivotal CommwareBothell, United States | Metamaterial beamforming cost-reduces what a phased array does expensively |
| Lime MicrosystemsGuildford, United Kingdom | Programmable radio silicon democratises radio the way field-programmable logic did |
| GomSpaceAalborg, Denmark | Productising the satellite bus lets others focus on payloads |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Rajkumar UpadhyayNew Delhi | CEO and Chairman, C-DOT | Indigenous 4G/5G core, Bharat 6G, quantum-resistant networks, secure communications | 1 | rkupadhyay.in; aiforgood.itu.intV |
| Sunil GuptaBengaluru | Co-founder and CEO, QNu Labs | QKD, QRNG and post-quantum products; 1,000 km quantum network under the National Quantum Mission | 1 | qnulabs.com/about-us; indiaai.gov.inV |
Coverage: Fewer than eight verified. Candidate leads: SAMEER (Mumbai, Chennai), BEL radar and antenna leads, Astra Microwave (Hyderabad), Saankhya Labs, IIT and IISc antenna faculty.
The Studio's full advisory bench (14 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Kiran KuchiHyderabad, India · in reach | Founder of WiSig Networks and Professor and Dean of Research, IIT Hyderabad | Drove India’s uplink waveform contribution into the third-generation partnership project standard, and leads open radio access massive-antenna radios and the narrowband internet-of-things system-on-chipiith.ac.in |
| Sravan Kumar GampaHyderabad, India · in reach | Chief Executive, WiSig Networks | Leads commercialisation of the open radio access network equipment and the narrowband chip, with more than a hundred patents behind itlinkedin.com/company/wisig-networks |
| Neha SatakBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, Astrome Technologies | Built multi-beam extremely-high-frequency radios for rural backhaul and a naval satellite terminal; doctorate in aerospace engineeringurania.vc |
| Prasad H. L. BhatBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Astrome Technologies | Leads phased-array antennas, software-defined beamforming and the radio hardware itselfmaricoinnovationfoundation.org |
| Kumar N. SivarajanBengaluru, India | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tejas Networks | Core optical-networking architecture and intellectual property behind India’s telecom equipment makertejasnetworks.com |
| Arnob RoyBengaluru, India | Co-founder, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Tejas Networks; Chairman, Telecom Equipment Export Promotion Council | Optical and broadband product lines shipped globallytejasnetworks.com |
| Anand AthreyaBengaluru, India | Chief Executive and Managing Director, Tejas Networks | Fibre broadband, converged packet optical, OTN and DWDM, and wireless broadbandtejasnetworks.com |
| Himamshu KhasnisBengaluru, India | Founder and CEO, Signalchip Innovations | Indigenous 4G and 5G modem and RF transceiver siliconsignalchip.com |
| Soumava MukherjeeJodhpur, India | Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur | Millimetre-wave antennas and substrate-integrated circuits for 5Giitj.ac.in · soumava@iitj.ac.in |
| Ananjan BasuNew Delhi, India | Professor, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, IIT Delhi | RF and microwave measurement, antennas to 20 GHzcare.iitd.ac.in · ananjan@care.iitd.ac.in |
| Kumar Vaibhav SrivastavaKanpur, India | Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur | Metamaterials, absorbers, MIMO antennas, frequency-selective surfacesiitk.ac.in/ee |
| Jayanta MukherjeeMumbai, India | Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay | 5G MIMO antennas, RF integrated circuits, microwave passivesee.iitb.ac.in |
| Theodore S. RappaportNew York, USA | David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor, NYU; founder, NYU WIRELESS | Millimetre-wave 5G and 6G channel modelling and localisationengineering.nyu.edu |
| Satish K. SharmaSan Diego, USA | Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, San Diego State University | Millimetre-wave and phased-array 5G antennas, metasurfaces, 3D-printed antennaselectrical.sdsu.edu |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RF and wireless systems, SDR, antenna design, radar | RF design engineer, Systems engineer, EW and datalink engineer | ₹4–8 LPA | ₹8–16 LPA | Qualcomm, Astra Microwave Products, Bharat Electronics (BEL), DRDO-LRDE, Tejas Networks |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A8 (SDR at IIT Kanpur, emerging RF at IIT Roorkee — pitch a vertical, conditional)
- F-A1
- F-A3
- F-A13 (quantum-safe communications adjacency)
- In-kind: Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, NI
After products exist
- F-B1 and ADITI (military communications, anti-drone RF)
- F-B2 (RF and radar, consortium)
- DefSpace challenges (confirm)
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A8DRDO DIA-CoE (Industry–Academia Centre of Excellence) | Grant-in-aid, multi-vertical; 15 CoEs, 82 research verticals (2025 realignment) | CONDITIONAL | Expansion by DRDO decision | DRDO DFTM |
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A13National Quantum Mission — undergraduate teaching laboratories and T-Hub consortia | Per-lab grants; NQM outlay ₹6,003.65 Cr over eight years (2023-24 to 2030-31), Cabinet-approved 19 April 2023 | YES | Teaching-lab call closed 23 July 2025; watch the 2026 reissue | onlinedst.gov.in; dst.gov.in calls |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B2DRDO Technology Development Fund (TDF) | Up to ₹50 Cr per project (from ₹10 Cr, approved 8 June 2022); up to 90% of cost; consortium of industry with industry or academia allowed; separate ₹500 Cr deep-tech vertical | CONDITIONAL (consortium) | Rolling | tdf.drdo.gov.in rolling EoIs |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: IIT Delhi CARE; UTM. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Anechoic chamber about 8 × 5 × 5 m plus a shielded room. Anchor: Chamber and shielding.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 288 |
| Integration & Staging | 48 |
| Digital & Simulation | 66 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 174 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 70 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 64 |
| Shielded and Absorber-Lined Chamberclear 4.0 m | 70 |
| Antenna and Over-the-Air Rangeclear 5.0 m | 90 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Anechoic and shielded room for antenna and EMC teaching
UTM chamber 8 × 5 × 5 m tapered, 100 MHz–40 GHz; IIT Delhi CARE chamber measures to 110 GHz; IIT Delhi CRF far-field 0.5–18 GHz at 2 m for antennas to 5 kg; IIT Kanpur 1–26 GHz for RFID and RCS. A teaching chamber of about 8 × 5 × 5 m with absorber lining and shielding is the Spectra target. research.utm.my; care.iitd.ac.in; crf.iitd.ac.in
Electronics ESD and bench spacing (ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021)
A written programme, personnel grounding, ESD-safe work surfaces, wrist straps tested to S1.1, grounding to S6.1, conductive flooring 2.5×10⁴–1.0×10⁶ Ω (dissipative to ~10⁹ Ω), isolated-conductor limit under 35 V; protects to 100 V HBM / 200 V CDM. Bench density benchmark: Georgia Tech Hive runs 20+ stations each with soldering, oscilloscope, generator, supply and multimeter plus LPKF PCB fabrication. blog.ansi.org; techmade.gatech.edu
10. Club: Spectrum Society
Studio-specific: Campus range open day with every emission logged; Antenna design derby; Cognitive-radio jam-and-survive contest. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation | IEEE | IF ~4.6, Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | IEEE | IF ~19.9 (2024), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| Journal of Lightwave Technology | IEEE/Optica | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2 | verified |
Conferences: NCC — National Conference on Communications (32nd, 26 February–1 March 2026, IIT Hyderabad; JTG of IITs and IISc; student paper track); IEEE INDICON; IEEE APS and IMS (international); IEEE MTT-S India. Indian venue: NCC found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC H01Q (antennas), H04B and H04L (transmission), H04W (wireless), H01P (waveguides), G01S (radar), H04K (secure communications).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Antenna characterisation (anechoic chamber), EMC pre-compliance, spectrum measurement, radar testing. KLEF ECE precedent: implantable patch antenna patent granted (Dr Ketavath Kumar Naik; number not public); no fee schedule found.
Competitions: NCC student paper track; Smart India Hackathon (telecom, DoT); IEEE student design contests; DRDO Dare to Dream (radar, EW).
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 13 OF 17 · FINANCIAL, COMMERCE & TRANSACTION HARDWARE
Ledger Studio
STUDIO 13 OF 17 · FINANCIAL, COMMERCE & TRANSACTION HARDWARE
Ledger Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Train a Mission model on a cluster the students built; Run a small language model in a village device; Run the campus cluster on sunlight and grow food with its heat; Run a smallholder's season on a model that knows the district; Move a village's mangoes to a city kitchen overnight.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
6 flagship systems anchor 30 products in three tiers — 24 component and subsystem learning products and 6 system products — sized to the Studio's 30 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Compute Provenance Ledger; Model Card Printer; Dataset Consent Ledger; Farmer Wallet; Village Advisory Agent; Crop Insurance Oracle.
- Y1 · Compute Provenance Ledger — Dataset and labelling toolkit
- Y1 · Compute Provenance Ledger — Evaluation harness and reference kit
- Y2 · Compute Provenance Ledger — Core model or service
- Y2 · Compute Provenance Ledger — Integration SDK and console
- Y3 · Compute Provenance Ledger
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| No significant Indian OEM— | — | — | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| NewAECanada | ChipWhisperer side-channel benches | ₹2–8 lakh | partial |
| RiscureNetherlands; via agents | Side-channel and fault injection | Import | partial |
| Thales / UtimacoFrance / Germany | HSM | Import | partial |
| NXPNetherlands; India | Secure-element kits | Kit class | partial |
| Keysight / MicroprossUSA / France | EMV and NFC test | Instrument class | partial |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Mantra Softech (Ahmedabad) via Radium Box / ATMBAAZAR / Foxbase, Evelta / Robu / Campus Component / Silicon Components, TVS Electronics / Epson India, Acural Solutions / Atharva / Maple, Kubs Impex / Amtronics + I D Technologies / Indianbarcode, IndiaMART/TradeIndia card suppliers; international: NXP, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Microchip, NewAE Technology, Yubico; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (8, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (2 items) | ₹19.0 L | AMC ₹1.1 L after 2 warranty years | ₹2.4 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (11 lines, quantities for 60 concurrent teams) | ₹12.1 L | consumables ₹1.9 L at 6% (light class) | ₹1.5 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹36.0 L | — | ₹4.5 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹8.1 L | — | ₹1.0 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹9.0 L | ₹1.1 L / yr |
| Electricity (95 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹9.2 L | ₹1.1 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹75.1 L | ₹21.2 L | ₹9.4 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹65.8 L | ₹13.5 L | ₹8.2 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹1.41 Cr | ₹34.7 L | ₹17.6 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹2.35 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹10.6 L | ₹3.0 L / yr | 3% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L / yr | 3% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Side-channel and fault-injection benchChipWhisperer-Nano; ChipWhisperer-Husky; -Lite / -Pro | Nano ~₹15,000–25,000; Husky ~$500 (~₹45,000); Lite/Pro ₹1–4 lakh | ₹2.5 L | 1 | ₹2.5 L | band midpoint · importMouser India (import) |
| Payment-terminal development kitsTerminal dev kits | ₹0.5–5 lakh | ₹2.8 L | 6 | ₹16.5 L | band midpointIndian payment-hardware vendors |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (11 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Android smart-POS dev unitsThe POS teardown-and-build fleet; the used/refurb market feeds the repair line | Sunmi V2/V2s Rs 18,000–19,500, Sunmi P2 Pro ~Rs 22,000, PAX A920 Rs 12,000–15,000, PAX A910S ~Rs 11,999 (Acural, Delhi) | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹4.5 L | band midpoint |
| Receipt & card infrastructureEntry card printers are Rs 40–70k class, not lakhs — only high-end retransfer units exceed Rs 1 L | Epson TM-T82III ~Rs 12,500, TVS RP3200 ~Rs 7,000; Evolis Zenius Rs 40,000–66,835, Primacy 2 Rs 49,000–58,000, HID Fargo DTC1250e ~Rs 65,000 | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹3.0 L | listed price |
| Dev-grade HSMsKey-ceremony discipline without payment-HSM prices | Nitrokey HSM 2 ~$100, YubiHSM 2 from $650 | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹2.4 L | listed price |
| Secure-element dev boardsBuild-to-standard secure provisioning pedagogy | Microchip ATECC608 breakouts (single-digit USD), Infineon OPTIGA Trust M shield ~Rs 3,500, NXP SE050 EdgeLock kits, STM32 Nucleo Rs 1,000–2,500 | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.8 L | listed price |
| NFC readersCard issuance and acceptance benches | ACR122U Rs 2,500–3,999, ACR1252U ~Rs 4,300 | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.8 L | band midpoint |
| Quectel modules via SpectraThe connectivity spine of every field device | EC200U-CN Rs 650–1,350, EC25 Rs 2,000–3,500, EG25-G Rs 3,000–4,000 (Evelta/Campus Component) | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.2 L | band midpoint |
| Thermal printer modulesEvery receipt device’s core, bought by the tray | 58 mm from a few hundred rupees (Robu/Robocraze); Hoin portable ~Rs 5,500 | ₹0.1 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | listed price |
| HX711 load-cell amplifiers Rs 50–180Smart-shelf weight sensing at throwaway prices | branded SparkFun/SmartElex Rs 300–600 | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.1 L | band midpoint |
| Mantra MFS110 L1 fingerprint scanner Rs 2,350–3,999 (wholesale Rs 2,799–2,849 at MOQ 5–20); Morpho/Startek alternatesThe UIDAI L1 standard post the June-2025 L0 phase-out | ₹0.0 L | 2 | ₹0.1 L | planning price set | |
| Retail-tech benchKirana billing and kiosk front-ends | Zebra entry scanners Rs 2,300–2,500, TSC TTP-244 label printer ~Rs 11,000; industrial touch monitors 15.6" Rs 25,000–34,500, 17" ~Rs 34,500 | ₹0.0 L | 2 | ₹0.0 L | band midpoint |
| Awareness tier, never a purchase — payment-grade HSMs (Thales payShield 10K, tens of lakhs; redundant estates reach crore scale) and EMV/PCI-certified terminalsTaught, toured and torn down — not bought | a payment-grade hardware security module runs to tens of lakhs and a redundant estate to crore scale, which is precisely why this stays an awareness tier | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | planning price set |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): Apache Fineract + Mifos X (latest release March 2025); jPOS; ERPNext/Frappe (30,000+ companies) + Odoo Community; Tesseract + Indic OCR + OpenG2P + Mojaloop (awareness); NPCI UPI developer sandbox + Razorpay Test mode + Cashfree sandbox; GSTN GSP APIs + MCA APIs; AA sandboxes (as TSP).
Moved to the Fab Labs: none — every hardware line this Studio listed is Studio-specific; it draws on the labs through the shared pools.
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. NUS AIDF's regulator, funder and university tripartite founding (bring in RBI, NPCI and IDRBT) plus a Fincubator; MIT DCI's central-bank co-development projects for offline-first payment products. Gap: No dedicated undergraduate fintech-hardware product studio in India; IDRBT is a postgraduate and banking-research institute.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDRBTHyderabad | 1996 (March) | Reserve Bank of India (Governor is Visitor; council chaired by a Deputy Governor) | Created INFINET, pioneered NEFT; fintech, cybersecurity and digital-payments research; PGDFT; collaborates with IITs and NITs | https://www.idrbt.ac.inverified |
| C-DAC Smart Card TechnologiesMeitY | — | C-DAC | Smart-card OS, card manager, secure elements, intelligent access terminal | https://www.cdac.inverified |
| L&T Semiconductor–C-DAC–IIT Gandhinagar Secure IC CentreIIT Gandhinagar | 2025 | Tripartite | Secure elements for digital identity | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Currency InitiativeMIT, USA | 2015 | Director Neha Narula | Project Hamilton CBDC with the Boston Fed (2022); privacy-preserving CBDC with Deutsche Bundesbank (2024) | https://www.dci.mit.eduverified |
| Centre for Financial TechnologyImperial College London | — | Citi-partnered | Digital Money Index | https://www.imperial.ac.ukverified |
| Asian Institute of Digital FinanceNUS, Singapore | 2020 (August) | Monetary Authority of Singapore, National Research Foundation and NUS | Runs a Fincubator | https://www.aidf.nus.edu.sgverified |
| Future of Digital Currency InitiativeStanford, USA | — | — | Unconfirmed | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- DRDO Industry–Academia Centres of Excellence (15 established, 82 verticals) — SDR at IIT Kanpur; Emerging RF Technologies at IIT Roorkee; Compound Semiconductors at IIT Bombay; Cryptography & Information Security at IIT Kharagpur; Omni-mobility and AI at IIT Jodhpur. Nearest: University of Hyderabad DIA-CoE. verified
- Chips to Startup (C2S) chip-design network — About 1 lakh individuals from 400 organisations (300 academic, 95 startups) on shared EDA; 6 SCL-Mohali (180 nm) wafer runs enabled 122 submissions from 46 institutions and 56 fabricated student chips. Andhra example: SVECW Bhimavaram. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visa / Mastercard technology centresPune, Bengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Payment technology | Academic routeconfirm URL |
| PayPalChennai, Bengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Payments engineering | University routeconfirm URL |
| Pine Labs, EzetapBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Payment terminals | Company pagesconfirm URL |
| M2P FintechChennai · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Payment infrastructure | Company pageconfirm URL |
| IDRBT (RBI)Hyderabad (~270 km) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Banking technology; MoUs with IITs, NITs and IIITs; joint PhD and M.Tech; NPCI-certified payment-security programme; the flagship route | idrbt.ac.in/collaborationscorroborated |
| NPCIMumbai, Hyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | UPI and RuPay; NPCI–IDRBT academic precedent | Academic MoUcorroborated |
| RBI Innovation HubBengaluru · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Fintech; MoU precedent with IIIT-B | rbihub.incorroborated |
| SIDBINational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | MSME finance | Institutional routeconfirm URL |
| Thales, NXP, InfineonGlobal | Global company or institution | Secure elements and secure MCUs | University programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (5)
| VisaBengaluru | Large technology centre — payments platform engineering |
| MastercardPune / Vadodara / Gurugram | Technology hubs |
| PayPalChennai / Bengaluru / Hyderabad | Payments engineering |
| NCR VoyixHyderabad / Mumbai | ATM and POS hardware engineering — the genuinely hardware-relevant GCC |
| Diebold Nixdorf, Fiserv, FIS, WorldlineHyderabad / Pune | Banking hardware and payment processing |
Indian startups and product companies (6)
| Pine LabsNoida | POS terminals; IPO-track |
| MswipeMumbai | Mobile POS |
| EzetapBengaluru | Acquired by Razorpay |
| VISIONTEK, part of Linkwell TelesystemsTelangana | Payment hardware genuinely manufactured in this region rather than imported and rebadged |
| Evolute GroupMaharashtra | Ruggedised payment and biometric hardware for field conditions |
| Payswiff SolutionsHyderabad | A regional payments device business worth examining critically for how much hardware is actually its own |
Global companies and institutions (8)
| SumUpLondon, United Kingdom | Turning a phone into a terminal with a cheap dongle opened the small-merchant market through hardware minimalism |
| NombaLagos, Nigeria | Rugged, inexpensive terminals designed for a cash economy on intermittent connectivity |
| PalmPayLagos, Nigeria | Co-designing with a phone maker solved distribution before it solved technology |
| ClipMexico City, Mexico | Bringing card acceptance to micro-merchants in a cash-dominant market |
| SunmiShanghai, China | The vertically integrated device behind many fintech brands |
| YocoCape Town, South Africa | Offline tolerance is a design requirement, not a feature |
| ZellerMelbourne, Australia | Challenging incumbent bank terminals on hardware and experience |
| myPOSSofia, Bulgaria | Built-in connectivity and instant settlement removed the merchant’s hardest friction |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dilip AsbeMumbai | MD and CEO, NPCI | Architected UPI, IMPS, RuPay and FASTag; inducted onto the SWIFT global supervisory board | 2 | linkedin.com/in/dilip-asbe-0185453; business-standard.comV/S |
Coverage: Fewer than eight verified. Candidate leads: IDRBT (Hyderabad) director, RBI DPSS, C-DAC secure-elements group, Pine Labs and Ezetap founders.
The Studio's full advisory bench (13 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Guhan MuthusamyHyderabad, India · in reach | Co-founder and Software Architect, Mindgate Solutions | Real-time payment switches and UPI infrastructure, including offline transaction handlingmindgate.solutions |
| A. Krishna PrasadHyderabad, India · in reach | Founder and Managing Director, VISIONTEK and Linkwell Telesystems | Built payment terminals, biometric authentication devices, smart meters and inverters now deployed in more than fifty countriesvisiontek.co.in |
| B. Amrish RauNoida, India | Chief Executive Officer, Pine Labs | Pine Labs point-of-sale terminals and the Plutus Smart, Plural gateway and Qwikcilver gift-card platformspinelabs.com |
| Lokvir KapoorNoida, India | Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Pine Labs | Built the Pine Labs payment-terminal businesspinelabs.com |
| George SamMumbai, India | Co-founder and Business Head, Mindgate Solutions | Digital payments platforms and UPI collections at national scalemindgate.solutions |
| Hiren BhandariAhmedabad, India | Co-founder and Technical Director, Mantra Softech | Aadhaar biometric devices, iris scanners and a dual-iris scanner certified to presentation-attack level onemantratec.com |
| Debdeep MukhopadhyayKharagpur, India | Institute Chair Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur; founder, Secured Embedded Architecture Laboratory | Hardware security, side-channel and fault attacks, PUFs, crypto hardwareiitkgp.ac.in · debdeep@cse.iitkgp.ac.in |
| Chester RebeiroChennai, India | Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras | Applied cryptography, secure processors, side-channel analysiscse.iitm.ac.in/~chester |
| Ingrid VerbauwhedeLeuven, Belgium | Full Professor, COSIC, KU Leuven | Secure embedded circuits, crypto hardware, PUFsesat.kuleuven.be/cosic |
| Bart PreneelLeuven, Belgium | Full Professor and Head, COSIC, KU Leuven | Applied cryptography, payment and e-government securitykuleuven.be |
| Nele MentensLeuven, Belgium | Professor, COSIC KU Leuven and Leiden University | Reconfigurable hardware security, embedded and automotive securityesat.kuleuven.be/cosic |
| Srini DevadasCambridge, USA | Professor of EECS, MIT CSAIL | Silicon PUFs and secure processorspeople.csail.mit.edu/devadas |
| Frederik VercauterenLeuven, Belgium | Professor, COSIC, KU Leuven | Post-quantum cryptography and homomorphic-encryption hardwareesat.kuleuven.be/cosic |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded systems and firmware, secure embedded, hardware security | Embedded engineer, Firmware engineer, Hardware-security engineer | ₹4–8 LPA (₹8–12 for Tier-1 graduates with ARM, AUTOSAR or embedded Linux) | ₹8–14 LPA | Bosch, Continental, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Fintech, secure transactions, payments hardware | Payments engineer, Security engineer, Software engineer | ₹10–24 LPA | ₹18–35 LPA | Razorpay, PhonePe, Pine Labs, Paytm |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A9 (secure silicon and secure elements)
- F-A1
- F-A14
- F-A20 (SBI Foundation, HDFC Bank CSR, ICICI Foundation, Axis Bank Foundation)
After products exist
- F-B10
- F-B1 (secure communications)
- RBI and NPCI innovation sandboxes (not a grant)
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A9MeitY Chips to Startup (C2S) | Umbrella ₹250 Cr over five years; per-institution EDA access and design support (secondary reports cite about ₹15 lakh per project) | YES | Rolling call cycles | MeitY / C-DAC ChipIN Centre |
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A14IndiaAI Mission — compute | Over 38,000 GPUs at about ₹65 an hour, with government paying up to 40% of the bill for priority use cases; outlay ₹10,371.92 Cr over five years (March 2024) | YES | Rolling | indiaai.gov.in AI Compute Portal |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: Georgia Tech Hive; general electronics. Specialised overlay for this Studio: ESD EPA benches plus a secure test room. Anchor: EPA to S20.20.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 302 |
| Integration & Staging | 50 |
| Digital & Simulation | 69 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 168 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 74 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 60 |
| Secure Hardware Laboratoryclear 3.0 m | 55 |
| Fault-Injection and Side-Channel Benchclear 3.0 m | 35 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Electronics ESD and bench spacing (ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021)
A written programme, personnel grounding, ESD-safe work surfaces, wrist straps tested to S1.1, grounding to S6.1, conductive flooring 2.5×10⁴–1.0×10⁶ Ω (dissipative to ~10⁹ Ω), isolated-conductor limit under 35 V; protects to 100 V HBM / 200 V CDM. Bench density benchmark: Georgia Tech Hive runs 20+ stations each with soldering, oscilloscope, generator, supply and multimeter plus LPKF PCB fabrication. blog.ansi.org; techmade.gatech.edu
10. Club: TrustStack Club
Studio-specific: Offline-payments field trial with a mandi; Side-channel capture-the-flag; Ledger audit clinic for a panchayat. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Internet of Things Journal | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems | ACM | Q1/Q2 | unverified |
| IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (secure elements) | IEEE | IF ~3.8, Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2; APC ~US$1,995 | verified |
| Journal of Cryptographic Engineering | Springer | — | unverified |
Conferences: IEEE INDICON; CHES (international); IEEE HOST; SPACE (Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering, held in India). Indian venue: SPACE likely; unverified.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC G06Q (payments, finance), G07F (payment devices), H04L 9 (cryptographic protocols), G06F 21 (security), H01L (secure elements).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Secure-element evaluation, PCI and EMV pre-compliance testing, audit instrumentation; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: Smart India Hackathon (fintech, RBI, NPCI); RBI and NPCI hackathons; bank hackathons.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 14 OF 17 · CIVIC, PUBLIC-SERVICE & RESILIENCE PRODUCTS
Frontline Studio
STUDIO 14 OF 17 · CIVIC, PUBLIC-SERVICE & RESILIENCE PRODUCTS
Frontline Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence; Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response; Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Warn a village before the water arrives; Pay a farmer for cyclone loss within days; Enter a collapsed building before a responder does; Measure a damaged structure before people enter; Fight a fire and print a shelter with machines; Give a village safe water and prove every tanker; Warn a district of drought and give it a plan.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
9 flagship systems anchor 45 products in three tiers — 36 component and subsystem learning products and 9 system products — sized to the Studio's 45 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Village Siren Node; Voice Alert Relay; School Shelter Beacon; Rubble Team Kit; Mesh Beacon Set; Flood Rescue Raft Bot; Water Tower Controller; Tanker Ledger; Leak Listener.
- Y1 · Village Siren Node — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Village Siren Node — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Village Siren Node — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Village Siren Node — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Village Siren Node
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siemens India / L&TIndia | SCADA and PLC | Kit class | partial |
| Indian LoRa module makersIndia | LoRa | Module class | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| SemtechUSA | LoRa | Module class | partial |
| Siemens / Rockwell / SchneiderIndia offices | PLC and SCADA | Kit class | partial |
| Rohde & SchwarzGermany; India | Cell-broadcast test | Instrument class | partial |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Robu / Evelta / Robokits + Survey of India CORS, Addonix / IJS-Grand / Superb / AS Techno / industrialsiren.com + L&T Smart World, Piramal Sarvajal / WaterHealth / JanaJal / Swajal, Kotai / Advance Tech / Balaji Hydromet / Virtual Hydromet / Nevco / Raj Instrument, CZUR India + Canon/Fujitsu channel, ISLRTC + STQC-empanelled audit labs (ITQCR class); international: Emlid, u-blox, Trimble, Leica Geosystems, Topcon, Hi-Target; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (8, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (0 items) | ₹0.0 L | AMC ₹0.0 L after 2 warranty years | ₹0.0 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (6 lines, quantities for 69 concurrent teams) | ₹16.7 L | consumables ₹1.0 L at 6% (light class) | ₹2.1 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹40.0 L | — | ₹5.0 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹6.8 L | — | ₹0.9 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹8.0 L | ₹1.0 L / yr |
| Electricity (103 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹10.0 L | ₹1.2 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹63.5 L | ₹19.0 L | ₹7.9 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹86.5 L | ₹16.7 L | ₹10.8 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹1.50 Cr | ₹35.7 L | ₹18.8 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹2.60 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L / yr | 5% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹20.3 L | ₹1.9 L / yr | 9% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No big-ticket item beyond the Studio register; every high-value class this Studio needs is either on the register below or in a Fab Lab. | |||||
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (6 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water-ATM internals (RO + dispenser + IoT controller) Rs 50k–2 L; streetlight CCMS LoRa nodes Rs 500–3kCivic utility hardware with Dynamo and Aquifer | ₹1.2 L | 8 | ₹10.0 L | band midpoint | |
| Records digitizationThe per-lakh-page service bench | CZUR-class A3 book scanners Rs 30–80k (pro Bookeye Rs 5 L+ awareness) + Telugu OCR rigs | ₹0.6 L | 8 | ₹4.4 L | band midpoint |
| Meshtastic/LoRa nodesDisaster mesh kits on India’s 865–867 MHz band — never 433 MHz | TTGO T-Beam ~Rs 3,900, ESP32+LoRa+OLED Rs 1,000–2,000, bare Ra-02 module ~Rs 479 | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.9 L | listed price |
| Service-kiosk stackThe state’s physical interface, engineered and maintained | industrial touch panel Rs 25–35k + thermal printer + UPS/solar in a Forge IP-rated enclosure; e-ink/LED village notice boards Rs 15k–1.5 L | ₹0.3 L | 2 | ₹0.6 L | band midpoint |
| HydrometThe flood-monitoring bench for the Krishna delta | rain gauges Rs 1,650 (basic) / Rs 35,000 (auto-recording) / Rs 1.25 L (GSM logger); AWS Rs 78,000 (Kotai entry) to ~Rs 1.2 L typical to Rs 5 L imported; ultrasonic level sensors ~Rs 10–50k (quote-based estimate), radar Rs 40k–1.5 L+ | ₹0.0 L | 24 | ₹0.5 L | listed price |
| Sirens — electronic sirens/hooters Rs 5,000–48,530 (JEEKAY 3-phase 0.25–8 km ~Rs 48,530; Addonix 1–10 km Rs 20,000–95,000; AS Techno 130–140 dB flameproof ~Rs 17,500); disaster-grade NCRMP/EWDS siren towers ~Rs 50–55 L/site turnkeyStudio-assembled siren stations at Rs 1–3 L sit an order of magnitude below tower-grade — both tiers stated honestly | Rs 66 Cr for 122 in Odisha | ₹0.3 L | 1 | ₹0.3 L | planning price set |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): DIGIT (eGov Foundation MIT-licensed, DPGA-certified); Bhashini APIs; Ushahidi + OpenStreetMap/HOT tasking manager; Frappe/ERPNext + DIKSHA/Sunbird + Tesseract/CAP libraries; Manupatra / SCC Online (licensed).
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (3 lines, ₹11.7 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| u-blox ZED-F9P RTK boards (SparkFun/SmartElex/7Semi via Robu/Evelta) | GNSS / RTK positioning | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.6 L |
| Survey-grade rovers Rs 2–8 L and total stations Rs 1.5–6 L (awareness tier); braille embossers Rs 3–8 L (with LifeCare); rugged field tablets | Photogrammetry & survey | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹5.0 L |
| Arduino/ESP32/Raspberry-Pi sensor stacks | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.1 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. C-DOT's standards-based (CAP) alerting-product model with NDMA as the customer; IRIDeS's cross-disciplinary disaster-science structure feeding deployable field kits. Gap: No dedicated student disaster-response product studio in India.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-DOT SACHET and Cell Broadcast SolutionDepartment of Telecommunications | CBS launched 2 May 2026 | C-DOT with NDMA and IMD | SACHET (CAP / ITU X.1303) live in all 36 States and UTs, 130 billion+ SMS in 19 languages; cell broadcast geo-targeted 2G–5G alerts covering ~1.43 billion citizens | https://www.cdot.inverified |
| National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)New Delhi | 2003 (roots 1995 NCDM); statutory under the DM Act 2005 | Ministry of Home Affairs | Capacity building and research | https://nidm.gov.inverified |
| NDMANew Delhi | 2005 | Government of India | Apex authority; partner in the C-DOT alerting systems | https://ndma.gov.inverified |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRIDeSTohoku University, Sendai, Japan | 2012 (April, after the 2011 tsunami; director Fumihiko Imamura) | Tohoku University | Earthquake simulator; tsunami evacuation and hazard maps; UNDP Global Centre for Disaster Statistics | https://irides.tohoku.ac.jpverified |
| Safety and Security InstituteTU Delft | — | Six faculties | IoT-safety living lab, evacuation research, climate safety and security | https://www.tudelft.nlverified |
| Humanitarian and disaster technologyMIT Lincoln Laboratory | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- NIOT (Chennai) and INCOIS (Hyderabad), Ministry of Earth Sciences — Moored and tsunami buoys, ROVs, ocean-observation instrumentation; INCOIS in Hyderabad is the nearest ocean-data CoE. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honeywell / Motorola SolutionsBengaluru, Hyderabad · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Public-safety communications and alerting | University routeconfirm URL |
| Dhruva Space / GenroboticsHyderabad / Thiruvananthapuram · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Disaster kits and robotics | Company pagescorroborated |
| NDMA / NDRFNew Delhi; Vijayawada-area battalion · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Disaster response; training and MoU | ndma.gov.in; NDRF battalionsconfirm URL |
| INCOISHyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Tsunami early warning and alerting | incois.gov.incorroborated |
| AP State Disaster Management AuthorityVijayawada / Amaravati (adjacent) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Civic alerting pilot host | APSDMA routeinference |
| C-DACNational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Public-utility and alerting systems | cdac.inconfirm URL |
| Everbridge, SiemensGlobal | Global company or institution | Alerting and utility SCADA | Academic routeconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (3)
| HoneywellBengaluru / Hyderabad | Building safety, sensing and public-infrastructure systems |
| BoschBengaluru | Public-safety sensing and smart-city technology |
| Government-technology arms of TCS, Infosys, WiproNationwide | e-governance delivery — largely software |
Indian startups and product companies (4)
| Detect TechnologiesChennai (IIT-Madras origin) | Industrial and infrastructure inspection |
| GenroboticsKerala | Public-sanitation robots — direct civic-hardware analogue |
| Civic-sensing and kiosk manufacturersVarious | Fragmented; an opening for a university programme |
| Grene RoboticsHyderabad | The clearest Indian example of civic and national resilience hardware built by a startup rather than a public laboratory |
Global companies and institutions (6)
| RapidSOSNew York, United States | Software glue over a legacy emergency system can be more useful than replacing it |
| Zzapp MalariaIsrael | Cheap field hardware with targeting software works at public-health scale |
| Clarity MovementBerkeley, United States | Civic sensing is credible only when calibrated against reference instruments |
| UbicquiaFort Lauderdale, United States | Retrofitting existing streetlights turns installed infrastructure into a sensor grid |
| One ConcernMenlo Park, United States | Modelling infrastructure failure before the disaster is the useful moment |
| Flo TechnologiesLos Angeles, United States | A sensor paired with a valve prevents damage rather than reporting it |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
No advisor for this Studio was verified in this pass; see the candidate leads below and the Studio bench.
Coverage: no adviser confirmed yet. Candidate leads: NDMA members, the C-DOT disaster-management platform team, INCOIS early-warning group (Dr Balakrishnan Nair), state SDMA technical heads.
The Studio's full advisory bench (12 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Swati RamanathanBengaluru, India | Co-founder, Janaagraha; Chairperson, Jana Urban Space | Civic platforms including ipaidabribe and ichangemycity, and urban-planning programmesjanaagraha.org |
| Ramesh RamanathanBengaluru, India | Co-founder, Janaagraha; Chairman, Jana Group | Civic-participation platforms at city scalejanaagraha.org |
| Srikanth ViswanathanBengaluru, India | Chief Executive Officer, Janaagraha | City-governance reform programmes and the annual survey of city systemsjanaagraha.org |
| Arun GeorgeThiruvananthapuram, India | Co-founder and Director, Genrobotics Innovations | Co-created the first manhole-cleaning robot, with close to three hundred units deployed across nineteen states and three union territoriesforbesindia.com |
| Rashid KarimbanakkalThiruvananthapuram, India | Co-founder and Director, Genrobotics Innovations | Directed the digging mechanism and the deployment of three robots at the Prayagraj Maha Kumbh Mela in 2025theprint.in |
| Sachchida Nand TripathiKanpur, India | Professor and Dean, Kotak School of Sustainability, IIT Kanpur | Large low-cost air-quality sensor networks, civic sensing, real-time source apportionmentiitk.ac.in |
| Satish B. AgnihotriMumbai, India | Visiting Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas, IIT Bombay | Rural technology scale-up, GIS and mapping for social-sector planningctara.iitb.ac.in · sbagnihotri@iitb.ac.in |
| Manoj KharePune, India | Scientist G and Head of High Performance Computing, C-DAC Pune | HPC-based flood early warningcdac.in |
| Siddharth TallurMumbai, India | Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay; Wadhwani Electronics Lab | MEMS and embedded sensor systems, corrosion and structural resilience sensingee.iitb.ac.in |
| Robin R. MurphyCollege Station, USA | Raytheon Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University | Disaster and rescue robotics, field-response kitsrobinrmurphy.com |
| Amy SmithCambridge, USA | Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering and founding Director, MIT D-Lab | Humanitarian and appropriate-technology field kitsd-lab.mit.edu |
| Satoshi TadokoroSendai, Japan | Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Sciences, Tohoku University | Rescue robotics and disaster-response field robotstohoku.ac.jp |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A1
- F-A5
- MeitY CoE and grand challenges (confirm)
- F-A20 (HCL Foundation, Tata Trusts, SBI Foundation)
After products exist
- F-B9 NDMA and NDRF technology adoption (demand)
- F-B1
- F-B10
- F-B11 Smart India Hackathon
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A5AICTE IDEA Lab | About ₹1.1 Cr total; AICTE up to about ₹30 lakh or 50% | YES (conditional) | Annual; 2024-25 list published; 2026-27 expected | AICTE portal |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B9NDMA and NDRF technology adoption | Procurement or adoption, not a grant | Demand side | Rolling | ndma.gov.in; NDRF battalions |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B11Challenge prizes: Smart India Hackathon, DRDO Dare to Dream, IN-SPACe CANSAT India, ISRO Robotics Challenge, XPRIZE | Prizes | YES (students) | Annual | Programme sites |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: AICTE IDEA Lab template. Specialised overlay for this Studio: IDEA Lab template, 3,000–6,000 sq ft. Anchor: IDEA Lab norms.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 346 |
| Integration & Staging | 58 |
| Digital & Simulation | 79 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 162 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 84 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 62 |
| Outdoor Exposure and Deployment Padclear 0 m | 150 |
| Environmental Test Chamber Roomclear 3.6 m | 40 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Electronics ESD and bench spacing (ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021)
A written programme, personnel grounding, ESD-safe work surfaces, wrist straps tested to S1.1, grounding to S6.1, conductive flooring 2.5×10⁴–1.0×10⁶ Ω (dissipative to ~10⁹ Ω), isolated-conductor limit under 35 V; protects to 100 V HBM / 200 V CDM. Bench density benchmark: Georgia Tech Hive runs 20+ stations each with soldering, oscilloscope, generator, supply and multimeter plus LPKF PCB fabrication. blog.ansi.org; techmade.gatech.edu
10. Club: Civic Resilience Club
Studio-specific: Village siren and voice-alert deployment; Public-utility controller installation camp; Mock disaster exercise with the district administration. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Internet of Things Journal | IEEE | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Sensors Journal | IEEE | IF 4.5, Q1 | verified |
| Reliability Engineering and System Safety | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Access | IEEE | Q2 | verified |
| Natural Hazards | Springer | Q2 | unverified |
Conferences: IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference; IEEE R10 HTC (Asia-Pacific); IEEE INDICON. Indian venue: INDICON found; no dedicated Indian disaster-technology student track found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC G08B (signalling, alarms), H04W (emergency communications), G05B (utility controllers), G01W (meteorological warning).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Early-warning system design, siren and PA validation, SCADA for utilities, NDMA-aligned pilots; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: Smart India Hackathon (NDMA, disaster); DRDO Dare to Dream; UN and NDMA challenges.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 15 OF 17 · BIOENGINEERING & BIOMANUFACTURING
Helix Studio
STUDIO 15 OF 17 · BIOENGINEERING & BIOMANUFACTURING
Helix Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Move a village's mangoes to a city kitchen overnight; Turn straw into gas, fertiliser and a carbon credit the village can prove; Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
6 flagship systems anchor 30 products in three tiers — 24 component and subsystem learning products and 6 system products — sized to the Studio's 30 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Bio-Coating for Fruit; Biofertiliser Brewer; Millet Fermenter; Crop Waste Digester; Soil Microbe Reader; Algae Carbon Pond.
- Y1 · Bio-Coating for Fruit — Formulation and process definition
- Y1 · Bio-Coating for Fruit — Bench-scale process and analytics
- Y2 · Bio-Coating for Fruit — Batch record, QA and scale-up plan
- Y2 · Bio-Coating for Fruit — Validated method, SOP and safety file
- Y3 · Bio-Coating for Fruit
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sartorius Stedim IndiaBengaluru | Biostat B bioreactors | From about ₹8 lakh | verified |
| Kesar, Microfilt and other Indian OEMsIndia | Biosafety cabinets and autoclaves | Cabinet class | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eppendorf IndiaGermany; India | BioFlo 120 and 320 bioreactors | ₹10–50 lakh | verified |
| SartoriusGermany | Biostat | Bioreactor class | verified |
| Thermo Fisher IndiaUSA; India | HPLC, incubators | Instrument class | verified |
| AgilentUSA; India | HPLC | Instrument class | verified |
| MerckGermany; India | Consumables and instruments | Instrument class | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Bio-Age Equipment & Services (Mohali, Punjab), Amerging Technologies, Imagene Labs, HiMedia Laboratories (Mumbai), Borosil; Remi Elektrotechnik, Praj Industries (Pune); international: Sartorius, Eppendorf, Applikon, part of Getinge, Infors HT, Solaris Biotech, Opentrons; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (9, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (1 items) | ₹22.5 L | AMC ₹1.3 L after 2 warranty years | ₹2.5 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (10 lines, quantities for 57 concurrent teams) | ₹62.9 L | consumables ₹12.8 L at 15% (bio class) | ₹7.0 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹38.0 L | — | ₹4.2 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹14.8 L | — | ₹1.6 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹7.0 L | ₹0.8 L / yr |
| Electricity (120 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹11.6 L | ₹1.3 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹1.38 Cr | ₹32.8 L | ₹15.4 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹72.7 L | ₹15.4 L | ₹8.1 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹2.11 Cr | ₹48.2 L | ₹23.4 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹3.35 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L / yr | 5% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L / yr | 3% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analytical equipmentHPLC; spectrophotometer | ₹5–40 lakh | ₹22.5 L | 1 | ₹22.5 L | band midpointIndian analytical distributors |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (10 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downstream train: tangential-flow filtration, chromatography and spray drying (lab scale)Recovery and purification — the half of biomanufacturing that dominates cost and is routinely under-taught. Buying the downstream train is what stops the Studio from producing broth it cannot turn into product. | Rs 5–30 L across tangential-flow filtration, chromatography and a lab spray dryer | ₹17.5 L | 1 | ₹17.5 L | band midpoint |
| Scale-up ladder to 15 L and 100–150 L in-situ sterilisable vessels (Bio-Age BioSpin class)The 2 L → 15 L → 200 L ladder that makes scale-up similarity teachable; one supplier can cover bench through pilot, which keeps the geometry and control philosophy consistent across the ladder. | 15 L in-situ sterilisable vessel Rs 8–20 L; 100–150 L Rs 20–50 L from Scigenics or Bio-Age — quote required | ₹14.0 L | 1 | ₹14.0 L | band midpoint |
| Cold chain: −80 °C freezer, refrigerated centrifuge and lyophiliserStrain, sample and product preservation. A −80 failure destroys years of strain work, so UPS backing and alarmed monitoring are part of the purchase, not an accessory. | Rs 3–15 L | ₹9.0 L | 1 | ₹9.0 L | band midpoint |
| Open qPCR, colorimeters and potentiostats (Chai Bio, IO Rodeo, Public Lab lineage)Molecular detection, optical density and electrochemical measurement at a fraction of instrument-grade cost — and the pedagogy that a credible instrument can be built, not only bought. | Rodeostat ~$275; Open Colorimeter ~$150 — imports; Chai Open qPCR: quote required, availability unconfirmed | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹6.7 L | listed price |
| Benchtop autoclavable fermenter, 5 L with PLC and touchscreen controlThe first genuinely controlled vessel: sterilisation, cascade control and reproducible batch records. Everything upstream of it is culture; everything downstream of it is process. | ~Rs 4.6–5.6 L | ₹5.1 L | 1 | ₹5.1 L | band midpoint |
| Open liquid handlersReproducible pipetting for the design-build-test-learn loop. The capital rule applies here: the Opentrons OT-2 class (~US$15,950) fails the Rs 5 L per three product lines test, so it stays the aspirational reference while students build the low-cost handler first. | ~US$150 DIY class | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹3.6 L | listed price |
| Low-cost laboratory bioreactor, BioFERMA classThe honest entry vessel where budget is constrained — autoclavable and in-situ sterilisable variants that still teach real control. | from ~Rs 2.76 L | ₹2.8 L | 1 | ₹2.8 L | listed price |
| Class II biosafety cabinet, laminar-flow hood and autoclave (50–100 L)The containment and sterilisation spine. The biosafety cabinet is the BSL-2 gate and carries an annual revalidation obligation — it is a certified instrument, not furniture. | biosafety cabinet Rs 1.5–4 L; laminar-flow hood Rs 50,000–1,50,000; a 50–100 L autoclave Rs 1.5–5 L | ₹2.8 L | 1 | ₹2.8 L | band midpoint |
| Pioreactor open bioreactorTurbidostat and chemostat experiments at student scale; the honest entry point before a controlled fermenter, and the platform on which growth-curve discipline is taught. | ~US$500 class | ₹0.5 L | 2 | ₹1.0 L | listed price |
| OpenFlexure microscope and open imaging rigsCell and colony imaging with a documented build, giving every squad optical access without competing for one shared microscope. | build BOM ~Rs 18k–30k | ₹0.2 L | 2 | ₹0.5 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): Benchling-alternative open ELN and sequence tools; Addgene repository and open plasmid collections; Open process-control firmware (through Wafer); Electronic lab notebook and sequence-design suites (academic licensing); Bioprocess simulation and design-of-experiments tools.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (1 lines, ₹0.1 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arduino/ESP32 process-control and datalogging stacks (through Wafer) | ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Compute and Software Lab | ₹0.1 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. ICGEB's automated DBTL biofoundry with expression-of-interest open access to startups and industry, quarterly evaluation, and demonstrated industrial-scale outputs.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DBT-ICT Centre for Energy BiosciencesICT Mumbai | 2009 | DBT, about $10 million | Bioprocess scale-up, biorefinery development, enzyme and metabolic engineering | https://www.ictmumbai.edu.inverified |
| ICGEB BiofoundryNew Delhi | — | DBT under the BioE3 policy; National Biofoundry Network (21 facilities) | Automated design–build–test–learn; E. coli and yeast strain engineering; NGY10 yeast tested at 840 KL and 2,300 KL industrial scale | https://www.icgeb.orgverified |
| Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB)Mohali | 2012 | DBT | Secondary-agriculture bioproducts | https://ciab.res.inverified |
| C-CAMPBengaluru | — | — | Biofoundry and incubation | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh Genome Foundry; Imperial Centre for Synthetic Biology; MIT–Broad Foundry; Berkeley JBEIUK, USA | — | — | Largest robotic DNA foundry (Edinburgh) | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- ICAR and ANGRAU (Lam, Guntur) — ANGRAU is ~30 km from KLEF and runs an RKVY-RAFTAAR Agri Innovations & Entrepreneurship Development Cell; seed partners include Syngenta, Nuziveedu, UPL and Bayer. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novonesis (Novozymes), dsm-firmenichBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Industrial enzymes and fermentation | University routeconfirm URL |
| Thermo FisherBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Bioprocess tools | University routeconfirm URL |
| String BioBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Methane fermentation | Company pageconfirm URL |
| Fermbox Bio / Zumutor / Sea6 EnergyBengaluru, Chennai · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Precision fermentation and marine biomanufacturing | Company pagesconfirm URL |
| DBT-BIRACNational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Biotech funding and incubation; BioNEST | birac.nic.inconfirm URL |
| CSIR-IICTHyderabad (~270 km) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Chemical and bioprocess technology | Academic routeconfirm URL |
| ICAR-IIMR / IIORHyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Millets and oilseeds biomanufacturing | Institute routescorroborated |
| Sartorius, CytivaGlobal | Global company or institution | Bioprocess equipment | Academic routeconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (3)
| SanofiHyderabad | €400M expansion; 4,500+ headcount target; R&D and analytics |
| Novartis, AstraZeneca, GSK, Amgen, BMSHyderabad / Bengaluru / Chennai | Pharma R&D and development |
| Thermo Fisher, Agilent, Sartorius, Danaher, LonzaBengaluru / Mumbai | Bioprocess equipment and instrumentation |
Indian startups and product companies (6)
| String BioBengaluru | Methane to protein and bioplastics |
| Fermbox BioBengaluru | Precision fermentation CDMO; 400 kL fermenter capacity; cellulosic enzymes for 2G ethanol; BIRAC-selected |
| Sea6 EnergyBengaluru | Seaweed biomanufacturing; BIRAC RDI-fund cohort 2026 |
| LoopwormBengaluru | Silkworm recombinant proteins; $6.65M raised, $3.25M Pre-Series A July 2025 |
| Revelations BiotechHyderabad | Synthetic biology; vitamin MK-7 via Bacillus subtilis |
| Pandorum TechnologiesBengaluru | 3D bioprinting |
Global companies and institutions (10)
| Ginkgo BioworksBoston, United States | A foundry for biology is a sound idea; the listing-era projections overshot reality by a factor of three |
| Bolt ThreadsEmeryville, United States | Was close to scale and could not fund the ramp; scalability rather than the demonstration decides survival |
| BICO, formerly CELLINKGothenburg, Sweden | Selling the tools of biofabrication is a steadier business than selling the tissue |
| SolugenHouston, United States | Merging biology with chemical engineering beats either alone |
| Perfect DayBerkeley, United States | Fermenting a real milk protein without the cow is a food-scale bioprocess problem |
| FormoBerlin, Germany | European novel-food regulation is part of the engineering timeline |
| CambriumBerlin, Germany | Software-defined molecules move design upstream of the bioreactor |
| Mosa MeatMaastricht, Netherlands | The challenge is the cost and scale of bioreactors, not the taste |
| Aleph FarmsRehovot, Israel | Structured cultivated meat is a tissue-scaffolding problem |
| MeliBioBerkeley, United States | Replicating a complex natural product means targeting a specific set of molecules |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
No advisor for this Studio was verified in this pass; see the candidate leads below and the Studio bench.
Coverage: no adviser confirmed yet. Candidate leads: String Bio (Ezhil Subbian, Bengaluru), Sea6 Energy, CCMB and CSIR-IICT (Hyderabad), BIRAC-backed biomanufacturing startups.
The Studio's full advisory bench (12 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Krishna EllaHyderabad, India · in reach | Executive Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Biotech International | COVAXIN, ROTAVAC, Typbar-TCV and the iNCOVACC nasal vaccinebharatbiotech.com |
| Dr Satyanarayana ChavaHyderabad and Visakhapatnam, India · in reach | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Laurus Labs | The world’s largest antiretroviral active-ingredient supply, plus generics and biologics contract manufacturinglauruslabs.com |
| Ezhil SubbianBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive, String Bio | Built a gas fermentation platform and the facility that converts methane into protein and biostimulantsstringbio.com |
| Vinod KumarBengaluru, India · in reach | Co-founder, String Bio | Led the manufacturing scale-up of the multi-purpose gas fermentation facilitytracxn.com |
| Kiran Mazumdar-ShawBengaluru, India | Executive Chairperson and Founder, Biocon and Biocon Biologics | Biosimilar insulins and trastuzumab, and the affordable-insulin programmebiocon.com |
| Adar PoonawallaPune, India | Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India | COVISHIELD and PNEUMOSIL; the world’s largest vaccine maker by dosesseruminstitute.com |
| Pramod KumbharPune, India | President and Chief Technology Officer, Praj Matrix, the research centre of Praj Industries | Leads fermentation, bioprocess and biorefinery plant technology across biofuels and biochemicals; doctorate in chemical engineeringpraj.net |
| K. J. MukherjeeNew Delhi, India | Professor, Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology, IIT Delhi | Bioprocess optimisation and scale-up, host-platform strain designbeb.iitd.ac.in |
| Preeti SrivastavaNew Delhi, India | Professor and Head, Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology, IIT Delhi | Synthetic biology, strain engineering, bioprocessbeb.iitd.ac.in |
| Karthik RamanChennai, India | Professor, Biotechnology, IIT Madras | Systems and synthetic biology, metabolic engineeringbiotech.iitm.ac.in · kraman@iitm.ac.in |
| Taslimarif SaiyedBengaluru, India | CEO and Director, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Platforms | Biofoundry, laboratory automation, bio-innovation infrastructureccamp.res.in |
| Amulya K. PandaNew Delhi, India | Adjunct Professor, IIT Delhi and Associate Director, Panacea Biotec | Fermentation, protein refolding, vaccine delivery, bioprocessbeb.iitd.ac.in |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| Bio-manufacturing and food technology (BioTech, Food Technology, B.Pharm) | Bioprocess engineer, Food-technology engineer, QA engineer | ₹3–7 LPA | ₹6–14 LPA | Biocon, Food-processing firms, Agri-startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A15 BioNEST (host bio-incubator and biofoundry) — core route
- F-A1 (KLEF biotech is FIST-funded)
- F-A3
- DBT project grants (confirm)
- F-A20 (Dr Reddy's, Aurobindo, Divis, Biocon)
After products exist
- F-B6 BIRAC BIG (₹50 lakh) and SBIRI via incubated startups
- DBT-BIRAC biofoundry network
- Gates Foundation follow-on
- F-B10
- F-B13 (CEFIPRA-BPI biotech)
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A15DBT-BIRAC BioNEST (bio-incubator) | Capital plus three-to-five-year support; at least 8,000 sq ft | YES (host) | Periodic call | birac.nic.in BioNEST call |
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-A20Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment) | Varies | YES | Negotiated; rolling | Each donor's CSR or university-relations page |
| F-B6DBT-BIRAC BIG (₹50 lakh, 18 months) and SBIRI | BIG ₹50 lakh | Via startup | Calls about 1 January and 1 July yearly | birac.nic.in |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: ICT-CEB; NREL pilot plant. Specialised overlay for this Studio: BSL-1/2 wet lab plus pilot fermenters 0.25–10 L to 25–1,000 L. Anchor: BSL and NFPA 45.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 288 |
| Integration & Staging | 48 |
| Digital & Simulation | 66 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 162 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 70 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 66 |
| Bioprocess Hallclear 4.5 m | 90 |
| Containment Level 2 Laboratoryclear 3.0 m | 60 |
| Analytical Benchclear 3.0 m | 45 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Wet lab and bioprocess pilot
BSL-1/2 layout with NFPA 45 ventilation, autoclave and decontamination; pilot scaling from 0.25–10 L bench to 25–1,000 L pilot; NREL Bioprocessing Pilot Plant is an 8,000 sq ft BSL-1 large-scale reference; ICT Mumbai's DBT Centre for Energy Biosciences (about $10 million) integrates chromatographic reactors and pilot plants. docs.nrel.gov; ictmumbai.edu.in; gfi.org
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
10. Club: BioFoundry Club
Studio-specific: Fermentation scale-up week; Biocoating shelf-life trials at a mandi; Digester commissioning in a village. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bioresource Technology | Elsevier | IF 8.2 (2024), Q1; APC ~US$4,200 | verified |
| Nature Food | Nature Portfolio | IF ~23–24, Q1; APC ~US$12,690 (unverified) | partial |
| Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts | BMC | Q1 | unverified |
| Metabolic Engineering | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| Bioresource Technology Reports | Elsevier | — | unverified |
| Journal of Biotechnology | Elsevier | Q2 | unverified |
| Food Chemistry | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
Conferences: BIRAC and DBT bio-events; International Conference on New Frontiers in Biotechnology; IEEE EMBS (bio-instrumentation). Indian venue: No dedicated Indian student biomanufacturing venue clearly found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC C12N (microorganisms, enzymes), C12P (fermentation), C12M (bioprocess apparatus), A23L (food), C02F (environmental biotech); BIRAC publishes sector-specific biotech TRL definitions.
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Fermentation scale-up, bioprocess optimisation, food-product validation; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: iGEM (international synthetic biology; IIT Madras has won gold); BIRAC BIG and SITARE; Smart India Hackathon (biotech); Hult Prize (food).
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 16 OF 17 · SPACE & AEROSPACE
Astra Studio
STUDIO 16 OF 17 · SPACE & AEROSPACE
Astra Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence; Food, Water and Climate Security.
Tasks its products serve: Keep a relief convoy moving and talking when GPS and radio are jammed; Send a quantum-secured key and a covert message across a campus link; Deliver a flood map to a district within hours of the pass; Warn a village before the water arrives; Fly a constellation that updates in orbit and deorbits responsibly; Hear a fishing boat beyond the horizon; Qualify a flight satellite on campus and send a quantum key from orbit; Find the methane leaks a state cannot see; Pay a farmer for cyclone loss within days; Fly a payload at the edge of space before it flies in orbit and more.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
33 flagship systems anchor 165 products in three tiers — 132 component and subsystem learning products and 33 system products — sized to the Studio's 165 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Orbital Relay Terminal; Anti-Jam Satcom Modem; Pocket Satcom Messenger; Modular Bus 'Vyom'; Bus Twin; Bus-in-a-Box Trainer; Pointing Core; Formation Keeper; Star-Sun Fusion Estimator; Folding Wing Array; Passive Thermal Skin; Deployable Radiator; Onboard Triage AI; Coastal Colour Sensor; Methane Sniffer; Earth Foundation Model; Flood Extent Pipeline; Crop-Loss Assessor; Flexible Space Radio; Store-and-Forward Payload; Inter-Satellite Link; Student Mission Control; Agentic Pass Planner; Anomaly Whisperer; Vibration Table; Thermal-Vacuum Chamber; High-Altitude Balloon Bus; Grapple Arm; Drag-Sail Deorbit Kit; Air-Bearing Rover Table; Basin Digital Twin; Village Change Detector; Drought Early Warning.
- Y1 · Orbital Relay Terminal — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Orbital Relay Terminal — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Orbital Relay Terminal — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Orbital Relay Terminal — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Orbital Relay Terminal
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dhruva SpaceHyderabad | CubeSat platforms 0.5U–300 kg, deployers, space-grade solar arrays, VHF–Ka ground stations; already supplies universities | Platform class | verified |
| Ananth TechnologiesHyderabad | Satellite manufacturing and testing (est. 1992) | Per project | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISISPACE via CubeSatShopDelft | CubeSat kits and subsystems | Kit class | verified |
| EnduroSat / GomSpace / AAC ClydeBulgaria / Denmark / Sweden | Subsystems | Import | verified |
| Keysight / SpirentUSA / UK | GNSS simulators | Instrument class | verified |
| Global environmental-test OEMs— | TVAC and shaker | Import | verified |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: Ananth Technologies / Skyroot-Dhruva outreach (Hyderabad), Robu.in / Robokits, Aimil / instrument channels, IN-SPACe/ISRO academic-window (institutional), Robu.in / Evelta, Ananth Technologies / Centum / Data Patterns; international: AAC Clyde Space / EnduroSat EDU (via channel), SatNOGS/LibreCube community, Apogee Components (USA), Digi-Key / Mouser, Pumpkin / ISISpace / EnduroSat / GomSpace / NanoAvionics + CubeSatShop, Libre Space Foundation / SatNOGS / PyCubed communities; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (11, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (4 items) | ₹1.89 Cr | AMC ₹11.3 L after 2 warranty years | ₹17.2 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (11 lines, quantities for 57 concurrent teams) | ₹1.48 Cr | consumables ₹47.2 L at 14% (clean class) | ₹13.5 L |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹30.0 L | — | ₹2.7 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹44.1 L | — | ₹4.0 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹3.0 L | ₹0.3 L / yr |
| Electricity (117 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹11.3 L | ₹1.0 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹4.11 Cr | ₹72.9 L | ₹37.4 L |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹80.5 L | ₹15.4 L | ₹7.3 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹4.92 Cr | ₹88.3 L | ₹44.7 L |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹1.30 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹28.5 L | ₹3.7 L / yr | 6% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹10.6 L | ₹3.0 L / yr | 3% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L / yr | 3% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-satellite bus kits and componentsIndian: Dhruva Space (Hyderabad), Bellatrix Aerospace (Bengaluru); global via cubesatshop.com and satsearch | 6U bus or kit ₹20 lakh–1 crore+ | ₹60.0 L | 1 | ₹60.0 L | band midpointDhruva Space; Bellatrix Aerospace |
| Space-grade solar cellsTriple-junction cells | ₹2–20 lakh | ₹11.0 L | 1 | ₹11.0 L | band midpointImport |
| Thermal-vacuum chamber; vibration shaker; cleanroom tentsTVAC; shaker; softwall cleanroom | TVAC ₹40 lakh–3 crore; shaker ₹15–60 lakh; tents ₹3–15 lakh | ₹1.18 Cr | 1 | ₹1.18 Cr | planning price setIndian vacuum-chamber makers; import |
| Radiation-test accessBeam time at a national facility | Access by partnership | ₹0.0 L | 1 | ₹0.0 L | quote onlyNo Indian commercial vendor; via ISRO / BARC / institutional partnership |
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (11 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial 1U bus $50–100k+ (EnduroSat/NanoAvionics/ISISpace) and commercial ADCS Rs 15–40 LAwareness tier only — named so students know the market, not so the studio buys it | ₹75.6 L | 1 | ₹75.6 L | band midpoint | |
| Helmholtz cage (student-built) ~Rs 1–3 LMagnetic-environment testing for passive and magnetorquer ADCS | ₹2.0 L | 7 | ₹14.0 L | planning price set | |
| LibreCube / PyCubed-Mini / UPSat lineageThe open-satellite canon — UPSat was the first open-source satellite | PyCubed BOM ~$300–500; LibreCube boards Rs 10k–40k | ₹0.4 L | 24 | ₹9.7 L | band midpoint |
| Yaesu G-5500DC Az/El rotator ~$800 USThe station’s pointing spine | ~Rs 1.0–1.3 L landed | ₹1.4 L | 7 | ₹9.7 L | band midpoint |
| Subsonic wind tunnelThe aero-structures bench; benchtop 0.3 m test section in catalog | buy Rs 3–15 L or student-built | ₹9.0 L | 1 | ₹9.0 L | band midpoint |
| LNAs and filters (Mini-Circuits via Spectra)Noise figure is the difference between decoded telemetry and silence | Rs 3,000–50,000 each landed | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹7.6 L | band midpoint |
| PyCubed PC104 avionics — open BOM ~$200–500Open, radiation-tested, Python-programmable flight avionics with LEO heritage — designed precisely against the ~60% first-timer failure rate | Rs 18–45k/board through Wafer | ₹0.3 L | 24 | ₹7.6 L | band midpoint |
| Crossed-Yagi and helical antennas ~Rs 10–40k in materialsStudent-built station front end, with Spectra | ₹0.2 L | 24 | ₹6.0 L | band midpoint | |
| Rover platform build Rs 3–8 L BOMURC/IRC-class chassis on shared Forge spec | ₹5.0 L | 1 | ₹5.0 L | planning price set | |
| Student-built magnetorquers, sun sensors, reaction wheelsThe ADCS ladder that keeps budgets alive — passive first, always | build BOM Rs 3k–25k each | ₹0.1 L | 24 | ₹3.4 L | band midpoint |
| SatNOGS ground station (v3) ~$300–500The network-connected station — 500+ operational stations globally, one already at Maker’s Asylum Mumbai | Rs 25–45k | ₹0.3 L | 2 | ₹0.7 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): GMAT (free NASA) + Gpredict; GNU Radio + gr-satellites + SatDump.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (1 lines, ₹0.6 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTL-SDR Rs 2–3k rising to USRP Rs 1–5 L (from Spectra stock) | Software-defined radio | Electronics Fab Lab | ₹0.6 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. Georgia Tech SSDL's annual CubeSat cadence on a shared bus baseline and full-lifecycle student ownership from design to operations, through the IN-SPACe authorisation pathway.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IIST SSPACE (Small-spacecraft Systems and Payload Centre)IIST, Thiruvananthapuram | — | IIST | INSPIRESat-1 (launched 14 February 2022, PSLV-C52; with LASP Colorado, NTU Singapore, NCU Taiwan) and IIST-PILOT/ARIS-2 (2023); student-operated TT&C ground station | https://iist.ac.inverified |
| IN-SPACeAhmedabad | — | Department of Space | 17 student satellites and payloads authorised (11 launched); CANSAT India competition; space labs in academic institutions | —secondary source |
| NMIT Bengaluru (StudSat-1, 2010); Chanakya University ground stationBengaluru | 2010 | — | First Indian pico-satellite; tracked GalaxEye's Drishti | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space Systems Design LabGeorgia Tech, USA | — | Georgia Tech | Annual 1U CubeSats (GT-1 to GT-4 on a reusable bus); operated Lunar Flashlight 6U; built OrCa2 12U twins; clean bench, thermal-vacuum chamber, Helmholtz cage, multi-GNSS simulator | https://ssdl.gatech.eduverified |
| Delfi CubeSats; SFL; SSTL; STAR Lab; Space Rendezvous LabTU Delft; University of Toronto; Surrey; MIT; Stanford | — | — | — | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- IN-SPACe / ISRO student-satellite programme (17 authorised, 11 launched) — Authorisation, mentoring, integration and launch for student satellites; RAC-S is the outreach route. verified
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus / Boeing IndiaBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Aerospace structures and avionics | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Honeywell AerospaceBengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | GNC and avionics | University relationsconfirm URL |
| Skyroot AerospaceHyderabad (~270 km) · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Launch vehicles; $60M Series C on 7 May 2026 at a $1.1B valuation (India's first space-tech unicorn, $160M raised); 200,000 sq ft Infinity Campus inaugurated November 2025 with capacity for one orbital rocket a month | Company pagecorroborated |
| Dhruva SpaceHyderabad · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Full-stack small satellites; about 130 employees; cleanrooms and ground stations | Company pagecorroborated |
| TakeMe2SpaceHyderabad · in reach | Indian startup or product company | AI lab in space, LEO access | Company pagecorroborated |
| PixxelBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Hyperspectral earth-observation constellation | Company pagecorroborated |
| Bellatrix AerospaceBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Propulsion | Company pagecorroborated |
| NRSC (ISRO)Hyderabad · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Earth observation; student internship | nrsc.gov.incorroborated |
| IN-SPACeAhmedabad | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Private-space authorisation, technology transfer, A2Z satellite courses | inspace.gov.incorroborated |
| ISRO RESPOND / Space Technology CellsNational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Sponsored academic research | isro.gov.in/sponsored-research-respondcorroborated |
| NSILBengaluru | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | 118 technology-transfer agreements | nsilindia.co.incorroborated |
| Satish Dhawan Space CentreSriharikota · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | In-reach launch site | ISRO routeinference |
| NVIDIA, Ansys STK, MathWorks Aerospace Blockset, SiemensGlobal | Global company or institution | Simulation and avionics tools | Academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (4)
| Boeing India Engineering & Technology CentreBengaluru / Chennai | 5,500+ engineers; Rs 1,600 Cr Devanahalli campus opened January 2024 — largest Boeing facility outside the US |
| Collins AerospaceBengaluru / Hyderabad / Gurugram | ~5,000 engineers; flight controls and landing systems |
| SafranBengaluru / Hyderabad | 2,000+ across 17 locations |
| Honeywell Aerospace, GE Aerospace, AirbusBengaluru / Chennai | Avionics, engines and structures |
Indian startups and product companies (6)
| Skyroot AerospaceHyderabad | India’s first spacetech unicorn; $150M raised; Vikram-1 reached 450 km LEO on 18 July 2026 |
| PixxelBengaluru | Hyperspectral Earth observation; $96M; all six Firefly satellites launched 2025 |
| Agnikul CosmosChennai (IIT-Madras) | $76M; 3D-printed rocket engines |
| Dhruva SpaceHyderabad | Satellites and ground stations; $67M |
| DigantaraBengaluru | Space situational awareness; $67M |
| Bellatrix Aerospace, GalaxEye, EtherealXBengaluru | Propulsion, SAR imaging and reusable launch |
Global companies and institutions (9)
| Astra SpaceAlameda, United States | The claim that failure rates matter less at high cadence frightened customers; move fast does not suit rockets |
| ispaceTokyo, Japan | Autonomous terminal descent remains an unsolved guidance frontier |
| Rocket LabLong Beach, United States | Learn on the ground rather than in flight; even so the larger vehicle keeps slipping |
| Gilmour SpaceGold Coast, Australia | Iterative test flights build sovereign capability step by step |
| SynspectiveTokyo, Japan | Miniaturised radar imaging from a small platform |
| Fleet SpaceAdelaide, Australia | Converging satellite communication, seismic sensing and analysis removes field logistics entirely |
| Isar AerospaceMunich, Germany | A first orbital attempt is data, not failure |
| The Exploration CompanyMunich, Germany | A modular reentry vehicle is Europe’s route back to independent cargo return |
| AstroscaleTokyo, Japan | Rendezvous with a tumbling, non-cooperative object is hard relative navigation |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanjay Srikanth NekkantiHyderabad | Founder and CEO, Dhruva Space | Full-stack small satellites (bus, deployers, ground stations); LEAP-1 customer mission | 3 | dhruvaspace.com/about; WikipediaV/S |
| Abhay EgoorHyderabad | CTO, Dhruva Space | Satellite systems | 3 | dhruvaspace.com/aboutS |
| Pawan Kumar ChandanaHyderabad | Co-founder and CEO/CTO, Skyroot Aerospace | Vikram-1, the first Indian private orbital rocket (2026) | 3 | in.linkedin.com/in/pawan-kumar-chandana; globalindian.comV/S |
| Naga Bharath DakaHyderabad | Co-founder and COO, Skyroot Aerospace | Avionics and flight computers | 3 | newkerala.comS |
| Awais AhmedBengaluru | Founder and CEO, Pixxel | Earth-observation payloads and constellation | 3 | linkedin.com/in/awaisahmednaS |
| Kshitij KhandelwalBengaluru / El Segundo | Co-founder and CTO, Pixxel | Hyperspectral payloads | 3 | Wikipedia (Pixxel)S |
Coverage: Approaching threshold (six). Candidate leads: Agnikul Cosmos (Chennai), Bellatrix Aerospace, SAC and URSC ISRO leads.
The Studio's full advisory bench (7 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Pawan Kumar ChandanaHyderabad, India · in reach | Co-founder, Chief Executive and Chief Technology Officer, Skyroot Aerospace | Vikram-S, India’s first privately built rocket, and Vikram-1, which reached orbit in July 2026; previously an ISRO engineer on GSLV Mk-IIIskyroot.in |
| Naga Bharath DakaHyderabad, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Skyroot Aerospace | The Vikram launch-vehicle programme; previously an ISRO engineerskyroot.in |
| Sanjay Srikanth NekkantiHyderabad, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dhruva Space | Full-stack satellites, orbital deployers, ground stations and the P-30 satellite bus; the first Indian company to integrate a satellite directly onto a Falcon 9dhruvaspace.com |
| Abhay EgoorHyderabad, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dhruva Space | Satellite platforms, the LEAP-1 mission and space-grade solar arraysdhruvaspace.com |
| Krishna Teja PenamakuruHyderabad, India · in reach | Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Dhruva Space | Co-built full-stack small satellites, deployers and ground stations, and leads operations for a five-hundred-kilogram class programmedhruvaspace.com |
| Hemendra AryaMumbai, India | Professor, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay; Student Satellite Programme | Satellite systems, guidance and control, student-satellite engineeringaero.iitb.ac.in/satlab |
| Prasanna M. MujumdarMumbai, India | Professor, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay; Student Satellite Programme | Aerospace structures and satellite designaero.iitb.ac.in/satlab |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space systems, satellite engineering, avionics | Satellite engineer, Avionics engineer, Payload engineer | ISRO Scientist/Engineer-SC ₹56,100 basic (Level-10, 7th CPC), take-home about ₹60,000–75,000 a month; private startups ₹6–9 LPA plus ESOPs | ₹10–24 LPA | ISRO, NSIL, Skyroot, Agnikul, Pixxel |
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A11 ISRO RESPOND and STC — core establishment route
- F-A18 (Lepakshi R&D tenancy or startup, confirm)
- F-A1 (space-lab equipment)
- F-A10 IN-SPACe university MoU and facility access
After products exist
- F-B5 IN-SPACe Seed (₹1 Cr), TAF (up to ₹25 Cr), SBaaS and Antariksh VC (₹1,000 Cr) via a KLEF space startup
- F-B1 and DefSpace (military space)
- F-B11 IN-SPACe CANSAT and ISRO challenges
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A11ISRO RESPOND and Space Technology Cells | Project-based R&D grants, fellowships, facility set-up | YES | RESPOND Basket annual (2025 basket published); proposals rolling against the basket | isro.gov.in Sponsored Research; PRL for science topics |
| F-A18AP Space Policy 4.0 (2025–30, APIIC) | Enterprise, MSME and startup incentives (25–45% subsidies; technology-transfer 50% up to ₹1 Cr; deep-tech grants up to ₹1 Cr; seed up to ₹50 lakh equity; startup grant ₹2–15 lakh); Lepakshi Space City for R&D institutions and startups; Tirupati for manufacturing; ₹25,000 Cr investment target | CONDITIONAL | To 2030 | APIIC; AP Space City Corporation |
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A10IN-SPACe Seed Fund and Technology Adoption Fund (TAF) | Seed ₹1 Cr milestone-based; TAF ₹500 Cr envelope, up to ₹25 Cr per project, 60% of cost for startups and MSMEs, 40% for larger industry | Via startup | Rolling; first three TAF NGEs (Astrobase, SatSure, TM2SPACE) selected 2026, Astrobase ₹24.6 Cr | inspace.gov.in single window |
| F-B5IN-SPACe Seed Fund, TAF, SBaaS and Antariksh VC (₹1,000 Cr) | Seed ₹1 Cr; TAF up to ₹25 Cr; VC ₹1,000 Cr | Via startup | Rolling | inspace.gov.in |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B11Challenge prizes: Smart India Hackathon, DRDO Dare to Dream, IN-SPACe CANSAT India, ISRO Robotics Challenge, XPRIZE | Prizes | YES (students) | Annual | Programme sites |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: Georgia Tech SSDL; ISRO/URSC. Specialised overlay for this Studio: ISO 8 cleanroom at least 8 × 6 m, 5 m crane height, TVAC, shaker, clean benches. Anchor: ISRO AIT minima.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 288 |
| Integration & Staging | 48 |
| Digital & Simulation | 66 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 174 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 70 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 66 |
| Clean Assembly Room — ISO Class 8clear 3.6 m | 80 |
| Vibration and Environmental Test Cellclear 4.5 m | 60 |
| Ground Station and Operations Roomclear 3.0 m | 40 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Cleanroom class and cost (ISO 14644)
ISO 8 $250–450 per sq ft; ISO 7 $400–650; ISO 6 $600–950; ISO 5 $1,000–1,800; semiconductor ISO 4 $2,500–7,500; HVAC and filtration are 35–55% of the budget; softwall ISO 7/8 from $100–150 per sq ft. Satellite AIT class is ISO 8. ISRO/URSC AIT guidance: a spacecraft needs a minimum cleanroom of 8 × 6 m, working area 4 × 4 m, 5 m height at the crane hook, a door 3.5 m wide by 4 m high, an airlock of 9 × 5 m, and particle counts twice daily. terrapincg.com; labs-usa.com; ssdl.gatech.edu/facilities; isro.gov.in URSC AIT infrastructure PDF
10. Club: Orbit Club
Studio-specific: Student mission-control shifts on real passes; CanSat and rocketry team for IN-SPACe events; Thermal-vacuum qualification campaign. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acta Astronautica | Elsevier, IAA | Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems | IEEE | IF ~6.6 (2024), Q1 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | IEEE | IF ~16.2, Q1 | partial |
| Advances in Space Research | Elsevier, COSPAR | Q1/Q2 | unverified |
| Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets | AIAA | Q2 | unverified |
| Aerospace Science and Technology | Elsevier | Q1 | unverified |
| CEAS Space Journal | Springer | — | unverified |
Conferences: International Astronautical Congress (annual); IEEE Aerospace Conference; IEEE INDICON; Astronautical Society of India events. Indian venue: ASI events found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC B64G (spacecraft), H04B 7/185 (satcom), G01S (GNSS, navigation), B64G 1/24 (ADCS), H02S and H01L (space power).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: CubeSat bus design, ground-station services, payload testing, IN-SPACe-facilitated projects; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: IN-SPACe Model Rocketry and CAN-7USAT India (applications by 30 April 2026; finals October–November 2026, Kushinagar; 71 teams and about 600 students in 2024–25); AAS CanSat Competition (USA, June 2027); ISRO Robotics Challenge; IAF and IAC student programmes.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
STUDIO 17 OF 17 · QUANTUM, CRYOGENIC & PHOTONIC SYSTEMS
Lattice Studio
STUDIO 17 OF 17 · QUANTUM, CRYOGENIC & PHOTONIC SYSTEMS
Lattice Studio
1. Role in the Missions
Builds toward: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence.
Tasks its products serve: Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory; Send a quantum-secured key and a covert message across a campus link; Keep an airfield and a border post safe from birds, drones and ice; Migrate a fleet to post-quantum security before the deadline; Solve a scheduling problem on a quantum machine from a campus desk; Qualify a flight satellite on campus and send a quantum key from orbit.
2. Products: one team, one complete product
15 flagship systems anchor 75 products in three tiers — 60 component and subsystem learning products and 15 system products — sized to the Studio's 75 teams. A first-year team ships a component-scale product, a second-year team a subsystem product, a third-year team the flagship or its deployment variant; fourth-year students transfer knowledge and mentor.
Flagships: Diamond Magnetometer; Rydberg Receiver; Atomic Clock Module; Photon Key Link; Single-Photon Lidar; Quantum Random Beacon; Quantum Job Gateway; Hybrid Solver; Quantum Error Playground; Cryo Test Stage; Vacuum Chamber Kit; Cryo-CMOS Test Chip; Entangled Source Payload; Single-Photon Ground Receiver; Polarisation Reference.
- Y1 · Diamond Magnetometer — Bench and calibration rig
- Y1 · Diamond Magnetometer — Electronics board and enclosure
- Y2 · Diamond Magnetometer — Firmware and edge stack
- Y2 · Diamond Magnetometer — Data service and operator console
- Y3 · Diamond Magnetometer
3. Equipment, tools, materials, software and compute
Capability, not solutions: every line below is a platform a team must innovate on. Shared classes live in the Fab Labs; the Studio keeps only what is exclusive to it.
Vendors for this Studio's high-value classes (September 2026 vendor study)
Prices are budgetary bands, not quotations; import duty applies to foreign equipment unless DSIR-exempt. Flags: V verified against a primary source; P partially verified.
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| No significant Indian OEM for single-photon detectors or cryostats— | Quantum-computing cloud via Indian access to IBM and AWS | — | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID QuantiqueSwitzerland | Single-photon detectors, QKD | Import | partial |
| Swabian InstrumentsGermany | Time taggers | Import | partial |
| Montana Instruments / BlueforsUSA / Finland | Cryostats | Import | partial |
| Thorlabs via Indian agentsUSA | Lasers and optics | Import | partial |
| Pfeiffer / EdwardsGermany / UK; India | Vacuum pumps and chambers | Import | partial |
| IBM Quantum / AWS BraketUSA | Quantum-computing cloud | Per use | partial |
Additional vendor pool from the Studio map — national: QNu Labs, Bengaluru, QpiAI, Bengaluru, Dimira Technologies (IIT Bombay spin-out), C-DAC, Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics and Hind High Vacuum, Vijayawada and Guntur fabrication cluster; international: Bluefors, Quantum Design Oxford, Montana Instruments, Sumitomo Heavy Industries Cryogenics, Cryomech, Lake Shore Cryotronics; Fab Lab distributors: Robu.in, Element14 India, Mouser India, Tenettech, Keysight India.
What this Studio costs
| What this Studio costs (planning basis, September 2026) | One-time | A year | Per Foundry (4, equal split — an allocation, not a purchase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (0 items) | ₹0.0 L | AMC ₹0.0 L after 2 warranty years | ₹0.0 L |
| Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs (12 lines, quantities for 34 concurrent teams) | ₹6.44 Cr | consumables ₹38.6 L at 6% (precision class) | ₹1.61 Cr |
| Fit-out and infrastructure (benches, power, safety, network, storage; from the Studio plan) | ₹2.50 Cr | — | ₹62.5 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹1.07 Cr | — | ₹26.8 L |
| Software licences (open-source first; commercial education seats) | — | ₹22.0 L | ₹5.5 L / yr |
| Electricity (93 kW installed at 55% diversity, 2,200 h, ₹8/kWh) | — | ₹9.0 L | ₹2.3 L / yr |
| Studio on its own | ₹10.01 Cr | ₹69.6 L | ₹2.50 Cr |
| Share of the Fab Labs (half by the shared lines this Studio draws, half equally across the seventeen; see below) | ₹72.7 L | ₹15.4 L | ₹18.2 L |
| Studio with its Fab Lab share | ₹10.74 Cr | ₹85.1 L | ₹2.68 Cr |
| For reference: the earlier Studio-plan figure, before shared classes moved to the Fab Labs and lines were priced individually | ₹12.40 Cr | — | — |
| Fab Lab share drawn by this Studio | One-time | A year | Share of the lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L / yr | 3% |
| Electronics Fab Lab | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L / yr | 3% |
| Compute and Software Lab | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L / yr | 5% |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L / yr | 3% |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services | ₹2.8 L | ₹3.8 L / yr | 6% |
Studio-exclusive big-ticket equipment (priced individually)
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | Basis and India vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No big-ticket item beyond the Studio register; every high-value class this Studio needs is either on the register below or in a Fab Lab. | |||||
Studio-exclusive kits, instruments and rigs — the priced register (12 hardware lines)
Quantities follow the Studio's concurrency: one set per two concurrent teams for lines under ₹0.5 lakh, one per eight teams for lines under ₹5 lakh, one for anything larger. Unit prices are the midpoint of the quoted band (US$ at ₹84, € at ₹92) plus a 20% landed uplift on imports unless a planning price was set after review.
| Line | Quoted | Unit | Qty | Cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus quantum key distribution link, ID Quantique or QNu Labs classA real secured link with a measured key rate rather than a laboratory demonstration | Rs 1.5–4 Cr | ₹2.00 Cr | 1 | ₹2.00 Cr | planning price set |
| Nitrogen-vacancy magnetometry confocal benchQuantum sensing with spatial resolution, and the Studio’s clearest route to a useful instrument | Rs 1–2.5 Cr | ₹1.50 Cr | 1 | ₹1.50 Cr | planning price set |
| Closed-cycle four-kelvin pulse-tube or Gifford-McMahon cryocooler with compressorCryogen-free cold, chosen deliberately because liquid helium supply in India is scarce and costly | Rs 60 L–1.8 Cr | ₹1.00 Cr | 1 | ₹1.00 Cr | planning price set |
| Entangled-photon source kit, PPKTP or BBO down-conversionEntanglement on demand, and the CHSH violation that proves it | Rs 40 L–1.2 Cr | ₹60.0 L | 1 | ₹60.0 L | planning price set |
| Time-correlated single-photon counting module, PicoQuant classPicosecond timing; the difference between a claim and a measurement | Rs 25–60 L | ₹40.0 L | 1 | ₹40.0 L | planning price set |
| Vacuum stack — scroll, turbomolecular, gauges and chamberThe vacuum discipline every cryogenic and quantum-optical system rests on | Rs 15–40 L | ₹25.0 L | 1 | ₹25.0 L | planning price set |
| Optical tables with active vibration isolationWithout isolation the interferometry does not close; this is not optional furniture | Rs 15–40 L | ₹25.0 L | 1 | ₹25.0 L | planning price set |
| Single-photon avalanche detector modulesThe instrument that makes single photons countable; the foundation of every other product here | Rs 8–20 L each; a coincidence pair with electronics Rs 40–70 L | ₹14.0 L | 1 | ₹14.0 L | band midpoint |
| Optically pumped magnetometer, QuSpin classFemtotesla sensing without cryogenics; the practical path to biomagnetic work with LifeCare | Rs 8–20 L per channel | ₹14.0 L | 1 | ₹14.0 L | band midpoint |
| Open-hardware quantum random number generator reference designsA first quantum product a first-year squad can actually finish and validate | Rs 15,000–80,000 | ₹0.5 L | 17 | ₹8.1 L | band midpoint |
| Open opto-mechanics, printed mounts and kinematic hardwareBench construction at a fraction of catalogue cost, and a real lesson in mechanical stability | Rs 20,000–2,00,000 | ₹1.1 L | 4 | ₹4.4 L | band midpoint |
| Red Pitaya and STEMlab field-programmable boardsCoincidence counting, lock-in detection and time tagging without a commercial instrument | Rs 40,000–1,20,000 | ₹0.8 L | 4 | ₹3.2 L | band midpoint |
Software on the Studio register (costed in the annual software line, open source where stated): Qiskit, Cirq and PennyLane; QuTiP and QuEST; QSim and qkdSim; ARTIQ.
Moved to the Fab Labs and not in this Studio's budget (1 lines, ₹3.0 L if bought here)
| Line the Studio listed | Shared class | Served by | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arduino and Raspberry Pi controllers for temperature, interlocks and sequencing | Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | ₹3.0 L |
4. Benchmarks and Centres of Excellence to join
What to copy for this Studio. NQM's hub–spoke–spike model plus cloud-based quantum-computing access; Delft QuTech's institute-plus-national-lab (TNO) co-structure for hardware productisation.
India
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Quantum Mission T-HubsIISc (computing); IIT Madras with C-DoT (communication); IIT Bombay (sensing and metrology); IIT Delhi (materials and devices) | 2023 (approved 19 April) | DST; ₹6,003.65 crore over eight years (FY2023-24 to FY31); Mission Director Dr J. B. V. Reddy | Hub–spoke–spike model with 152 researchers from 43 institutions; fabrication at IISc, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur | https://dst.gov.inverified |
| Center for Quantum Information, Communication and Computing (CQuICC)IIT Madras | — | IIT Madras | QKD, quantum random-number generation, sensing and metrology | https://quantum.iitm.ac.inverified |
| Raman Research Institute spin-outs: nexAtom and QuSynBengaluru | — | RRI | Precision lasers, single-photon time-taggers; QRNG, single-photon source | —secondary source |
Global
| Centre and host | Year | Established or funded by | Scale and outputs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuTech (with TNO); Bristol Centre for Quantum Photonics; Waterloo IQC; NUS CQTNetherlands, UK, Canada, Singapore | — | — | — | —unverified |
| MIT and Harvard; ETH Zurich; University of TokyoUSA, Switzerland, Japan | — | — | Single-photon and trapped-ion systems | —unverified |
National CoE families to join:
- Amaravati Quantum Valley — Foundation stone 7 February 2026 at Uddandarayunipalem; IBM Quantum System Two with a Heron processor (156 qubits per IBM; some launch reports say 133 — unsettled). The one anchor cluster local to KLEF. verify
- NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs (25 hubs) — TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad (autonomous navigation, UAV, rover); IHFC, IIT Delhi (cobotics, humanoids); iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar (agriculture and water); I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune; IITM Pravartak (AI). Nearest: IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub. verified
- DRDO Industry–Academia Centres of Excellence (15 established, 82 verticals) — SDR at IIT Kanpur; Emerging RF Technologies at IIT Roorkee; Compound Semiconductors at IIT Bombay; Cryptography & Information Security at IIT Kharagpur; Omni-mobility and AI at IIT Jodhpur. Nearest: University of Hyderabad DIA-CoE. verified
5. Organisations and partnership routes
Public partnership routes only; accessed 16 September 2026. Flags: V route corroborated; P publicly known route, URL to confirm; G geographic or relevance inference. In reach: Vijayawada–Amaravati–Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Sri City–Tirupati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru.
| Organisation and location | Category | What it does for the Studio | Public partnership route |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM (quantum)Amaravati (adjacent), Bengaluru · in reach | GCC / MNC centre | Anchoring the Amaravati Quantum Valley with an IBM Quantum System Two | IBM Quantum Network academic routecorroborated |
| QpiAIBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | Quantum hardware; 25-qubit computer | Company pagecorroborated |
| QNu LabsBengaluru · in reach | Indian startup or product company | QKD, QRNG, PQC; NQM-backed | Company pagecorroborated |
| QuanastraDelhi | Indian startup or product company | Cryogenics | Company pagecorroborated |
| Dimira, QuPrayog, PrenishqIndia | Indian startup or product company | NQM-selected quantum startups | Company pagescorroborated |
| National Quantum Mission and Amaravati Quantum ValleyUddandarayunipalem, Thulluru mandal (adjacent) · in reach | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Foundation stone 7 February 2026; 50 acres; IBM and TCS Quantum Cloud Services; IBM–TCS Quantum Innovation Centre; MoUs with nine industry partners; qubit spec unsettled (156-qubit Heron per IBM May 2025 vs 133 in launch coverage), commissioning targeted September 2026 | NQM and state routescorroborated |
| I-HUB Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune (NM-ICPS)Pune | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Quantum hub supporting 14 startups | iserpune I-Hub QTFcorroborated |
| C-DAC, C-DOT, DRDO, BARCNational | Government, PSU, national lab or mission | Quantum-hardware ecosystem (AP round-table, March 2026) | Institutional MoUscorroborated |
| IBM Quantum, Microsoft Azure Quantum, Google Quantum AI, Keysight quantum control, AnsysGlobal | Global company or institution | Quantum access and control | Academic programmesconfirm URL |
The Studio's full industry map
GCCs and MNC engineering centres in India (5)
| IBM QuantumBengaluru and Amaravati | The IBM Quantum Network and the System Two at Amaravati Quantum Valley |
| TCS ResearchHyderabad and Pune | Quantum computing practice and the Amaravati Quantum Valley build |
| C-DACPune and Hyderabad | QSim, PARAM systems and national quantum and high-performance computing |
| Bosch, Applied Materials and Coherent IndiaBengaluru | Photonics, precision optics and vacuum systems engineering |
| Fujitsu Research of IndiaBengaluru | Quantum computing through a diamond-spin collaboration with TU Delft, photonics, fifth and sixth generation communication, processor design and high-performance computinggrew from a target of fifty people to about four hundred, including roughly ninety graduates recruited from the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science |
Indian startups and product companies (7)
| QNu LabsBengaluru | Quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation; a 500 km testbed and an army network |
| QpiAIBengaluru | Full-stack quantum computing; the 25-qubit QpiAI-Indus launched April 2025 |
| Dimira TechnologiesMumbai | Indigenous cryogenic cables, selected under the National Quantum Mission |
| BosonQ PsiBhilai | Quantum and quantum-inspired simulation software |
| Quan2D TechnologiesBengaluru | Fabricating the detector that quantum photonics depends on, inside India |
| QuPrayogIndia | Quantum metrology as an instrumentation business rather than a physics programme |
| PrenishqDelhi | Precision laser hardware is an import-substitution opportunity |
Global companies and institutions (10)
| PsiQuantumPalo Alto, United States | Manufacturing qubits in a commercial silicon foundry is a bet on manufacturability over physics elegance |
| Silicon Quantum ComputingSydney, Australia | An in-house atomic fabrication line cut turnaround from about forty weeks to one |
| DiraqSydney, Australia | Using the existing semiconductor supply chain is a manufacturability-first strategy |
| IQMEspoo, Finland | Building the whole stack in one region is a sovereignty argument as much as a technical one |
| PasqalParis, France | Atoms held in optical tweezers is a different modality with different engineering |
| QuandelaParis, France | Building the hardest component, the single-photon source, in-house |
| Alice & BobParis, France | Engineering a qubit that suppresses one error type by design cuts correction overhead |
| Oxford Quantum CircuitsReading, United Kingdom | A novel qubit geometry is a route around a crowded design space |
| BlueforsHelsinki, Finland | Selling the picks and shovels: every quantum computer needs the refrigerator |
| Single QuantumDelft, Netherlands | Specialising in one critical enabling component is a durable business |
6. Advisors
Verified in the September 2026 advisor study (accessed 16 September 2026). Flags: V official or organisation page; S secondary source; U unverified. Public professional profiles only; no personal contact details.
| Name and city | Role and organisation | Why relevant | Missions | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunil GuptaBengaluru | Co-founder and CEO, QNu Labs | Quantum-secured communication products | 1, 2 | qnulabs.com/about-usV |
| Srinivasa Rao AluriBengaluru | Co-founder and Chairman, QNu Labs | Quantum cryptography company | 1, 2 | qnulabs.com/about-usV |
| Prof. Anil PrabhakarChennai | Professor, IIT Madras (optoelectronics); Technical Advisor, QNu Labs | Quantum photonics | 1, 2 | qnulabs.com/about-usS |
Coverage: Fewer than eight verified. Candidate leads: RRI and IISc quantum groups (Bengaluru), TIFR Hyderabad, C-DAC quantum team, National Quantum Mission hub leads, TCS and IBM quantum India.
The Studio's full advisory bench (14 named; to be verified to the same standard)
| Name and location | Role | What they have shipped or led |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Harrick VinHyderabad and Pune, India · in reach | Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, TCS | The Amaravati Quantum Valley build with IBM and the Government of Andhra Pradeshtcs.com |
| Manjunath R. VenkateshBengaluru, India · in reach | Vice President and General Manager for Quantum Hardware and Research, QpiAI | Co-led India’s first full-stack twenty-five-qubit superconducting quantum computer, launched in April 2025 under the National Quantum Mission; doctorate in microelectronics from TU Delftlinkedin.com/in/manjunathrv2 |
| Vamsi KrishnaBengaluru, India · in reach | Vice President for Digital Hardware, QpiAI | Built a quantum error-correction decoder running below one microsecond of latencythewire.in |
| Vivek ShenoyBengaluru, India · in reach | Chief Technology Officer, QNu Labs | Leads quantum key distribution and random number generation hardwarethequantuminsider.com |
| Sunil GuptaBengaluru, India | Co-founder and Chief Executive, QNu Labs | Quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation shipped commercially; a 500 km QKD testbed and a network with the Indian Army’s Southern Commandqnulabs.com |
| Nagendra NagarajaBengaluru, India | Founder and Chief Executive, QpiAI | QpiAI-Indus, a 25-qubit full-stack quantum computer launched 14 April 2025qpiai.tech |
| Jay GambettaYorktown Heights, United States | Vice-President, IBM Quantum | IBM Quantum System Two and the Heron processor family, including the 156-qubit system destined for Amaravatiibm.com/quantum |
| Dimira Technologies leadershipMumbai, India | Indigenous cryogenic cable manufacture, an IIT Bombay spin-out | Cryogenic cabling selected under the National Quantum Missiondimiratech.com |
| Prof. R. VijayaraghavanMumbai, India | Associate Professor, TIFR Mumbai; lead, Quantum Measurement and Control Laboratory | Superconducting qubits; built India’s first six-qubit superconducting quantum computertifr.res.in/~quantro |
| Prof. Anil PrabhakarChennai, India | Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras; Project Director, the IITM and C-DOT quantum communication hub | Fibre quantum key distribution at national scale; co-founder of QNu Labsee.iitm.ac.in |
| Prof. Urbasi SinhaBengaluru, India | Professor, Raman Research Institute; Quantum Information and Computing laboratory | Quantum optics, satellite quantum communication under QuEST, and the qkdSim toolkitrri.res.in |
| Prof. Baladitya SuriBengaluru, India | Assistant Professor, Instrumentation and Applied Physics, IISc | Superconducting qubits and quantum measurement at the quantum computing Thematic Hubiap.iisc.ac.in |
| Prof. Umakant D. RapolPune, India | Professor, Physics, IISER Pune; nodal officer, I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation | Atomic clocks, atom interferometry and quantum sensingiiserpune.ac.in |
| Prof. Vibhor SinghBengaluru, India | Associate Professor, Physics, IISc | Superconducting circuits, transmons and cavity optomechanicsphysics.iisc.ac.in |
7. Skills, roles and pay
From the September 2026 skills-to-pay study (sources accessed 15–17 September 2026). Product-company, GCC and deep-tech roles pay two to five times the service-company campus offer for the same graduating class; the differentiator is a demonstrated artefact of the type the job description names.
Skill clusters from the main map
| Cluster | Roles | Fresher | Three years | Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI | ML engineer, Computer-vision engineer, Edge-AI engineer | AI/ML ₹6–8 LPA (₹10–12 top firms); CV ₹5–8 LPA; GenAI/LLM ₹8–12 LPA | ₹12–30 LPA | Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, GCCs, Startups |
| Photonics and quantum technologies | Photonics engineer, Quantum engineer, Research staff | ₹5–12 LPA | ₹10–20 LPA | QNu Labs, TCS, DRDO, IISc and IITs, Startups |
| Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) | Associate product manager, Product or business analyst, Techno-commercial or sales engineer, Programme manager | ₹4–12 LPA | ₹10–25 LPA | Hardware companies, GCCs, Deep-tech startups |
| GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs | Applied AI engineer, Agent engineer, AI product engineer | ₹8–12 LPA; ₹12–20 at top firms | ₹18–40 LPA | Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sarvam AI, Krutrim |
8. Funding: establishment, then products
Codes refer to the catalogue in Part H (A = establishment, B = after products exist). Eligibility for a private deemed university is stated per source there; accessed 16 September 2026.
Establishment sources
- F-A13 NQM teaching-lab call and T-Hub consortium — core route
- F-A1 (cryogenics and photonics equipment)
- F-A3
- In-kind: IBM Quantum Network, AWS Braket and Azure Quantum credits
After products exist
- NQM rolling startup call via a T-Hub
- F-B1 and ADITI (quantum is a named ADITI deep-tech area)
- F-B10
- F-B13
| Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A13National Quantum Mission — undergraduate teaching laboratories and T-Hub consortia | Per-lab grants; NQM outlay ₹6,003.65 Cr over eight years (2023-24 to 2030-31), Cabinet-approved 19 April 2023 | YES | Teaching-lab call closed 23 July 2025; watch the 2026 reissue | onlinedst.gov.in; dst.gov.in calls |
| F-A1DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) | Level-A ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B ₹3 Cr; Level-III up to ₹20 Cr; five years | YES | Annual; FIST-2025 closed 15 May 2025 and FIST-2026 closed in May 2026; FIST-2027 expected April–May 2027 (inferred) | DST e-PMS, onlinedst.gov.in |
| F-A3ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) | Up to ₹5 Cr for up to five years (3+1+1) | YES | The ARG and MATRICS-ARG 2026 calls closed on 10 June 2026; the 2027 calls are expected by June 2027 (inferred) | anrfonline.in |
| F-B1iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech) | As named; grant-in-aid in milestone tranches, no equity | Via startup or academia | DISC 12 and ADITI 2.0 launched 2024-25; new editions expected 2026 | idex.gov.in challenges |
| F-B10Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund | Startup India Seed up to ₹20 lakh grant or ₹50 lakh convertible; NIDHI-PRAYAS about ₹10 lakh prototype grants | Via startup | Rolling | DPIIT; incubators |
| F-B13International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic calls (for example India–Finland Joint Innovation Call by 28 August 2026) | Respective agency portals |
9. Space, layout and logistics
Benchmark layout: LBNL and SLAC cryogenic EHS; ANSI Z136. Specialised overlay for this Studio: Cryogenic lab at 6 ACH with O₂ monitoring and a laser controlled area. Anchor: O₂ alarm at 19.5%; interlocked laser area.
Provision in every Studio: Ideate and design (whiteboard studio, CAD pods); Architect and review (gate room with wall display); Build (benches by work class); Integrate (product bays with power, air, network); Test (instrument cell; range, arena or field access); Showcase and market release (demo wall, customer-gate room); Studio office (faculty mentor, industry advisor, manager); Stores and asset cage; Safety, PPE and first aid; Quiet room and club corner. Planning norm: 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general floor, a baseline general Studio of 6,000–9,000 sq ft, and specialised zones budgeted separately; quiz-gated access, a buddy rule after hours and technicians in hazardous zones.
Recommended zone areas at about 90 concurrent users
| Zone | Area guidance (sourced synthesis) |
|---|---|
| Ideation and design (CAD, whiteboards, meeting) | ~15 sq ft per user → ~1,350 sq ft (125 m²) |
| Electronics EPA bench zone (ANSI/ESD S20.20) | 20+ benches → 1,000–1,500 sq ft |
| Assembly and integration (team bays, one product per team) | 1,500–2,500 sq ft |
| Light fabrication (3D print, laser, hand tools) | 800–1,200 sq ft |
| Test and measurement | 500–800 sq ft |
| Showcase and demo | 400–600 sq ft |
| Stores, consumables and hazardous store | 400–600 sq ft |
| Staff office and induction | 300–500 sq ft |
| Baseline general Studio total | 6,000–9,000 sq ft (560–840 m²), the Georgia Tech (7,000) to Stanford (9,000) band |
Zones and specialist facilities in the current Studio model
| Zone or specialist facility | m² |
|---|---|
| Build Floor | 173 |
| Integration & Staging | 29 |
| Digital & Simulation | 40 |
| Test & Measurement Cell | 180 |
| Materials Store & Consumables | 42 |
| Safety, Plant & Services | 52 |
| Optical and Photonics Laboratoryclear 3.2 m | 90 |
| Cryogenic and Vacuum Bayclear 4.0 m | 55 |
| Quantum Measurement Roomclear 3.0 m | 45 |
Safety standards this Studio must be built to
Cryogenic lab safety
Oxygen-deficient atmosphere below 19.5% (OSHA, EIGA Doc 44); at least six air changes an hour in use and storage areas; liquid nitrogen expands about 696× (1 L to 0.65 m³); 3 L of LN₂ in a 12 × 12 × 8 ft room drops O₂ below 19.5%; O₂ monitors alarm at 19.5% local and 18% facility; helium sensors at the ceiling, nitrogen and argon at breathing height. ehs.unl.edu; eiga.eu DOC044; sanfordlab.org
Laser lab safety (ANSI Z136.1-2022)
Class 3B (5–500 mW) and Class 4 (over 500 mW) need a Laser Controlled Area with interlocked entry controls, a nominal hazard zone or whole-room designation, Z535 danger signage and a lit Class 4 warning, OD-rated eyewear (one OD unit is 10× attenuation), barriers, written SOPs and restricted access. blog.ansi.org; ehs.yale.edu
10. Club: Quantum Quorum
Studio-specific: Campus-to-campus QKD link night; Qiskit and IBM Quantum challenge cohort; Cryogenics safety and vacuum practicum. Common to every club: Studio Hackathon (48 hours, Mission tasks as problem statements); Recruiters and HR Conclave (one per Studio, with the GCC map); Techno-Fest with industry experts from the Studio's organisation map; Industry Training Week: the Studio teaches practitioners on its equipment and stack; Open House and Demo Day at each gate; Journal and Patent Clinic (monthly); School outreach and inter-college challenge; Alumni and sponsor evening.
11. Outcomes and targets
Targets follow the September 2026 outcomes study: about one paper per 12–15 teams, one filing per 15–20 teams, 3–8 grants over three years, ₹15–75 lakh consultancy at maturity, and 60–70% of teams at TRL 3–4, 20–30% at TRL 5, the top 5–10% at TRL 6–7. Flags: V verified; P partially verified; U unverified.
Journals
| Journal | Publisher | Impact factor, quartile, APC | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| npj Quantum Information | Nature Portfolio | IF 8.3 (2024), Q1; OA APC ~US$4,090 | verified |
| IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering | IEEE | IF 4.6 (2024), Q1; gold OA APC US$1,995 | verified |
| Quantum Science and Technology | IOP | Q1 | unverified |
| Quantum | Open journal | Q1 | unverified |
| Physical Review Applied | APS | Q1 | unverified |
| IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics | IEEE | IF 5.1 (2024), Q1 | verified |
| Optica | Optica Publishing | Q1 | unverified |
Conferences: IEEE Quantum Week (QCE); CLEO; IEEE INDICON; National Quantum Mission workshops. Indian venue: No dedicated Indian quantum student venue clearly found.
Patent classes and precedent: IPC G06N 10 (quantum computing), H04L 9 (quantum cryptography, QKD), G01N and G01R (quantum sensing), F25 (cryogenics), G02F and G02B (photonics).
Consultancy and sponsored projects: Quantum-sensor characterisation, cryogenic and vacuum system design, QKD testbeds; National Quantum Mission-linked projects; no fee schedule found.
Competitions: National Quantum Mission challenges; IBM and Qiskit hackathons; Smart India Hackathon (quantum); no dedicated Indian quantum student competition found.
12. The three-year journey, and year four
Part D · The Fab Labs
Five shared labs on the two sports-complex floors and the Heavy Fab Lab in the facility KL University already operates — common processes, equipment, vendors, space and logistics, sized for the users at any one time
How the Fab Labs were identified, and why one of them is not in this building
Every one of the 482 equipment lines the seventeen Studios listed was classified: a line whose class recurs across Studios (an oscilloscope, a printer farm, a GPU seat, a chamber) is a shared class and is bought once in a Fab Lab; a line only one domain needs stays in its Studio. 25 shared classes emerged, and they cluster into six labs by the skills and hazards they carry — five in the sports complex and the heavy one on the main campus. The hardware lines moved out of the Studio registers are worth ₹4.94 Cr at Studio prices; the five labs cost ₹21.91 Cr because they buy the pools and services no Studio listed, sized for the whole floor and fitted out — a wider scope, not a saving. Sizing for the whole floor is what stops a shared lab becoming a queue.
| Shared class | Fab Lab | Studios that listed it | Lines | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | Aquifer, Dynamo, Forge, Freight, Frontline, Habitat, Harvest, Lattice, Tide, Vahana, Wafer, Yantra | 15 | ₹91.5 L |
| ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Compute and Software Lab | Dynamo, Forge, Harvest, Helix, Traction | 6 | ₹3.4 L |
| FPGA development boards | Compute and Software Lab | Wafer | 2 | ₹8.1 L |
| ROS / robotics middleware | Compute and Software Lab | Vahana | 1 | ₹0.0 L |
| Cloud & container platform | Compute and Software Lab | Habitat | 1 | ₹0.0 L |
| GPU workstation | Compute and Software Lab | Yantra | 1 | ₹8.0 L |
| Software-defined radio | Electronics Fab Lab | Astra, Spectra, Vahana | 5 | ₹32.5 L |
| Oscilloscope | Electronics Fab Lab | Dynamo, Traction, Wafer | 3 | ₹67.2 L |
| Spectrum / signal analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | Spectra | 2 | ₹7.5 L |
| Power analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | Habitat, Traction | 2 | ₹53.1 L |
| Vector network analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | Spectra | 1 | ₹16.5 L |
| PCB prototyping | Electronics Fab Lab | Wafer | 1 | ₹9.1 L |
| Multimeter / bench meter | Electronics Fab Lab | Wafer | 1 | ₹22.0 L |
| Electronic load | Electronics Fab Lab | Dynamo | 1 | ₹5.3 L |
| Welding & fabrication | Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | Forge, Traction | 2 | ₹3.0 L |
| Laser cutter / CNC router | Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | Forge | 1 | ₹5.5 L |
| 3D printers (FDM / resin) | Mechanical Fab Lab | Forge | 2 | ₹26.0 L |
| Robot arms (collaborative) | Mechanical Fab Lab | Forge, Freight | 2 | ₹35.5 L |
| GNSS / RTK positioning | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Frontline, Habitat, Harvest, Vahana | 4 | ₹13.3 L |
| LiDAR | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Vahana, Yantra | 3 | ₹17.4 L |
| Photogrammetry & survey | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Frontline, Habitat | 3 | ₹14.7 L |
| Cameras & machine vision | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Freight, Vahana | 2 | ₹16.0 L |
| Battery cyclers & cell testers | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Dynamo, Traction | 2 | ₹22.5 L |
| Environmental / thermal chamber | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Wafer | 1 | ₹8.0 L |
| Motor & drive test rigs | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Traction | 1 | ₹7.9 L |
Two counts appear in this document: hardware lines moved to a lab pool (priced above) and software licence lines pooled in the Compute lab; they are typed separately and never added.
Coverage: every shared class has a purchased pool in its destination lab
| Shared class | Lab | Pool item and use | Qty | Lines | Studios |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Compute and Software Lab | Edge boardsbench pool; units embedded in a field prototype are consumables in the task budget | 100 | 15 | Aquifer, Dynamo, Forge, Freight, Frontline, Habitat, Harvest, Lattice, Tide, Vahana, Wafer, Yantra |
| ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Compute and Software Lab | Microcontroller kitsbench pool; units embedded in a field prototype are consumables in the task budget | 300 | 6 | Dynamo, Forge, Harvest, Helix, Traction |
| FPGA development boards | Compute and Software Lab | FPGA development boardsbench pool; units embedded in a field prototype are consumables in the task budget | 40 | 2 | Wafer |
| ROS / robotics middleware | Compute and Software Lab | ROS 2, Python and ML stack, Docker and Kubernetes, QGISbench pool, booked by session | 1 | 1 | Vahana |
| Cloud & container platform | Compute and Software Lab | Cloud creditsbench pool, booked by session | 1 | 1 | Habitat |
| GPU workstation | Compute and Software Lab | GPU workstationsbench pool, booked by session | 40 | 1 | Yantra |
| Software-defined radio | Electronics Fab Lab | Software-defined radio poolbench pool; units embedded in a field prototype are consumables in the task budget | 1 | 5 | Astra, Spectra, Vahana |
| Oscilloscope | Electronics Fab Lab | Bench oscilloscopes, 4-channel 100–350 MHzbench pool, booked by session | 24 | 3 | Dynamo, Traction, Wafer |
| Spectrum / signal analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | Spectrum analysersbench pool, booked by session | 6 | 2 | Spectra |
| Power analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | Power analysersbench pool, booked by session | 4 | 2 | Habitat, Traction |
| Vector network analyser | Electronics Fab Lab | Vector network analysers, education 2–4 portbench pool, booked by session | 8 | 1 | Spectra |
| PCB prototyping | Electronics Fab Lab | PCB prototyping millbench pool, booked by session | 2 | 1 | Wafer |
| Multimeter / bench meter | Electronics Fab Lab | Bench multimetersbench pool, booked by session | 12 | 1 | Wafer |
| Electronic load | Electronics Fab Lab | Bench DC supplies and electronic loadsbench pool, booked by session | 24 | 1 | Dynamo |
| Welding & fabrication | Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | Welding: MIG, TIG, spotbench pool, booked by session | 4 | 2 | Forge, Traction |
| Laser cutter / CNC router | Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | CNC router (desktop) and mid-size VMCbench pool, booked by session | 2 | 1 | Forge |
| 3D printers (FDM / resin) | Mechanical Fab Lab | FDM 3D printersbench pool, booked by session | 24 | 2 | Forge |
| Robot arms (collaborative) | Mechanical Fab Lab | Collaborative robot arm cellsbench pool, booked by session | 3 | 2 | Forge, Freight |
| GNSS / RTK positioning | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Perception sensor poolbench pool, booked by session | 1 | 4 | Frontline, Habitat, Harvest, Vahana |
| LiDAR | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Perception sensor poolbench pool, booked by session | 1 | 3 | Vahana, Yantra |
| Photogrammetry & survey | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Survey kitbench pool, booked by session | 1 | 3 | Frontline, Habitat |
| Cameras & machine vision | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Perception sensor poolbench pool, booked by session | 1 | 2 | Freight, Vahana |
| Battery cyclers & cell testers | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Battery cell cyclers and a vented abuse cabinetbench pool, booked by session | 2 | 2 | Dynamo, Traction |
| Environmental / thermal chamber | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Environmental chamberbench pool, booked by session | 1 | 1 | Wafer |
| Motor & drive test rigs | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | Small motor dynamometerbench pool, booked by session | 1 | 1 | Traction |
Closure test: every removed Studio line maps to a purchased pool with a quantity against concurrent demand (25 of 25 classes covered); a line whose class has no pool stays in its Studio — industrial PLC and I/O kits stay with Freight, deployable inertial and gimbal hardware with Vahana, and calibration artefacts sit in the Metrology lab apart from the bench DMM. Class coverage is a taxonomy check; the booking capacity of each pool is set by the machine-hour plan of the lab manager, and a pool item embedded in a field prototype is consumed, not shared.
Published sizing and planning guidance
| Source | Guidance | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Fab Foundation, Getting Started | A one-of-each-machine Fab Lab is 1,500 sq ft (140 m²); the Chicago MSI reference lab, with doubled machines for 20–30 concurrent users, is 1,900 sq ft (177 m²); the ideal footprint is 18 × 20 m (360 m²). Capital equipment $25–65k, consumables $15–40k a year (US); Fab Foundation UK cites £30–80k capital and £10–25k consumables. | fabfoundation.org/getting-started; fabfoundationuk.orgverified |
| MIT K-12 Maker Design Guide | 60 sq ft per student overall; about 25 sq ft per student of open work and fabrication area (a K-12 context, so conservative for a university). | k12maker.mit.edu/design-guide.htmlverified |
| HDR teaching-lab planning (ASEE-aligned) | 40–80 sq ft per student station depending on discipline. | hdrinc.comcorroborated |
| University comparators | UW-Madison Grainger Design Innovation Lab 25,000 sq ft; RIT SHED 120,000 sq ft (whole building); UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute 24,000 sq ft over four floors serving 1,200 users a semester; Cleveland Public TechCentral 7,000 sq ft. | edtechmagazine.com; solidprofessor.comcorroborated |
| AICTE IDEA Lab Manual (2021) | Total project cost about ₹1.1 Cr: non-recurring ₹80 lakh (equipment, tools, consumables) plus recurring ₹30 lakh (events over two years); AICTE up to 50% (₹55 lakh); space 3,000 sq ft minimum (2,000 lab plus 1,000 activities), 6,000 sq ft ideal; 24×7 access; institution contributes at least 50%, with weightage for industry co-funding. | aicte-india.org; institution IDEA Lab pagescorroborated |
| Concurrency synthesis for KLEF | About 2,000 students on the floor at once across 17 Studios and 5 Fab Labs is roughly 90 concurrent users per facility. Plan 55–75 sq ft (5–7 m²) per concurrent user of general Studio floor, more for specialised zones; that is 110,000–150,000 sq ft of general programme space plus separately budgeted specialised allocations. | Synthesis of the sources abovecorroborated |
Documented comparable facilities
| Facility | Area | Zones | Concurrency | Staffing | Access and safety | Hours | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech Flowers Invention StudioAtlanta, USA | ~7,000 sq ft, 500+ tools | 3D-print wall, laser and waterjet, wood shop, metal forming, electronics benches, sewing, lounge and showcase | High; TechMade serves 1,200+ users a semester | About 160 trained student Prototyping Instructors giving three hours a week for 24/7 access; a director | Training for all users; free to all students | Mon–Thu 10:00–19:00, Fri 10:00–17:00, weekends on request | me.gatech.edu; techmade.gatech.eduverified |
| Stanford Product Realization LabStanford, USA | 9,000 sq ft in six areas plus AMPS rapid prototyping | Machining, woodworking, foundry, welding, plastics, rapid prototyping | More than 1,000 students a year | Graduate TAs and course assistants, four faculty, two admin | Online safety quiz plus 45-minute in-person orientation; closed-toe shoes; WebShop scheduling | Three four-hour sessions a day | making.stanford.edu; productrealization.stanford.eduverified |
| TU Delft Dream Hall (D:DREAM)Delft, Netherlands | Not published | Up to seven resident Dream Teams with own office and workshop, up to three external teams, 13 in all | Team-based, one complete product per team per year | Hall manager, a craftsman, student assistants | Team model; the closest analogue to one team one product | Year-round | tudelft.nl/en/dreamhallverified |
| IIT Madras Centre for InnovationChennai | Not published; Sudha & Shankar Innovation Hub, alumni-funded | Dedicated space per club and competition team; 13–14 clubs, 6–8 teams | About 1,000 students built 60 projects for Open House 2025 | Student-run finances and staffing | Student-run, 24×7 | 24×7 | cfi.iitm.ac.inverified |
| IIT Bombay Tinkerers' LaboratoryMumbai | Not published; IIT Hyderabad TL 1,600 sq ft (2018); IIT Jodhpur ARTL 3,040 sq ft (2025) | CNC, 3D printers, lathe, milling, drill, electronics | 400+ projects, 1,800+ course projects, ~1,500 students a week, 2,000+ projects (2024) | Student-run, alumni-funded (Class of 1975), guided by Prof. Ramesh Singh | ID mandatory, floor-restricted access; new TL inaugurated January 2026 | 24×7 | makerbhavanfoundation.orgverified |
| IIT Kharagpur CoEAMTKharagpur | 40,000 sq ft industrial-grade shed | Specialty materials, design and automation, additive manufacturing, Industry 4.0 | Industry and MSME access | MHI plus industry consortium; Phase I ₹52.78 Cr, Phase II ₹12.48 Cr | Industrial-grade access | Working hours | coeamt.iitkgp.ac.inverified |
| TiHAN, IIT HyderabadHyderabad | 2-acre testbed | Drone runways and landing, hangar, ground control, telemetry, SIL/MIL/HIL/VIL simulation, test tracks, smart poles, rain simulators, V2X and 5G, anti-drone; NABL ISO 17025 eVTOL propulsion lab (0.1–70 kgf); DGCA-compliant vertiport | Testbed | NM-ICPS hub staff | DGCA-compliant | Working hours | tihan.iith.ac.inverified |
| Georgia Tech Space Systems Design LabAtlanta, USA | 400 sq ft ISO 8 cleanroom plus 12 sq ft ISO 7 benches, TVAC, 20 sq ft shaker, 540 sq ft mission control | Clean bench, thermal-vacuum (−10 to +70 °C; 8 cu ft chamber to 10⁻⁶ torr), shaker, mission control | Annual CubeSat | Faculty and student teams | Cleanroom gowning | Working hours plus operations shifts | ssdl.gatech.edu/facilitiesverified |
| IIT Delhi CARE and CRF chambersNew Delhi | Anechoic chambers | Antenna measurement to 20 GHz; device characterisation to 110 GHz; far-field 0.5–18 GHz at 2 m | Booked facility | Facility staff | Booking | Working hours | care.iitd.ac.in; crf.iitd.ac.inverified |
| IIT Delhi CARTNew Delhi | Not public | Battery cell, module and pack testing; BMS; charging infrastructure (est. May 2019) | — | — | — | — | cart.iitd.ac.inunverified |
| DBT-ICT Centre for Energy BiosciencesICT Mumbai | About $10 million build | Chromatographic reactors (packed bed, EBA, FBA, SMB), pilot and production plants; 50+ PhD scholars | Research and scale-up | Faculty and scholars | Wet-lab protocols | Working hours | ictmumbai.edu.inverified |
Gaps: No published layout or floor plan could be found for ARTPARK ARTGarage, NISE Gurugram test labs, C-DAC ChipIN, MIT Hobby Shop and Fab Lab, Olin College, the IIT Bombay CEN and IISc CeNSE student cleanroom classes, the IIT Kanpur drone arena or CIAB; these need direct data requests or campus visits.
Operating model
Intake and safety induction
Stanford PRL: online safety quiz plus 45-minute in-person orientation before any work; Georgia Tech: training for all users; IIT Bombay TL: ID and floor restriction. KLEF: mandatory induction and quiz before badge activation.
Tool-training tiers
Georgia Tech Prototyping Instructors are trained per tool and certify others; Stanford tiers through course assistants. KLEF: green (unrestricted safe tools), amber (trained and certified power tools), red (staff-only or buddy-required high-hazard machines).
Booking and job tickets
Stanford WebShop scheduling; RIT and Jacobs use reservation apps and tiered passes ($40–225 a semester). KLEF: a campus-wide booking and job-ticket system for machine reservations, bureau jobs (CNC, PCB) and consumable checkout.
Student-instructor programmes
Georgia Tech: about 160 volunteers, three hours a week for 24/7 access; Stanford: TAs and course assistants; IIT Madras: club structure; TU Delft: team model. Volunteer-for-access is the most scalable staffing lever for 6,500 students.
Stores, hazardous materials, waste, after-hours
AICTE IDEA Labs mandate stores and safety equipment; NFPA 30 flammable cabinets; a segregated hazardous store; a buddy rule for after-hours high-hazard work (MIT.nano's 24/7 experienced-user rule); ESD protected areas for electronics; ISO 14644 gowning and airlock protocols for cleanrooms.
Technician-to-user ratio
The professional core is deliberately thin: Stanford runs 1,000+ users on four faculty, two admin and TAs; Georgia Tech on ~160 volunteers and a director. KLEF: one professional technician or manager per facility (22 in all), 8–12 trained student instructors per Studio, at least one trained instructor per 15–20 active users in open hours, and dedicated safety officers for hazmat, laser, cryo, HV and bio.
Procurement guidance for a private deemed university
GeM eligibility
GeM is a marketplace for central and state ministries and departments, CPSUs and SPSUs, autonomous institutions and local bodies; buyer accounts need a gov.in or nic.in email, and only government bodies can register as buyers. A private deemed university generally cannot buy on GeM; use it for price benchmarking and confirm whether any government-funded centre at KLEF qualifies as an autonomous body. verified
Customs duty and DSIR-PFRI
Register under the DSIR Public Funded Research Institution scheme for customs-duty exemption and the concessional 5% rate on scientific instruments, apparatus, equipment and spares (Notification 51/96-Cus per CBIC Circular 28/2004-Cus) — the single biggest saving on imports; register before large import orders. verified
IGST on imports
Standard imports attract basic customs duty plus IGST (effective 15–30%); the DSIR concession reduces the rate to 5% and can waive BCD, subject to an essentiality or registration certificate and an exclusive-research-use declaration. verified
L1 tender versus proprietary-article certificate
Where GFR applies (grant-funded buys), single-source procurement is allowed under GFR 2017 Rule 166 (Single Tender Enquiry) with a PAC — where only a particular firm manufactures the goods, or for standardisation and compatibility on the advice of a competent technical expert; document price reasonableness under Rule 149(vii). For KLEF's own funds its purchase manual governs; a PAC and technical-justification committee is best practice. verified
AMC norms
Budget 5–12% of capital cost a year for comprehensive post-warranty AMC on high-value instruments; negotiate three-to-five-year AMC at purchase. partial
Calibration cadence (NABL)
Annual NABL-traceable calibration for metrology and test instruments; salt-fog and environmental chambers and UTMs typically annual; scopes and VNAs annual through OEM India service. partial
Safety certification
BIS (IS) marking for electrical safety; CE for imported equipment; hazardous-store compliance for chemicals. partial
Academic pricing
Instrument OEM education discounts are typically 10–30% off list; software academic pricing undercuts commercial by 80–95%; refurbished GPU servers run 50–60% below new. partial
Software licensing map
| Tier or package | Terms and typical 2026 academic cost |
|---|---|
| Free for academia (₹0) | KiCad, ROS 2, GNU Radio, GMAT, PyTorch, JAX, MuJoCo, CARLA, NVIDIA Isaac Sim (free for individuals and academia via Omniverse), vLLM (Apache 2.0) |
| Free via MeitY C2S | Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, Ansys (EDA), Keysight EDA, Silvaco, AMD-Xilinx — provided to 332 institutions under C2S; apply rather than buy |
| MATLAB Campus-Wide (Total Academic Headcount) | Priced to student headcount, quote-based; individual academic perpetual about US$550, annual about US$330; campus TAH typically several lakh to low-crore rupees a year for a large university; covers MATLAB, Simulink and all add-ons |
| Ansys Academic | Research licence about US$275 (up to four cores) plus HPC packs about US$25 a core; teaching licence free (two-core limit from 1 January 2025); Multiphysics Campus bundles quote-based; India list ₹30,000–₹5 lakh by bundle |
| COMSOL Classkit and class licence | Subsidised class licences, quote-based |
| SolidWorks Education and CATIA (Dassault) | Heavily discounted education editions |
| Altium Designer | Free student licences; discounted education multi-seat |
| STK (Ansys/AGI) | Educational licences, free or subsidised for accredited courses |
| Keysight ADS and PathWave; Rohde & Schwarz | University programmes at steep discount |
| AMD-Xilinx Vivado and Intel Quartus university programmes | Free or nominal educational device licences |
Vendor-study findings
Procurement in three stages
Stage 1 — now to 6 months · Build the common Fab Lab core
Mechanical (Bambu and Prusa printers, CO2 laser, CNC), electronics (Rigol and Siglent scopes, soldering and rework, reflow) and compute (RTX workstations plus one GPU server). Source about 70% on Indian distributor invoices (Robu.in, GSAS, Tenettech, Keysight India) to keep GST input credit and avoid customs risk. Indicative capital ₹1–1.5 crore.
Stage 2 — 6 to 18 months · Fund studio-specific high-value gear against demonstrated project pipelines
Buy USRP B210s, ChipWhisperer kits, Livox LiDAR, Neware cyclers and DGCA-certified spray drones early; all Indian-sourceable at ₹0.4–5 lakh. Defer the biggest imports (VNAs, motion capture, thermal-vacuum, anechoic chamber) until a Studio has a funded, staffed project needing them; these are ₹15 lakh–3 crore each.
Stage 3 — ongoing · Exploit national programmes and partnerships instead of buying
Route tape-outs through C2S and SCL-Mohali (subsidised), obtain Cadence and Synopsys EDA via C2S, and secure radiation-test and thermal-vacuum access through ISRO, BARC and academic MoUs rather than capital purchase; no viable Indian commercial vendor exists for these.
Logistics that make a shared workshop run
Receiving and inspection
Every delivery enters through one receiving bay with a weighing and inspection bench, is logged against the purchase order, and is racked by Studio before release. No equipment moves into a Studio without an asset tag.
Stores
A central consumables store for the common Fab Lab, plus a locked Studio cage per Studio inside its store zone. Reorder points are held in the same system as the asset register.
Hazardous materials and gases
Solvents, resins, lithium cells and reagents in a fire-rated hazardous store with spill containment and a separate ventilation path; gas cylinders (nitrogen, argon, CO2, shielding gases) in an external cage with chained cylinders and a manifold into the labs.
Waste
Segregated streams: metal swarf, plastic and filament, electronic waste (through an authorised e-waste recycler), resin and solvent waste (licensed disposal), battery waste (quarantined and recycled), biological waste (Helix, autoclaved).
Access and safety
Card access by training level: a student is enabled on a machine only after the induction for that machine is recorded. Laser, welding, chemical and HV areas interlocked. Emergency stops on every machine bay; first-aid and eyewash at every lab entrance.
Power and resilience
The Fab Lab and each Studio draw from a dedicated distribution board with metering per lab. The compute lab and the ground station carry UPS; the metrology room carries a stabilised supply. A diesel or solar-plus-storage backup covers the server closet and the cold-chain and biological equipment.
Movement of large items
A 2.4 m wide, 3.0 m high route from the receiving bay to every Studio floor, level or ramped, so a machine, a vehicle platform or a satellite in its container moves without a crane. The Vahana arena and the Habitat strong floor sit on the ground floor for the same reason.
Outdoor allocation
Harvest field plot and machinery yard; Vahana netted flight arena; Dynamo solar test yard; Yantra outdoor robotics track; Frontline civic test street. Each with power, water and a secure gate.
Floor area, power and clear height across the seventeen Studios and the Fab Lab
| Studio | Net m² | Gross m² | Outdoor m² | kW | Clear m | Seats now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | 1,459 | 1,970 | 1,000 | 148 | 6.0 | 350 |
| Tide | 1,042 | 1,407 | 0 | 114 | 5.0 | 250 |
| Traction | 1,159 | 1,565 | 0 | 157 | 4.5 | 300 |
| Vahana | 1,421 | 1,918 | 0 | 133 | 8.0 | 320 |
| Freight | 1,337 | 1,805 | 0 | 136 | 6.0 | 300 |
| Habitat | 1,202 | 1,623 | 0 | 133 | 7.5 | 300 |
| Aquifer | 1,118 | 1,509 | 0 | 132 | 6.0 | 280 |
| Dynamo | 1,083 | 1,462 | 250 | 144 | 4.2 | 300 |
| Forge | 1,261 | 1,702 | 0 | 184 | 6.0 | 260 |
| Yantra | 879 | 1,187 | 100 | 110 | 4.5 | 220 |
| Wafer | 1,191 | 1,608 | 0 | 173 | 4.2 | 300 |
| Spectra | 870 | 1,174 | 0 | 94 | 5.0 | 200 |
| Ledger | 813 | 1,098 | 0 | 95 | 4.2 | 210 |
| Frontline | 831 | 1,122 | 150 | 103 | 4.2 | 240 |
| Helix | 895 | 1,208 | 0 | 120 | 4.5 | 200 |
| Astra | 892 | 1,204 | 0 | 117 | 4.5 | 200 |
| Lattice | 706 | 953 | 0 | 93 | 4.2 | 120 |
| Mechanical Fab Lab | 200 | — | — | 90 | 4.5 | — |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility) | 620 | — | — | 160 | 6.0 | — |
| Electronics Fab Lab | 240 | — | — | 60 | 3.6 | — |
| Compute and Software Lab | 200 | — | — | 45 | 3.2 | — |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 180 | — | — | 35 | 4.0 | — |
| Fabrication Services and Stores | 140 | — | — | 10 | 3.6 | — |
| Total | 19,739 | 24,515 | 1,500 | 2586 | — | 4350 |
FAB LAB 1 OF 5
Mechanical Fab Lab
The light mechanical floor in the sports complex: printing, laser cutting of sheet and board, layup, hand tools and cobot cells. Everything that cuts metal, welds or makes dust is at the Heavy Fab Lab on the main campus. Typical annual running cost ₹4–8 lakh: filament, resin, laser optics and filters, layup consumables, PPE. Processes: intake and safety induction, booking, job ticket, build, inspection, return to Studio; every user passes the quiz for each machine class; technicians hold the hazardous zones; a buddy rule applies after hours.
Layout and services: Machine hall with a 1.5 m clearance around every machine and a marked forklift aisle; welding bay curtained and extracted; laser room with interlocked door; printer farm on a separate ventilated wall; tool crib and material rack against the loading side Three-phase 415 V outlets on a ring; compressed air ring main at 8 bar; central dust extraction ducted to outside; fume extraction over laser and welding bays; water point; ESD not required
Benchmark: Fab Foundation Fab Lab inventory; Georgia Tech Flowers Invention Studio. Anchor: A light build floor: printer wall, filtered laser, layup, cobot cells, assembly benches — no metal cutting, no welding, no roof riser.
Laser lab safety (ANSI Z136.1-2022)
Class 3B (5–500 mW) and Class 4 (over 500 mW) need a Laser Controlled Area with interlocked entry controls, a nominal hazard zone or whole-room designation, Z535 danger signage and a lit Class 4 warning, OD-rated eyewear (one OD unit is 10× attenuation), barriers, written SOPs and restricted access. blog.ansi.org; ehs.yale.edu
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
Vendors for this lab's classes (September 2026 vendor study)
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jyoti CNC AutomationRajkot | VMC, turning, HMC, 5-axis; India's largest CNC OEM; domestic AMC | Entry or desktop VMC ₹18–25 lakh | verified |
| Bharat Fritz Werner (BFW)Bengaluru | VMCs, milling; operator training and AMC | Entry VMC ₹18–30 lakh | verified |
| Ace Micromatic / Ace DesignersBengaluru | CNC turning and VMC; largest Indian installed base | MCV 400 about ₹18.5 lakh | verified |
| Wipro 3DBengaluru | Metal LPBF/DMLS and polymer FFF, MJF, DLP; aerospace and defence certified | Bureau and equipment | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| EOSKrailling, Germany; EOS India | Industrial DMLS | ₹2–4 crore+, duty applies | verified |
| StratasysUSA/Israel; via Altem, Adroitec | FDM and PolyJet | Desktop FDM ₹5–40 lakh | verified |
| FormlabsUSA; via Think3D, Altem | Resin SLA and SLS | Form-class desktop ₹4–7 lakh | verified |
| Trotec / EpilogAustria / USA; India distributors | CO2 and fibre laser cutters | ₹8–40 lakh | partial |
Equipment, sized and priced
Quantities are sized for 2,000 students on the floor at once — 24 electronics benches, a printer farm of 24, a 40-seat GPU room — on the planning basis stated in Part E · Costing. Service lines carry an annual budget instead of capital.
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | India vendors · manufacturer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FDM 3D printersGood: Bambu Lab A1 Mini, entry Creality; Better: Bambu Lab P1S / X1-Carbon Combo; Best: Original Prusa MK4/MK4S assembled | A1 Mini ~₹20,000; entry FDM ₹0.20–0.50 lakh; X1C base ~₹1.29 lakh, Combo with AMS ₹1.49–2.65 lakh; Prusa MK4 ₹1.09–2.25 lakh | ₹1.5 L | 24 | ₹36.0 L | Voxelstudio, Robu.in, 3D Bazaar, 3DPrintronics, WOL3DBambu Lab, Creality (China); Prusa Research (Czech Republic) |
| Resin (SLA/MSLA) printersGood: Elegoo / Anycubic desktop resin; Best: Formlabs Form 4 | Desktop resin ₹0.25–0.60 lakh; Form 4 about ₹5–7 lakh on quote | ₹2.0 L | 6 | ₹12.0 L | Ashtech 3D Innovations (Pune), Beacon India, WOL3DElegoo, Anycubic (China); Formlabs (USA) |
| Composite layup and vacuum-bagging kitVacuum pump, bagging consumables, oven | ₹1–4 lakh | ₹2.5 L | 1 | ₹2.5 L | Indian composite-supply vendorsVarious |
| CO2 laser cutter 60 W, filteredSheet acrylic, board, gaskets and templates only; fume filtration unit, no metal cutting | ₹2.90–4.55 lakh plus ₹1.2–2 lakh filter | ₹5.2 L | 2 | ₹10.4 L | Suresh Indu Lasers (Pune); Sil LaserVarious |
| Hand and power tool wall with a small benchDrills, drivers, jigsaw, rotary tools, clamps, vices and measuring | ₹1.5–3 lakh | ₹2.5 L | 2 | ₹5.0 L | Bosch; Makita dealersBosch; Makita |
| Collaborative robot arm cellsUR5e / Dobot CR ×3 with safety scanners and tables | ₹15–25 lakh each | ₹20.0 L | 3 | ₹60.0 L | Universal Robots India; Jendamark (Dobot)Universal Robots; Dobot |
| What this lab costs | One-time | A year |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment (6 capital items) | ₹1.26 Cr | consumables ₹12.6 L at 10% AMC ₹7.6 L after warranty |
| Fit-out (200 m² at ₹30,000 per m²; 90 kW) | ₹60.0 L | electricity ₹8.7 L |
| Services, credits and licences | — | ₹0.0 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹22.3 L | — |
| Lab total | ₹2.08 Cr | ₹28.9 L |
Which Studios draw on this lab, and how its cost is allocated back
| Studio | Shared lines drawn | Demand share | One-time allocated | A year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forge | 3 | 75% | ₹84.2 L | ₹11.7 L |
| Freight | 1 | 25% | ₹32.1 L | ₹4.5 L |
| Harvest | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Tide | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Traction | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Vahana | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Habitat | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Aquifer | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Dynamo | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Yantra | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Wafer | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Spectra | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Ledger | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Frontline | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Helix | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Astra | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
| Lattice | 0 | 0% | ₹6.1 L | ₹0.8 L |
The shared classes this lab absorbed from the Studios
| Class | Studios that listed it | Lines | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D printers (FDM / resin) | Forge | 2 | ₹26.0 L |
| Robot arms (collaborative) | Forge, Freight | 2 | ₹35.5 L |
Organisations that map to this lab: Bambu Lab, Prusa, Formlabs, Suresh Indu Lasers, Universal Robots, Dobot
FAB LAB 2 OF 5
Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility)
The machine hall on the main campus, in the Fab Lab KL University already operates. Everything heavy, hot, loud or dusty lives here at grade, where the slab, the crane and the roof extraction already exist: metal cutting and forming, welding, metal additive, the composites autoclave and the vehicle garage. Studios book it by the session and the shuttle runs twice a day. Typical annual running cost ₹18–30 lakh: tooling, metal powder and inert gas, welding consumables, laser optics, crane inspection, extraction filters. Processes: intake and safety induction, booking, job ticket, build, inspection, return to Studio; every user passes the quiz for each machine class; technicians hold the hazardous zones; a buddy rule applies after hours.
Layout and services: Machine rows under a 2 t crane rail with a 3.5 m goods aisle to the roller door; metal powder, laser cutting, grinding and painting each in a room of its own; raw stock on a cantilever rack along the wall; job-in and job-out bays for the twice-daily shuttle. Machine hall at grade: 10 kN/m² slab, 2 t overhead crane on a 6 m rail, roof extraction for welding and grinding, three-phase 415 V at 160 kW, compressed air ring main, inert-gas store for the metal printer, drive-in roller door 3.5 × 4 m and a wash bay. Dimensions proposed from the equipment list; the existing hall is to be measured and this schedule reconciled to it.
Benchmark: Purdue Bechtel high bay; Fraunhofer and CoEAMT machine halls. Anchor: A machine hall at grade: 10 kN/m² slab, 2 t crane, roof extraction, lorry door, hazard rooms for powder, laser, grinding and paint.
Laser lab safety (ANSI Z136.1-2022)
Class 3B (5–500 mW) and Class 4 (over 500 mW) need a Laser Controlled Area with interlocked entry controls, a nominal hazard zone or whole-room designation, Z535 danger signage and a lit Class 4 warning, OD-rated eyewear (one OD unit is 10× attenuation), barriers, written SOPs and restricted access. blog.ansi.org; ehs.yale.edu
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
Vendors
This hall reuses the machine-tool, welding and laser vendor routes listed under the Mechanical Fab Lab, with Intech Additive and Wipro 3D for metal additive, Ace Micromatic and Jyoti for the machining centres, and Indian crane and autoclave builders for the crane and cure plant.
Equipment, sized and priced
Quantities are sized for 2,000 students on the floor at once — 24 electronics benches, a printer farm of 24, a 40-seat GPU room — on the planning basis stated in Part E · Costing. Service lines carry an annual budget instead of capital.
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | India vendors · manufacturer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNC router (desktop) and mid-size VMCGood: desktop CNC router; Best: vertical machining centre | Desktop router ₹1–3 lakh; mid-size VMC ₹15–40 lakh | ₹28.0 L | 2 | ₹56.0 L | Jyoti CNC (Rajkot), Ace Micromatic (Bengaluru), Lakshmi Machine WorksJyoti CNC, Ace Micromatic (India) |
| Bench lathe and millBench lathe; bench mill | ₹1.5–5 lakh | ₹3.5 L | 4 | ₹14.0 L | Indian machine-tool distributorsVarious |
| Sheet-metal shear, brake and benderManual to hydraulic | ₹2–6 lakh | ₹4.0 L | 2 | ₹8.0 L | Indian fabrication-equipment vendorsVarious |
| Welding: MIG, TIG, spotInverter MIG/TIG sets; spot welder | ₹0.5–3 lakh | ₹2.0 L | 4 | ₹8.0 L | Indian welding-equipment vendorsVarious |
| CO2 laser cutter 60–150 WBy wattage: 80 W; 100 W; 150 W | ₹2.90–5.35 lakh (80 W ₹3.25–4.55 L; 100 W ₹3.50–4.75 L; 150 W ₹4.25–5.35 L, plus GST) | ₹4.5 L | 2 | ₹9.0 L | Mtech Laser, Scantech Laser, Sil (India)Indian makers |
| Fibre laser markerDesktop fibre marker | ₹3–8 lakh | ₹5.0 L | 1 | ₹5.0 L | Indian laser vendorsVarious |
| Drill press, band saw, hand and power tools, workbenches, vicesWorkshop fit-out | ₹3–6 lakh | ₹5.0 L | 2 | ₹10.0 L | Indian tool distributorsVarious |
| Dust extraction, compressor and air ring mainCentral extraction; rotary compressor; ring main | ₹1.5–4 lakh | ₹8.0 L | 1 | ₹8.0 L | Indian industrial-supply vendorsVarious |
| Metal additive printer (LPBF)Steel and aluminium parts for Forge, Astra, Traction and Yantra; inert gas, powder handling room | ₹2–3.5 Cr | ₹2.75 Cr | 1 | ₹2.75 Cr | Intech Additive (Bengaluru); Wipro 3DEOS; SLM Solutions |
| 5-axis machining centreThe part the desktop VMC cannot hold: impellers, moulds, structural brackets | ₹1–1.5 Cr | ₹1.25 Cr | 1 | ₹1.25 Cr | Ace Micromatic (Bengaluru); Jyoti CNCDMG Mori; Haas |
| Composites autoclave and ovenCure cycles for Vahana airframes, Astra panels and Forge layups | ₹35–60 lakh | ₹48.0 L | 1 | ₹48.0 L | Indian autoclave buildersASC Process Systems |
| Vehicle garage bay with a two-post liftTraction and Vahana work above two-wheeler scale; drive-in door at grade | ₹6–12 lakh | ₹9.0 L | 1 | ₹9.0 L | Indian garage-equipment vendorsVarious |
| Overhead travelling crane, 2 tLifts every item this hall receives and serves the eight bays through the goods route | ₹12–20 lakh | ₹16.0 L | 1 | ₹16.0 L | Indian crane buildersDemag; Konecranes |
| Structural test frame and shake table accessHabitat specimens and Astra qualification, shared with the civil department | By partnership | — | 1 | ₹6.0 L / yr | Campus civil laboratory— |
| Machine-shop tooling and workholdingVices, chucks, cutters, inserts, fixturing for the VMC, lathes and the 5-axis | ₹12–18 lakh | ₹15.0 L | 1 | ₹15.0 L | Ace Micromatic; local tooling housesSandvik; Kennametal |
| What this lab costs | One-time | A year |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment (14 capital items) | ₹6.06 Cr | consumables ₹60.6 L at 10% AMC ₹36.4 L after warranty |
| Fit-out (620 m² at ₹30,000 per m²; 160 kW) | ₹1.86 Cr | electricity ₹15.5 L |
| Services, credits and licences | — | ₹6.0 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹95.0 L | — |
| Lab total | ₹8.87 Cr | ₹1.18 Cr |
Which Studios draw on this lab, and how its cost is allocated back
| Studio | Shared lines drawn | Demand share | One-time allocated | A year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forge | 2 | 67% | ₹3.22 Cr | ₹43.0 L |
| Traction | 1 | 33% | ₹1.74 Cr | ₹23.2 L |
| Harvest | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Tide | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Vahana | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Freight | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Habitat | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Aquifer | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Dynamo | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Yantra | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Wafer | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Spectra | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Ledger | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Frontline | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Helix | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Astra | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
| Lattice | 0 | 0% | ₹26.1 L | ₹3.5 L |
The shared classes this lab absorbed from the Studios
| Class | Studios that listed it | Lines | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welding & fabrication | Forge, Traction | 2 | ₹3.0 L |
| Laser cutter / CNC router | Forge | 1 | ₹5.5 L |
Organisations that map to this lab: Ace Micromatic, Jyoti CNC, Intech Additive, Wipro 3D, Mtech Laser, Indian crane and autoclave builders, ESAB and Lincoln welding
FAB LAB 3 OF 5
Electronics Fab Lab
Bench instruments, rework and prototyping every Studio needs to bring a board up and prove it. Typical annual running cost ₹5–10 lakh: solder, stencils, PCB blanks and mill bits, calibration, probes. Processes: intake and safety induction, booking, job ticket, build, inspection, return to Studio; every user passes the quiz for each machine class; technicians hold the hazardous zones; a buddy rule applies after hours.
Layout and services: Bench rows with instrument shelves; rework and reflow in a separate extracted room; PCB mill and pick-and-place in an enclosed corner; component store with humidity control; inspection microscopes on anti-vibration mats ESD-safe flooring and benches with common grounding point; clean 230 V on isolated circuits; fume extraction at every solder station and over the reflow oven; humidity 40–60%; nitrogen bottle point for reflow
Benchmark: ANSI/ESD S20.20; Georgia Tech Hive. Anchor: EPA, 20+ benches, PCB bureau.
Electronics ESD and bench spacing (ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021)
A written programme, personnel grounding, ESD-safe work surfaces, wrist straps tested to S1.1, grounding to S6.1, conductive flooring 2.5×10⁴–1.0×10⁶ Ω (dissipative to ~10⁹ Ω), isolated-conductor limit under 35 V; protects to 100 V HBM / 200 V CDM. Bench density benchmark: Georgia Tech Hive runs 20+ stations each with soldering, oscilloscope, generator, supply and multimeter plus LPKF PCB fabrication. blog.ansi.org; techmade.gatech.edu
Vendors for this lab's classes (September 2026 vendor study)
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Element14 India and Mouser IndiaBengaluru | Components and benchtop instruments (Rigol, Siglent, Keysight, Tektronix); many lines GeM-listed for eligible buyers | Distribution | verified |
| TenettechBengaluru | Scopes, SDRs, development kits | Distribution | partial |
| Robu.inPune | Prototyping electronics, soldering, bench supplies | Distribution | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keysight TechnologiesSanta Rosa; Keysight India, Gurugram and Bengaluru | InfiniiVision scopes, VNAs to 26+ GHz, spectrum analysers, EMC kits; University Programme discounts; India calibration | 100 MHz 4-channel scope ₹3–8 lakh; VNA ₹25 lakh–₹1 crore+; DSIR-exemptible | verified |
| Rohde & SchwarzMunich; R&S India, Bengaluru and Delhi | RTB and RTM scopes, VNAs, EMC pre-compliance; university programme and training | As Keysight class | verified |
| TektronixUSA | MSO and MDO scopes, logic analysers; education discounts | Scope class | verified |
| Rigol / SiglentChina; India distributors | Best-value student benches | ₹40,000–₹3 lakh | verified |
Equipment, sized and priced
Quantities are sized for 2,000 students on the floor at once — 24 electronics benches, a printer farm of 24, a 40-seat GPU room — on the planning basis stated in Part E · Costing. Service lines carry an annual budget instead of capital.
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | India vendors · manufacturer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bench oscilloscopes, 4-channel 100–350 MHzGood: Rigol DS1104Z-Plus (100 MHz, 4-ch, 1 GSa/s); Better: Siglent SDS1104X-E / Rigol DHO900 12-bit; Best: Keysight InfiniiVision / Tektronix MSO 200–350 MHz | DS1104Z-Plus ₹41,999–49,720; Better ₹0.6–1.2 lakh; Best ₹3–8 lakh | ₹0.9 L | 24 | ₹21.6 L | Niom Tech, Vastek, Tenettech, Rigol Technologies India, Keysight India, Tektronix IndiaRigol, Siglent (China); Keysight, Tektronix (USA) |
| Spectrum analysersSiglent SSA3000X to Keysight class | ₹1.5–12 lakh | ₹4.0 L | 6 | ₹24.0 L | Tenettech, Keysight IndiaSiglent; Keysight |
| Function and arbitrary generatorsRigol / Siglent | ₹0.3–1 lakh | ₹0.6 L | 12 | ₹7.2 L | Tenettech, Rigol IndiaRigol, Siglent |
| Bench DC supplies and electronic loadsProgrammable supplies; DC loads | Supplies ₹0.15–0.6 lakh; loads ₹0.4–1.5 lakh | ₹1.0 L | 24 | ₹24.0 L | Tenettech, Element14 IndiaRigol, Siglent, Keysight |
| Bench multimetersKeysight 34461A class | ₹1–2 lakh | ₹1.5 L | 12 | ₹18.0 L | Keysight IndiaKeysight |
| Logic and protocol analysersSaleae / Digilent | ₹0.2–1.2 lakh | ₹0.6 L | 12 | ₹7.2 L | Mouser India, Element14 IndiaSaleae, Digilent (USA) |
| Soldering and hot-air reworkJBC / Quick / Hakko | ₹0.2–1.5 lakh | ₹0.6 L | 24 | ₹14.4 L | Element14 India, Robu.inJBC (Spain), Hakko (Japan), Quick (China) |
| Reflow oven and stencil printerBenchtop reflow; manual stencil printer | Reflow ₹0.5–3 lakh; stencil printer ₹0.5–2 lakh | ₹3.0 L | 2 | ₹6.0 L | Indian SMT-equipment vendorsVarious |
| PCB prototyping millLPKF / Bantam | ₹8–30 lakh (import) | ₹18.0 L | 2 | ₹36.0 L | Import via distributorLPKF (Germany), Bantam Tools (USA) |
| Desktop pick-and-placeDesktop class | ₹5–20 lakh | ₹12.0 L | 1 | ₹12.0 L | Indian SMT-equipment vendors / importVarious |
| ESD benches and mats, inspection microscopes, LCR meter, thermal camera, EMC near-field probe setBench fit-out | ₹0.3–3 lakh each | ₹1.2 L | 24 | ₹28.8 L | Element14 India, Mouser India, TenettechVarious |
| Software-defined radio poolUSRP B210 ×4 · LimeSDR Mini ×8 · ADALM-Pluto ×12 · RTL-SDR ×24 | Pool planning price ₹9.6 lakh | ₹9.6 L | 1 | ₹9.6 L | Tenettech; Mouser IndiaEttus (NI), Lime Micro, Analog Devices |
| Vector network analysers, education 2–4 portLibreVNA ×4 · Siglent SVA1032X ×2 · Keysight/R&S education VNA ×2 | ₹4–25 lakh each by tier | ₹12.0 L | 8 | ₹96.0 L | Keysight India; R&S India; Element14Keysight; Rohde & Schwarz; Siglent |
| Power analysersYokogawa WT300E / Hioki PW3390 class | ₹3–9 lakh each | ₹5.0 L | 4 | ₹20.0 L | Yokogawa India; Hioki IndiaYokogawa; Hioki |
| Isolated oscilloscopes with HV differential probesTektronix TPS2000B class + 1 kV differential probes | ₹4–8 lakh each | ₹5.5 L | 4 | ₹22.0 L | Tektronix India; Element14Tektronix; Keysight |
| What this lab costs | One-time | A year |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment (15 capital items) | ₹3.47 Cr | consumables ₹34.7 L at 10% AMC ₹20.8 L after warranty |
| Fit-out (240 m² at ₹30,000 per m²; 60 kW) | ₹72.0 L | electricity ₹5.8 L |
| Services, credits and licences | — | ₹0.0 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹50.3 L | — |
| Lab total | ₹4.69 Cr | ₹61.3 L |
Which Studios draw on this lab, and how its cost is allocated back
| Studio | Shared lines drawn | Demand share | One-time allocated | A year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectra | 6 | 38% | ₹1.02 Cr | ₹13.3 L |
| Wafer | 3 | 19% | ₹57.8 L | ₹7.5 L |
| Traction | 2 | 12% | ₹43.1 L | ₹5.6 L |
| Dynamo | 2 | 12% | ₹43.1 L | ₹5.6 L |
| Vahana | 1 | 6% | ₹28.5 L | ₹3.7 L |
| Habitat | 1 | 6% | ₹28.5 L | ₹3.7 L |
| Astra | 1 | 6% | ₹28.5 L | ₹3.7 L |
| Harvest | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Tide | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Freight | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Aquifer | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Forge | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Yantra | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Ledger | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Frontline | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Helix | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
| Lattice | 0 | 0% | ₹13.8 L | ₹1.8 L |
The shared classes this lab absorbed from the Studios
| Class | Studios that listed it | Lines | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software-defined radio | Astra, Spectra, Vahana | 5 | ₹32.5 L |
| Oscilloscope | Dynamo, Traction, Wafer | 3 | ₹67.2 L |
| Spectrum / signal analyser | Spectra | 2 | ₹7.5 L |
| Power analyser | Habitat, Traction | 2 | ₹53.1 L |
| Vector network analyser | Spectra | 1 | ₹16.5 L |
| PCB prototyping | Wafer | 1 | ₹9.1 L |
| Multimeter / bench meter | Wafer | 1 | ₹22.0 L |
| Electronic load | Dynamo | 1 | ₹5.3 L |
Organisations that map to this lab: Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, Tektronix, Rigol, Siglent, LionCircuits, PCB Power, Sunflower
FAB LAB 4 OF 5
Compute and Software Lab
Design, simulation, data and machine learning for every Studio, with the academic licences pooled once. Typical annual running cost ₹10–40 lakh: licence renewals, cloud, hardware refresh. Processes: intake and safety induction, booking, job ticket, build, inspection, return to Studio; every user passes the quiz for each machine class; technicians hold the hazardous zones; a buddy rule applies after hours.
Layout and services: Workstation clusters of six with a shared display; server closet on an external wall for heat rejection; a quiet room for reviews Dedicated server closet with 20 kW cooling and UPS; structured cabling; 10 GbE backbone; access control on the server room
Benchmark: GPU data-centre guidance. Anchor: ~250 kW liquid-cooled hall, reinforced slab.
Data-centre room for the ~250 kW student cluster
GPU racks draw 40–80 kW (H100-class) up to ~120 kW nominal for GB200 NVL72 (130–132 kW observed) against a 7.6 kW industry-average rack; above about 30 kW a rack, direct liquid cooling is the design baseline; 100 kW racks spread over ~40 sq ft steel platforms, slabs thicken to 12–18 in (adding $50–75 per sq ft); short rows of 8–12 racks with CDU alcoves and wider aisles. KLEF: 2–6 high-density racks plus CDU and N+1 cooling in a dedicated 800–1,500 sq ft hall with liquid cooling, redundant power and a reinforced slab; fix the rack-density intent before the slab is specified. intuitionlabs.ai; fibermall.com; introl.com; arXiv 2502.01647
Vendors for this lab's classes (September 2026 vendor study)
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netweb Technologies / TyroneFaridabad; NSE and BSE listed | Indian OEM and NVIDIA MGX manufacturing partner; H100, L40S and GH200 1U–4U air and liquid-cooled servers, RTX Janus workstations, HPC clusters (300+ installs), NAS; local AMC | 8×H100 server ₹1.5–3 crore; RTX 6000 workstation ₹6–12 lakh | verified |
| Yotta / Sify / CtrlSMumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad | Indian GPU cloud and colocation for burst compute | Per use | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIAvia Indian system integrators | DGX H200, RTX 6000 Ada and 5090 class; academic and DLI programmes | DGX H200 about ₹3 crore+ | verified |
| Dell / HPE / Supermicro / LenovoIndia offices | GPU servers, NAS, 100G; education pricing; refurbished A100 and H100 nodes 50–60% below new | Server class | partial |
Equipment, sized and priced
Quantities are sized for 2,000 students on the floor at once — 24 electronics benches, a printer farm of 24, a 40-seat GPU room — on the planning basis stated in Part E · Costing. Service lines carry an annual budget instead of capital.
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | India vendors · manufacturer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU workstationsNVIDIA RTX-class | ₹2.5–6 lakh each | ₹4.0 L | 40 | ₹1.60 Cr | Indian system integratorsNVIDIA (USA) |
| Small GPU server2–4 GPUs | ₹15–40 lakh | ₹28.0 L | 2 | ₹56.0 L | Indian system integratorsNVIDIA / Dell / HPE |
| NAS storage and networkingNAS; switching | NAS ₹2–8 lakh; networking ₹2–5 lakh | ₹10.0 L | 1 | ₹10.0 L | Indian IT vendorsSynology / QNAP; Cisco / Ubiquiti |
| Cloud creditsAWS, Azure, Google Cloud academic credits | Variable; AWS faculty awards uncapped | — | 1 | ₹15.0 L / yr | Vendor academic portalsAWS, Microsoft, Google |
| MATLAB / Simulink campus licenceCampus-wide | Part of commercial academic bundle ₹10–40 lakh a year | — | 1 | ₹60.0 L / yr | MathWorks IndiaMathWorks (USA) |
| SolidWorks and Fusion 360 educationEducation editions | Included in bundle; Fusion education free | — | 1 | — | Dassault India; AutodeskDassault Systèmes (France); Autodesk (USA) |
| Ansys and COMSOL academicAcademic multiphysics | Included in bundle | — | 1 | — | Ansys India; COMSOL IndiaAnsys (USA); COMSOL (Sweden) |
| KiCad / Altium educationKiCad free; Altium education | KiCad ₹0; Altium education licence | — | 1 | — | AltiumKiCad (open source); Altium (USA) |
| LTspice / PLECSLTspice free; PLECS academic | LTspice ₹0; PLECS academic licence | — | 1 | — | PleximAnalog Devices (USA); Plexim (Switzerland) |
| LabVIEW academicAcademic site | Included in bundle | — | 1 | — | NI IndiaNI (USA) |
| Cadence / Synopsys EDA via C2SSubsidised, no-cost EDA access for participating institutes | ₹0 through India's Chips to Startup programme | — | 1 | — | C-DAC ChipIN CentreCadence, Synopsys (USA) |
| ROS 2, Python and ML stack, Docker and Kubernetes, QGISOpen source | ₹0 | — | 1 | — | CommunityOpen source |
| AI training and agent stackPyTorch, JAX, vLLM, Hugging Face, LangGraph, MLflow, Weights & Biases academic, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo | Open source; W&B and Isaac free for academia | — | 1 | — | Community; NVIDIA developer programmeOpen source; NVIDIA |
| Microcontroller kitsESP32-S3, STM32 Nucleo, Arduino Uno R4, TI C2000 LaunchPad — one set per two concurrent teams | ₹1,500–6,000 each | ₹0.0 L | 300 | ₹10.5 L | Robu.in; Element14; Mouser IndiaEspressif; ST; Arduino; TI |
| Edge boardsRaspberry Pi 5 ×60 · NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super ×40 | ₹8,000 / ₹28,000 | ₹0.2 L | 100 | ₹16.0 L | Robu.in; Element14Raspberry Pi Foundation; NVIDIA |
| FPGA development boardsPYNQ-Z2 ×16 · Basys 3 ×16 · ULX3S ×8 | ₹12,000–28,000 each | ₹0.2 L | 40 | ₹8.0 L | Element14; Digilent IndiaAMD-Xilinx; Digilent; Radiona |
| What this lab costs | One-time | A year |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment (6 capital items) | ₹2.60 Cr | consumables ₹5.2 L at 2% AMC ₹15.6 L after warranty |
| Fit-out (200 m² at ₹30,000 per m²; 45 kW) | ₹60.0 L | electricity ₹5.7 L |
| Services, credits and licences | — | ₹75.0 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹38.5 L | — |
| Lab total | ₹3.59 Cr | ₹1.02 Cr |
Which Studios draw on this lab, and how its cost is allocated back
| Studio | Shared lines drawn | Demand share | One-time allocated | A year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | 3 | 12% | ₹31.3 L | ₹8.8 L |
| Vahana | 3 | 12% | ₹31.3 L | ₹8.8 L |
| Habitat | 3 | 12% | ₹31.3 L | ₹8.8 L |
| Wafer | 3 | 12% | ₹31.3 L | ₹8.8 L |
| Traction | 2 | 8% | ₹24.4 L | ₹6.9 L |
| Dynamo | 2 | 8% | ₹24.4 L | ₹6.9 L |
| Forge | 2 | 8% | ₹24.4 L | ₹6.9 L |
| Yantra | 2 | 8% | ₹24.4 L | ₹6.9 L |
| Tide | 1 | 4% | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L |
| Freight | 1 | 4% | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L |
| Aquifer | 1 | 4% | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L |
| Frontline | 1 | 4% | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L |
| Helix | 1 | 4% | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L |
| Lattice | 1 | 4% | ₹17.5 L | ₹4.9 L |
| Spectra | 0 | 0% | ₹10.6 L | ₹3.0 L |
| Ledger | 0 | 0% | ₹10.6 L | ₹3.0 L |
| Astra | 0 | 0% | ₹10.6 L | ₹3.0 L |
The shared classes this lab absorbed from the Studios
| Class | Studios that listed it | Lines | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi / Jetson edge boards | Aquifer, Dynamo, Forge, Freight, Frontline, Habitat, Harvest, Lattice, Tide, Vahana, Wafer, Yantra | 15 | ₹91.5 L |
| ESP32 / STM32 / Arduino microcontrollers | Dynamo, Forge, Harvest, Helix, Traction | 6 | ₹3.4 L |
| FPGA development boards | Wafer | 2 | ₹8.1 L |
| ROS / robotics middleware | Vahana | 1 | ₹0.0 L |
| Cloud & container platform | Habitat | 1 | ₹0.0 L |
| GPU workstation | Yantra | 1 | ₹8.0 L |
Organisations that map to this lab: NVIDIA, AMD, MathWorks, Ansys, Dassault, Autodesk, Cadence and Synopsys via C2S, IndiaAI compute
FAB LAB 5 OF 5
Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab
Where a claim becomes evidence: environmental, mechanical and dimensional testing shared across Studios. Typical annual running cost ₹3–8 lakh: calibration and traceability, refrigerant, fixtures. Processes: intake and safety induction, booking, job ticket, build, inspection, return to Studio; every user passes the quiz for each machine class; technicians hold the hazardous zones; a buddy rule applies after hours.
Layout and services: Metrology room sealed from the workshop with an airlock; environmental chamber and shaker on the strong slab; IP rig with a bunded floor and floor drain; gauge store Temperature held at 20 ± 1 °C in the metrology room; vibration-isolated slab for the CMM and shaker; drainage for the IP water rig; three-phase supply for the environmental chamber
Benchmark: Georgia Tech SSDL; NABL labs. Anchor: Environmental chamber, shaker, CMM, IP rig.
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
Vendors for this lab's classes (September 2026 vendor study)
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Indian OEM for high-accuracy CMM or optical comparators — import only— | — | — | verified |
| Saraswati, Kepler and other Indian chamber makersIndia | Environmental, salt-fog and IP chambers | Chamber class | partial |
| FIE (Fuel Instruments and Engineers), Star Testing SystemsIchalkaranji; Mumbai | Universal testing machines | ₹8–40 lakh | partial |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeiss IndiaOberkochen; Bengaluru | CMMs, micro-CT, optical metrology, CALYPSO; India calibration | Contura ₹80 lakh–₹1.5 crore | verified |
| Hexagon Manufacturing IntelligenceSweden; Hexagon India | Bridge and portable CMMs, laser trackers, PC-DMIS | CMM class | verified |
| Mitutoyo IndiaJapan; Delhi | Crysta-Apex CMMs, roughness, vision; no-SaaS software | CMM class | verified |
| FARO IndiaUSA; India | Portable arms and scanners | Arm class | verified |
Equipment, sized and priced
Quantities are sized for 2,000 students on the floor at once — 24 electronics benches, a printer farm of 24, a 40-seat GPU room — on the planning basis stated in Part E · Costing. Service lines carry an annual budget instead of capital.
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | India vendors · manufacturer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental chamberTemperature and humidity | ₹5–20 lakh | ₹12.0 L | 1 | ₹12.0 L | Indian chamber makers / importVarious |
| Vibration shaker for small payloadsElectrodynamic shaker | ₹15–60 lakh | ₹30.0 L | 1 | ₹30.0 L | Import via distributorVarious |
| CMM or portable arm CMMBridge CMM or articulated arm | ₹8–40 lakh | ₹25.0 L | 1 | ₹25.0 L | Indian metrology distributorsHexagon, FARO, Zeiss |
| Surface-roughness testerPortable tester | ₹1.5–5 lakh | ₹3.0 L | 1 | ₹3.0 L | Indian metrology distributorsMitutoyo, Taylor Hobson |
| Torque and force gauges; calibration weightsBench gauges; class weights | Gauges ₹0.3–2 lakh; weights ₹0.5–2 lakh | ₹3.0 L | 1 | ₹3.0 L | Indian metrology distributorsVarious |
| IMU and GNSS test rigsRate table; GNSS reference | ₹2–10 lakh | ₹6.0 L | 1 | ₹6.0 L | Import / Indian integratorsVarious |
| IP water and dust test rigIngress-protection rig | ₹3–12 lakh | ₹7.0 L | 1 | ₹7.0 L | Indian test-equipment vendorsVarious |
| Battery cell cyclers and a vented abuse cabinetNeware CT-4008 ×2 with a vented, fire-rated cabinet ducted to outside air | ₹2.5 lakh each plus ₹6 lakh cabinet | ₹5.5 L | 2 | ₹11.0 L | Wee Scientifics (Chennai)Neware; Arbin |
| Small motor dynamometerRegenerative dyno to 10 kW | ₹15–25 lakh | ₹20.0 L | 1 | ₹20.0 L | Dynomerk (Pune); SAJ DynoMagtrol |
| Perception sensor poolLidar ×6 (RPLIDAR, Livox) · depth and stereo cameras ×12 (RealSense, ZED) · RTK GNSS ×8 (ZED-F9P) · IMU ×12 | Pool planning price ₹18 lakh | ₹18.0 L | 1 | ₹18.0 L | Robu.in; TenettechSlamtec; Livox; Intel; Stereolabs; u-blox |
| Survey kitTotal station ×1 · RTK rover pair ×1 · photogrammetry drone shared with Vahana | ₹6–10 lakh | ₹8.0 L | 1 | ₹8.0 L | Sokkia/Topcon India dealersTopcon; Trimble |
| What this lab costs | One-time | A year |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment (11 capital items) | ₹1.43 Cr | consumables ₹8.6 L at 6% AMC ₹8.6 L after warranty |
| Fit-out (180 m² at ₹30,000 per m²; 35 kW) | ₹54.0 L | electricity ₹3.4 L |
| Services, credits and licences | — | ₹0.0 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹23.6 L | — |
| Lab total | ₹2.21 Cr | ₹20.5 L |
Which Studios draw on this lab, and how its cost is allocated back
| Studio | Shared lines drawn | Demand share | One-time allocated | A year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vahana | 4 | 25% | ₹34.1 L | ₹3.2 L |
| Habitat | 3 | 19% | ₹27.2 L | ₹2.5 L |
| Traction | 2 | 12% | ₹20.3 L | ₹1.9 L |
| Frontline | 2 | 12% | ₹20.3 L | ₹1.9 L |
| Harvest | 1 | 6% | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L |
| Freight | 1 | 6% | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L |
| Dynamo | 1 | 6% | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L |
| Yantra | 1 | 6% | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L |
| Wafer | 1 | 6% | ₹13.4 L | ₹1.2 L |
| Tide | 0 | 0% | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L |
| Aquifer | 0 | 0% | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L |
| Forge | 0 | 0% | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L |
| Spectra | 0 | 0% | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L |
| Ledger | 0 | 0% | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L |
| Helix | 0 | 0% | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L |
| Astra | 0 | 0% | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L |
| Lattice | 0 | 0% | ₹6.5 L | ₹0.6 L |
The shared classes this lab absorbed from the Studios
| Class | Studios that listed it | Lines | Value moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| GNSS / RTK positioning | Frontline, Habitat, Harvest, Vahana | 4 | ₹13.3 L |
| LiDAR | Vahana, Yantra | 3 | ₹17.4 L |
| Photogrammetry & survey | Frontline, Habitat | 3 | ₹14.7 L |
| Cameras & machine vision | Freight, Vahana | 2 | ₹16.0 L |
| Battery cyclers & cell testers | Dynamo, Traction | 2 | ₹22.5 L |
| Environmental / thermal chamber | Wafer | 1 | ₹8.0 L |
| Motor & drive test rigs | Traction | 1 | ₹7.9 L |
Organisations that map to this lab: Hexagon, Zeiss, Mitutoyo, FARO, Indian chamber makers, NABL calibration labs
FAB LAB 6 OF 5
Fabrication and Prototyping Services
What is bought as a service rather than a machine: boards, metal parts, cuts and silicon runs. Service spend scales with Foundry activity; budget against the Studio consumables provision. Processes: intake and safety induction, booking, job ticket, build, inspection, return to Studio; every user passes the quiz for each machine class; technicians hold the hazardous zones; a buddy rule applies after hours.
Layout and services: Receiving desk with weighing and inspection bench; racking by Studio; consumables store; hazardous store separate; cylinder cage on the external wall Loading bay access; racking for incoming and outgoing parts; hazardous store with fire-rated door and spill containment; gas cylinder cage outside
Benchmark: AICTE IDEA Lab; NFPA 30. Anchor: Receiving, stores, hazardous store, bureau interface.
Lab ventilation and fire safety (NFPA 45, ANSI Z9.5-2022, OSHA 1910.1450)
Fume hoods 80–120 fpm face velocity, ±20% uniformity, low-flow alarm under 80 fpm, ASHRAE 110 annual test; rooms 6–12 air changes an hour, negative to corridors, exhaust above the roofline, supply diffusers at least 10 ft from hoods; NFPA 45 governs hood construction and prohibits fire dampers in exhaust; NFPA 30 flammable-liquid cabinets. About a third of hoods fail Z9.5 in the field, so commission and recertify. casrai.org; osha.gov/laboratories; labs-usa.com
Vendors for this lab's classes (September 2026 vendor study)
| National | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| LionCircuitsBengaluru | Online PCB fab and SMT/THT assembly; rush 72 h, standard about 5 days; ISO 9001; TerraCircuits campus underway | Per job | verified |
| PCB Power (Circuit Systems India)Gandhinagar | PCB fab and assembly | Per job | verified |
| Sunflower TechnologiesBengaluru | PCB fab and assembly | Per job | partial |
| Wipro 3D, Intech Additive, Imaginarium, Think3DBengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad | DMLS and SLS bureau | Per part | verified |
| SCL Mohali via C2SMohali | 180 nm MPW tape-out, subsidised | Subsidised | verified |
| Global | What they supply | Indicative 2026 band | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Efabless (Google Open MPW, SkyWater 130 nm)USA | Free fabrication for open-source designs | Free | verified |
| Europractice (imec, Fraunhofer, CMP)Belgium | MPW and mini@sic shuttles; TSMC, UMC, XFab access; discounted price applies only to EU academics — India pays the standard price | Standard non-EU price | verified |
| TSMC University Shuttle via imec IC-LinkTaiwan / Belgium | FinFET university programme, special pricing | Programme pricing | verified |
| MOSISUSA | MPW broker | Per run | verified |
Equipment, sized and priced
Quantities are sized for 2,000 students on the floor at once — 24 electronics benches, a printer farm of 24, a 40-seat GPU room — on the planning basis stated in Part E · Costing. Service lines carry an annual budget instead of capital.
| Item and options | Quoted band | Planning unit | Qty | Cost | India vendors · manufacturer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian PCB fabrication and assemblyLionCircuits (Bengaluru), PCB Power (Gandhinagar), Sunflower Electronics | A 2-layer 100×100 mm board in quantity 5–10 about ₹300–800; no customs risk, GST input credit, fast local support for 1–100 boards | — | 1 | ₹20.0 L / yr | LionCircuits, PCB Power, Sunflower ElectronicsIndia |
| Import PCB routeJLCPCB / PCBWay | From about $2 (₹150) for 5 boards, plus courier and possible Basic Customs Duty 10% and IGST 18% (HS 8534): an effective 28–38% uplift above ₹5,000 CIF; small orders sometimes clear under de minimis but unpredictably | — | 1 | ₹3.0 L / yr | Direct onlineJLCPCB, PCBWay (China) |
| Metal 3D-printing and CNC bureausPer-part quotation | Per part | — | 1 | ₹12.0 L / yr | Think3D, Imaginarium, Intech DMLSIndia |
| Laser-cutting servicesPer-part quotation | Per part | — | 1 | ₹3.0 L / yr | Local laser bureausIndia |
| Tape-out: SCL-Mohali MPW via C2SSubsidised for Indian academia | Subsidised through C2S | — | 1 | — | C-DAC / SCL MohaliIndia |
| Tape-out: Europractice / MOSIS shuttle runsCommercial shuttle | Several thousand to tens of thousands of USD per run; confirm with agency | — | 1 | ₹25.0 L / yr | DirectEuropractice (EU), MOSIS (USA) |
| What this lab costs | One-time | A year |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment (0 capital items) | ₹0.0 L | consumables ₹0.0 L at 6% AMC ₹0.0 L after warranty |
| Fit-out (140 m² at ₹30,000 per m²; 10 kW) | ₹42.0 L | electricity ₹1.0 L |
| Services, credits and licences | — | ₹63.0 L |
| Contingency (12%) | ₹5.0 L | — |
| Lab total | ₹47.0 L | ₹64.0 L |
This lab serves every Studio through service lines; its cost is allocated equally across the seventeen.
Organisations that map to this lab: LionCircuits, PCB Power, JLCPCB, Think3D, Intech DMLS, SCL Mohali via C2S, Europractice
Part E · Costing: Studios, Fab Labs, Foundries, Missions and tasks
Every rupee traced from an equipment line — priced individually, shared classes costed once in the Fab Labs, allocated to Foundries, rolled into Missions with duplicates removed, and spread across the forty tasks by the products each uses
Method and basis
The seventeen Studios
| Studio | Big-ticket | Kits and rigs | Fit-out | Contingency | Own capex | Fab Lab share | Total one-time | A year | Per Foundry | Earlier plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wafer16 Foundries · 86 teams | ₹4.80 Cr | ₹6.06 Cr | ₹34.0 L | ₹1.34 Cr | ₹12.55 Cr | ₹1.37 Cr | ₹13.92 Cr | ₹2.32 Cr | ₹87.0 L | ₹10.09 Cr |
| Forge11 Foundries · 74 teams | ₹4.34 Cr | ₹97.6 L | ₹36.0 L | ₹68.1 L | ₹6.36 Cr | ₹4.53 Cr | ₹10.89 Cr | ₹1.70 Cr | ₹99.0 L | ₹3.32 Cr |
| Lattice4 Foundries · 34 teams | ₹0.0 L | ₹6.44 Cr | ₹2.50 Cr | ₹1.07 Cr | ₹10.01 Cr | ₹72.7 L | ₹10.74 Cr | ₹85.1 L | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹12.40 Cr |
| Astra11 Foundries · 57 teams | ₹1.89 Cr | ₹1.48 Cr | ₹30.0 L | ₹44.1 L | ₹4.11 Cr | ₹80.5 L | ₹4.92 Cr | ₹88.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹1.30 Cr |
| Traction8 Foundries · 86 teams | ₹28.0 L | ₹72.8 L | ₹55.0 L | ₹18.7 L | ₹1.74 Cr | ₹2.71 Cr | ₹4.45 Cr | ₹75.2 L | ₹55.6 L | ₹3.61 Cr |
| Habitat10 Foundries · 86 teams | ₹0.0 L | ₹2.23 Cr | ₹46.0 L | ₹32.2 L | ₹3.01 Cr | ₹1.22 Cr | ₹4.23 Cr | ₹55.4 L | ₹42.3 L | ₹4.94 Cr |
| Vahana10 Foundries · 91 teams | ₹4.7 L | ₹2.11 Cr | ₹46.0 L | ₹31.4 L | ₹2.93 Cr | ₹1.29 Cr | ₹4.22 Cr | ₹60.2 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹4.54 Cr |
| Dynamo9 Foundries · 86 teams | ₹57.5 L | ₹88.3 L | ₹50.0 L | ₹23.5 L | ₹2.19 Cr | ₹1.16 Cr | ₹3.35 Cr | ₹56.9 L | ₹37.2 L | ₹2.97 Cr |
| Aquifer9 Foundries · 80 teams | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.78 Cr | ₹42.0 L | ₹26.4 L | ₹2.46 Cr | ₹72.7 L | ₹3.19 Cr | ₹45.9 L | ₹35.4 L | ₹2.52 Cr |
| Yantra8 Foundries · 63 teams | ₹50.0 L | ₹1.30 Cr | ₹22.0 L | ₹24.2 L | ₹2.26 Cr | ₹86.5 L | ₹3.12 Cr | ₹49.1 L | ₹39.1 L | ₹1.48 Cr |
| Harvest9 Foundries · 100 teams | ₹27.0 L | ₹1.25 Cr | ₹42.0 L | ₹23.3 L | ₹2.17 Cr | ₹93.4 L | ₹3.11 Cr | ₹50.0 L | ₹34.5 L | ₹2.84 Cr |
| Tide6 Foundries · 71 teams | ₹2.5 L | ₹1.41 Cr | ₹45.0 L | ₹22.6 L | ₹2.11 Cr | ₹72.7 L | ₹2.83 Cr | ₹42.1 L | ₹47.2 L | ₹2.98 Cr |
| Freight6 Foundries · 86 teams | ₹14.0 L | ₹87.1 L | ₹44.0 L | ₹17.4 L | ₹1.63 Cr | ₹1.06 Cr | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹46.8 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹2.44 Cr |
| Spectra9 Foundries · 57 teams | ₹40.0 L | ₹19.8 L | ₹16.0 L | ₹9.1 L | ₹84.9 L | ₹1.54 Cr | ₹2.39 Cr | ₹43.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹93.0 L |
| Helix9 Foundries · 57 teams | ₹22.5 L | ₹62.9 L | ₹38.0 L | ₹14.8 L | ₹1.38 Cr | ₹72.7 L | ₹2.11 Cr | ₹48.2 L | ₹23.4 L | ₹3.35 Cr |
| Frontline8 Foundries · 69 teams | ₹0.0 L | ₹16.7 L | ₹40.0 L | ₹6.8 L | ₹63.5 L | ₹86.5 L | ₹1.50 Cr | ₹35.7 L | ₹18.8 L | ₹2.60 Cr |
| Ledger8 Foundries · 60 teams | ₹19.0 L | ₹12.1 L | ₹36.0 L | ₹8.1 L | ₹75.1 L | ₹65.8 L | ₹1.41 Cr | ₹34.7 L | ₹17.6 L | ₹2.35 Cr |
| Seventeen Studios | ₹13.68 Cr | ₹28.62 Cr | ₹8.72 Cr | ₹6.12 Cr | ₹57.14 Cr | ₹21.91 Cr | ₹79.05 Cr | ₹12.19 Cr | — | ₹64.66 Cr |
The six Fab Labs
| Lab | Capital items | Equipment | Fit-out | Contingency | One-time | A year | Studios served |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Fab Lab200 m² · 90 kW | 6 | ₹1.26 Cr | ₹60.0 L | ₹22.3 L | ₹2.08 Cr | ₹28.9 L | 2 |
| Heavy Fab Lab (existing KLU facility)620 m² · 160 kW | 14 | ₹6.06 Cr | ₹1.86 Cr | ₹95.0 L | ₹8.87 Cr | ₹1.18 Cr | 2 |
| Electronics Fab Lab240 m² · 60 kW | 15 | ₹3.47 Cr | ₹72.0 L | ₹50.3 L | ₹4.69 Cr | ₹61.3 L | 7 |
| Compute and Software Lab200 m² · 45 kW | 6 | ₹2.60 Cr | ₹60.0 L | ₹38.5 L | ₹3.59 Cr | ₹1.02 Cr | 14 |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab180 m² · 35 kW | 11 | ₹1.43 Cr | ₹54.0 L | ₹23.6 L | ₹2.21 Cr | ₹20.5 L | 9 |
| Fabrication and Prototyping Services140 m² · 10 kW | 0 | ₹0.0 L | ₹42.0 L | ₹5.0 L | ₹47.0 L | ₹64.0 L | 17 |
| Six Fab Labs | 52 | ₹14.82 Cr | ₹4.74 Cr | ₹2.35 Cr | ₹21.91 Cr | ₹3.95 Cr | 17 |
The 89 Foundries the Missions draw
A Foundry's cost is its Studio's total (own capex plus Fab Lab share) divided equally among the Studio's Foundries — the Studio plans do not price equipment per Foundry, so an equal split is the honest allocation and is stated as such.
| Foundry | Studio share | Fab Lab share | One-time | A year | Drawn by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon Capture, Utilisation & MRVAquifer | ₹27.3 L | ₹8.1 L | ₹35.4 L | ₹5.1 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Critical Minerals, Magnets & Materials RecoveryAquifer | ₹27.3 L | ₹8.1 L | ₹35.4 L | ₹5.1 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Environmental Instrumentation & Air QualityAquifer | ₹27.3 L | ₹8.1 L | ₹35.4 L | ₹5.1 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Wastewater, Sanitation & ReuseAquifer | ₹27.3 L | ₹8.1 L | ₹35.4 L | ₹5.1 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Water Purification & TreatmentAquifer | ₹27.3 L | ₹8.1 L | ₹35.4 L | ₹5.1 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| ADCS, Guidance, Navigation & ControlAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Aerospace Structures & Flight TestingAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Earth Observation & Geospatial SystemsAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence, Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Ground Segment & Mission OperationsAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Satellite Communication SystemsAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Small Satellite Bus EngineeringAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Space Payloads & InstrumentationAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Space Power, Thermal & MechanismsAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Space Robotics & Planetary SystemsAstra | ₹37.4 L | ₹7.3 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹8.0 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Smart Grids, Microgrids & Power QualityDynamo | ₹24.4 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹37.2 L | ₹6.3 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Solar Energy SystemsDynamo | ₹24.4 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹37.2 L | ₹6.3 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence, Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Thermal Energy, Heat Pumps & Energy ManagementDynamo | ₹24.4 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹37.2 L | ₹6.3 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Additive ManufacturingForge | ₹57.8 L | ₹41.2 L | ₹99.0 L | ₹15.4 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Advanced Composites & Lightweight StructuresForge | ₹57.8 L | ₹41.2 L | ₹99.0 L | ₹15.4 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Industrial Metrology & QualityForge | ₹57.8 L | ₹41.2 L | ₹99.0 L | ₹15.4 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Precision Manufacturing & ToolingForge | ₹57.8 L | ₹41.2 L | ₹99.0 L | ₹15.4 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Surface Engineering & Protective CoatingsForge | ₹57.8 L | ₹41.2 L | ₹99.0 L | ₹15.4 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| Intralogistics & Fleet OrchestrationFreight | ₹27.1 L | ₹17.6 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹7.8 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Smart Packaging & Last-Mile InfrastructureFreight | ₹27.1 L | ₹17.6 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹7.8 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Warehouse Robotics & PickingFreight | ₹27.1 L | ₹17.6 L | ₹44.7 L | ₹7.8 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Disaster Response & Field Resilience KitsFrontline | ₹7.9 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹18.8 L | ₹4.5 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Last-Mile Alerting & Siren SystemsFrontline | ₹7.9 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹18.8 L | ₹4.5 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Water, Sanitation & Public-Utility ControllersFrontline | ₹7.9 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹18.8 L | ₹4.5 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Construction Automation & RoboticsHabitat | ₹30.1 L | ₹12.2 L | ₹42.3 L | ₹5.5 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Cyber-Physical Security Testbeds & RangesHabitat | ₹30.1 L | ₹12.2 L | ₹42.3 L | ₹5.5 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| Data-Centre & Thermal InfrastructureHabitat | ₹30.1 L | ₹12.2 L | ₹42.3 L | ₹5.5 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Disaster-Resilient & Geotechnical InfrastructureHabitat | ₹30.1 L | ₹12.2 L | ₹42.3 L | ₹5.5 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Structural Health MonitoringHabitat | ₹30.1 L | ₹12.2 L | ₹42.3 L | ₹5.5 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Agri-Robotics & AutomationHarvest | ₹24.1 L | ₹10.4 L | ₹34.5 L | ₹5.6 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Controlled-Environment & Bioenterprise AgricultureHarvest | ₹24.1 L | ₹10.4 L | ₹34.5 L | ₹5.6 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Crop Protection & Pest IntelligenceHarvest | ₹24.1 L | ₹10.4 L | ₹34.5 L | ₹5.6 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Farm Sensing, Soil & Crop MetrologyHarvest | ₹24.1 L | ₹10.4 L | ₹34.5 L | ₹5.6 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Farm-Gate Cold ChainHarvest | ₹24.1 L | ₹10.4 L | ₹34.5 L | ₹5.6 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Post-Harvest Metrology & Food ProcessingHarvest | ₹24.1 L | ₹10.4 L | ₹34.5 L | ₹5.6 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Precision Irrigation & FertigationHarvest | ₹24.1 L | ₹10.4 L | ₹34.5 L | ₹5.6 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Environmental & Industrial BiotechnologyHelix | ₹15.4 L | ₹8.1 L | ₹23.4 L | ₹5.4 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Food & Agricultural BiomanufacturingHelix | ₹15.4 L | ₹8.1 L | ₹23.4 L | ₹5.4 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Cryogenic & Vacuum EngineeringLattice | ₹2.50 Cr | ₹18.2 L | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹21.3 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Quantum Computing Access & ApplicationsLattice | ₹2.50 Cr | ₹18.2 L | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹21.3 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Quantum Photonics & Single-Photon SystemsLattice | ₹2.50 Cr | ₹18.2 L | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹21.3 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Quantum Sensing & MetrologyLattice | ₹2.50 Cr | ₹18.2 L | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹21.3 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| Offline-First Transaction InfrastructureLedger | ₹9.4 L | ₹8.2 L | ₹17.6 L | ₹4.3 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Trust, Audit & RegTech InstrumentationLedger | ₹9.4 L | ₹8.2 L | ₹17.6 L | ₹4.3 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Antenna, Arrays & PropagationSpectra | ₹9.4 L | ₹17.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹4.8 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Mission-Critical & Resilient CommunicationsSpectra | ₹9.4 L | ₹17.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹4.8 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| Optical Communication SystemsSpectra | ₹9.4 L | ₹17.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹4.8 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Photonic Sensing & DevicesSpectra | ₹9.4 L | ₹17.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹4.8 L | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Post-Quantum & Crypto-Agile ProductsSpectra | ₹9.4 L | ₹17.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹4.8 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| RF & Microwave SystemsSpectra | ₹9.4 L | ₹17.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹4.8 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| Radar & RF SensingSpectra | ₹9.4 L | ₹17.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹4.8 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Software-Defined Radio & Spectrum EngineeringSpectra | ₹9.4 L | ₹17.1 L | ₹26.5 L | ₹4.8 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| Aquaculture Automation & Aquatic HealthTide | ₹35.1 L | ₹12.1 L | ₹47.2 L | ₹7.0 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Ocean Instrumentation, Hydrography & Coastal MonitoringTide | ₹35.1 L | ₹12.1 L | ₹47.2 L | ₹7.0 L | Food, Water and Climate Security |
| ADAS, X-by-Wire & Functional SafetyTraction | ₹21.8 L | ₹33.8 L | ₹55.6 L | ₹9.4 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Battery Pack & BMS EngineeringTraction | ₹21.8 L | ₹33.8 L | ₹55.6 L | ₹9.4 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Connected Mobility & V2XTraction | ₹21.8 L | ₹33.8 L | ₹55.6 L | ₹9.4 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| EV Platforms & Vehicle IntegrationTraction | ₹21.8 L | ₹33.8 L | ₹55.6 L | ₹9.4 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Airborne Mission & Survivability SystemsVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| Autonomous Air MobilityVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Autonomy Verification & Safety AssuranceVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Drone & UAS EngineeringVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response, Food, Water and Climate Security |
| Perception, Sensor Fusion & Mission PayloadsVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Reference Autonomous Ground SystemsVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Resilient Navigation & PNTVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| Safety-Critical Systems & Formal AssuranceVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Swarm & Cooperative AutonomyVahana | ₹29.3 L | ₹12.9 L | ₹42.2 L | ₹6.0 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance |
| AI Accelerators & Domain-Specific HardwareWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence, Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Advanced Packaging & Chiplet IntegrationWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Analog & Mixed-Signal IC DesignWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Digital IC & SoC DesignWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Electronic, Photonic & Magnetic MaterialsWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Embedded Systems & FirmwareWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| FPGA & Reconfigurable ComputingWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence |
| Hardware Roots of Trust & Secure SiliconWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| High-Performance & Research Computing InfrastructureWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| RISC-V Processor SystemsWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Semiconductor Verification, DFT & TestWafer | ₹78.4 L | ₹8.6 L | ₹87.0 L | ₹14.5 L | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute |
| Dexterous Manipulation & Robotic HandsYantra | ₹28.2 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹39.1 L | ₹6.1 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Humanoid & Legged RoboticsYantra | ₹28.2 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹39.1 L | ₹6.1 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Motion Planning & Learning ControlYantra | ₹28.2 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹39.1 L | ₹6.1 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Platform RoboticsYantra | ₹28.2 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹39.1 L | ₹6.1 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Robot Perception & Sensor FusionYantra | ₹28.2 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹39.1 L | ₹6.1 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Soft & Bio-Inspired RoboticsYantra | ₹28.2 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹39.1 L | ₹6.1 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
| Teleoperation, Haptics & Human-Robot InteractionYantra | ₹28.2 L | ₹10.8 L | ₹39.1 L | ₹6.1 L | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response |
The five Missions, and the union without duplicates
| Mission | Foundries | Studio share | Fab Lab share | One-time | A year | Tasks | Per task |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Spectrum Dominance | 20 | ₹11.71 Cr | ₹3.27 Cr | ₹14.98 Cr | ₹1.98 Cr | 8 | ₹1.87 Cr |
| Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute | 19 | ₹15.01 Cr | ₹2.63 Cr | ₹17.64 Cr | ₹2.45 Cr | 8 | ₹2.21 Cr |
| Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 20 | ₹9.50 Cr | ₹2.71 Cr | ₹12.21 Cr | ₹1.84 Cr | 8 | ₹1.53 Cr |
| Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response | 24 | ₹6.71 Cr | ₹3.84 Cr | ₹10.55 Cr | ₹1.67 Cr | 8 | ₹1.32 Cr |
| Food, Water and Climate Security | 22 | ₹5.39 Cr | ₹2.28 Cr | ₹7.67 Cr | ₹1.27 Cr | 8 | ₹95.9 L |
| Sum of the five Missions (Foundries drawn by more than one Mission counted each time) | 105 | ₹48.32 Cr | ₹14.73 Cr | ₹63.05 Cr | ₹9.21 Cr | 40 | ₹1.58 Cr |
| Union of the five Missions (each Foundry once) | 89 | ₹38.67 Cr | ₹12.57 Cr | ₹51.25 Cr | ₹7.49 Cr | 40 | ₹1.28 Cr |
The 13 Foundries drawn by more than one Mission — ₹11.80 Cr removed from the sum
| Foundry | Missions drawing it | Draws | Cost once | Removed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Accelerators & Domain-Specific HardwareWafer | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence, Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response | 4 | ₹87.0 L | ₹2.61 Cr |
| Drone & UAS EngineeringVahana | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response, Food, Water and Climate Security | 3 | ₹42.2 L | ₹84.4 L |
| Antenna, Arrays & PropagationSpectra | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 2 | ₹26.5 L | ₹26.5 L |
| Radar & RF SensingSpectra | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response | 2 | ₹26.5 L | ₹26.5 L |
| FPGA & Reconfigurable ComputingWafer | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 2 | ₹87.0 L | ₹87.0 L |
| Analog & Mixed-Signal IC DesignWafer | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute | 2 | ₹87.0 L | ₹87.0 L |
| Hardware Roots of Trust & Secure SiliconWafer | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute | 2 | ₹87.0 L | ₹87.0 L |
| Quantum Photonics & Single-Photon SystemsLattice | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 2 | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹2.68 Cr |
| Advanced Composites & Lightweight StructuresForge | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 2 | ₹99.0 L | ₹99.0 L |
| Satellite Communication SystemsAstra | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 2 | ₹44.7 L | ₹44.7 L |
| Optical Communication SystemsSpectra | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute, Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 2 | ₹26.5 L | ₹26.5 L |
| Earth Observation & Geospatial SystemsAstra | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence, Food, Water and Climate Security | 2 | ₹44.7 L | ₹44.7 L |
| Solar Energy SystemsDynamo | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence, Food, Water and Climate Security | 2 | ₹37.2 L | ₹37.2 L |
The union is the Missions' share of the ecosystem on the allocation basis; the difference from the seventeen Studios with their labs (₹79.05 Cr) is the share of Foundries no Mission has drawn yet and the unallocated share of the labs. What is bought in the first phase is the purchasable bill below, not this union.
The forty tasks
Direct: the share of each Foundry whose products the task uses, spread over the tasks that use that Foundry. Indirect: the share of Foundries drawn by the task's Mission whose products no task has integrated yet, spread over that Mission's tasks. The allocated capex per unit divides shared infrastructure by a potential scale in that task's own unit (devices, tonnes, kilowatts, vehicles or people); it is not a deployment cost-effectiveness measure, because the numerator is allocated infrastructure and the denominator may need further spending to reach.
| # | Task | Products | Foundries | Direct | Indirect | Allocated | Reach and unit | Allocated capex per unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Give a coastal district a spectrum picture it owns | 6 | 6 | ₹89.1 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹89.1 L | 2,000,000 residents of a coastal district | ₹4 per people |
| 1.2 | Keep a relief convoy moving and talking when GPS and radio are jammed | 5 | 4 | ₹52.1 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹52.1 L | 50,000 people served by relief convoys in an event | ₹104 per people |
| 1.3 | Plan an electronic fight in seconds, with a human in charge | 6 | 4 | ₹66.4 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹66.4 L | 10,000 personnel protected | ₹664 per people |
| 1.4 | Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory | 7 | 6 | ₹2.37 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹2.37 Cr | 500 students and lab engineers | ₹47,447 per people |
| 1.5 | Send a quantum-secured key and a covert message across a campus link | 6 | 5 | ₹1.47 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.47 Cr | 100,000 users of secured links | ₹147 per people |
| 1.6 | Map the interfering sources in a district and hand the officer the evidence | 5 | 5 | ₹56.8 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹56.8 L | 2,000,000 district residents | ₹3 per people |
| 1.7 | Keep an airfield and a border post safe from birds, drones and ice | 6 | 5 | ₹2.82 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹2.82 Cr | 5,000,000 passengers and residents protected | ₹6 per people |
| 1.8 | Migrate a fleet to post-quantum security before the deadline | 6 | 4 | ₹1.38 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.38 Cr | 1,000,000 end users of a migrated fleet | ₹14 per people |
| 2.1 | Put an Indian chip in every camera the Missions deploy | 6 | 5 | ₹2.05 Cr | ₹33.6 L | ₹2.39 Cr | 20,000 devices deployed | ₹1,195 per devices |
| 2.2 | Train a Mission model on a cluster the students built | 6 | 4 | ₹79.4 L | ₹33.6 L | ₹1.13 Cr | 6,000 students with cluster access | ₹1,882 per people |
| 2.3 | Tape out a sovereign SoC and test it the week it returns | 7 | 4 | ₹2.85 Cr | ₹33.6 L | ₹3.19 Cr | 300 students through tape-out a year | ₹106,196 per people |
| 2.4 | Run a small language model in a village device | 3 | 3 | ₹44.5 L | ₹33.6 L | ₹78.1 L | 500,000 villagers reached by an offline assistant | ₹16 per people |
| 2.5 | Recover the critical materials the chips depend on | 4 | 2 | ₹1.22 Cr | ₹33.6 L | ₹1.56 Cr | 200 tonnes of e-waste a year at pilot scale | ₹77,994 per tonnes |
| 2.6 | Solve a scheduling problem on a quantum machine from a campus desk | 3 | 2 | ₹3.12 Cr | ₹33.6 L | ₹3.45 Cr | 2,000 students with quantum access | ₹17,273 per people |
| 2.7 | Ship a sensor that runs a decade on harvested energy | 5 | 4 | ₹1.26 Cr | ₹33.6 L | ₹1.59 Cr | 100,000 sensors deployed | ₹159 per devices |
| 2.8 | Run the campus cluster on sunlight and grow food with its heat | 6 | 6 | ₹1.60 Cr | ₹33.6 L | ₹1.94 Cr | 250 kW of compute on renewables | ₹77,462 per kilowatts |
| 3.1 | Deliver a flood map to a district within hours of the pass | 4 | 4 | ₹41.0 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹41.0 L | 3,000,000 residents of flood-prone districts | ₹1 per people |
| 3.2 | Warn a village before the water arrives | 6 | 4 | ₹50.6 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹50.6 L | 500,000 villagers under warning | ₹10 per people |
| 3.3 | Fly a constellation that updates in orbit and deorbits responsibly | 6 | 5 | ₹1.50 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.50 Cr | 100 students in constellation operations | ₹149,703 per people |
| 3.4 | Hear a fishing boat beyond the horizon | 5 | 4 | ₹36.1 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹36.1 L | 100,000 fishers on the coast | ₹36 per people |
| 3.5 | Qualify a flight satellite on campus and send a quantum key from orbit | 8 | 5 | ₹2.03 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹2.03 Cr | 200 students in qualification | ₹101,586 per people |
| 3.6 | Find the methane leaks a state cannot see | 5 | 5 | ₹47.6 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹47.6 L | 20,000,000 residents of a state with methane monitoring | ₹0 per people |
| 3.7 | Pay a farmer for cyclone loss within days | 6 | 5 | ₹61.8 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹61.8 L | 300,000 farmers under insurance | ₹21 per people |
| 3.8 | Fly a payload at the edge of space before it flies in orbit | 7 | 7 | ₹2.27 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹2.27 Cr | 400 students in flight test | ₹56,861 per people |
| 4.1 | Enter a collapsed building before a responder does | 8 | 7 | ₹1.34 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.34 Cr | 2,000 NDRF and SDRF responders | ₹6,704 per people |
| 4.2 | Carry passengers across campus in the monsoon | 7 | 7 | ₹1.79 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.79 Cr | 20,000 campus passengers a year | ₹896 per people |
| 4.3 | Train a robot in simulation on Monday and walk it on rubble on Friday | 6 | 6 | ₹88.8 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹88.8 L | 1,000 students on the physical-AI stack | ₹8,882 per people |
| 4.4 | Measure a damaged structure before people enter | 6 | 4 | ₹89.2 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹89.2 L | 5,000 responders and residents | ₹1,783 per people |
| 4.5 | Attest a fleet's safety daily and keep it honest | 6 | 5 | ₹1.66 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.66 Cr | 500 vehicles in a certified fleet | ₹33,160 per vehicles |
| 4.6 | Run an Indian warehouse with robots trained on Indian shelves | 6 | 4 | ₹76.0 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹76.0 L | 300 warehouse workers upskilled | ₹25,328 per people |
| 4.7 | Clear the road and fly the blood: an emergency corridor for a district | 6 | 5 | ₹1.03 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.03 Cr | 2,000,000 district residents | ₹5 per people |
| 4.8 | Fight a fire and print a shelter with machines | 7 | 7 | ₹1.01 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.01 Cr | 10,000 people sheltered after an event | ₹1,012 per people |
| 5.1 | Run a smallholder's season on a model that knows the district | 7 | 5 | ₹87.1 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹87.1 L | 100,000 smallholder farmers in a district | ₹87 per people |
| 5.2 | Catch a pest outbreak before it crosses the district | 5 | 3 | ₹45.5 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹45.5 L | 100,000 farmers in a district | ₹46 per people |
| 5.3 | Warn a basin of flood and drought from a digital twin | 6 | 4 | ₹92.5 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹92.5 L | 5,000,000 residents of a river basin | ₹2 per people |
| 5.4 | Move a village's mangoes to a city kitchen overnight | 7 | 5 | ₹95.8 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹95.8 L | 100,000 farmers on the cold chain | ₹96 per people |
| 5.5 | Give a village safe water and prove every tanker | 6 | 3 | ₹62.5 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹62.5 L | 50,000 villagers with safe water | ₹125 per people |
| 5.6 | Turn straw into gas, fertiliser and a carbon credit the village can prove | 7 | 5 | ₹81.1 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹81.1 L | 20,000 farmers in a carbon programme | ₹405 per people |
| 5.7 | Warn a district of drought and give it a plan | 6 | 6 | ₹88.7 L | ₹0.0 L | ₹88.7 L | 2,000,000 residents of a drought-prone district | ₹4 per people |
| 5.8 | Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has | 8 | 8 | ₹1.46 Cr | ₹0.0 L | ₹1.46 Cr | 20,000 residents of coastal villages | ₹730 per people |
| Forty tasks | 238 | — | ₹48.56 Cr | ₹2.68 Cr | ₹51.25 Cr | by unit, Part J | — |
Incremental task budgets, beside the allocation
Allocated infrastructure capex is the share of shared equipment a task rests on; it is not the cost to complete the task. The incremental budget is what the task itself consumes: materials for five products per flagship at ₹1.5 lakh each — built once, and shared where two tasks use the same flagship — test and certification by the kind of Studio drawn (₹4–15 lakh per kind), and ₹5 lakh of partner or range fees. The incremental budgets are carried in the total cost of ownership as the row "task materials, tests and partner fees" over years one to three; they are not added to it again, and the ₹1.5 lakh allowance is a planning figure to be replaced by each product's bill of materials.
| # | Task | Allocated infrastructure capex | Materials | Tests and partner | Incremental task budget |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Give a coastal district a spectrum picture it owns | ₹89.1 L | ₹45.0 L | ₹39.0 L | ₹84.0 L |
| 1.2 | Keep a relief convoy moving and talking when GPS and radio are jammed | ₹52.1 L | ₹37.5 L | ₹39.0 L | ₹76.5 L |
| 1.3 | Plan an electronic fight in seconds, with a human in charge | ₹66.4 L | ₹45.0 L | ₹39.0 L | ₹84.0 L |
| 1.4 | Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory | ₹2.37 Cr | ₹48.8 L | ₹49.0 L | ₹97.8 L |
| 1.5 | Send a quantum-secured key and a covert message across a campus link | ₹1.47 Cr | ₹37.5 L | ₹34.0 L | ₹71.5 L |
| 1.6 | Map the interfering sources in a district and hand the officer the evidence | ₹56.8 L | ₹37.5 L | ₹39.0 L | ₹76.5 L |
| 1.7 | Keep an airfield and a border post safe from birds, drones and ice | ₹2.82 Cr | ₹41.2 L | ₹49.0 L | ₹90.2 L |
| 1.8 | Migrate a fleet to post-quantum security before the deadline | ₹1.38 Cr | ₹37.5 L | ₹34.0 L | ₹71.5 L |
| 2.1 | Put an Indian chip in every camera the Missions deploy | ₹2.39 Cr | ₹45.0 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹65.0 L |
| 2.2 | Train a Mission model on a cluster the students built | ₹1.13 Cr | ₹45.0 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹69.0 L |
| 2.3 | Tape out a sovereign SoC and test it the week it returns | ₹3.19 Cr | ₹52.5 L | ₹35.0 L | ₹87.5 L |
| 2.4 | Run a small language model in a village device | ₹78.1 L | ₹18.8 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹42.8 L |
| 2.5 | Recover the critical materials the chips depend on | ₹1.56 Cr | ₹30.0 L | ₹28.0 L | ₹58.0 L |
| 2.6 | Solve a scheduling problem on a quantum machine from a campus desk | ₹3.45 Cr | ₹22.5 L | ₹30.0 L | ₹52.5 L |
| 2.7 | Ship a sensor that runs a decade on harvested energy | ₹1.59 Cr | ₹33.8 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹53.8 L |
| 2.8 | Run the campus cluster on sunlight and grow food with its heat | ₹1.94 Cr | ₹45.0 L | ₹39.0 L | ₹84.0 L |
| 3.1 | Deliver a flood map to a district within hours of the pass | ₹41.0 L | ₹30.0 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹50.0 L |
| 3.2 | Warn a village before the water arrives | ₹50.6 L | ₹37.5 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹61.5 L |
| 3.3 | Fly a constellation that updates in orbit and deorbits responsibly | ₹1.50 Cr | ₹45.0 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹65.0 L |
| 3.4 | Hear a fishing boat beyond the horizon | ₹36.1 L | ₹33.8 L | ₹39.0 L | ₹72.8 L |
| 3.5 | Qualify a flight satellite on campus and send a quantum key from orbit | ₹2.03 Cr | ₹60.0 L | ₹49.0 L | ₹1.09 Cr |
| 3.6 | Find the methane leaks a state cannot see | ₹47.6 L | ₹37.5 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹61.5 L |
| 3.7 | Pay a farmer for cyclone loss within days | ₹61.8 L | ₹33.8 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹57.8 L |
| 3.8 | Fly a payload at the edge of space before it flies in orbit | ₹2.27 Cr | ₹52.5 L | ₹39.0 L | ₹91.5 L |
| 4.1 | Enter a collapsed building before a responder does | ₹1.34 Cr | ₹60.0 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹84.0 L |
| 4.2 | Carry passengers across campus in the monsoon | ₹1.79 Cr | ₹52.5 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹72.5 L |
| 4.3 | Train a robot in simulation on Monday and walk it on rubble on Friday | ₹88.8 L | ₹45.0 L | ₹35.0 L | ₹80.0 L |
| 4.4 | Measure a damaged structure before people enter | ₹89.2 L | ₹45.0 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹69.0 L |
| 4.5 | Attest a fleet's safety daily and keep it honest | ₹1.66 Cr | ₹45.0 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹65.0 L |
| 4.6 | Run an Indian warehouse with robots trained on Indian shelves | ₹76.0 L | ₹41.2 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹61.2 L |
| 4.7 | Clear the road and fly the blood: an emergency corridor for a district | ₹1.03 Cr | ₹41.2 L | ₹20.0 L | ₹61.2 L |
| 4.8 | Fight a fire and print a shelter with machines | ₹1.01 Cr | ₹52.5 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹76.5 L |
| 5.1 | Run a smallholder's season on a model that knows the district | ₹87.1 L | ₹52.5 L | ₹24.0 L | ₹76.5 L |
| 5.2 | Catch a pest outbreak before it crosses the district | ₹45.5 L | ₹37.5 L | ₹32.0 L | ₹69.5 L |
| 5.3 | Warn a basin of flood and drought from a digital twin | ₹92.5 L | ₹45.0 L | ₹43.0 L | ₹88.0 L |
| 5.4 | Move a village's mangoes to a city kitchen overnight | ₹95.8 L | ₹52.5 L | ₹32.0 L | ₹84.5 L |
| 5.5 | Give a village safe water and prove every tanker | ₹62.5 L | ₹45.0 L | ₹17.0 L | ₹62.0 L |
| 5.6 | Turn straw into gas, fertiliser and a carbon credit the village can prove | ₹81.1 L | ₹52.5 L | ₹40.0 L | ₹92.5 L |
| 5.7 | Warn a district of drought and give it a plan | ₹88.7 L | ₹45.0 L | ₹39.0 L | ₹84.0 L |
| 5.8 | Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has | ₹1.46 Cr | ₹60.0 L | ₹40.0 L | ₹1.00 Cr |
| Forty tasks | ₹51.25 Cr | ₹17.25 Cr | ₹12.35 Cr | ₹29.60 Cr |
The proposed first phase: a purchasable bill, not an allocation
The Mission union (₹51.25 Cr = ₹38.67 Cr of Studio share and ₹12.57 Cr of allocated lab share) is a costing view: it divides each Studio equally across its Foundries. Equipment is not bought in fractions. The proposed first phase is therefore built from the assets themselves: every Studio's big-ticket items and fit-out are indivisible and are bought whole because every Studio has Foundries drawn now; kits and rigs scale with the Foundries drawn; all six Fab Labs are bought whole. Foundries no current Mission draws defer their kits, each with a trigger — a Mission that draws it, a sponsor that asks for it, or utilisation above 60% beside it. No funding in this document is committed; the phase is proposed, not funded.
| Studio | Foundries | Drawn | Deferred | Big-ticket and fit-out (whole) | Kits now | Phase 1 with contingency | Kits deferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectra | 9 | 8 | 1 | ₹56.0 L | ₹17.6 L | ₹82.5 L | ₹2.5 L |
| Vahana | 10 | 9 | 1 | ₹50.7 L | ₹1.90 Cr | ₹2.69 Cr | ₹23.6 L |
| Wafer | 16 | 11 | 5 | ₹5.14 Cr | ₹4.17 Cr | ₹10.43 Cr | ₹2.12 Cr |
| Lattice | 4 | 4 | 0 | ₹2.50 Cr | ₹6.44 Cr | ₹10.01 Cr | ₹0.0 L |
| Forge | 11 | 5 | 6 | ₹4.70 Cr | ₹44.4 L | ₹5.76 Cr | ₹59.6 L |
| Habitat | 10 | 5 | 5 | ₹46.0 L | ₹1.11 Cr | ₹1.76 Cr | ₹1.25 Cr |
| Astra | 11 | 9 | 2 | ₹2.19 Cr | ₹1.21 Cr | ₹3.81 Cr | ₹30.2 L |
| Dynamo | 9 | 3 | 6 | ₹1.07 Cr | ₹29.4 L | ₹1.53 Cr | ₹66.0 L |
| Ledger | 8 | 2 | 6 | ₹55.0 L | ₹3.0 L | ₹65.0 L | ₹10.2 L |
| Aquifer | 9 | 5 | 4 | ₹42.0 L | ₹98.7 L | ₹1.58 Cr | ₹88.5 L |
| Frontline | 8 | 3 | 5 | ₹40.0 L | ₹6.3 L | ₹51.8 L | ₹11.7 L |
| Yantra | 8 | 7 | 1 | ₹72.0 L | ₹1.14 Cr | ₹2.08 Cr | ₹18.2 L |
| Traction | 8 | 4 | 4 | ₹83.0 L | ₹36.4 L | ₹1.34 Cr | ₹40.8 L |
| Freight | 6 | 3 | 3 | ₹58.0 L | ₹43.6 L | ₹1.14 Cr | ₹48.8 L |
| Harvest | 9 | 7 | 2 | ₹69.0 L | ₹97.1 L | ₹1.86 Cr | ₹31.1 L |
| Helix | 9 | 2 | 7 | ₹60.5 L | ₹14.0 L | ₹83.4 L | ₹54.8 L |
| Tide | 6 | 2 | 4 | ₹47.5 L | ₹46.9 L | ₹1.06 Cr | ₹1.05 Cr |
| Six Fab Labs (whole) | — | — | — | ₹21.91 Cr | — | ₹21.91 Cr | — |
| Proposed first phase | 151 | 89 | 62 | ₹44.31 Cr | ₹20.34 Cr | ₹69.78 Cr | ₹9.28 Cr |
Bridge: ecosystem capital ₹79.05 Cr = proposed first phase ₹69.78 Cr + deferred kits ₹9.28 Cr. The union allocation (₹51.25 Cr) is smaller than the phase bill (₹69.78 Cr) because it counts fractions of indivisible items and only the allocated share of the labs; it is the figure to use for cost per task, and the phase bill is the figure to use for cash.
One annual figure, bridged
The equipment-driven annual cost in the Studio and lab tables — consumables, AMC, software, services and electricity — is ₹12.19 Cr. The operating total in year one below is larger because it adds staff, faculty mentor time, cloud, task materials and tests, insurance and contingency, and smaller in one respect because AMC starts after the warranty years. The bridge: equipment-driven ₹12.19 Cr − AMC in warranty ₹1.71 Cr + staff ₹5.11 Cr + mentors ₹4.18 Cr + cloud ₹25.0 L + task materials, tests and partner fees ₹9.87 Cr + insurance ₹39.5 L + contingency ₹3.11 Cr = ₹34.21 Cr.
Total cost of ownership over five years
Beyond the capital: consumables and maintenance by equipment class (printer material, cleanroom gases and filters, culture media, machine tooling — fab 10%, heavy 10%, clean 14%, bio 15%, wet 8%, precision 6%, physical 8%, light 6%, compute 2%), AMC at 6% of instruments after 2 warranty years, software and services, cloud, electricity from installed load at 55% diversity, 2,200 hours and ₹8 per kWh (PUE 1.3 on compute), task materials, tests and partner fees (the incremental task budgets, years one to three), insurance, replacement at 6% of capital from year three, staff, faculty mentor time, 5% annual escalation and a 10% contingency on operating cost. Every funding source in this document is an application, not a commitment; the table assumes none.
| ₹ lakh | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumables | 622 | 653 | 685 | 720 | 756 |
| Amc | 0 | 0 | 189 | 198 | 208 |
| Software | 256 | 269 | 283 | 297 | 312 |
| Electricity | 252 | 264 | 277 | 291 | 306 |
| Cloud | 25 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| Task materials tests and partner fees | 987 | 1,036 | 1,088 | 0 | 0 |
| Staff | 511 | 537 | 563 | 592 | 621 |
| Mentors | 418 | 439 | 461 | 484 | 508 |
| Insurance | 40 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 48 |
| Replacement | 0 | 0 | 523 | 549 | 577 |
| Contingency | 311 | 327 | 414 | 320 | 337 |
| Operating total | 3,421 | 3,592 | 4,554 | 3,525 | 3,702 |
Staffing model
| Role | Head | ₹ lakh each | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lab managers | 5 | 14.0 | one per Fab Lab; approve equipment use |
| Technicians | 34 | 6.0 | rostered per shift, not per facility: two on duty in each high-hazard bay in each of the two daily sessions (machine hall, wet and bio bay, physical-AI and battery bay, clean and precision bay, electronics), one in each light bay; no hazardous cell operates with fewer than two competent persons present |
| Professional engineers | 9 | 12.0 | continuity, integration, platforms; one per Mission plus four platform engineers |
| EHS lead and two safety officers | 3 | 9.0 | hazardous operations approval, incident reporting, stop-work authority |
| Student instructors | 170 | 0.6 | ten per Studio, paid ten hours a week each, rostered to booked shifts; a hazardous activity also needs a competent authorised operator on duty |
| Faculty mentors | 186 | — | One 30-minute review a week for 1,857 teams is 928 hours; with preparation and assessment at half again that is 35 FTE, at five allocated hours per faculty member; leave cover and incident response come from the technicians' two-shift roster and the professional engineers; recognised in workload, not unpaid |
Technician roster by bay and session
| Bay | Per session | Hazards held | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| PBL Lab 1 — Mechanical Fab Lab, Forge, Metrology, Stores | 2 | machine tools, lasers, dust, cobots; laser safety officer on the roster | Machine rooms open only with a technician present |
| PBL Lab 2 — Electronics Fab Lab, Spectra | 2 | soldering, reflow, RF sources | One electronics technician and one RF technician per session |
| PBL Lab 3 — Compute lab, Ledger, Frontline | 1 | servers, secure suite | Light bay; the Compute lab manager covers the second session |
| PBL Lab 4 — Dynamo, Helix, Tide, Aquifer | 2 | high voltage, biosafety, chemistry, water | One for the biosafety suite, one for the wet and power benches; autoclave and fermenters only with the biosafety technician |
| PBL Lab 5 — Vahana, Yantra, Freight, Traction | 2 | battery abuse cabinet, ranges, arena, robots | One for the battery and HV benches, one for the ranges; the abuse cabinet runs only with both present |
| PBL Lab 6 — Harvest, Habitat | 1 | light benches, grow cubes | Light bay |
| PBL Lab 7 — Commons | 1 | gallery, mission control | Shared with Lab 6 on the same floor |
| PBL Lab 8 — Wafer, Astra, Lattice | 2 | cleanroom gases and solvents, ESD, lasers, cryogenics and vacuum | One cleanroom technician, one optics and cryogenics technician; darkroom lasers only with the laser safety officer |
| Fabrication Services and Stores | 1 | receiving, hazardous stores | Day session; stores locked outside |
| Float and cover | 3 | leave, incident response, second-session cover | Two per session held in reserve across both floors |
| Two sessions a day | 17 per session · 34 positions | 34 technicians on the payroll cover 34 session-positions at five sessions a week each; a hazardous cell never operates with fewer than two competent persons, one of them a technician | |
Sensitivity — coherent scenarios
| Case | Ecosystem one-time | Mission union |
|---|---|---|
| Planning basis — full duty on imports, 12% contingency | ₹79.05 Cr | ₹51.25 Cr |
| With DSIR-PFRI registration — 5% concessional duty in place of the 20% landed uplift on every import-flagged line | ₹77.74 Cr | ₹50.33 Cr |
| Band low end — every line at the bottom of its quoted band (indicative: about 35% below planning) | ₹51.38 Cr | ₹33.31 Cr |
| Band high end — every line at the top of its band (indicative: about 45% above planning) | ₹114.63 Cr | ₹74.31 Cr |
| Rupee weakens 10% against the dollar — on the ₹10.03 Cr of import-flagged lines (big-ticket, kits and lab pools) | ₹80.06 Cr | ₹51.90 Cr |
| Grants delayed twelve months — no change to capital; one more year of operating cost before any grant offsets it | — | +₹34.21 Cr operating |
| Utilisation at 60% — consumables and electricity fall by about a third; staff and AMC do not | — | −₹2.88 Cr a year |
| A failed tape-out — one funded re-spin | +₹40.0 L | +₹40.0 L |
What is and is not in these figures
- In: equipment, fit-out and contingency for the seventeen Studios and six Fab Labs, the Heavy Fab Lab included; annual software, consumables, AMC, services and credits.
- Not in the capital figure: buildings and civil works beyond fit-out; launch costs; student stipends. Staff, faculty time, electricity, cloud, task materials and tests, insurance and replacement are in the total cost of ownership above, not in the capital figure; the total cost of ownership and the incremental task budgets are one figure, not two to be added.
- Two items carry no price by nature: tape-out and packaging (per-run, subsidised through C2S) and radiation-test access (by partnership).
- The earlier plan's per-Studio figures are shown for reference only; they included the shared classes now in the Fab Labs and a package lump this register replaces, which is why they no longer add up to the same total.
Part F · Fitting the seventeen Studios into the eight PBL labs of the sports complex
What the two floors can hold, how the Studios and Fab Labs are placed, a concept plan for each of the eight labs, what has to be deferred and where it goes, and how the design compares with the best academic and industrial floors
The building in one picture
The eight labs, as drawn
| Lab | L × W (m) | m² | Sits over | Ends, edges and services | Assigned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PBL Lab 1First floor · west wing · north bay | 53.93 × 16.67 | 899 | the entrance level (ground-floor toilets and services below the east end) | Lift core, gents and ladies toilets, lockers and a wash block sit at the east end of the bay; the fire stair and an FRD at the west end; a 2 m corridor along the south edge to Lab 2; 2 m cantilever terrace to the north, with the crane door for goods that exceed the lift | Mechanical Fab Lab, Traction, Forge, Fabrication Services and Stores, Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab |
| PBL Lab 2First floor · west wing · south strip | 44.49 × 9.66 | 430 | the gymnasium (rhythmic crowd loading below) | Fire stair, FRD and a showers and change-room block (5.43 × 9.50 m, for planning) at the west end; two 16-passenger MRL lifts (2100 × 2550 mm) and an AHU room 3.32 × 6.66 m at the east end; glass elevation to the south | Design commons, Showcase gallery, Studio offices, Mission control |
| PBL Lab 3First floor · east wing · south strip | 50.08 × 9.73 | 487 | the play area below (50.07 × 37.34 m) | Two lifts and an AHU room 3.32 × 6.66 m at the west end by the entrance lobby; fire tower, fire stair and FRD at the east end; glass elevation to the south | Harvest, Habitat |
| PBL Lab 4First floor · east wing · north bay | 53.93 × 16.67 | 899 | the entrance level (ground-floor electrical room 4.14 × 4.04 m, toilets and water-fountain room below the west end) | Lift core, toilets and a bus duct at the west end, with the ground-floor electrical room directly below — so the dry Dynamo benches sit there and the wet cells are at the east end; fire tower with FRD at the east end; 2 m corridor along the south edge to Lab 3; cantilever terrace to the north | Dynamo, Helix, Tide, Aquifer |
| PBL Lab 5Second floor · west wing · north bay | 53.93 × 16.67 | 899 | PBL Lab 1 | Six staff rooms 3.26 × 2.78 m and the lift core at the east end; fire stair and FRD at the west end; the Kabaddi terrace (35.33 × 22.00 m) opens to the north — a bookable outdoor test ground | Vahana, Yantra, Freight |
| PBL Lab 6Second floor · west wing · south strip | 44.49 × 9.66 | 430 | PBL Lab 2 and the gymnasium | Fire stair and a 4.30 × 6.23 m service room at the west end; lifts and AHU at the east end; lobby 22.10 × 9.37 m to the east | Electronics Fab Lab, Spectra |
| PBL Lab 7Second floor · east wing · south strip | 50.08 × 9.73 | 487 | PBL Lab 3 and the play area | Lifts and AHU at the west end by the lobby; fire tower, fire stair and a 4.30 × 6.23 m service room at the east end | Compute and Software Lab, Ledger, Frontline |
| PBL Lab 8Second floor · east wing · north bay | 53.93 × 16.67 | 899 | PBL Lab 4 | Electrical room 3.58 × 4.09 m and the lift core at the west end; fire tower at the east end; the Kho-Kho terrace (35.33 × 22.00 m) opens to the north | Wafer, Astra, Lattice |
| Eight labs | — | 5,430 | Column grid at about 7.7 m along the long edges; 16-passenger MRL lift, cab 2100 × 2550 mm, 1.25 m/s — the largest single item that can arrive by lift is about 2.0 × 2.4 m and 1.0 t; clear height assumed 4.2 m and to be confirmed on the structural drawings, as are the slab live-load ratings | ||
Does it fit? The honest test
What to compromise on, in order
- Concurrency, not presence. Every Studio exists; two sessions a day carry the cohort in visits, not seats. This costs scheduling; the deferred elements below cost capability, and each moves the affected product's Year-3 gate to a terrace, a partner range or the annex.
- Scale of the physical range, not the range itself. Micro-drone arena instead of an 8 m arena; a 4 × 2 m tank instead of a flume; 3.5 m racking instead of 6 m; a rubble range of 9 × 6 m. The Year-1 and Year-2 products are built and tested here; the Year-3 flagship is qualified where the full range is.
- Heavy plant on upper floors. Metal additive, the 5-axis VMC, the dynamometer, the large TVAC and the composites autoclave wait for a ground-floor annex or run as bureau and partner time. This is the one compromise that touches capability directly, and it is bounded: about 2,500 m² of ground-floor hall in Phase 2 restores it.
- Vehicles above two-wheeler scale. The lift cab is 2.1 × 2.55 m; Traction builds at e-two-wheeler scale here and uses a partner garage.
- Never compromise on: slab loads, egress, the vented battery cabinet, the biosafety door, the cleanroom air handling, or the vibration criterion for the optics — these are the items to confirm with the structural and services engineers before a single wall goes up.
Studio by Studio: what is on the floor, what is deferred, and where it goes
| Studio | Keeps on these floors | Defers | Where it goes | Slab and height |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ForgePBL Lab 1 · plan 1,261 m² net | Resin and SLS printing, metrology bench, composites layup (cured at the Heavy Fab Lab), coatings touch-up with extraction, tooling stores | Metal additive, the 5-axis centre, the composites autoclave and every machine that cuts metal, welds or makes dust | The Heavy Fab Lab on the main campus, which takes metal additive, the 5-axis centre and the autoclave; parts travel on the twice-daily shuttle and return machined | ≥10 kN/m² under mid-size machines; verify; height: 6.0 m planned; 4.2 m available — mezzanine stores not possible |
| AquiferPBL Lab 4 · plan 1,118 m² net | Water-quality bench, membrane test skid (shallow tanks ≤0.6 m), electrochemistry, air-quality instruments, MRV bench, drained wet floor | Pilot treatment units above 1 m³ and any deep tank | Ground-floor water hall (Phase 2) or the campus STP as a live testbed | Shallow tanks only, depth capped at 0.6 m (≈ 6 kN/m²); at the east end of Lab 4, away from the ground-floor electrical room; bunded floor with secondary containment and leak detection; verify the slab locally for 10 kN/m²; height: 6.0 m planned; 4.2 m available |
| TidePBL Lab 4 · plan 1,042 m² net | Instrument build, pressure-test pot, sensor calibration, aquaculture sensing bench, a 4 × 2 × 0.6 m test tank | Wave flume and towing tank; sea trials | NIOT and CIBA partnership ranges; a ground-floor water hall in Phase 2 | Test tank at 0.6 m ≈ 5.9 kN/m² of water plus tank over its 8 m² footprint, at the east end of Lab 4 away from the electrical room, in a bund with a drain routed east; verify the slab locally for 10 kN/m²; height: 5.0 m planned; 4.2 m available |
| HelixPBL Lab 4 · plan 895 m² net | BSL-1/2 suite: biosafety cabinet, 2–15 L bioreactors, autoclave, incubators, HPLC, sealed surfaces, self-closing lockable door, eyewash | 100–150 L fermenters and scale-up | BIRAC BioNEST partner or a Phase-2 pilot plant | Standard; height: 4.5 m planned; 4.2 m available |
| DynamoPBL Lab 4 · plan 1,083 m² net | Power-electronics benches, microgrid controller HIL, smart-meter bench, thermal imaging, battery-storage bench (vented cabinet) | PV test field and solar simulator array | The roof and the north terraces for PV strings; a solar simulator when the annex exists | Standard; height: 4.2 m ✓ |
| SpectraPBL Lab 6 · plan 870 m² net | RF benches, table-top anechoic box, SDR benches, VNA to 26 GHz, optical-communications bench; antenna measurements on the terrace | Full anechoic chamber and antenna positioner | SAMEER or Astra Microwave chamber time; a Phase-2 chamber | Standard; height: 5.0 m planned; 4.2 m available |
| LedgerPBL Lab 7 · plan 813 m² net | Secure, enclosed suite: secure-element benches, side-channel bench, EMV and NFC test, audit-ledger racks | Nothing | — | Standard; height: 4.2 m ✓ |
| FrontlinePBL Lab 7 · plan 831 m² net | Alerting and SCADA benches, ruggedisation bench, field-kit assembly and stores | Siren and PA tests at full power | The terraces at set hours; campus perimeter for drills | Standard; height: 4.2 m ✓ |
| VahanaPBL Lab 5 · plan 1,421 m² net | Netted micro-drone arena 12 × 8 m at 3.6 m net height, motion capture, autopilot benches, HIL, airframe build, flight-log room | Full-scale flights and the 8 m arena; DGCA test flights | The Kabaddi terrace and the play area at booked hours; a partner RPTO field for BVLOS | Standard; height: 8.0 m planned; 4.2 m available — micro and education scale only |
| YantraPBL Lab 5 · plan 879 m² net | Legged and humanoid platforms, a 9 × 6 m rubble and stairs range with overhead tether, arm cells, teleoperation and haptics bench | Large rubble field | The terrace for outdoor gait trials | Standard; height: 4.5 m planned; 4.2 m available |
| FreightPBL Lab 5 · plan 1,337 m² net | AMR test grid 10 × 8 m, robot-arm pick cell, packaging bench, 3.5 m racking bay, barcode and RFID bench | 6 m racking and a working distribution-centre pilot | A partner warehouse (Addverb, GreyOrange) for the Year-3 gate | Standard; height: 6.0 m planned; 4.2 m available |
| TractionPBL Lab 1 · plan 1,159 m² net | Battery cycler bench, BMS and HIL benches, CAN and V2X tools, e-two-wheeler chassis bench, a vented thermal-abuse cabinet with external duct | Vehicle platforms above two-wheeler scale, the dynamometer and pack-level abuse tests | The vehicle garage bay at the Heavy Fab Lab for anything above two-wheeler scale; ARAI or partner dyno time; abuse tests at a UL 9540A-class partner facility | Standard; abuse cabinet vented to outside air; height: 4.5 m planned; 4.2 m available |
| WaferPBL Lab 8 · plan 1,191 m² net | ISO-7 cleanroom-lite 8 × 6 m with gowning and its own AHU, probe station and parameter analyser, wire bonder, FPGA and RISC-V benches, bring-up lab | The campus supercluster nodes (heat and power) and heavy deposition tools | The Compute lab hosts the small GPU servers; the supercluster in the data-centre room of the Habitat plan (Phase 2) | Standard; the cleanroom sits on a raised floor; height: 4.2 m ✓ (cleanroom plenum needs 0.6 m above) |
| AstraPBL Lab 8 · plan 892 m² net | ISO-8 AIT room 8 × 6 m with ESD floor and a 1 t hoist at 3.5 m, a bench TVAC under one tonne (delivered by the 16-passenger lift), small shaker, Helmholtz cage, flat-sat benches, ground-station room with antennas on the terrace edge | Large TVAC and shaker, a 5 m crane-hook AIT hall | URSC and Dhruva Space facilities for flight-model qualification | Verify locally under the bench TVAC (under 1 t) and the shaker; height: 4.5 m planned; 4.2 m available — no crane |
| LatticePBL Lab 8 · plan 706 m² net | Optical benches on active isolation, single-photon lab (darkroom), quantum-sensing bench, a closed-cycle cryostat, vacuum stack, quantum-computing access room | Nothing in scope, but performance depends on the floor | If the second-floor slab fails VC-C (12.5 µm/s), the optics move to a ground-floor room in Phase 2 | Vibration: needs VC-C or active isolation on every table; height: 4.2 m ✓ |
| HarvestPBL Lab 3 · plan 1,459 m² net | Sensing and probe benches, CEA grow cube and mushroom cube, spray-rig bench without flight, post-harvest and cold-chain module, drone assembly | Field plots, farm robots at scale, spray-drone flights | The campus farm and ANGRAU plots; the play area for robot trials at booked hours | Standard; height: 6.0 m planned; 4.2 m available |
| HabitatPBL Lab 3 · plan 1,202 m² net | SHM instrumentation bench, fibre-optic strain bench, data-centre rack and CDU demonstration cell, cyber-physical range racks | Shake-table access, structural test frames, construction robots at scale | The structural test frame at the Heavy Fab Lab, shared with the civil department; IIT Madras for shake-table work | Standard; height: 7.5 m planned; 4.2 m available |
How the labs were assigned, and how the assignment was tested
Two rules decide the plan and they are checked, not asserted. The first is the building: a bay takes what its slab, its height and its services can carry, so everything with weight, water or extraction is on the first floor near the lift core, and light, clean and precision work is on the second. The second is the Mission graph: Studios that share tasks should not be separated by a stair. Every arrangement of the four strip bays was scored against the forty tasks — how many tasks need each pair of Studios, multiplied by how far apart that pair would walk — and the arrangement below is the one that scored best. It cut the coupled walking from 10,152 task-metres to 8,650, a sixth, and it moved Spectra from two floors away from Wafer to the same floor, which alone accounts for ten tasks.
First floor. Lab 1 is the making floor: the light Mechanical Fab Lab, Traction, Forge, Stores and the Metrology lab, in that order along the bay so that measurement sits at the far end from the machines and the chassis bench, with the stores between them. Lab 2, on the lift lobby, is the commons a visitor meets first: the gallery, the design commons, the Studio offices and Mission control. Lab 3 holds Harvest and Habitat, whose real work is outdoors or at partners. Lab 4 is the wet and biological bay — Dynamo's dry benches at the west end above the ground-floor electrical room, then the biosafety suite, then Tide and Aquifer at the east end on a bunded floor.
Second floor. Lab 5 is the physical-AI floor: the netted arena, the rubble range and the AMR grid share one e-stop ring, one technician pair and the Kabaddi terrace outside the wall. Lab 6 pairs the Electronics Fab Lab with Spectra on one ESD floor. Lab 7 holds the Compute lab, Ledger's secure suite and Frontline. Lab 8 is the clean and precision bay: Wafer's cleanroom and Astra's AIT room side by side nearest the wing-end air handling, and Lattice's darkroom in the quietest corner. The cleanroom and the darkroom are set back from the glazed elevation rather than against it — lithography works under yellow light and a darkroom wants a blank wall.
The eight floor plans — concept retrofit, subject to structural, MEP and fire approval
Each plan is drawn to the dimensions on the drawings received on 17 September 2026: a main aisle along the corridor side as the trolley, AGV and egress route; occupant cells across the full remaining depth; a 3.0 m (2.4 m on the strips) front band along the aisle for the design pod, the Studio office and the showcase; team benches in the middle; plant, test and stores against the window wall; special rooms drawn to their sizes. Columns are marked at the drawn spacing; the lift core, services, fire stair and fire-rated doors are at the ends shown. In the HTML each plan has an operational view.
1PBL Lab 1 — Mechanical Fab Lab, Traction, Forge, Fabrication Services and Stores, Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab
Sits over the entrance level (ground-floor toilets and services below the east end). Ends and edges: Lift core, gents and ladies toilets, lockers and a wash block sit at the east end of the bay; the fire stair and an FRD at the west end; a 2 m corridor along the south edge to Lab 2; 2 m cantilever terrace to the north, with the crane door for goods that exceed the lift. Workflow: stores and receiving at the lift-core end, the main aisle as the trolley and AGV route with the design-office-showcase front along it, benches in the middle band, plant and test against the window wall, finished products back along the aisle to the showcase; the corridor is the fire egress to both ends.
- Everything dirty, loud or heavy is in this bay, and nothing else is: the printer farm, the CNC and laser room, welding, the Forge machines and the Metrology cells share one extraction system, one dust regime and one technician roster.
- The CNC and laser room and the welding bays sit on the window wall so extraction runs straight to the roof and the crane door on the terrace serves the VMC and the CMM, which exceed the lift.
- Metrology is at the far end from the machines: the CMM on an isolated plinth in its own cell, the shaker on an inertial mass in a separate cell, so measurement never shares a slab with vibration.
- Receiving and stores are at the lift core: every delivery lands once, is checked, and issues from one counter; hazardous stores are on the window wall away from the aisle.
- Benches sit between the front pods and the machines so a team walks from planning to building to testing without crossing the machine floor.
Sheet 1a · Construction plan, grid A to the match line
Sheet 1b · Construction plan, match line to grid H
Sheet 2 · The whole bay, and the same bay fitted out
Sheet 3 · Long section
Sheet 4 · Services overlay
Sheet 5 · Reflected ceiling plan
Sheet 6 · Fire and egress
Sheet 6b · Flows: people, goods, waste and escape
Sheet 7 · Detail at 1:50 — Vented thermal-abuse cabinet
Sheet 8 · Item schedule (67 items)
| Tag | Item | Cell | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L1-01 | Design pod | Mechanical Fab Lab | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 0.3, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L1-03 | Studio office | Mechanical Fab Lab | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 3.9, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L1-05 | Showcase plinth | Mechanical Fab Lab | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 13.2, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L1-06 | Showcase plinth | Mechanical Fab Lab | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 11.6, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L1-07 | Filtered laser room (sheet and board only) | Mechanical Fab Lab | 6.00 × 4.00 × 3 | 0.3, 12.7 | — | fume filtration unit, no roof penetration; interlocked door | A small filtered room: acrylic, board and gaskets only — metal cutting is at the Heavy Fab Lab, so this bay needs no roof extraction riser |
| L1-08 | CO2 laser cutter 60 W, filteredinside L1-07 | Mechanical Fab Lab | 1.60 × 1.20 × 1.2 | 0.6, 13.0 | — | filter unit | Two on one filter |
| L1-09 | CO2 laser cutter 60 W, filteredinside L1-07 | Mechanical Fab Lab | 1.60 × 1.20 × 1.2 | 2.6, 13.0 | — | filter unit | Two on one filter |
| L1-11 | Cobot cell with safety scanner | Mechanical Fab Lab | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.2 | 7.2, 13.7 | — | safety scanner; e-stop | Three cells in a row, scanners overlapping, so a class of thirty rotates through them |
| L1-12 | Cobot cell with safety scanner | Mechanical Fab Lab | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.2 | 11.1, 13.7 | — | safety scanner; e-stop | Three cells in a row, scanners overlapping, so a class of thirty rotates through them |
| L1-13 | Cobot cell with safety scanner | Mechanical Fab Lab | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.2 | 6.9, 10.1 | — | safety scanner; e-stop | Three cells in a row, scanners overlapping, so a class of thirty rotates through them |
| L1-14 | Tool crib and material rack | Mechanical Fab Lab | 4.00 × 2.00 × 2.4 | 0.3, 9.6 | — | lockable cage | One issue counter at the stores end |
| L1-15 | Goods trolley bay for the Heavy Fab Lab shuttle | Mechanical Fab Lab | 2.40 × 1.60 × 1.2 | 10.5, 11.5 | — | marked floor | Parts leaving for the machine hall and returning from it queue here, labelled, twice a day |
| L1-16 | Printer farm rack (8 FDM printers a tier, two tiers) | Mechanical Fab Lab | 8.00 × 0.80 × 2 | 0.3, 7.1 | — | 3 kW per rack; enclosed; extraction manifold | Against the back wall by the door so parts collect without crossing the floor; a wall of printers is the visible heart of the light fab lab |
| L1-17 | Printer farm rack (8 FDM printers a tier, two tiers) | Mechanical Fab Lab | 8.00 × 0.80 × 2 | 5.1, 8.7 | — | 3 kW per rack; enclosed; extraction manifold | Against the back wall by the door so parts collect without crossing the floor; a wall of printers is the visible heart of the light fab lab |
| L1-18 | Resin printer and wash-cure cabinet | Mechanical Fab Lab | 2.00 × 0.80 × 1.8 | 9.0, 7.2 | — | extraction; IPA store | Beside the FDM racks, under the same extraction run |
| L1-19 | Composite layup and vacuum-bagging table | Mechanical Fab Lab | 2.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 11.7, 7.0 | 2 | vacuum; extraction | Layup here, cure at the Heavy Fab Lab autoclave |
| L1-20 | Assembly and build benches | Mechanical Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 7.5, 5.7 | 1 | busway; data | The bench band: this is now a build floor, not a machine hall |
| L1-21 | Design pod | Traction | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 14.8, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L1-23 | Studio office | Traction | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 18.4, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L1-25 | Showcase plinth | Traction | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 22.5, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L1-26 | Vented thermal-abuse cabinet | Traction | 2.00 × 1.50 × 2 | 14.8, 15.2 | — | duct to outside air; fire NOC; runs only with two technicians | Window-wall corner with the shortest duct to outside; away from the ranges |
| L1-27 | Battery cycler bench | Traction | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 14.9, 6.0 | 1 | vented | |
| L1-28 | Battery cycler bench | Traction | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 16.8, 6.0 | 1 | vented | |
| L1-29 | BMS and HIL bench | Traction | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 18.8, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L1-30 | BMS and HIL bench | Traction | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 20.7, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L1-31 | BMS and HIL bench | Traction | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 14.9, 8.0 | 1 | ||
| L1-32 | BMS and HIL bench | Traction | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 16.8, 8.0 | 1 | ||
| L1-33 | CAN and V2X bench | Traction | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 18.8, 8.0 | 1 | ||
| L1-34 | CAN and V2X bench | Traction | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 20.7, 8.0 | 1 | ||
| L1-35 | E-two-wheeler chassis bench | Traction | 3.00 × 1.50 × 0.9 | 14.9, 10.0 | 3 | lift | |
| L1-36 | Design pod | Forge | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 24.1, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L1-38 | Studio office | Forge | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 27.7, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L1-40 | Showcase plinth | Forge | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 32.0, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L1-41 | Coatings booth | Forge | 3.00 × 2.50 × 2.4 | 24.1, 14.2 | — | fume extraction; explosion-rated fan | Window-wall corner with its own extraction; away from the metrology bench |
| L1-42 | Tooling and consumables store | Forge | 3.00 × 2.00 × 2.4 | 28.0, 14.7 | — | lockable | |
| L1-43 | SLS printer and powder station | Forge | 1.50 × 1.00 × 1.7 | 24.1, 12.3 | — | inert gas; extraction; powder handling | In the Forge back band next to the fab lab printers so one technician covers both |
| L1-44 | Metrology bench (roughness, gauges) | Forge | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 24.2, 6.0 | 2 | anti-vibration mounts | On the quiet side, nearest the Metrology lab wall |
| L1-45 | Composites layup table | Forge | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 26.7, 6.0 | 2 | vacuum | |
| L1-46 | Forge team bench | Forge | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 29.3, 6.0 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L1-47 | Forge team bench | Forge | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 24.2, 8.4 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L1-48 | Forge team bench | Forge | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 26.1, 8.4 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L1-49 | Forge team bench | Forge | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 28.1, 8.4 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L1-50 | Forge team bench | Forge | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 30.0, 8.4 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L1-51 | Forge team bench | Forge | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 24.2, 10.4 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L1-52 | Design pod | Fabrication Services and Stores | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 33.6, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L1-54 | Studio office | Fabrication Services and Stores | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 37.2, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L1-56 | Stores racking (3.5 m) | Fabrication Services and Stores | 7.81 × 5.00 × 3.5 | 33.6, 11.7 | — | load-rated; barcoded | Beside receiving, behind a cage, one issue counter |
| L1-57 | Receiving and unpacking | Fabrication Services and Stores | 4.00 × 3.00 × 1 | 33.6, 7.8 | — | pallet truck; scale | At the lift core: every delivery lands here and is checked before it enters the floor |
| L1-58 | Hazardous store | Fabrication Services and Stores | 2.00 × 2.00 × 2.2 | 38.5, 8.8 | — | fire-rated; vented | Away from the aisle, on the window wall |
| L1-59 | PCB, bureau and tape-out service desk | Fabrication Services and Stores | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 33.7, 6.0 | 2 | data | On the aisle so any Studio can drop a job |
| L1-60 | Design pod | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 42.1, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L1-62 | Studio office | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 45.7, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L1-64 | Showcase plinth | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 52.6, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L1-65 | Showcase plinth | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 51.0, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L1-66 | Environmental chamber cell | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 5.00 × 4.00 × 3 | 42.1, 12.7 | — | exhaust; 3-phase | A cell of its own: heat and noise contained |
| L1-67 | Environmental chamberinside L1-66 | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.50 × 1.20 × 2 | 42.4, 13.0 | — | ||
| L1-69 | Shaker cell on inertial mass | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 4.00 × 4.00 × 3 | 48.0, 12.7 | — | 2 t inertial block; isolated | Its own cell on an inertial mass so it never shares a slab with the CMM |
| L1-70 | Vibration shakerinside L1-69 | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.20 × 1.20 × 1.2 | 48.3, 13.0 | — | ||
| L1-72 | CMM room, isolated | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 5.00 × 4.00 × 3 | 42.1, 7.6 | — | isolated plinth; 20 ± 1 °C | Farthest from the machine hall and the shaker; on a plinth; temperature held |
| L1-73 | CMMinside L1-72 | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.50 × 1.20 × 2 | 42.4, 7.9 | — | ||
| L1-75 | IP water and dust rig; force and torque bench | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 2.00 × 1.50 × 1.4 | 48.1, 10.1 | — | drain | |
| L1-76 | Small motor dynamometer | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 2.00 × 1.20 × 1.2 | 51.1, 10.4 | — | guarding; 3-phase | |
| L1-77 | Battery cell cyclers | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 1.6 | 51.1, 8.7 | — | vented | |
| L1-78 | Battery cell cyclers | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 1.6 | 47.8, 8.4 | — | vented | |
| L1-79 | Perception sensor pool and IMU/GNSS rigs | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 50.2, 7.1 | 2 | One pool bench; the sensors issue from it to every Studio | |
| L1-80 | Metrology bench | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 42.1, 6.0 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L1-81 | Metrology bench | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 45.1, 6.0 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
Not set out in this bay
| Item | Cell | Where it goes instead |
|---|---|---|
| Hand and power tool wall with a small bench | Mechanical Fab Lab | 0 of 2 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 2 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
| Assembly and build benches | Mechanical Fab Lab | 1 of 6 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 5 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
| Metrology bench | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 2 of 3 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 1 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
Sheet 8b · Door schedule (14 doors)
| Door | Serves | Cell | Clear width | Leaves | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | Design pod | Mechanical Fab Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D02 | Studio office | Mechanical Fab Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D03 | Filtered laser room | Mechanical Fab Lab | 1.0 m | 1 | outwards | Interlocked with the laser; opens out |
| D04 | Design pod | Traction | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D05 | Studio office | Traction | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D06 | Design pod | Forge | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D07 | Studio office | Forge | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D08 | Design pod | Fabrication Services and Stores | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D09 | Studio office | Fabrication Services and Stores | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D10 | Design pod | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D11 | Studio office | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D12 | Environmental chamber cell | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.0 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D13 | Shaker cell on inertial mass | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.0 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D14 | CMM room, isolated | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 1.0 m | 1 | outwards | Temperature-held room, self-closing |
Every enclosed room on these sheets carries a door drawn to its leaf width with its swing, and the dashed rectangle in front of it is the clear floor no item may occupy — the geometric audit tests both. Cell entrances off the main aisle are 1.2 m double leaves. Fire ratings, hardware, vision panels, thresholds and access control are scheduled by the architect against this list.
Sheet 9 · Room data sheets
| Mechanical Fab Lab | 14.50 × 14.27 m · 207 m² · 11 seats · Shared Fab Lab |
|---|---|
| Function | Filtered laser room, Cobot cell with safety scanner, Cobot cell with safety scanner, Cobot cell with safety scanner |
| Occupancy | 11 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 14.5 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 14.5 × 6.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 14.5 × 5.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 5 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.8 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 52% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 21.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — machine tools, lasers, dust, cobots; laser safety officer on the roster |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Traction | 9.28 × 14.27 m · 132 m² · 19 seats · Physical AI range |
|---|---|
| Function | Bench-based work with no enclosed rooms |
| Occupancy | 19 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 9.3 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 9.3 × 4.8 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 9.3 × 6.5 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 18 kW at DB-1.2; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 2 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.1 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 73% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 18.8 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Simulation, tethered and closed-course tests first with inert loads; hazard analysis; independent emergency stop; exclusion zones; trained operators; ; Equipment-specific risk assessments; containment; interlocks; emergency response; competent sign-off; no universal classification by power alone |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Battery testing (To obtain); Vehicle and passenger operation (Closed course only); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — machine tools, lasers, dust, cobots; laser safety officer on the roster |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Forge | 9.57 × 14.27 m · 137 m² · 18 seats · Heavy and dirty |
|---|---|
| Function | Coatings booth |
| Occupancy | 18 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 9.6 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 9.6 × 5.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 9.6 × 6.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 20 kW at DB-1.3; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 2 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.8 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 67% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 18.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Equipment-specific risk assessments; containment; interlocks; emergency response; competent sign-off; no universal classification by power alone; Teaching tests, qualification tests and accredited certification distinguished; calibration, configuration and acceptance traced to the intended use |
| Permissions | Pollution control (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Laser safety (To appoint); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — machine tools, lasers, dust, cobots; laser safety officer on the roster |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Fabrication Services and Stores | 8.41 × 14.27 m · 120 m² · 10 seats · Shared Fab Lab |
|---|---|
| Function | Receiving and unpacking |
| Occupancy | 10 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 8.4 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 8.4 × 6.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 8.4 × 5.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 1 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 5.2 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 39% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 14.2 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — machine tools, lasers, dust, cobots; laser safety officer on the roster |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 12.18 × 14.27 m · 174 m² · 12 seats · Shared Fab Lab |
|---|---|
| Function | Environmental chamber cell, Shaker cell on inertial mass, CMM room, isolated |
| Occupancy | 12 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 12.2 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 12.2 × 6.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 12.2 × 5.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 3 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | 1 floor drains, water and waste to the riser, neutralisation before discharge |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.5 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 50% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 16.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — machine tools, lasers, dust, cobots; laser safety officer on the roster |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
What is on this floor and what is deferred
- Traction: keeps Battery cycler bench, BMS and HIL benches, CAN and V2X tools, e-two-wheeler chassis bench, a vented thermal-abuse cabinet with external duct. Defers Vehicle platforms above two-wheeler scale, the dynamometer and pack-level abuse tests → The vehicle garage bay at the Heavy Fab Lab for anything above two-wheeler scale; ARAI or partner dyno time; abuse tests at a UL 9540A-class partner facility.
- Forge: keeps Resin and SLS printing, metrology bench, composites layup (cured at the Heavy Fab Lab), coatings touch-up with extraction, tooling stores. Defers Metal additive, the 5-axis centre, the composites autoclave and every machine that cuts metal, welds or makes dust → The Heavy Fab Lab on the main campus, which takes metal additive, the 5-axis centre and the autoclave; parts travel on the twice-daily shuttle and return machined.
Sheet 10 · How this bay compares with the world's best, at the same scale
2PBL Lab 2 — Design commons, Showcase gallery, Studio offices, Mission control
Sits over the gymnasium (rhythmic crowd loading below). Ends and edges: Fire stair, FRD and a showers and change-room block (5.43 × 9.50 m, for planning) at the west end; two 16-passenger MRL lifts (2100 × 2550 mm) and an AHU room 3.32 × 6.66 m at the east end; glass elevation to the south. Workflow: stores and receiving at the lift-core end, the main aisle as the trolley and AGV route with the design-office-showcase front along it, benches in the middle band, plant and test against the window wall, finished products back along the aisle to the showcase; the corridor is the fire egress to both ends.
- Electronics and RF share one floor: twenty-four ESD benches in four rows of six, the RF benches beside them, so analysers and VNAs are shared across a wall rather than bought twice.
- The strip over the gymnasium carries only light, dry, quiet work — nothing heavier than a reflow oven — because the slab below is designed for crowds, not machines.
- Reflow and the PCB mills are in small enclosed cells on the window wall for fume and dust; the screened booth is for emissions work that must not leak into the lab.
- The ESD floor covers the whole bay (IEC 61340-5-1, under 10⁹ Ω), so a board can move from any bench to any other without leaving the ESD zone.
Sheet 1a · Construction plan, grid A to the match line
Sheet 1b · Construction plan, match line to grid G
Sheet 2 · The whole bay, and the same bay fitted out
Sheet 3 · Long section
Sheet 4 · Services overlay
Sheet 5 · Reflected ceiling plan
Sheet 6 · Fire and egress
Sheet 6b · Flows: people, goods, waste and escape
Sheet 8 · Item schedule (39 items)
| Tag | Item | Cell | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2-01 | Huddle room | Design commons | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 0.3, 6.7 | 6 | screen | Three glazed huddle rooms on the quiet end |
| L2-03 | Huddle room | Design commons | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 4.2, 6.7 | 6 | screen | Three glazed huddle rooms on the quiet end |
| L2-05 | Huddle room | Design commons | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 8.1, 6.7 | 6 | screen | Three glazed huddle rooms on the quiet end |
| L2-07 | Materials library and sample wall | Design commons | 3.00 × 1.00 × 2.2 | 10.2, 5.1 | — | ||
| L2-08 | Team table (six) | Design commons | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.75 | 0.4, 2.4 | 6 | power; wireless display | Twelve tables in an open plan facing whiteboard walls — the d.school pattern: movable furniture, walls to draw on |
| L2-09 | Team table (six) | Design commons | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.75 | 3.7, 2.4 | 6 | power; wireless display | Twelve tables in an open plan facing whiteboard walls — the d.school pattern: movable furniture, walls to draw on |
| L2-10 | Team table (six) | Design commons | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.75 | 7.0, 2.4 | 6 | power; wireless display | Twelve tables in an open plan facing whiteboard walls — the d.school pattern: movable furniture, walls to draw on |
| L2-11 | Team table (six) | Design commons | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.75 | 10.3, 2.4 | 6 | power; wireless display | Twelve tables in an open plan facing whiteboard walls — the d.school pattern: movable furniture, walls to draw on |
| L2-12 | Team table (six) | Design commons | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.75 | 11.7, 8.5 | 6 | power; wireless display | Twelve tables in an open plan facing whiteboard walls — the d.school pattern: movable furniture, walls to draw on |
| L2-13 | Team table (six) | Design commons | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.75 | 2.4, 4.9 | 6 | power; wireless display | Twelve tables in an open plan facing whiteboard walls — the d.school pattern: movable furniture, walls to draw on |
| L2-14 | Team table (six) | Design commons | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.75 | 6.3, 4.9 | 6 | power; wireless display | Twelve tables in an open plan facing whiteboard walls — the d.school pattern: movable furniture, walls to draw on |
| L2-15 | Wall case and screen | Showcase gallery | 3.00 × 0.60 × 2.2 | 15.1, 9.1 | — | ||
| L2-16 | Wall case and screen | Showcase gallery | 3.00 × 0.60 × 2.2 | 19.0, 9.1 | — | ||
| L2-17 | Wall case and screen | Showcase gallery | 3.00 × 0.60 × 2.2 | 15.1, 7.6 | — | ||
| L2-18 | Wall case and screen | Showcase gallery | 3.00 × 0.60 × 2.2 | 19.0, 7.6 | — | ||
| L2-19 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 15.2, 2.4 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-20 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 17.1, 2.4 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-21 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 19.0, 2.4 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-22 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 20.9, 2.4 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-23 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 22.8, 2.4 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-24 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 15.2, 4.6 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-25 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 17.1, 4.6 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-26 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 19.0, 4.6 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-27 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 20.9, 4.6 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-28 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 22.8, 4.6 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-29 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 22.6, 8.7 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-30 | Product plinth | Showcase gallery | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 24.4, 8.7 | — | spot light; data | Plinths in a walk-through grid on the lobby end so a visitor meets the products first |
| L2-31 | Gallery seating | Showcase gallery | 3.00 × 1.00 × 0.45 | 22.6, 6.9 | 6 | ||
| L2-32 | Meeting room | Studio offices | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 26.3, 6.7 | 6 | screen | |
| L2-34 | Meeting room | Studio offices | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 30.2, 6.7 | 6 | screen | |
| L2-36 | Meeting room | Studio offices | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 32.3, 3.1 | 6 | screen | |
| L2-38 | Meeting room | Studio offices | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 26.3, 2.5 | 6 | screen | |
| L2-40 | Mission control wall (fifteen screens) | Mission control | 7.30 × 0.40 × 2.4 | 36.4, 9.3 | — | lowest screen 1.25 m above floor | The wall on the short end so the consoles face it at 1.5–2 screen heights |
| L2-41 | Console (two seats), angled 10° to the wall | Mission control | 1.80 × 0.90 × 0.75 | 36.5, 2.4 | 2 | power; data | Three rows of consoles, aisles 1.2 m — ISO 11064 geometry |
| L2-42 | Console (two seats), angled 10° to the wall | Mission control | 1.80 × 0.90 × 0.75 | 39.2, 2.4 | 2 | power; data | Three rows of consoles, aisles 1.2 m — ISO 11064 geometry |
| L2-43 | Console (two seats), angled 10° to the wall | Mission control | 1.80 × 0.90 × 0.75 | 41.9, 2.4 | 2 | power; data | Three rows of consoles, aisles 1.2 m — ISO 11064 geometry |
| L2-44 | Console (two seats), angled 10° to the wall | Mission control | 1.80 × 0.90 × 0.75 | 36.5, 4.5 | 2 | power; data | Three rows of consoles, aisles 1.2 m — ISO 11064 geometry |
| L2-45 | Console (two seats), angled 10° to the wall | Mission control | 1.80 × 0.90 × 0.75 | 39.2, 4.5 | 2 | power; data | Three rows of consoles, aisles 1.2 m — ISO 11064 geometry |
| L2-46 | Console (two seats), angled 10° to the wall | Mission control | 1.80 × 0.90 × 0.75 | 41.9, 4.5 | 2 | power; data | Three rows of consoles, aisles 1.2 m — ISO 11064 geometry |
Not set out in this bay
| Item | Cell | Where it goes instead |
|---|---|---|
| Team table (six) | Design commons | 7 of 12 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 5 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
| Gallery seating | Showcase gallery | 1 of 5 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 4 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
| Hot-desk cluster (four) | Studio offices | 0 of 9 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 9 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
Sheet 8b · Door schedule (7 doors)
| Door | Serves | Cell | Clear width | Leaves | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | Huddle room | Design commons | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D02 | Huddle room | Design commons | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D03 | Huddle room | Design commons | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D04 | Meeting room | Studio offices | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D05 | Meeting room | Studio offices | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D06 | Meeting room | Studio offices | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D07 | Meeting room | Studio offices | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
Every enclosed room on these sheets carries a door drawn to its leaf width with its swing, and the dashed rectangle in front of it is the clear floor no item may occupy — the geometric audit tests both. Cell entrances off the main aisle are 1.2 m double leaves. Fire ratings, hardware, vision panels, thresholds and access control are scheduled by the architect against this list.
Sheet 9 · Room data sheets
| Design commons | 14.83 × 7.66 m · 114 m² · 60 seats · Commons |
|---|---|
| Function | Huddle room, Huddle room, Huddle room |
| Occupancy | 60 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design commons: 14.8 × 7.7 m |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.8 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 56% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 10.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — soldering, reflow, RF sources |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Showcase gallery | 11.12 × 7.66 m · 85 m² · 6 seats · Commons |
|---|---|
| Function | Bench-based work with no enclosed rooms |
| Occupancy | 6 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Showcase gallery: 11.1 × 7.7 m |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 0.9 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 74% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 9.2 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — soldering, reflow, RF sources |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Studio offices | 10.20 × 7.66 m · 78 m² · 24 seats · Commons |
|---|---|
| Function | Meeting room, Meeting room, Meeting room, Meeting room |
| Occupancy | 24 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Studio offices: 10.2 × 7.7 m |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.3 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 54% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 9.2 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — soldering, reflow, RF sources |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Mission control | 8.34 × 7.66 m · 64 m² · 12 seats · Commons |
|---|---|
| Function | Bench-based work with no enclosed rooms |
| Occupancy | 12 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Mission control: 8.3 × 7.7 m |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 0.7 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 80% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 8.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — soldering, reflow, RF sources |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
Sheet 10 · How this bay compares with the world's best, at the same scale
3PBL Lab 3 — Harvest, Habitat
Sits over the play area below (50.07 × 37.34 m). Ends and edges: Two lifts and an AHU room 3.32 × 6.66 m at the west end by the entrance lobby; fire tower, fire stair and FRD at the east end; glass elevation to the south. Workflow: stores and receiving at the lift-core end, the main aisle as the trolley and AGV route with the design-office-showcase front along it, benches in the middle band, plant and test against the window wall, finished products back along the aisle to the showcase; the corridor is the fire egress to both ends.
- The GPU room is a closed, cooled room with its server closet on the end wall: the cold aisle is short, the noise is behind a door, and at under 30 kW a rack the closet is air-cooled with hot-aisle containment.
- Ledger's secure suite is enclosed and access-controlled at the quiet end: the one Studio whose benches must not be seen from the aisle.
- Frontline's long assembly benches are nearest the stores, because its products are boxed and shipped.
- This is a strip over the play area: light, dry, quiet — servers and desks, nothing that vibrates.
Sheet 1a · Construction plan, grid A to the match line
Sheet 1b · Construction plan, match line to grid H
Sheet 2 · The whole bay, and the same bay fitted out
Sheet 3 · Long section
Sheet 4 · Services overlay
Sheet 5 · Reflected ceiling plan
Sheet 6 · Fire and egress
Sheet 6b · Flows: people, goods, waste and escape
Sheet 8 · Item schedule (36 items)
| Tag | Item | Cell | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L3-01 | Design pod | Harvest | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 0.3, 2.2 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L3-03 | Studio office | Harvest | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 3.9, 2.2 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L3-05 | Showcase plinth | Harvest | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 25.5, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L3-06 | Showcase plinth | Harvest | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 23.9, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L3-07 | CEA grow cube | Harvest | 3.00 × 2.40 × 2.4 | 0.3, 7.3 | — | LED; nutrient loop; 3 kW each | Two cubes against the window wall like a container farm cut in half: crops on one side, mushrooms on the other |
| L3-08 | Grow racksinside L3-07 | Harvest | 2.30 × 0.60 × 2.2 | 0.6, 7.7 | — | ||
| L3-09 | Grow racksinside L3-07 | Harvest | 2.30 × 0.60 × 2.2 | 0.6, 8.6 | — | ||
| L3-11 | CEA grow cube | Harvest | 3.00 × 2.40 × 2.4 | 4.2, 7.3 | — | LED; nutrient loop; 3 kW each | Two cubes against the window wall like a container farm cut in half: crops on one side, mushrooms on the other |
| L3-12 | Grow racksinside L3-11 | Harvest | 2.30 × 0.60 × 2.2 | 4.5, 7.7 | — | ||
| L3-13 | Grow racksinside L3-11 | Harvest | 2.30 × 0.60 × 2.2 | 4.5, 8.6 | — | ||
| L3-15 | Cold-chain module (reefer box) | Harvest | 2.00 × 1.50 × 2.2 | 8.1, 8.2 | — | ||
| L3-16 | Seed and soil store | Harvest | 2.00 × 1.50 × 2.2 | 11.0, 8.2 | — | ||
| L3-17 | Sensing and probe bench | Harvest | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 0.4, 4.8 | 1 | busway | |
| L3-18 | Sensing and probe bench | Harvest | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 2.4, 4.8 | 1 | busway | |
| L3-19 | Sensing and probe bench | Harvest | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 4.3, 4.8 | 1 | busway | |
| L3-20 | Sensing and probe bench | Harvest | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 6.2, 4.8 | 1 | busway | |
| L3-21 | Sensing and probe bench | Harvest | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 8.2, 4.8 | 1 | busway | |
| L3-22 | Sensing and probe bench | Harvest | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 10.1, 4.8 | 1 | busway | |
| L3-23 | Spray-rig bench (no flight) | Harvest | 3.00 × 1.50 × 0.9 | 12.1, 4.8 | 3 | water; drain | |
| L3-24 | Drone assembly table | Harvest | 3.00 × 1.50 × 0.9 | 15.2, 4.8 | 3 | ||
| L3-25 | Design pod | Habitat | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 27.1, 2.2 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L3-27 | Studio office | Habitat | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 30.7, 2.2 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L3-29 | Showcase plinth | Habitat | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 48.8, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L3-30 | Showcase plinth | Habitat | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 47.2, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L3-31 | Data-centre demonstration cell (rack, CDU) | Habitat | 4.00 × 3.00 × 2.6 | 27.1, 6.7 | — | 10 kW; cooling loop | A glazed cell so the rack and its cooling loop are a live exhibit |
| L3-32 | Rack with CDUinside L3-31 | Habitat | 0.80 × 1.10 × 2 | 27.4, 7.1 | — | ||
| L3-34 | Cyber-physical range racks | Habitat | 3.00 × 1.00 × 2 | 32.0, 8.7 | — | isolated network | |
| L3-35 | Cyber-physical range racks | Habitat | 3.00 × 1.00 × 2 | 35.9, 8.7 | — | isolated network | |
| L3-36 | SHM instrumentation bench | Habitat | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 27.2, 4.8 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L3-37 | SHM instrumentation bench | Habitat | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 29.1, 4.8 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L3-38 | SHM instrumentation bench | Habitat | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 31.1, 4.8 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L3-39 | SHM instrumentation bench | Habitat | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 33.0, 4.8 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L3-40 | SHM instrumentation bench | Habitat | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 35.0, 4.8 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L3-41 | SHM instrumentation bench | Habitat | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 36.9, 4.8 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L3-42 | Fibre-optic strain bench | Habitat | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 38.9, 4.8 | 2 | laser interlock | |
| L3-43 | Structural specimen bench (small frames) | Habitat | 3.00 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 41.4, 4.8 | 3 |
Sheet 8b · Door schedule (7 doors)
| Door | Serves | Cell | Clear width | Leaves | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | Design pod | Harvest | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D02 | Studio office | Harvest | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D03 | CEA grow cube | Harvest | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D04 | CEA grow cube | Harvest | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D05 | Design pod | Habitat | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D06 | Studio office | Habitat | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D07 | Data-centre demonstration cell | Habitat | 1.0 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
Every enclosed room on these sheets carries a door drawn to its leaf width with its swing, and the dashed rectangle in front of it is the clear floor no item may occupy — the geometric audit tests both. Cell entrances off the main aisle are 1.2 m double leaves. Fire ratings, hardware, vision panels, thresholds and access control are scheduled by the architect against this list.
Sheet 9 · Room data sheets
| Harvest | 26.79 × 7.73 m · 207 m² · 20 seats · Light, dry, quiet |
|---|---|
| Function | CEA grow cube, CEA grow cube |
| Occupancy | 20 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 26.8 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 26.8 × 2.4 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 26.8 × 3.1 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 21 kW at DB-3.1; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | 1 floor drains, water and waste to the riser, neutralisation before discharge |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.1 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 75% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 15.8 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Simulation, tethered and closed-course tests first with inert loads; hazard analysis; independent emergency stop; exclusion zones; trained operators; ; Organism, material and activity classification; containment; autoclave validation; waste route; trained supervision; a BSL label is not an operating p; Safety and performance validated with accountable partners before health or potability claims; consent, complaints, incident response and withdrawal r |
| Permissions | Drone operation (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 1 per session — servers, secure suite |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Habitat | 23.29 × 7.73 m · 180 m² · 19 seats · Light, dry, quiet |
|---|---|
| Function | Data-centre demonstration cell |
| Occupancy | 19 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 23.3 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 23.3 × 2.4 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 23.3 × 3.1 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 20 kW at DB-3.2; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.1 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 75% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 16.2 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Teaching tests, qualification tests and accredited certification distinguished; calibration, configuration and acceptance traced to the intended use |
| Permissions | Drone operation (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 1 per session — servers, secure suite |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
What is on this floor and what is deferred
- Harvest: keeps Sensing and probe benches, CEA grow cube and mushroom cube, spray-rig bench without flight, post-harvest and cold-chain module, drone assembly. Defers Field plots, farm robots at scale, spray-drone flights → The campus farm and ANGRAU plots; the play area for robot trials at booked hours.
- Habitat: keeps SHM instrumentation bench, fibre-optic strain bench, data-centre rack and CDU demonstration cell, cyber-physical range racks. Defers Shake-table access, structural test frames, construction robots at scale → The structural test frame at the Heavy Fab Lab, shared with the civil department; IIT Madras for shake-table work.
Sheet 10 · How this bay compares with the world's best, at the same scale
4PBL Lab 4 — Dynamo, Helix, Tide, Aquifer
Sits over the entrance level (ground-floor electrical room 4.14 × 4.04 m, toilets and water-fountain room below the west end). Ends and edges: Lift core, toilets and a bus duct at the west end, with the ground-floor electrical room directly below — so the dry Dynamo benches sit there and the wet cells are at the east end; fire tower with FRD at the east end; 2 m corridor along the south edge to Lab 3; cantilever terrace to the north. Workflow: stores and receiving at the lift-core end, the main aisle as the trolley and AGV route with the design-office-showcase front along it, benches in the middle band, plant and test against the window wall, finished products back along the aisle to the showcase; the corridor is the fire egress to both ends.
- Dynamo's dry power benches take the west end because the ground-floor electrical room is directly below it; no water is allowed in that cell.
- The biosafety suite is sealed in the middle of the bay with its own air handling; its door opens off the bench band, not the aisle; the biosafety cabinet is in the far corner, 76 cm clear all round, away from the door, traffic and diffusers, as the NIH and CDC rules require.
- Tide's tank and Aquifer's wet bench are at the east end, on a bunded floor with leak detection and drains routed east, as far as the bay allows from the electrical room.
- Wet and electrical never share a cell; chemical and hazardous stores are on the window wall, vented, away from the aisle.
Sheet 1a · Construction plan, grid A to the match line
Sheet 1b · Construction plan, match line to grid H
Sheet 2 · The whole bay, and the same bay fitted out
Sheet 3 · Long section
Sheet 4 · Services overlay
Sheet 5 · Reflected ceiling plan
Sheet 6 · Fire and egress
Sheet 6b · Flows: people, goods, waste and escape
Sheet 7 · Detail at 1:50 — BSL-1/2 suite
Sheet 8 · Item schedule (58 items)
| Tag | Item | Cell | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L4-01 | Design pod | Dynamo | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 0.3, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L4-03 | Studio office | Dynamo | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 3.9, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L4-05 | Showcase plinth | Dynamo | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 11.0, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L4-06 | Showcase plinth | Dynamo | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 9.4, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L4-07 | Battery-storage bench with vented cabinet | Dynamo | 2.00 × 1.50 × 2 | 0.3, 15.2 | — | vented to outside | On the window wall with a short duct to outside air |
| L4-08 | Microgrid controller and HIL rack | Dynamo | 0.80 × 0.80 × 2 | 3.2, 15.9 | — | ||
| L4-09 | Microgrid controller and HIL rack | Dynamo | 0.80 × 0.80 × 2 | 4.9, 15.9 | — | ||
| L4-10 | Power-electronics HV bench (isolation transformer, interlocked) | Dynamo | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 0.4, 6.0 | 1 | isolation; RCD; emergency stop | Dry benches at the west end, above the ground-floor electrical room — no water anywhere in this cell |
| L4-11 | Power-electronics HV bench (isolation transformer, interlocked) | Dynamo | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 2.4, 6.0 | 1 | isolation; RCD; emergency stop | Dry benches at the west end, above the ground-floor electrical room — no water anywhere in this cell |
| L4-12 | Power-electronics HV bench (isolation transformer, interlocked) | Dynamo | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 4.3, 6.0 | 1 | isolation; RCD; emergency stop | Dry benches at the west end, above the ground-floor electrical room — no water anywhere in this cell |
| L4-13 | Power-electronics HV bench (isolation transformer, interlocked) | Dynamo | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 6.2, 6.0 | 1 | isolation; RCD; emergency stop | Dry benches at the west end, above the ground-floor electrical room — no water anywhere in this cell |
| L4-14 | Power-electronics HV bench (isolation transformer, interlocked) | Dynamo | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 8.2, 6.0 | 1 | isolation; RCD; emergency stop | Dry benches at the west end, above the ground-floor electrical room — no water anywhere in this cell |
| L4-15 | Power-electronics HV bench (isolation transformer, interlocked) | Dynamo | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 0.4, 8.0 | 1 | isolation; RCD; emergency stop | Dry benches at the west end, above the ground-floor electrical room — no water anywhere in this cell |
| L4-16 | Power-electronics HV bench (isolation transformer, interlocked) | Dynamo | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 2.4, 8.0 | 1 | isolation; RCD; emergency stop | Dry benches at the west end, above the ground-floor electrical room — no water anywhere in this cell |
| L4-17 | Power-electronics HV bench (isolation transformer, interlocked) | Dynamo | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 4.3, 8.0 | 1 | isolation; RCD; emergency stop | Dry benches at the west end, above the ground-floor electrical room — no water anywhere in this cell |
| L4-18 | Smart-meter and thermal-imaging bench | Dynamo | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 6.2, 8.0 | 2 | ||
| L4-19 | PV string test bench (arrays on the terrace) | Dynamo | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 8.8, 8.0 | 2 | DC disconnect | |
| L4-20 | Design pod | Helix | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 12.6, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L4-22 | Studio office | Helix | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 16.2, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L4-24 | Showcase plinth | Helix | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 25.3, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L4-25 | Showcase plinth | Helix | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 23.7, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L4-26 | BSL-1/2 suite | Helix | 10.00 × 5.00 × 3 | 12.6, 11.7 | 6 | dedicated AHU; self-closing inward lockable door; sealed surfaces; eyewash | A sealed suite in the middle of the bay with its own air handling; the door opens off the bench band, not the aisle |
| L4-27 | Gowning anteroominside L4-26 | Helix | 2.00 × 2.00 × 3 | 13.0, 12.0 | — | Gowning inside the door | |
| L4-29 | Biosafety cabinetinside L4-26 | Helix | 1.80 × 0.80 × 2 | 15.3, 12.0 | — | 76 cm clear each side; away from door and diffusers | Far corner, away from the door, traffic and diffusers, 76 cm clear all round |
| L4-30 | Bioreactor bench (5–15 L)inside L4-26 | Helix | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 17.5, 12.0 | 2 | steam; drain | |
| L4-31 | Autoclaveinside L4-26 | Helix | 1.00 × 0.80 × 1.6 | 20.2, 12.0 | — | steam; drain | By the exit for the waste route |
| L4-32 | Incubatorsinside L4-26 | Helix | 0.70 × 0.70 × 1.8 | 21.6, 12.0 | — | ||
| L4-33 | Incubatorsinside L4-26 | Helix | 0.70 × 0.70 × 1.8 | 13.0, 14.4 | — | ||
| L4-34 | HPLC and analytics benchinside L4-26 | Helix | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 14.0, 14.4 | 1 | ||
| L4-35 | Cold store (−80 °C freezer, centrifuge)inside L4-26 | Helix | 1.80 × 0.90 × 2 | 16.2, 14.4 | — | ||
| L4-37 | Process-design bench | Helix | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 12.7, 6.0 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L4-38 | Process-design bench | Helix | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 14.7, 6.0 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L4-39 | Process-design bench | Helix | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 16.6, 6.0 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L4-40 | Process-design bench | Helix | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 18.6, 6.0 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L4-41 | Design pod | Tide | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 26.9, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L4-43 | Studio office | Tide | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 30.5, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L4-45 | Showcase plinth | Tide | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 37.7, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L4-46 | Showcase plinth | Tide | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 36.1, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L4-47 | Test tank 4 × 2 × 0.6 m in a bund | Tide | 4.00 × 2.00 × 0.6 | 26.9, 14.7 | — | bund; drain east; leak detection; 10 kN/m² local | At the east end, farthest from the electrical room below the west end; in a bund with its drain routed east |
| L4-48 | Pressure-test pot | Tide | 1.00 × 1.00 × 1.2 | 31.8, 15.7 | — | guarding | |
| L4-49 | Instrument build and calibration bench | Tide | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 27.0, 6.0 | 1 | busway | |
| L4-50 | Instrument build and calibration bench | Tide | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 29.0, 6.0 | 1 | busway | |
| L4-51 | Instrument build and calibration bench | Tide | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 30.9, 6.0 | 1 | busway | |
| L4-52 | Instrument build and calibration bench | Tide | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 32.9, 6.0 | 1 | busway | |
| L4-53 | Aquaculture sensing bench | Tide | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 34.8, 6.0 | 2 | water; drain | |
| L4-54 | Design pod | Aquifer | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 39.3, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L4-56 | Studio office | Aquifer | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 42.9, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L4-58 | Showcase plinth | Aquifer | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 52.6, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L4-59 | Showcase plinth | Aquifer | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 51.0, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L4-60 | Membrane test skid | Aquifer | 2.00 × 1.50 × 1.8 | 39.3, 15.2 | — | water; drain | |
| L4-61 | Chemical store | Aquifer | 2.00 × 1.50 × 2.2 | 42.2, 15.2 | — | vented; fire-rated | On the window wall, vented, away from the aisle |
| L4-62 | Wet bench with sinks and shallow tanks | Aquifer | 10.00 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 39.4, 6.0 | 6 | water; drains with neutralisation; bunded floor | Along the window wall at the east end on a bunded, drained floor |
| L4-63 | Water-quality and electrochemistry bench | Aquifer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 49.5, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L4-64 | Water-quality and electrochemistry bench | Aquifer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 51.5, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L4-65 | Water-quality and electrochemistry bench | Aquifer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 39.4, 8.4 | 1 | ||
| L4-66 | Water-quality and electrochemistry bench | Aquifer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 41.3, 8.4 | 1 | ||
| L4-67 | Air-quality instruments bench | Aquifer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 43.3, 8.4 | 1 | ||
| L4-68 | Air-quality instruments bench | Aquifer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 45.2, 8.4 | 1 |
Sheet 8b · Door schedule (10 doors)
| Door | Serves | Cell | Clear width | Leaves | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | Design pod | Dynamo | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D02 | Studio office | Dynamo | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D03 | Design pod | Helix | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D04 | Studio office | Helix | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D05 | Gowning anteroom | Helix | 0.9 m | 1 | into the room | Airlock leaf, self-closing, interlocked with the next one |
| D06 | BSL-1/2 suite | Helix | 1.0 m | 1 | into the room | Self-closing, inward-opening and lockable, as the biosafety rules require |
| D07 | Design pod | Tide | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D08 | Studio office | Tide | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D09 | Design pod | Aquifer | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D10 | Studio office | Aquifer | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
Every enclosed room on these sheets carries a door drawn to its leaf width with its swing, and the dashed rectangle in front of it is the clear floor no item may occupy — the geometric audit tests both. Cell entrances off the main aisle are 1.2 m double leaves. Fire ratings, hardware, vision panels, thresholds and access control are scheduled by the architect against this list.
Sheet 9 · Room data sheets
| Dynamo | 12.35 × 14.27 m · 176 m² · 20 seats · Physical AI range |
|---|---|
| Function | Bench-based work with no enclosed rooms |
| Occupancy | 20 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 12.3 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 12.3 × 4.8 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 12.3 × 6.5 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 23 kW at DB-4.1; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 1 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 0.8 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 79% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 20.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Equipment-specific risk assessments; containment; interlocks; emergency response; competent sign-off; no universal classification by power alone |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Battery testing (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — high voltage, biosafety, chemistry, water |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Helix | 14.29 × 14.27 m · 204 m² · 21 seats · Biosafety suite |
|---|---|
| Function | BSL-1/2 suite |
| Occupancy | 21 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 14.3 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 14.3 × 6.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 14.3 × 5.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, coved skirting, cleanable to 70% ethanol |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 27 kW at DB-4.2; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | 2 floor drains, water and waste to the riser, neutralisation before discharge |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.7 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 64% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 15.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Organism, material and activity classification; containment; autoclave validation; waste route; trained supervision; a BSL label is not an operating p; Safety and performance validated with accountable partners before health or potability claims; consent, complaints, incident response and withdrawal r |
| Permissions | Biosafety (To constitute); Pollution control (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — high voltage, biosafety, chemistry, water |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Tide | 12.35 × 14.27 m · 176 m² · 14 seats · Wet bench |
|---|---|
| Function | Test tank 4 × 2 × 0.6 m in a bund |
| Occupancy | 14 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 12.3 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 12.3 × 6.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 12.3 × 5.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Bunded epoxy with falls to a drain, leak detection at the bund |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 19 kW at DB-4.3; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | 2 floor drains, water and waste to the riser, neutralisation before discharge |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 0.9 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 80% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 19.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Organism, material and activity classification; containment; autoclave validation; waste route; trained supervision; a BSL label is not an operating p |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — high voltage, biosafety, chemistry, water |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Aquifer | 14.94 × 14.27 m · 213 m² · 20 seats · Wet bench |
|---|---|
| Function | Bench-based work with no enclosed rooms |
| Occupancy | 20 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 14.9 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 14.9 × 6.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 14.9 × 5.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Bunded epoxy with falls to a drain, leak detection at the bund |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 25 kW at DB-4.4; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 1 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | 2 floor drains, water and waste to the riser, neutralisation before discharge |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 0.8 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 79% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 21.5 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Organism, material and activity classification; containment; autoclave validation; waste route; trained supervision; a BSL label is not an operating p; Safety and performance validated with accountable partners before health or potability claims; consent, complaints, incident response and withdrawal r |
| Permissions | Biosafety (To constitute); Pollution control (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — high voltage, biosafety, chemistry, water |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
What is on this floor and what is deferred
- Dynamo: keeps Power-electronics benches, microgrid controller HIL, smart-meter bench, thermal imaging, battery-storage bench (vented cabinet). Defers PV test field and solar simulator array → The roof and the north terraces for PV strings; a solar simulator when the annex exists.
- Helix: keeps BSL-1/2 suite: biosafety cabinet, 2–15 L bioreactors, autoclave, incubators, HPLC, sealed surfaces, self-closing lockable door, eyewash. Defers 100–150 L fermenters and scale-up → BIRAC BioNEST partner or a Phase-2 pilot plant.
- Tide: keeps Instrument build, pressure-test pot, sensor calibration, aquaculture sensing bench, a 4 × 2 × 0.6 m test tank. Defers Wave flume and towing tank; sea trials → NIOT and CIBA partnership ranges; a ground-floor water hall in Phase 2.
- Aquifer: keeps Water-quality bench, membrane test skid (shallow tanks ≤0.6 m), electrochemistry, air-quality instruments, MRV bench, drained wet floor. Defers Pilot treatment units above 1 m³ and any deep tank → Ground-floor water hall (Phase 2) or the campus STP as a live testbed.
Sheet 10 · How this bay compares with the world's best, at the same scale
5PBL Lab 5 — Vahana, Yantra, Freight
Sits over PBL Lab 1. Ends and edges: Six staff rooms 3.26 × 2.78 m and the lift core at the east end; fire stair and FRD at the west end; the Kabaddi terrace (35.33 × 22.00 m) opens to the north — a bookable outdoor test ground. Workflow: stores and receiving at the lift-core end, the main aisle as the trolley and AGV route with the design-office-showcase front along it, benches in the middle band, plant and test against the window wall, finished products back along the aisle to the showcase; the corridor is the fire egress to both ends.
- The four physical-AI Studios share one floor so that one e-stop ring, one technician pair and one set of range rules cover the arena, the rubble range and the AMR grid.
- The netted arena is on the window wall with the mocap truss spanning the full depth; the Kabaddi terrace outside its wall takes full-scale flights, which a 3.6 m net cannot.
- The AMR grid is a marked floor with charging docks on its perimeter, the Robotarium pattern, so robots dock without crossing the working floor.
- Traction's abuse cabinet is in the window-wall corner with the shortest duct to outside air, away from the ranges, and runs only with two technicians present.
Sheet 1a · Construction plan, grid A to the match line
Sheet 1b · Construction plan, match line to grid H
Sheet 2 · The whole bay, and the same bay fitted out
Sheet 3 · Long section
Sheet 4 · Services overlay
Sheet 5 · Reflected ceiling plan
Sheet 6 · Fire and egress
Sheet 6b · Flows: people, goods, waste and escape
Sheet 7 · Detail at 1:50 — Netted micro-drone arena (net at 3.6 m)
Sheet 8 · Item schedule (36 items)
| Tag | Item | Cell | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L5-01 | Design pod | Vahana | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 0.3, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L5-03 | Studio office | Vahana | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 3.9, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L5-05 | Showcase plinth | Vahana | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 18.5, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L5-06 | Showcase plinth | Vahana | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 16.9, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L5-07 | Netted micro-drone arena (net at 3.6 m) | Vahana | 14.00 × 9.00 × 3.6 | 0.3, 7.7 | — | mocap truss with 8–12 cameras; netting; padded floor | The largest single range on the floor: on the window wall so the truss spans the full depth, with the Kabaddi terrace outside for full-scale flights |
| L5-08 | Flight-log and briefing room | Vahana | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 15.2, 13.7 | 4 | screens | Glazed, beside the arena, so a briefing sees the range |
| L5-10 | LiPo charging cabinet | Vahana | 1.50 × 0.80 × 1.8 | 17.4, 12.3 | — | fire-rated; vented | |
| L5-11 | Autopilot and HIL bench | Vahana | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 15.0, 11.7 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L5-12 | Autopilot and HIL bench | Vahana | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 15.0, 9.6 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L5-13 | Autopilot and HIL bench | Vahana | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 15.0, 7.5 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L5-14 | Autopilot and HIL bench | Vahana | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 0.3, 6.3 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L5-15 | Autopilot and HIL bench | Vahana | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 3.3, 6.3 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L5-16 | Autopilot and HIL bench | Vahana | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 6.3, 6.3 | 1 | busway; data | |
| L5-17 | Airframe build table | Vahana | 2.60 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 9.3, 5.9 | 3 | Two tables beside the arena gate | |
| L5-18 | Design pod | Yantra | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 20.1, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L5-20 | Studio office | Yantra | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 23.7, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L5-22 | Showcase plinth | Yantra | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 35.9, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L5-23 | Showcase plinth | Yantra | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 34.3, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L5-24 | Rubble and stairs range with tether gantry | Yantra | 10.00 × 7.00 × 3.2 | 20.1, 9.7 | — | overhead tether; padded; e-stop | A range beside the arena so the two physical-AI teams share a technician and an e-stop ring |
| L5-25 | Arm cell (cobot, safety scanner) | Yantra | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.2 | 31.0, 13.7 | — | safety scanner; e-stop | |
| L5-26 | Arm cell (cobot, safety scanner) | Yantra | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.2 | 30.9, 10.1 | — | safety scanner; e-stop | |
| L5-27 | Teleoperation and haptics bench | Yantra | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 20.2, 6.0 | 2 | ||
| L5-28 | Teleoperation and haptics bench | Yantra | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 22.7, 6.0 | 2 | ||
| L5-29 | Robot maintenance bench | Yantra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 25.3, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L5-30 | Robot maintenance bench | Yantra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 27.2, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L5-31 | Robot maintenance bench | Yantra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 29.2, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L5-32 | Robot maintenance bench | Yantra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 31.1, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L5-33 | Design pod | Freight | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 37.5, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L5-35 | Studio office | Freight | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 41.1, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L5-37 | Showcase plinth | Freight | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 52.6, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L5-38 | Showcase plinth | Freight | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 51.0, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L5-39 | AMR test grid (marked floor, perimeter docks) | Freight | 11.00 × 8.00 × 0.1 | 37.5, 8.7 | — | floor markings; charging docks on the perimeter | A marked floor grid with charging on its edge, like the Robotarium; on the window wall |
| L5-40 | Cobot pick cell | Freight | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.2 | 49.4, 13.7 | — | safety scanner | |
| L5-41 | Racking bay (3.5 m, three bays) | Freight | 6.00 × 1.20 × 3.5 | 37.5, 6.8 | — | load-rated | Against the wall between the grid and the benches so pick runs are short |
| L5-42 | Packaging, barcode and RFID bench | Freight | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 49.2, 12.2 | 2 | ||
| L5-43 | Packaging, barcode and RFID bench | Freight | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 49.2, 10.1 | 2 |
Not set out in this bay
| Item | Cell | Where it goes instead |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe build table | Vahana | 1 of 2 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 1 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
Sheet 8b · Door schedule (7 doors)
| Door | Serves | Cell | Clear width | Leaves | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | Design pod | Vahana | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D02 | Studio office | Vahana | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D03 | Flight-log and briefing room | Vahana | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D04 | Design pod | Yantra | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D05 | Studio office | Yantra | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D06 | Design pod | Freight | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D07 | Studio office | Freight | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
Every enclosed room on these sheets carries a door drawn to its leaf width with its swing, and the dashed rectangle in front of it is the clear floor no item may occupy — the geometric audit tests both. Cell entrances off the main aisle are 1.2 m double leaves. Fire ratings, hardware, vision panels, thresholds and access control are scheduled by the architect against this list.
Sheet 9 · Room data sheets
| Vahana | 19.77 × 14.27 m · 282 m² · 21 seats · Physical AI range |
|---|---|
| Function | Netted micro-drone arena, Flight-log and briefing room |
| Occupancy | 21 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 19.8 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 19.8 × 4.8 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 19.8 × 6.5 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 26 kW at DB-5.1; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 1 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.8 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 41% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 15.5 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Simulation, tethered and closed-course tests first with inert loads; hazard analysis; independent emergency stop; exclusion zones; trained operators; |
| Permissions | Spectrum use for transmitting products (To obtain); Drone operation (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Vehicle and passenger operation (Closed course only); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — battery abuse cabinet, ranges, arena, robots |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Yantra | 17.38 × 14.27 m · 248 m² · 16 seats · Physical AI range |
|---|---|
| Function | Rubble and stairs range with tether gantry, Arm cell, Arm cell |
| Occupancy | 16 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 17.4 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 17.4 × 4.8 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 17.4 × 6.5 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 31 kW at DB-5.2; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.2 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 53% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 17.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Simulation, tethered and closed-course tests first with inert loads; hazard analysis; independent emergency stop; exclusion zones; trained operators; |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — battery abuse cabinet, ranges, arena, robots |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Freight | 16.78 × 14.27 m · 239 m² · 12 seats · Physical AI range |
|---|---|
| Function | AMR test grid, Cobot pick cell |
| Occupancy | 12 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 16.8 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 16.8 × 4.8 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 16.8 × 6.5 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 24 kW at DB-5.3; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.8 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 47% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 17.8 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Simulation, tethered and closed-course tests first with inert loads; hazard analysis; independent emergency stop; exclusion zones; trained operators; |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — battery abuse cabinet, ranges, arena, robots |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
What is on this floor and what is deferred
- Vahana: keeps Netted micro-drone arena 12 × 8 m at 3.6 m net height, motion capture, autopilot benches, HIL, airframe build, flight-log room. Defers Full-scale flights and the 8 m arena; DGCA test flights → The Kabaddi terrace and the play area at booked hours; a partner RPTO field for BVLOS.
- Yantra: keeps Legged and humanoid platforms, a 9 × 6 m rubble and stairs range with overhead tether, arm cells, teleoperation and haptics bench. Defers Large rubble field → The terrace for outdoor gait trials.
- Freight: keeps AMR test grid 10 × 8 m, robot-arm pick cell, packaging bench, 3.5 m racking bay, barcode and RFID bench. Defers 6 m racking and a working distribution-centre pilot → A partner warehouse (Addverb, GreyOrange) for the Year-3 gate.
Sheet 10 · How this bay compares with the world's best, at the same scale
6PBL Lab 6 — Electronics Fab Lab, Spectra
Sits over PBL Lab 2 and the gymnasium. Ends and edges: Fire stair and a 4.30 × 6.23 m service room at the west end; lifts and AHU at the east end; lobby 22.10 × 9.37 m to the east. Workflow: stores and receiving at the lift-core end, the main aisle as the trolley and AGV route with the design-office-showcase front along it, benches in the middle band, plant and test against the window wall, finished products back along the aisle to the showcase; the corridor is the fire egress to both ends.
- Harvest and Habitat are both bench-and-sensor Studios whose heavy work is outdoors or at partners, so they take a strip: light, dry, quiet.
- The grow cubes stand against the window wall like a container farm cut in half, with their nutrient loop and LED load on one wall.
- Habitat's data-centre cell is glazed so the rack and its cooling loop are a live exhibit for the students of both Studios.
Sheet 1a · Construction plan, grid A to the match line
Sheet 1b · Construction plan, match line to grid G
Sheet 2 · The whole bay, and the same bay fitted out
Sheet 3 · Long section
Sheet 4 · Services overlay
Sheet 5 · Reflected ceiling plan
Sheet 6 · Fire and egress
Sheet 6b · Flows: people, goods, waste and escape
Sheet 8 · Item schedule (43 items)
| Tag | Item | Cell | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L6-01 | Design pod | Electronics Fab Lab | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 0.3, 2.2 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L6-03 | Studio office | Electronics Fab Lab | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 3.9, 2.2 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L6-05 | Showcase plinth | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 22.4, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L6-06 | Showcase plinth | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 20.8, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L6-07 | Reflow and stencil cell | Electronics Fab Lab | 3.20 × 3.00 × 2 | 0.3, 6.7 | — | fume extraction | A small enclosed cell for reflow fume, on the window wall |
| L6-08 | Reflow oveninside L6-07 | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.20 × 0.80 × 0.6 | 0.6, 7.0 | — | ||
| L6-09 | Stencil printerinside L6-07 | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.00 × 0.80 × 0.6 | 0.6, 8.2 | — | ||
| L6-11 | PCB mill room | Electronics Fab Lab | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.4 | 4.4, 6.7 | — | dust extraction | |
| L6-12 | PCB prototyping millinside L6-11 | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.00 × 0.80 × 0.6 | 4.8, 7.0 | — | ||
| L6-13 | PCB prototyping millinside L6-11 | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.00 × 0.80 × 0.6 | 4.8, 8.2 | — | ||
| L6-15 | Component and kit stores | Electronics Fab Lab | 4.00 × 2.00 × 2.2 | 8.3, 7.7 | — | ||
| L6-16 | Desktop pick-and-place | Electronics Fab Lab | 2.00 × 1.50 × 1.2 | 13.2, 8.2 | — | Beside the reflow cell in the assembly corner | |
| L6-17 | SDR, power-analyser and isolated-scope pool cabinet | Electronics Fab Lab | 2.00 × 0.60 × 2 | 16.1, 9.1 | — | lockable | Pool cabinets at the door so instruments issue and return at one counter |
| L6-18 | SDR, power-analyser and isolated-scope pool cabinet | Electronics Fab Lab | 2.00 × 0.60 × 2 | 19.0, 9.1 | — | lockable | Pool cabinets at the door so instruments issue and return at one counter |
| L6-19 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 0.4, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-20 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 2.4, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-21 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 4.3, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-22 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 6.2, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-23 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 8.2, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-24 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 10.1, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-25 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 12.1, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-26 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 14.0, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-27 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 16.0, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-28 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 17.9, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-29 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 19.9, 4.8 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-30 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 21.6, 8.9 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-31 | ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 16.2, 7.7 | 1 | ESD floor and mat; busway; data | Four rows of six back-to-back: one instrument set per bench, aisles 1.2 m, every bench on the ESD floor |
| L6-32 | Design pod | Spectra | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 24.0, 2.2 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L6-34 | Studio office | Spectra | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 27.6, 2.2 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L6-36 | Showcase plinth | Spectra | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 43.2, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L6-37 | Showcase plinth | Spectra | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 41.6, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L6-38 | Screened test booth | Spectra | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.4 | 24.0, 6.7 | — | Faraday screening; filtered power | A screened booth for emissions work that must not leak into the lab |
| L6-40 | Table-top anechoic box | Spectra | 1.50 × 1.20 × 1.5 | 27.9, 8.5 | — | On the quiet end, away from the reflow cell | |
| L6-41 | SDR and antenna store | Spectra | 2.00 × 0.60 × 2 | 30.3, 9.1 | — | ||
| L6-42 | RF bench | Spectra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 24.1, 4.8 | 1 | RF earth; ESD; busway | Two rows of four beside the Electronics benches so the VNAs and analysers are shared across the wall |
| L6-43 | RF bench | Spectra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 26.1, 4.8 | 1 | RF earth; ESD; busway | Two rows of four beside the Electronics benches so the VNAs and analysers are shared across the wall |
| L6-44 | RF bench | Spectra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 28.0, 4.8 | 1 | RF earth; ESD; busway | Two rows of four beside the Electronics benches so the VNAs and analysers are shared across the wall |
| L6-45 | RF bench | Spectra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 30.0, 4.8 | 1 | RF earth; ESD; busway | Two rows of four beside the Electronics benches so the VNAs and analysers are shared across the wall |
| L6-46 | RF bench | Spectra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 31.9, 4.8 | 1 | RF earth; ESD; busway | Two rows of four beside the Electronics benches so the VNAs and analysers are shared across the wall |
| L6-47 | RF bench | Spectra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 33.9, 4.8 | 1 | RF earth; ESD; busway | Two rows of four beside the Electronics benches so the VNAs and analysers are shared across the wall |
| L6-48 | RF bench | Spectra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 35.8, 4.8 | 1 | RF earth; ESD; busway | Two rows of four beside the Electronics benches so the VNAs and analysers are shared across the wall |
| L6-49 | RF bench | Spectra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 37.8, 4.8 | 1 | RF earth; ESD; busway | Two rows of four beside the Electronics benches so the VNAs and analysers are shared across the wall |
| L6-50 | Optical-communications bench | Spectra | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 39.7, 4.8 | 2 | laser interlock |
Not set out in this bay
| Item | Cell | Where it goes instead |
|---|---|---|
| ESD bench with scope, supply, meter, generator | Electronics Fab Lab | 13 of 24 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 11 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
| Spectrum analyser and VNA bench | Electronics Fab Lab | 0 of 2 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 2 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
Sheet 8b · Door schedule (7 doors)
| Door | Serves | Cell | Clear width | Leaves | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | Design pod | Electronics Fab Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D02 | Studio office | Electronics Fab Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D03 | Reflow and stencil cell | Electronics Fab Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D04 | PCB mill room | Electronics Fab Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D05 | Design pod | Spectra | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D06 | Studio office | Spectra | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D07 | Screened test booth | Spectra | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | RF gasketed leaf |
Every enclosed room on these sheets carries a door drawn to its leaf width with its swing, and the dashed rectangle in front of it is the clear floor no item may occupy — the geometric audit tests both. Cell entrances off the main aisle are 1.2 m double leaves. Fire ratings, hardware, vision panels, thresholds and access control are scheduled by the architect against this list.
Sheet 9 · Room data sheets
| Electronics Fab Lab | 23.73 × 7.66 m · 182 m² · 21 seats · Shared Fab Lab |
|---|---|
| Function | Reflow and stencil cell, PCB mill room |
| Occupancy | 21 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 23.7 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 23.7 × 2.4 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 23.7 × 3.1 m along the window wall |
| Floor | ESD vinyl to IEC 61340-5-1, under 10⁹ Ω, bonded and earthed |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 2 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.9 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 65% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 17.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 1 per session — light benches, grow cubes |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Spectra | 20.76 × 7.66 m · 159 m² · 18 seats · Light, dry, quiet |
|---|---|
| Function | Screened test booth |
| Occupancy | 18 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 20.8 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 20.8 × 2.4 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 20.8 × 3.1 m along the window wall |
| Floor | ESD vinyl to IEC 61340-5-1, under 10⁹ Ω, bonded and earthed |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 17 kW at DB-6.2; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.0 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 76% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 17.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Lawful operating scope; spectrum permissions where applicable; data minimisation; restricted testing; authorised users; sensitive demonstrations only |
| Permissions | Spectrum use for transmitting products (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Laser safety (To appoint); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 1 per session — light benches, grow cubes |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
What is on this floor and what is deferred
- Spectra: keeps RF benches, table-top anechoic box, SDR benches, VNA to 26 GHz, optical-communications bench; antenna measurements on the terrace. Defers Full anechoic chamber and antenna positioner → SAMEER or Astra Microwave chamber time; a Phase-2 chamber.
Sheet 10 · How this bay compares with the world's best, at the same scale
7PBL Lab 7 — Compute and Software Lab, Ledger, Frontline
Sits over PBL Lab 3 and the play area. Ends and edges: Lifts and AHU at the west end by the lobby; fire tower, fire stair and a 4.30 × 6.23 m service room at the east end. Workflow: stores and receiving at the lift-core end, the main aisle as the trolley and AGV route with the design-office-showcase front along it, benches in the middle band, plant and test against the window wall, finished products back along the aisle to the showcase; the corridor is the fire egress to both ends.
- The commons is on the lobby: the first thing a visitor meets is the gallery, then the design commons, then the offices — the think[box] community floor logic.
- Twelve team tables face whiteboard walls with movable furniture, the d.school pattern; three huddle rooms and four meeting rooms are glazed on the quiet end.
- Mission control is on the short end: fifteen screens on a 7.3 m wall, consoles in three rows angled to it, viewing distance 1.5–2 screen heights, aisles 1.2 m, the ISO 11064 geometry.
Sheet 1a · Construction plan, grid A to the match line
Sheet 1b · Construction plan, match line to grid H
Sheet 2 · The whole bay, and the same bay fitted out
Sheet 3 · Long section
Sheet 4 · Services overlay
Sheet 5 · Reflected ceiling plan
Sheet 6 · Fire and egress
Sheet 6b · Flows: people, goods, waste and escape
Sheet 7 · Detail at 1:50 — GPU room (40 seats, five rows of eight)
Sheet 8 · Item schedule (81 items)
| Tag | Item | Cell | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L7-01 | Design pod | Compute and Software Lab | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 0.3, 2.2 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L7-03 | Studio office | Compute and Software Lab | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 3.9, 2.2 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L7-05 | Showcase plinth | Compute and Software Lab | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 23.0, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L7-06 | Showcase plinth | Compute and Software Lab | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 21.4, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L7-07 | GPU room (40 seats, five rows of eight) | Compute and Software Lab | 13.60 × 5.00 × 3 | 0.3, 4.7 | 40 | 45 kW cooling; UPS; access control | A closed, cooled room: desks in rows facing the window wall, the server closet on its end wall |
| L7-08 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 1.2, 5.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-09 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 2.7, 5.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-10 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 4.2, 5.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-11 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 5.7, 5.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-12 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 7.2, 5.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-13 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 8.7, 5.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-14 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 10.2, 5.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-15 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 11.7, 5.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-16 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 1.2, 5.8 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-17 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 2.7, 5.8 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-18 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 4.2, 5.8 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-19 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 5.7, 5.8 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-20 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 7.2, 5.8 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-21 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 8.7, 5.8 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-22 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 10.2, 5.8 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-23 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 11.7, 5.8 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-24 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 1.2, 7.6 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-25 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 2.7, 7.6 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-26 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 4.2, 7.6 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-27 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 5.7, 7.6 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-28 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 7.2, 7.6 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-29 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 8.7, 7.6 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-30 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 10.2, 7.6 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-31 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 11.7, 7.6 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-32 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 1.2, 8.3 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-33 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 2.7, 8.3 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-34 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 4.2, 8.3 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-35 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 5.7, 8.3 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-36 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 7.2, 8.3 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-37 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 8.7, 8.3 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-38 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 10.2, 8.3 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-39 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 11.7, 8.3 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-40 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 1.2, 10.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-41 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 2.7, 10.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-42 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 4.2, 10.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-43 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 5.7, 10.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-44 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 7.2, 10.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-45 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 8.7, 10.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-46 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 10.2, 10.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-47 | Workstation deskinside L7-07 | Compute and Software Lab | 1.35 × 0.70 × 0.75 | 11.7, 10.1 | 1 | GPU workstation on a raised floor; hot aisle behind the closet wall | Eight desks a row, five rows, back to back in pairs with a circulation aisle between pairs; the row pitch suits a 7.7 m deep strip |
| L7-49 | Server closet | Compute and Software Lab | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.6 | 14.7, 6.7 | — | two GPU servers, NAS, UPS; hot-aisle; under 30 kW per rack so air-cooled | On the end wall of the GPU room so the cold aisle is short and the noise is behind a door |
| L7-50 | Server rackinside L7-49 | Compute and Software Lab | 0.60 × 1.10 × 2 | 15.1, 7.1 | — | ||
| L7-51 | Server rackinside L7-49 | Compute and Software Lab | 0.60 × 1.10 × 2 | 16.0, 7.1 | — | ||
| L7-53 | Microcontroller, edge and FPGA pool stores | Compute and Software Lab | 3.00 × 1.20 × 2.2 | 18.3, 8.5 | — | lockable; barcoded | Two cabinets at the door so boards issue and return at one counter without a queue |
| L7-54 | Microcontroller, edge and FPGA pool stores | Compute and Software Lab | 3.00 × 1.20 × 2.2 | 18.3, 6.7 | — | lockable; barcoded | Two cabinets at the door so boards issue and return at one counter without a queue |
| L7-55 | Bring-up bench | Compute and Software Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 21.9, 8.9 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L7-56 | Bring-up bench | Compute and Software Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 21.9, 6.8 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L7-57 | Bring-up bench | Compute and Software Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 16.8, 5.3 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L7-58 | Bring-up bench | Compute and Software Lab | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 19.8, 4.7 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L7-59 | Design pod | Ledger | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 24.6, 2.2 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L7-61 | Studio office | Ledger | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 28.2, 2.2 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L7-63 | Showcase plinth | Ledger | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 37.9, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L7-64 | Showcase plinth | Ledger | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 36.3, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L7-65 | Secure suite (access-controlled) | Ledger | 7.00 × 4.60 × 3 | 24.6, 5.1 | 8 | access control; screened; no windows to aisle | Enclosed and access-controlled — the one Studio whose work must not be seen from the aisle; on the quiet end away from the lifts |
| L7-66 | Side-channel benchinside L7-65 | Ledger | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 24.9, 5.5 | 2 | screened | |
| L7-67 | Side-channel benchinside L7-65 | Ledger | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 27.7, 5.5 | 2 | screened | |
| L7-68 | Secure-element benchinside L7-65 | Ledger | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 24.9, 6.7 | 1 | ||
| L7-69 | Secure-element benchinside L7-65 | Ledger | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 27.1, 6.7 | 1 | ||
| L7-70 | Secure-element benchinside L7-65 | Ledger | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 29.2, 6.7 | 1 | ||
| L7-71 | Secure-element benchinside L7-65 | Ledger | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 24.9, 7.9 | 1 | ||
| L7-72 | Key safe and audit-ledger rackinside L7-65 | Ledger | 1.00 × 0.80 × 2 | 27.1, 7.9 | — | ||
| L7-74 | Ledger team bench | Ledger | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 32.4, 8.9 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L7-75 | Ledger team bench | Ledger | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 35.4, 8.9 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L7-76 | Ledger team bench | Ledger | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 32.4, 6.8 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L7-77 | Ledger team bench | Ledger | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 35.4, 6.8 | 1 | power busway; data drop | Team benches in the middle band: daylight from the window wall, one step from the design pod, clear of plant |
| L7-78 | Design pod | Frontline | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 39.5, 2.2 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L7-80 | Studio office | Frontline | 3.00 × 1.80 × 2.4 | 43.1, 2.2 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L7-82 | Showcase plinth | Frontline | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 48.8, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L7-83 | Showcase plinth | Frontline | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 47.2, 2.2 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L7-84 | Field-kit stores and spares | Frontline | 3.00 × 2.00 × 2.2 | 39.5, 7.7 | — | ||
| L7-85 | Field-kit assembly and ruggedisation bench | Frontline | 3.00 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 39.6, 4.8 | 3 | busway | Long benches for kits that are boxed and shipped; nearest the stores |
| L7-86 | Field-kit assembly and ruggedisation bench | Frontline | 3.00 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 42.8, 4.8 | 3 | busway | Long benches for kits that are boxed and shipped; nearest the stores |
| L7-87 | Alerting and SCADA bench | Frontline | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 45.9, 4.8 | 1 | data | |
| L7-88 | Alerting and SCADA bench | Frontline | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 43.1, 8.9 | 1 | data | |
| L7-89 | Alerting and SCADA bench | Frontline | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 46.1, 8.9 | 1 | data | |
| L7-90 | Alerting and SCADA bench | Frontline | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 47.0, 6.8 | 1 | data |
Not set out in this bay
| Item | Cell | Where it goes instead |
|---|---|---|
| Bring-up bench | Compute and Software Lab | 4 of 6 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 2 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
| Alerting and SCADA bench | Frontline | 4 of 6 placed at 1.2 m aisles; the remaining 2 run in the second daily session, which the two-session timetable already assumes |
Sheet 8b · Door schedule (9 doors)
| Door | Serves | Cell | Clear width | Leaves | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | Design pod | Compute and Software Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D02 | Studio office | Compute and Software Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D03 | GPU room | Compute and Software Lab | 2.4 m | 2 | outwards | Forty seats: a double leaf opening in the escape direction |
| D04 | Server closet | Compute and Software Lab | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Opens into the GPU room, never into the hot aisle |
| D05 | Design pod | Ledger | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D06 | Studio office | Ledger | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D07 | Secure suite | Ledger | 1.0 m | 1 | outwards | Access-controlled single leaf on a card reader |
| D08 | Design pod | Frontline | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D09 | Studio office | Frontline | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
Every enclosed room on these sheets carries a door drawn to its leaf width with its swing, and the dashed rectangle in front of it is the clear floor no item may occupy — the geometric audit tests both. Cell entrances off the main aisle are 1.2 m double leaves. Fire ratings, hardware, vision panels, thresholds and access control are scheduled by the architect against this list.
Sheet 9 · Room data sheets
| Compute and Software Lab | 24.27 × 7.73 m · 188 m² · 92 seats · Shared Fab Lab |
|---|---|
| Function | GPU room, Server closet |
| Occupancy | 92 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 24.3 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 24.3 × 2.4 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 24.3 × 3.1 m along the window wall |
| Floor | ESD vinyl to IEC 61340-5-1, under 10⁹ Ω, bonded and earthed |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | from the lab board; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.9 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 45% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 8.8 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | General laboratory hazards; standard controls |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 1 per session — gallery, mission control |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Ledger | 14.97 × 7.73 m · 116 m² · 28 seats · Light, dry, quiet |
|---|---|
| Function | Secure suite |
| Occupancy | 28 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 15.0 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 15.0 × 2.4 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 15.0 × 3.1 m along the window wall |
| Floor | ESD vinyl to IEC 61340-5-1, under 10⁹ Ω, bonded and earthed |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 14 kW at DB-7.2; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.0 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 56% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 8.2 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Lawful operating scope; spectrum permissions where applicable; data minimisation; restricted testing; authorised users; sensitive demonstrations only |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Payment and financial pilots (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 1 per session — gallery, mission control |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Frontline | 10.84 × 7.73 m · 84 m² · 18 seats · Light, dry, quiet |
|---|---|
| Function | Bench-based work with no enclosed rooms |
| Occupancy | 18 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 10.8 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 10.8 × 2.4 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 10.8 × 3.1 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 10 kW at DB-7.3; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 2.0 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 62% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 11.0 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Safety and performance validated with accountable partners before health or potability claims; consent, complaints, incident response and withdrawal r |
| Permissions | Spectrum use for transmitting products (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 1 per session — gallery, mission control |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
What is on this floor and what is deferred
- Ledger: keeps Secure, enclosed suite: secure-element benches, side-channel bench, EMV and NFC test, audit-ledger racks. Defers Nothing → —.
- Frontline: keeps Alerting and SCADA benches, ruggedisation bench, field-kit assembly and stores. Defers Siren and PA tests at full power → The terraces at set hours; campus perimeter for drills.
Sheet 10 · How this bay compares with the world's best, at the same scale
8PBL Lab 8 — Wafer, Astra, Lattice
Sits over PBL Lab 4. Ends and edges: Electrical room 3.58 × 4.09 m and the lift core at the west end; fire tower at the east end; the Kho-Kho terrace (35.33 × 22.00 m) opens to the north. Workflow: stores and receiving at the lift-core end, the main aisle as the trolley and AGV route with the design-office-showcase front along it, benches in the middle band, plant and test against the window wall, finished products back along the aisle to the showcase; the corridor is the fire egress to both ends.
- The clean and precision Studios share one floor because they share air handling: the ISO-7 cleanroom and the ISO-8 AIT room sit side by side nearest the wing-end AHU room, each with a gowning sequence at its door.
- Wafer's lithography is deepest in the cleanroom, farthest from the door; the probe station is outside on an isolated bench; gas cabinets sit between the cleanroom and the AHU room.
- Astra's AIT room carries the ESD floor and the hoist beam; the ground-station room is on the terrace wall for the shortest feeder run.
- Lattice's darkroom is in the quietest corner, east end, farthest from the lifts and the machine hall; the cryostat and its pumps are in an alcove next to it but outside it, so pump vibration never reaches the optical tables.
Sheet 1a · Construction plan, grid A to the match line
Sheet 1b · Construction plan, match line to grid H
Sheet 2 · The whole bay, and the same bay fitted out
Sheet 3 · Long section
Sheet 4 · Services overlay
Sheet 5 · Reflected ceiling plan
Sheet 6 · Fire and egress
Sheet 6b · Flows: people, goods, waste and escape
Sheet 7 · Detail at 1:50 — ISO-7 cleanroom-lite with gowning
Sheet 7 · Detail at 1:50 — ISO-8 AIT room with ESD floor and 1 t hoist
Sheet 8 · Item schedule (52 items)
| Tag | Item | Cell | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L8-01 | Design pod | Wafer | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 0.3, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L8-03 | Studio office | Wafer | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 3.9, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L8-05 | Showcase plinth | Wafer | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 18.2, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L8-06 | Showcase plinth | Wafer | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 16.6, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L8-07 | ISO-7 cleanroom-lite with gowning | Wafer | 8.00 × 6.00 × 3.6 | 0.3, 9.3 | 6 | dedicated AHU from the wing-end room; HEPA plenum; raised floor; DI water; process gases in cabinets | Set back from the glazed elevation, not against it: lithography works under yellow light and a cleanroom wall is a blank wall. Nearest the wing-end AHU room for the shortest duct run, with the three-room gowning sequence at its door and the plenum taking the 0.6 m above 3.6 m |
| L8-08 | Gowning: entry, air shower, exitinside L8-07 | Wafer | 2.00 × 2.00 × 3.6 | 0.6, 9.6 | — | air shower | Three-room sequence like IISc NNfC |
| L8-10 | Maskless lithographyinside L8-07 | Wafer | 1.50 × 1.20 × 1.7 | 3.0, 9.6 | — | vibration mounts; yellow light | Deep in the room, farthest from the door |
| L8-11 | Plasma etcherinside L8-07 | Wafer | 1.50 × 1.20 × 1.7 | 4.8, 9.6 | — | process gases | |
| L8-12 | Sputter and evaporationinside L8-07 | Wafer | 1.50 × 1.20 × 1.9 | 0.6, 12.0 | — | ||
| L8-13 | Wet bench and spin coaterinside L8-07 | Wafer | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 2.5, 12.0 | 2 | DI water; fume | |
| L8-14 | Inspection microscope benchinside L8-07 | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 5.2, 12.0 | 1 | ||
| L8-16 | Cleanroom AHU and gas cabinet space | Wafer | 3.00 × 2.00 × 2.6 | 9.2, 13.3 | — | gas cabinets; exhaust | Between the cleanroom and the wing-end AHU room |
| L8-17 | Probe station and parameter analyser (isolated) | Wafer | 1.80 × 1.20 × 1.5 | 13.1, 14.1 | — | vibration isolation; screened | Outside the cleanroom on an isolated bench |
| L8-18 | Wire bonder bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 0.4, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L8-19 | FPGA, RISC-V and bring-up bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 2.4, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-20 | FPGA, RISC-V and bring-up bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 4.3, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-21 | FPGA, RISC-V and bring-up bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 6.2, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-22 | FPGA, RISC-V and bring-up bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 8.2, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-23 | FPGA, RISC-V and bring-up bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 10.1, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-24 | FPGA, RISC-V and bring-up bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 12.1, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-25 | FPGA, RISC-V and bring-up bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 14.0, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-26 | FPGA, RISC-V and bring-up bench | Wafer | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 16.0, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-27 | Design pod | Astra | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 19.8, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L8-29 | Studio office | Astra | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 23.4, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L8-31 | Showcase plinth | Astra | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 37.0, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L8-32 | Showcase plinth | Astra | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 35.4, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L8-33 | ISO-8 AIT room with ESD floor and 1 t hoist | Astra | 8.00 × 6.00 × 3.6 | 19.8, 10.7 | 4 | dedicated AHU; ESD floor; hoist beam at 3.5 m; gowning | Beside the cleanroom so both share the air-handling run; the hoist beam spans the room; gowning at the door |
| L8-34 | Gowninginside L8-33 | Astra | 2.00 × 2.00 × 3.6 | 20.1, 11.0 | — | ||
| L8-36 | Flat-sat and integration benchinside L8-33 | Astra | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 22.5, 11.0 | 2 | ESD | |
| L8-37 | Flat-sat and integration benchinside L8-33 | Astra | 2.40 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 20.1, 13.4 | 2 | ESD | |
| L8-38 | Bench thermal-vacuum chamber (under 1 t)inside L8-33 | Astra | 1.50 × 1.50 × 1.6 | 22.9, 13.4 | — | vacuum pumps outside | Under the hoist |
| L8-39 | Helmholtz cageinside L8-33 | Astra | 2.00 × 2.00 × 2 | 24.7, 13.4 | — | ||
| L8-41 | Ground-station room (antennas on the terrace edge) | Astra | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 28.7, 13.7 | 3 | coax to terrace | On the terrace wall for the shortest feeder run |
| L8-43 | Payload and avionics bench | Astra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 19.9, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-44 | Payload and avionics bench | Astra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 21.8, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-45 | Payload and avionics bench | Astra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 23.8, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-46 | Payload and avionics bench | Astra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 25.7, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-47 | Payload and avionics bench | Astra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 27.7, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-48 | Payload and avionics bench | Astra | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 29.6, 6.0 | 1 | ESD; busway | |
| L8-49 | Design pod | Lattice | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 38.6, 2.6 | 6 | whiteboard walls; screen | Glazed to the aisle at the front of every cell: the Studio's shopfront, where a team plans before it builds |
| L8-51 | Studio office | Lattice | 3.00 × 2.60 × 2.4 | 42.2, 2.6 | 2 | desk; lockable | Beside the pod, so the lead sees the aisle and the benches |
| L8-53 | Showcase plinth | Lattice | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 52.6, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L8-54 | Showcase plinth | Lattice | 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.9 | 51.0, 2.6 | — | spot light | On the aisle: finished products face the corridor |
| L8-55 | Optics darkroom with light-trap entry | Lattice | 8.00 × 5.00 × 3 | 38.6, 10.3 | 4 | light trap; laser interlock; active isolation; 20 ± 0.5 °C | The quietest corner of the floor: east end, farthest from the lifts and the machine hall; light-trap door |
| L8-56 | Optical table 2.4 × 1.2 m on active isolationinside L8-55 | Lattice | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 39.0, 10.6 | 1 | active isolation; laser curtains | Three tables in a row, curtains between |
| L8-57 | Optical table 2.4 × 1.2 m on active isolationinside L8-55 | Lattice | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 41.7, 10.6 | 1 | active isolation; laser curtains | Three tables in a row, curtains between |
| L8-58 | Optical table 2.4 × 1.2 m on active isolationinside L8-55 | Lattice | 2.40 × 1.20 × 0.9 | 39.0, 12.2 | 1 | active isolation; laser curtains | Three tables in a row, curtains between |
| L8-59 | Single-photon benchinside L8-55 | Lattice | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 41.7, 12.2 | 1 | ||
| L8-61 | Cryostat alcove with pumps | Lattice | 3.00 × 3.00 × 2.6 | 47.5, 12.3 | — | vacuum pumps; helium; vibration-isolated | Adjacent to the darkroom but outside it, so pump vibration stays off the tables |
| L8-63 | Quantum-computing access room | Lattice | 3.00 × 3.00 × 3 | 49.7, 8.6 | 4 | data | Cloud access needs a quiet room, not a lab |
| L8-65 | Quantum-sensing bench | Lattice | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 38.7, 6.0 | 1 | ||
| L8-66 | Quantum-sensing bench | Lattice | 1.80 × 0.80 × 0.9 | 40.7, 6.0 | 1 |
Sheet 8b · Door schedule (14 doors)
| Door | Serves | Cell | Clear width | Leaves | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | Design pod | Wafer | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D02 | Studio office | Wafer | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D03 | Gowning: entry, air shower, exit | Wafer | 0.9 m | 1 | into the room | Airlock leaf, self-closing, interlocked with the next one |
| D04 | ISO-7 cleanroom-lite with gowning | Wafer | 2.4 m | 2 | into the room | Double leaf for equipment, opening into the room so the airlock sequence is not broken |
| D05 | Design pod | Astra | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D06 | Studio office | Astra | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D07 | Gowning | Astra | 0.9 m | 1 | into the room | Airlock leaf, self-closing, interlocked with the next one |
| D08 | ISO-8 AIT room with ESD floor and 1 t hoist | Astra | 3.0 m | 2 | into the room | Double leaf: a flat-sat and the bench thermal-vacuum chamber pass through it |
| D09 | Ground-station room | Astra | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D10 | Design pod | Lattice | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D11 | Studio office | Lattice | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Glazed leaf to the aisle |
| D12 | Optics darkroom with light-trap entry | Lattice | 0.9 m | 1 | into the room | Light-trap entry: the leaf opens into the trap, never straight into the room |
| D13 | Cryostat alcove with pumps | Lattice | 1.0 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| D14 | Quantum-computing access room | Lattice | 0.9 m | 1 | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
Every enclosed room on these sheets carries a door drawn to its leaf width with its swing, and the dashed rectangle in front of it is the clear floor no item may occupy — the geometric audit tests both. Cell entrances off the main aisle are 1.2 m double leaves. Fire ratings, hardware, vision panels, thresholds and access control are scheduled by the architect against this list.
Sheet 9 · Room data sheets
| Wafer | 19.49 × 14.27 m · 278 m² · 26 seats · Clean and ESD |
|---|---|
| Function | ISO-7 cleanroom-lite with gowning |
| Occupancy | 26 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 19.5 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 19.5 × 5.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 19.5 × 6.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | ESD vinyl to IEC 61340-5-1, under 10⁹ Ω, bonded and earthed |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 40 kW at DB-8.1; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | 2 extracted items on the high-level spine |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.5 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 69% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 23.2 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Lawful operating scope; spectrum permissions where applicable; data minimisation; restricted testing; authorised users; sensitive demonstrations only ; Equipment-specific risk assessments; containment; interlocks; emergency response; competent sign-off; no universal classification by power alone |
| Permissions | Pollution control (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — cleanroom gases and solvents, ESD, lasers, cryogenics and vacuum |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Astra | 18.84 × 14.27 m · 269 m² · 25 seats · Clean and ESD |
|---|---|
| Function | ISO-8 AIT room with ESD floor and 1 t hoist, Ground-station room |
| Occupancy | 25 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 18.8 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 18.8 × 5.3 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 18.8 × 6.0 m along the window wall |
| Floor | ESD vinyl to IEC 61340-5-1, under 10⁹ Ω, bonded and earthed |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 35 kW at DB-8.2; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.5 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 69% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 17.8 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Lawful operating scope; spectrum permissions where applicable; data minimisation; restricted testing; authorised users; sensitive demonstrations only ; Teaching tests, qualification tests and accredited certification distinguished; calibration, configuration and acceptance traced to the intended use |
| Permissions | Spectrum use for transmitting products (To obtain); Electrical safety (To obtain); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — cleanroom gases and solvents, ESD, lasers, cryogenics and vacuum |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
| Lattice | 15.59 × 14.27 m · 223 m² · 22 seats · Vibration-sensitive |
|---|---|
| Function | Optics darkroom with light-trap entry, Cryostat alcove with pumps, Quantum-computing access room |
| Occupancy | 22 seats at the benches and in the rooms; operators at plant and in ranges are additional; two daily sessions |
| Zones | Design pod, Studio office and showcase front: 15.6 × 3.0 m along the aisle; Team benches and integration tables: 15.6 × 5.8 m; Plant, test and stores back band: 15.6 × 5.5 m along the window wall |
| Floor | Sealed epoxy, anti-static where benches require it |
| Ceiling and services zone | Clear height 4.2 m assumed; 0.6 m services zone below slab shared by duct, busway, tray and truss |
| Power | about 29 kW at DB-8.3; busway tap-offs every 3 m; 0.9 m keep-clear at the board |
| Extraction and ventilation | General air handling from the wing-end AHU; no local extraction |
| Water and drainage | None |
| Data | Two Cat 6A per bench, OM4 to the cell rack, 10 Gb to the campus core |
| Imposed load | 1.7 kN/m² average across the cell; local checks at every item over 100 kg (loads table below) |
| Clearances verified | Machine and plant 0.9 m, bench rows 1.2 m, door zones 1.0 m — zero violations in the drawn layout; circulation 65% of the cell floor |
| Egress | Longest walk to the escape route 18.5 m against 30 m allowed; two exits in opposite directions |
| Hazards and controls | Lawful operating scope; spectrum permissions where applicable; data minimisation; restricted testing; authorised users; sensitive demonstrations only ; Equipment-specific risk assessments; containment; interlocks; emergency response; competent sign-off; no universal classification by power alone |
| Permissions | Electrical safety (To obtain); Laser safety (To appoint); Fire and egress (To obtain) |
| Technician cover | 2 per session — cleanroom gases and solvents, ESD, lasers, cryogenics and vacuum |
| Sign-off before tender | Studio lead confirms the equipment list, the services and the clearances on this sheet |
What is on this floor and what is deferred
- Wafer: keeps ISO-7 cleanroom-lite 8 × 6 m with gowning and its own AHU, probe station and parameter analyser, wire bonder, FPGA and RISC-V benches, bring-up lab. Defers The campus supercluster nodes (heat and power) and heavy deposition tools → The Compute lab hosts the small GPU servers; the supercluster in the data-centre room of the Habitat plan (Phase 2).
- Astra: keeps ISO-8 AIT room 8 × 6 m with ESD floor and a 1 t hoist at 3.5 m, a bench TVAC under one tonne (delivered by the 16-passenger lift), small shaker, Helmholtz cage,. Defers Large TVAC and shaker, a 5 m crane-hook AIT hall → URSC and Dhruva Space facilities for flight-model qualification.
- Lattice: keeps Optical benches on active isolation, single-photon lab (darkroom), quantum-sensing bench, a closed-cycle cryostat, vacuum stack, quantum-computing access room. Defers Nothing in scope, but performance depends on the floor → If the second-floor slab fails VC-C (12.5 µm/s), the optics move to a ground-floor room in Phase 2.
Sheet 10 · How this bay compares with the world's best, at the same scale
9Heavy Fab Lab — the machine hall on the main campus
- Everything that cuts metal, welds, sprays or makes dust is here, not in the sports complex: at grade the slab takes 10 kN/m², a 2 t crane can run the length of the hall, extraction goes straight through the roof, and a lorry reverses to the door.
- The eight PBL labs keep the light half of the mechanical floor — printing, filtered laser work on sheet and board, layup, hand tools, cobot cells and assembly benches — so no bay in the sports complex needs a roof extraction riser, a crane or a 10 kN/m² slab for machining.
- This hall also takes the plant the retrofit had deferred with nowhere to go: metal additive, the 5-axis centre, the composites autoclave and a vehicle garage. The Year-3 gates that depended on a Phase-2 annex now depend on a building that exists.
- A booked shuttle runs twice a day between the two buildings; each Studio has a marked trolley bay in the light lab, so a part leaves labelled in the morning and returns machined in the afternoon.
Sheet H1 · Plan of the heavy hall
Sheet H2 · Item schedule (37 items)
| Tag | Item | w × d × h (m) | x, y | Seats | Services | Why here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H-01 | Overhead travelling crane, 2 t | 30.00 × 0.60 × 6 | 3.0, 11.7 | — | rail at 6.0 m; pendant control; annual inspection | A rail down the length of the hall so every machine, and every delivery, is within a hook |
| H-02 | Goods door and marshalling | 8.00 × 6.00 × 0.1 | 0.6, 18.0 | — | roller door 3.5 × 4 m; marked floor | A lorry reverses in and the crane picks straight off the bed; nothing crosses the machine floor to reach a machine |
| H-03 | Metal additive cell (LPBF) with powder room | 8.00 × 6.00 × 3 | 9.6, 18.0 | — | inert gas; powder handling; ATEX vacuum; separate ventilation | Powder is the hazard in this hall: its own room, its own ventilation, its own store, away from every spark |
| H-04 | Metal additive printerinside H-03 | 2.50 × 2.00 × 2.4 | 9.9, 18.4 | — | argon | On isolation mounts |
| H-05 | Powder handling and sieving stationinside H-03 | 1.50 × 1.00 × 1.9 | 12.8, 18.4 | — | ATEX extraction | Sealed transfer only |
| H-06 | Depowder and finishing benchinside H-03 | 2.00 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 14.6, 18.4 | 1 | extraction | |
| H-07 | Door to Metal additive cell — 1.2 m single leaf, opening outwardsinside H-03 | 1.20 × 1.20 × 2.1 | 13.0, 16.8 | — | 1.2 m clear opening; self-closing on the escape side | Powder room: self-closing, sealed, opening out |
| H-08 | CO2 and fibre laser cutting room | 8.00 × 6.00 × 3 | 18.6, 18.0 | — | roof extraction; chiller; interlocked | Metal cutting behind a door with its own extraction and chiller |
| H-09 | Fibre laser cutterinside H-08 | 3.00 × 2.00 × 2 | 19.0, 18.4 | — | assist gas | |
| H-10 | CO2 laser cutter 150 Winside H-08 | 1.80 × 1.40 × 1.2 | 22.3, 18.4 | — | extraction | |
| H-11 | Compressor and chillerinside H-08 | 1.20 × 1.00 × 1.6 | 24.5, 18.4 | — | ||
| H-12 | Door to CO2 and fibre laser cutting room — 1.2 m single leaf, opening outwardsinside H-08 | 1.20 × 1.20 × 2.1 | 22.0, 16.8 | — | 1.2 m clear opening; self-closing on the escape side | Interlocked with both lasers |
| H-13 | Vehicle garage bay with a two-post lift | 7.00 × 5.00 × 4.5 | 27.6, 19.0 | — | drive-in door; extraction reel; 3-phase; oil separator | Drive-in at grade: this is the only place a vehicle above two-wheeler scale can be worked on |
| H-14 | Finishing, grinding and shot-blast room | 6.00 × 4.00 × 3 | 27.6, 14.0 | — | dust extraction; separate from the machine floor | Grinding dust and blast media kept behind a door and a filter |
| H-15 | Door to Finishing, grinding and shot-blast room — 1.2 m single leaf, opening outwardsinside H-14 | 1.20 × 1.20 × 2.1 | 30.0, 12.8 | — | 1.2 m clear opening; self-closing on the escape side | Dust-sealed leaf |
| H-16 | Structural test frame | 5.00 × 4.00 × 5 | 35.6, 20.0 | — | strong floor anchors; guarding | Against the end wall on the strong floor, sharing the crane for specimens |
| H-17 | Induction and briefing area | 5.00 × 3.00 × 2.4 | 35.6, 16.0 | 12 | screen; seating | Nobody touches a machine here without the induction; it happens in sight of the floor |
| H-18 | 5-axis machining centre | 4.00 × 3.50 × 3 | 0.6, 13.5 | — | 3-phase 30 kW; coolant; chip conveyor; 1 m clear all round | Under the crane, on its own foundation, with the chip conveyor toward the aisle |
| H-19 | Welding bays, curtained | 3.50 × 3.50 × 2.4 | 5.6, 13.5 | — | fume extraction arm each; 63 A; welding curtains; screens | Four curtained bays on the extraction wall, screened from the aisle |
| H-20 | Welding bays, curtained | 3.50 × 3.50 × 2.4 | 10.1, 13.5 | — | fume extraction arm each; 63 A; welding curtains; screens | Four curtained bays on the extraction wall, screened from the aisle |
| H-21 | Welding bays, curtained | 3.50 × 3.50 × 2.4 | 14.6, 13.5 | — | fume extraction arm each; 63 A; welding curtains; screens | Four curtained bays on the extraction wall, screened from the aisle |
| H-22 | Welding bays, curtained | 3.50 × 3.50 × 2.4 | 19.1, 13.5 | — | fume extraction arm each; 63 A; welding curtains; screens | Four curtained bays on the extraction wall, screened from the aisle |
| H-23 | Composites autoclave and oven | 4.00 × 3.00 × 2.6 | 34.6, 12.0 | — | steam or electric; pressure-vessel inspection; vacuum | Autoclave with a clear lay-down area in front; layup arrives from the light lab |
| H-24 | Paint and coatings booth | 4.00 × 3.00 × 2.6 | 23.6, 10.0 | — | explosion-rated fan; filters; solvent store | Furthest from welding and the powder room |
| H-25 | Raw material rack and offcut store | 8.00 × 1.50 × 3.5 | 0.6, 11.0 | — | load-rated; cantilever rack | Bar, sheet and section along the wall so the crane can feed the machines |
| H-26 | Dust and fume plant, compressor, ring main | 4.00 × 2.50 × 3 | 28.6, 10.5 | — | roof risers; 8 bar ring main | Plant corner by the roof penetrations |
| H-27 | Tool crib and consumables | 4.00 × 2.50 × 2.4 | 9.6, 10.0 | — | lockable; issue counter | One counter: tooling, inserts, wheels, gas and PPE |
| H-28 | Technician workshop and planning desk | 4.00 × 2.50 × 2.4 | 14.6, 10.0 | 3 | data | The technicians who hold this hall sit in it, at the door, where they can see the floor |
| H-29 | Door to Technician workshop and planning desk — 0.9 m single leaf, opening outwardsinside H-28 | 0.90 × 1.00 × 2.1 | 16.2, 9.0 | — | 0.9 m clear opening; self-closing on the escape side | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| H-30 | Mid-size VMC | 3.00 × 2.50 × 2.8 | 23.6, 14.5 | — | 3-phase; coolant | A pair beside the 5-axis so one operator can run two |
| H-31 | Mid-size VMC | 3.00 × 2.50 × 2.8 | 19.6, 10.0 | — | 3-phase; coolant | A pair beside the 5-axis so one operator can run two |
| H-32 | Job-in and job-out bays for the shuttle | 3.00 × 2.00 × 1.2 | 33.6, 9.0 | — | marked and labelled | Work arrives and leaves labelled, twice a day, on the shuttle from the sports complex |
| H-33 | Job-in and job-out bays for the shuttle | 3.00 × 2.00 × 1.2 | 37.6, 9.0 | — | marked and labelled | Work arrives and leaves labelled, twice a day, on the shuttle from the sports complex |
| H-34 | CNC lathes | 2.60 × 1.80 × 1.9 | 0.6, 8.2 | — | 3-phase; coolant | Turning row, chips to the same conveyor |
| H-35 | CNC lathes | 2.60 × 1.80 × 1.9 | 4.6, 8.2 | — | 3-phase; coolant | Turning row, chips to the same conveyor |
| H-36 | Sheet-metal shear, brake and bender | 3.00 × 1.50 × 1.6 | 28.6, 8.0 | — | anchored | Sheet comes in at the goods door and is cut and folded before it travels further in |
| H-37 | Sheet-metal shear, brake and bender | 3.00 × 1.50 × 1.6 | 8.6, 7.5 | — | anchored | Sheet comes in at the goods door and is cut and folded before it travels further in |
| H-38 | Bench lathes and mills | 2.00 × 1.20 × 1.5 | 12.6, 7.8 | — | 3-phase; 0.9 m clear | The teaching row: four machines a class can stand around |
| H-39 | Bench lathes and mills | 2.00 × 1.20 × 1.5 | 15.6, 7.8 | — | 3-phase; 0.9 m clear | The teaching row: four machines a class can stand around |
| H-40 | Bench lathes and mills | 2.00 × 1.20 × 1.5 | 18.6, 7.8 | — | 3-phase; 0.9 m clear | The teaching row: four machines a class can stand around |
| H-41 | Bench lathes and mills | 2.00 × 1.20 × 1.5 | 21.6, 7.8 | — | 3-phase; 0.9 m clear | The teaching row: four machines a class can stand around |
| H-42 | Bench row for fitting and assembly | 2.00 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 0.6, 4.1 | 1 | busway; vices | Hand fitting after machining, before a part goes back on the shuttle |
| H-43 | Bench row for fitting and assembly | 2.00 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 3.6, 4.1 | 1 | busway; vices | Hand fitting after machining, before a part goes back on the shuttle |
| H-44 | Bench row for fitting and assembly | 2.00 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 6.6, 4.1 | 1 | busway; vices | Hand fitting after machining, before a part goes back on the shuttle |
| H-45 | Bench row for fitting and assembly | 2.00 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 9.6, 4.1 | 1 | busway; vices | Hand fitting after machining, before a part goes back on the shuttle |
| H-46 | Bench row for fitting and assembly | 2.00 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 12.6, 4.1 | 1 | busway; vices | Hand fitting after machining, before a part goes back on the shuttle |
| H-47 | Bench row for fitting and assembly | 2.00 × 0.90 × 0.9 | 15.6, 4.1 | 1 | busway; vices | Hand fitting after machining, before a part goes back on the shuttle |
Sheet H3 · Door schedule
| Door | Serves | Clear width | Swing | Why this door |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HD01 | Metal additive cell | 1.2 m | outwards | Powder room: self-closing, sealed, opening out |
| HD02 | CO2 and fibre laser cutting room | 1.2 m | outwards | Interlocked with both lasers |
| HD03 | Finishing, grinding and shot-blast room | 1.2 m | outwards | Dust-sealed leaf |
| HD04 | Technician workshop and planning desk | 0.9 m | outwards | Clear floor in front of the leaf; nothing may be placed here |
| HD00 | Roller door to the yard | 3.5 m | up and over | A lorry reverses to it and the crane picks off the bed; the only way the heavy plant enters |
How the two buildings work as one
| Question | Sports complex, PBL Lab 1 (light) | Main campus, Heavy Fab Lab |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Print, cut sheet and board on a filtered laser, lay up, hand-finish, run cobot cells, assemble and test | Cut and form metal, weld, machine, metal-print, cure composites, work on vehicles, test structures |
| Why there | Light, quiet, dust-free work sits happily on an upper floor over a gymnasium | A 10 kN/m² slab at grade, a 2 t crane, roof extraction and a lorry door already exist |
| Slab and height | 5 kN/m², 4.2 m clear | 10 kN/m², 6.5 m to the crane rail |
| Extraction | A filter unit on the laser; no roof riser needed | Welding arms, laser, grinding, powder room and paint booth all rise through the roof |
| Who staffs it | One technician a session from the Lab 1 roster | Its own technicians; nobody touches a machine without the induction held in the hall |
| How work moves | Marked trolley bays: parts leave labelled in the morning | Job-in and job-out bays; the shuttle runs twice a day, and a part comes back machined the same afternoon |
| What it unblocks | Nothing deferred: the light lab is complete | Metal additive, the 5-axis centre, the autoclave, the vehicle garage and the structural frame — the plant the eight bays had been deferring to a Phase-2 annex |
Which Studios work together, and how far the plan puts them apart
How services reach the bays
What a second audit found, from an architect's eye and a Mission lead's
The geometric audit above checks clearances, doors, egress and circulation. This one checks the things an architect and a Mission lead would ask next: daylight on light-sensitive rooms, noise and vibration between neighbours, wet cells over electrical rooms, hazard rooms that must be enclosed, exit capacity against occupancy, a wheelchair turning circle in every cell, busway capacity per bay, and whether the Studios that share tasks sit near each other. Everything is computed from the drawn plan and the task graph.
| Check | Result | Where | Finding | What the design does about it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustics | medium | Lab 1 · Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab beside Fabrication Services and Stores | Fabrication Services and Stores runs at about 65 dB(A) against Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab at a design limit of 45 dB(A), with no cell between them | A full-height partition with an acoustic build-up on this line, or swap the cell order so a quiet cell is not next to a loud one |
| Egress capacity | pass | Lab 1 | 90 occupants need 1.0 m of exit width; the bay has 2.4 m in two exits | — |
| Egress capacity | pass | Lab 2 | 122 occupants need 1.5 m of exit width; the bay has 2.4 m in two exits | — |
| Egress capacity | pass | Lab 3 | 59 occupants need 1.0 m of exit width; the bay has 2.4 m in two exits | — |
| Egress capacity | pass | Lab 4 | 95 occupants need 1.0 m of exit width; the bay has 2.4 m in two exits | — |
| Egress capacity | pass | Lab 5 | 69 occupants need 1.0 m of exit width; the bay has 2.4 m in two exits | — |
| Egress capacity | pass | Lab 6 | 59 occupants need 1.0 m of exit width; the bay has 2.4 m in two exits | — |
| Egress capacity | pass | Lab 7 | 158 occupants need 2.0 m of exit width; the bay has 2.4 m in two exits | — |
| Egress capacity | pass | Lab 8 | 93 occupants need 1.0 m of exit width; the bay has 2.4 m in two exits | — |
| Electrical | pass | Lab 1 | Connected load about 74 kW against a 400 A busway rated about 230 kVA | — |
| Electrical | pass | Lab 2 | Connected load about 48 kW against a 400 A busway rated about 230 kVA | — |
| Electrical | pass | Lab 3 | Connected load about 41 kW against a 400 A busway rated about 230 kVA | — |
| Electrical | pass | Lab 4 | Connected load about 94 kW against a 400 A busway rated about 230 kVA | — |
| Electrical | pass | Lab 5 | Connected load about 81 kW against a 400 A busway rated about 230 kVA | — |
| Electrical | pass | Lab 6 | Connected load about 29 kW against a 400 A busway rated about 230 kVA | — |
| Electrical | pass | Lab 7 | Connected load about 36 kW against a 400 A busway rated about 230 kVA | — |
| Electrical | pass | Lab 8 | Connected load about 104 kW against a 400 A busway rated about 230 kVA | — |
The ten most task-coupled pairs of Studios, as placed
| Studio | Studio | Tasks that need both | Walk between them | Where they sit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectra | Wafer | 10 | 74 m | the same floor |
| Habitat | Spectra | 4 | 84 m | different floors — a stair between them |
| Astra | Spectra | 6 | 55 m | the same floor |
| Lattice | Spectra | 5 | 62 m | the same floor |
| Forge | Wafer | 3 | 99 m | different floors — a stair between them |
| Forge | Lattice | 3 | 98 m | different floors — a stair between them |
| Habitat | Wafer | 4 | 71 m | different floors — a stair between them |
| Spectra | Vahana | 6 | 36 m | the same floor |
| Habitat | Vahana | 2 | 108 m | different floors — a stair between them |
| Dynamo | Spectra | 2 | 108 m | different floors — a stair between them |
| Total coupled walking across all pairs | 8,650 | task-metres; it was 10,152 before the bays were rearranged | ||
The placement rules every bay was drawn to
| Rule | Published figure | Applied in |
|---|---|---|
| Machine aisles | 0.9 m clear between machines; 2.4–3.6 m main aisles for trolleys | Labs 1, 5 |
| ESD floor | IEC 61340-5-1: floor to ground under 10⁹ Ω; person, footwear and floor under 3.5 × 10⁷ Ω; body voltage under 100 V | Labs 2, 3, 8 |
| Biosafety cabinet | Away from doors, traffic and diffusers; 76 cm clear all round; self-closing inward lockable door; sealed surfaces | Lab 4 |
| Motion-capture arena | 8–12 cameras on a rigid ceiling truss; 3–4 cm markers; net height sets the flight envelope (ETH 10 m, Delft 7 m, ours 3.6 m) | Lab 5 |
| Robot arena | A marked rectangle with charging docks on the perimeter (Robotarium: 76 slots, 152 cells) | Lab 5 |
| GPU cooling | Air with hot-aisle containment below about 30 kW a rack; rear-door exchangers to 40 kW; liquid above | Lab 3 |
| Cleanroom gowning | Three-room sequence: entry, air shower, exit (IISc NNfC); ISO 7 at 60–90 air changes an hour, ISO 8 at 20–30 | Lab 8 |
| Optical tables | 2.4 × 1.2 m tables on active isolation under laminar enclosures; cryostat and pumps outside the darkroom | Lab 8 |
| Control room | Viewing distance 1.5–2 screen heights; consoles 5–15° to the wall; aisles at least 1.2 m; lowest screen 1.22–1.32 m above floor (ISO 11064-4) | Lab 7 |
| Container farm | Nursery plus mobile racks; closed nutrient loop; LED and CO₂ control (Freight Farms Greenery, 30 m², 20 m² growing) | Lab 6 |
Sources: IEC 61340-5-1 (ESD); NIH Design Requirements Manual and CDC BMBL (biosafety); ETH Zürich Flying Machine Arena, TU Delft Cyber Zoo and the Georgia Tech Robotarium (ranges); McKinsey 2024 and vendor guidance (rack cooling); IISc NNfC (gowning); ISO 11064-4 (control room); Freight Farms (container farm). Accessed 18 September 2026.
What the drawings were checked against, and what the check found
Every figure below is measured on the drawn layout, not asserted: clearances between every pair of items, the clear floor in front of every door, a flood fill from the escape route to find the longest walk and any stranded floor, the share of each cell left clear, and the average imposed load on the slab.
| Bay | Cell | Items | Clearance faults | Blocked doors | Longest walk | Stranded floor | Circulation | Imposed load |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mechanical Fab Lab | 15 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 m | 0.0 m² | 52% | 2.8 kN/m² |
| 1 | Traction | 13 | 0 | 0 | 18.8 m | 0.0 m² | 73% | 1.1 kN/m² |
| 1 | Forge | 14 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 m | 0.0 m² | 67% | 1.8 kN/m² |
| 1 | Fabrication Services and Stores | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14.2 m | 0.0 m² | 39% | 5.2 kN/m² |
| 1 | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 14 | 0 | 0 | 16.0 m | 0.0 m² | 50% | 2.5 kN/m² |
| 2 | Design commons | 11 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 m | 0.0 m² | 56% | 1.8 kN/m² |
| 2 | Showcase gallery | 17 | 0 | 0 | 9.2 m | 0.0 m² | 74% | 0.9 kN/m² |
| 2 | Studio offices | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9.2 m | 0.0 m² | 54% | 2.3 kN/m² |
| 2 | Mission control | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 m | 0.0 m² | 80% | 0.7 kN/m² |
| 3 | Harvest | 16 | 0 | 0 | 15.8 m | 0.0 m² | 75% | 1.1 kN/m² |
| 3 | Habitat | 15 | 0 | 0 | 16.2 m | 0.0 m² | 75% | 1.1 kN/m² |
| 4 | Dynamo | 17 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 m | 0.0 m² | 79% | 0.8 kN/m² |
| 4 | Helix | 9 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 m | 0.0 m² | 64% | 1.7 kN/m² |
| 4 | Tide | 11 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 m | 0.0 m² | 80% | 0.9 kN/m² |
| 4 | Aquifer | 13 | 0 | 0 | 21.5 m | 0.0 m² | 79% | 0.8 kN/m² |
| 5 | Vahana | 14 | 0 | 0 | 15.5 m | 0.0 m² | 41% | 2.8 kN/m² |
| 5 | Yantra | 13 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 m | 0.0 m² | 53% | 2.2 kN/m² |
| 5 | Freight | 9 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 m | 0.0 m² | 47% | 2.8 kN/m² |
| 6 | Electronics Fab Lab | 23 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 m | 0.0 m² | 65% | 1.9 kN/m² |
| 6 | Spectra | 16 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 m | 0.0 m² | 76% | 1.0 kN/m² |
| 7 | Compute and Software Lab | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8.8 m | 0.0 m² | 45% | 2.9 kN/m² |
| 7 | Ledger | 9 | 0 | 0 | 8.2 m | 0.0 m² | 56% | 2.0 kN/m² |
| 7 | Frontline | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 m | 0.0 m² | 62% | 2.0 kN/m² |
| 8 | Wafer | 16 | 0 | 0 | 23.2 m | 0.0 m² | 69% | 1.5 kN/m² |
| 8 | Astra | 12 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 m | 0.0 m² | 69% | 1.5 kN/m² |
| 8 | Lattice | 9 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 m | 0.0 m² | 65% | 1.7 kN/m² |
| Twenty-six cells | 326 | 0 | 0 | max 23.2 m | 0.0 m² | min 39% | max 5.2 kN/m² |
Rules applied: 0.9 m around machines and plant, 1.2 m between bench rows, 0.15 m between benches in one row and 0.9 m between tables, 1.0 m of clear floor in front of every door, 30 m maximum travel to a protected route, and at least 30% of each cell left clear. Imposed load is the average over the cell from the item footprints; it is not a substitute for the local checks in the loads table below.
Loads and logistics to verify before release
| Item | Mass | Route in | Structural check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop VMC (Lab 1) | 1.5 t | Exceeds the 1.0 t lift limit: crane through the north terrace door or annex | 10 kN/m² local; anti-vibration mounts |
| Collaborative arm cells (Lab 1) | 0.3 t each | Lift | Standard |
| CMM (Lab 1) | 1.2 t | Crane through the terrace door | Isolated plinth; VC-C |
| Vibration shaker (Lab 1) | 0.9 t plus 2 t inertial mass | Lift in parts; mass cast in place | Own cell; 10 kN/m² local; no CMM in the same cell |
| Test tank 4 × 2 × 0.6 m (Lab 4, east end) | 4.8 t of water plus 0.5 t tank | Assembled in place | 5.9 kN/m² water load over 8 m² plus tank and supports; depth capped at 0.6 m; bund with secondary containment, leak detection and a drain routed east, away from the ground-floor electrical room under the west end; verify locally for 10 kN/m² |
| Bench TVAC (Lab 8) | under 1.0 t | Lift | Local check; a larger chamber is deferred |
| Cryostat and vacuum stack (Lab 8) | 0.6 t | Lift | Vibration criterion VC-C or active tables |
| Vented battery cabinet (Lab 5) | 0.4 t | Lift | External duct; fire NOC |
| Printer farm of 24 (Lab 1) | 0.03 t each | Lift | Standard |
| GPU servers ×2 and 40 workstations (Lab 3) | 0.1 t each | Lift | Cooling and 45 kW supply |
Environmental separation by lab
| Lab | Separation | Ventilation | Waste and drains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lab 1 | Dirty (machines, dust) apart from metrology; metrology behind a wall on its own plinth; shaker in its own cell | Dust extraction and fume hoods to roof; metrology on the general AHU | Coolant and swarf; solvent store |
| Lab 4 | Dry power benches at the west end above the electrical room; BSL-1/2 suite sealed with gowning in the middle; wet benches and the tank at the east end on a bunded floor with leak detection | Dedicated AHU for the biosafety suite; wet-bench exhaust | Drains with neutralisation routed east; autoclave; biological waste route; no wet service crosses the electrical room below |
| Labs 2, 3, 6, 7 | Dry and light only | General AHU | None |
| Lab 5 | Ranges netted or fenced; battery cabinet vented | Charging area exhaust; cabinet duct to outside air | Battery waste route |
| Lab 8 | Cleanroom and AIT room on raised floors with gowning; darkroom light-tight | Dedicated AHUs from the wing-end room for the cleanroom and AIT room | Solvent and photoresist store |
Room schedule
| Lab | Room | Net m² | Bench m² | Seats | Plant m² | kW | Special rooms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mechanical Fab Lab | 207 | 91 | 11 | 72 | 90 | Printer farm 24 8.0 × 3.0 m; CNC and laser room 9.0 × 6.0 m |
| 1 | Traction | 132 | 44 | 19 | 60 | 18 | Vented abuse cabinet 2.0 × 1.5 m |
| 1 | Forge | 137 | 50 | 18 | 57 | 20 | Machine and finishing zone 8.6 × 6.0 m |
| 1 | Fabrication Services and Stores | 120 | 53 | 10 | 42 | 8 | Receiving and stores 7.4 × 5.0 m |
| 1 | Test, Measurement and Metrology Lab | 174 | 76 | 12 | 61 | 35 | Environmental chamber cell 5.0 × 4.0 m; Shaker cell on inertial mass 4.0 × 4.0 m; CMM room, isolated 5.0 × 4.0 m |
| 2 | Design commons | 114 | 114 | 60 | 0 | 8 | |
| 2 | Showcase gallery | 85 | 85 | 6 | 0 | 8 | Product gallery 10.1 × 7.0 m (30 seats) |
| 2 | Studio offices | 78 | 78 | 24 | 0 | 8 | |
| 2 | Mission control | 64 | 64 | 12 | 0 | 8 | Mission control wall 7.3 × 6.0 m (12 seats) |
| 3 | Harvest | 207 | 64 | 20 | 84 | 21 | |
| 3 | Habitat | 180 | 56 | 19 | 73 | 20 | |
| 4 | Dynamo | 176 | 59 | 20 | 80 | 23 | |
| 4 | Helix | 204 | 90 | 21 | 71 | 27 | BSL-1/2 suite 10.0 × 5.0 m |
| 4 | Tide | 176 | 77 | 14 | 62 | 19 | Test tank 4 × 2 × 0.6 4.0 × 2.0 m |
| 4 | Aquifer | 213 | 94 | 20 | 75 | 25 | Wet bench and tanks 10.0 × 4.0 m |
| 5 | Vahana | 282 | 94 | 21 | 129 | 26 | Netted micro-drone arena 12.0 × 8.0 m |
| 5 | Yantra | 248 | 83 | 16 | 113 | 31 | Rubble and stairs range 9.0 × 6.0 m |
| 5 | Freight | 239 | 80 | 12 | 109 | 24 | AMR test grid 10.0 × 8.0 m |
| 6 | Electronics Fab Lab | 182 | 57 | 21 | 73 | 60 | 24 ESD benches 20.0 × 5.0 m (24 seats) |
| 6 | Spectra | 159 | 50 | 18 | 64 | 17 | |
| 7 | Compute and Software Lab | 188 | 58 | 92 | 76 | 45 | 40-seat GPU room 16.0 × 5.0 m (40 seats) |
| 7 | Ledger | 116 | 36 | 28 | 47 | 14 | |
| 7 | Frontline | 84 | 26 | 18 | 34 | 10 | |
| 8 | Wafer | 278 | 103 | 26 | 117 | 40 | ISO-7 cleanroom-lite 8.0 × 6.0 m |
| 8 | Astra | 269 | 99 | 25 | 113 | 35 | ISO-8 AIT room 8.0 × 6.0 m |
| 8 | Lattice | 223 | 90 | 22 | 86 | 29 | Darkroom optics 8.0 × 5.0 m |
| Eight labs | 4,534 | 1,871 | 585 | 1,697 | — |
Seats are bench places at 3.5 m² each in the bench band plus the seats of the seat-bearing special rooms (the 40-seat GPU room, the 24 ESD benches, the gallery and mission control); plant, test and stores bands hold operators, not seats; the commons seat one per 4 m². Special rooms are drawn at the size their cell allows, and that size is the one listed. This room-level figure is the one to timetable against; the area-based figure is a planning check.
Install sequence
| # | Stage | Work | By | Gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strip out and survey | Remove loose fittings; measure the as-built bay; expose the slab soffit at the sample points the structural engineer nominates | Contractor and structural engineer | Before any order is placed |
| 2 | Structural and services first fix | Slab strengthening where the loads table requires it; core the extraction and water risers; pull the busway, tray and pipework at high level | Main contractor | Fire NOC application lodged |
| 3 | Partitions and floors | Cell partitions and glazing; bunded epoxy in the wet cells with the drains tested; ESD vinyl bonded and earthed; raised floors for the cleanroom, AIT room and GPU room | Fit-out contractor | ESD floor test certificate |
| 4 | Rooms in their own right | Cleanroom and AIT room shells with their AHUs; biosafety suite; darkroom light traps; acoustic and fire-rated doors | Specialist subcontractors | Cleanroom classification and biosafety inspection |
| 5 | Heavy items in, before the benches | Crane through the terrace door in this order: CMM, VMC, shaker, chambers, TVAC; every item on its isolation mounts and levelled | Contractor with the vendors | The 16-passenger lift cannot carry these; the terrace door and crane are booked |
| 6 | Benches, racks and pool stores | Bench runs with their busway drops and data; tool cribs and racking anchored; stores racking load-tested and labelled | Fit-out contractor | Weights and anchorage checked |
| 7 | Ranges and nets | Mocap truss and net; range floor markings and charging docks; arena gate and interlocks; e-stop ring wired to the bay | Specialist and electrical | E-stop and interlock test |
| 8 | Commission and hand over | Power, extraction, water, data and fire tested cell by cell; equipment commissioned by vendors; calibration certificates filed; technicians trained; the first cohort inducted | All parties with the EHS lead | Cell-by-cell handover certificate |
Readiness: what a contractor still needs before this can be tendered
| Item | Status now | What is needed | Owner | What it blocks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structural sign-off | Not started | Slab live-load and vibration testing; local checks at the machine, TVAC, tank and shaker positions | Chief Engineer | Blocks stage 2 of the install sequence |
| Clear height survey | Assumed 4.2 m | Measure floor to underside of services in all eight bays; the arena net, the hoist and the cleanroom plenum all depend on it | Chief Engineer | Blocks the arena, AIT and cleanroom details |
| MEP design | Concept only | Electrical single line and board schedules from the final equipment list; LEV calculations per hood; water, waste and neutralisation; data containment | MEP consultant | Blocks tender |
| Fire strategy | Not started | Exit widths against occupancy, compartmentation of wet, battery and cleanroom cells, detection and suppression, signage, fire NOC | Fire consultant | Blocks occupation |
| Vendor quotations | Planning prices | Dated quotations against the item schedules, with lead times and landed cost | Procurement | Blocks the capital release |
| Equipment data sheets | Generic sizes | Manufacturer drawings for every item over 100 kg: footprint, mass, point loads, service connections, clearances | Procurement with vendors | Layout may shift by a few hundred millimetres per item |
| Permissions | To obtain | The matrix in Part G: spectrum, drones, biosafety, pollution, electrical, battery, laser, payments, vehicles, fire, ethics | Registrar and EHS lead | Blocks the affected activities, not the fit-out |
| Room data sheets signed | Issued in this document | Each Studio lead signs the sheet for their cell before tender, confirming equipment, services and clearances | Studio leads | Blocks tender |
These sheets are a design intent set: dimensioned, coordinated and checked, and sufficient to price, to brief a contractor and to brief the Studio leads. They are not a tender package. The three things that would change them materially are the measured clear height, the structural engineer's slab verdict, and the manufacturer drawings for the items over 100 kg.
Task readiness on these floors
Every task can be worked here through Year 1 (component products) and Year 2 (subsystem products). The Year-3 gate is judged from the deferred elements the task's own products touch — by product name and description — not from what its Studios defer in general; the products that trigger each need are named.
| # | Task | Studios drawn | Readiness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Give a coastal district a spectrum picture it owns | Habitat, Spectra, Vahana, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for Distributed Aperture Swarm; full anechoic chamber (SAMEER or partner) for Origami Array |
| 1.2 | Keep a relief convoy moving and talking when GPS and radio are jammed | Astra, Spectra, Vahana | Years 1–3 on these floors |
| 1.3 | Plan an electronic fight in seconds, with a human in charge | Spectra, Vahana, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for Decoy Swarm Pod,Threat Whisperer; full anechoic chamber (SAMEER or partner) for Whisper Radar |
| 1.4 | Prove a home-grown cognitive sensor to the national laboratory | Forge, Habitat, Lattice, Spectra, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: metal additive, 5-axis machining or the autoclave — at the Heavy Fab Lab on the main campus for Frequency-Selective Radome |
| 1.5 | Send a quantum-secured key and a covert message across a campus link | Astra, Lattice, Spectra, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: optics needing VC-C: if the slab fails, a ground-floor room for Photon Key Link |
| 1.6 | Map the interfering sources in a district and hand the officer the evidence | Spectra, Vahana, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for Sniffer Quad; full anechoic chamber (SAMEER or partner) for Reconfigurable Metasurface |
| 1.7 | Keep an airfield and a border post safe from birds, drones and ice | Forge, Lattice, Spectra, Vahana | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for Swarm Spectrum Picket; full anechoic chamber (SAMEER or partner) for Bird-Strike Radar |
| 1.8 | Migrate a fleet to post-quantum security before the deadline | Lattice, Spectra, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full anechoic chamber (SAMEER or partner) for Digital Beamforming Receiver |
| 2.1 | Put an Indian chip in every camera the Missions deploy | Wafer | Years 1–3 on these floors |
| 2.2 | Train a Mission model on a cluster the students built | Habitat, Ledger, Spectra, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: the campus supercluster nodes (Phase-2 data-centre room) for Campus Supercluster,Immersion Rack |
| 2.3 | Tape out a sovereign SoC and test it the week it returns | Forge, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: metal additive, 5-axis machining or the autoclave — at the Heavy Fab Lab on the main campus for Test Socket Family |
| 2.4 | Run a small language model in a village device | Ledger, Wafer | Years 1–3 on these floors |
| 2.5 | Recover the critical materials the chips depend on | Aquifer, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: pilot-scale treatment or deep tank (annex) for E-Waste Refinery |
| 2.6 | Solve a scheduling problem on a quantum machine from a campus desk | Lattice, Wafer | Years 1–3 on these floors |
| 2.7 | Ship a sensor that runs a decade on harvested energy | Wafer | Years 1–3 on these floors |
| 2.8 | Run the campus cluster on sunlight and grow food with its heat | Dynamo, Habitat, Ledger, Spectra, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: the campus supercluster nodes (Phase-2 data-centre room) for Green Job Router,Heat-Reuse Greenhouse |
| 3.1 | Deliver a flood map to a district within hours of the pass | Astra, Wafer | Years 1–3 on these floors |
| 3.2 | Warn a village before the water arrives | Astra, Frontline, Habitat | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-power siren and PA tests (terrace, campus perimeter) for Village Siren Node,Voice Alert Relay |
| 3.3 | Fly a constellation that updates in orbit and deorbits responsibly | Astra, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: large TVAC, shaker or a 5 m crane hook for flight qualification (URSC or Dhruva) for Drag-Sail Deorbit Kit,Bus Twin |
| 3.4 | Hear a fishing boat beyond the horizon | Astra, Dynamo, Spectra | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: PV field or solar simulator (roof and terraces) for Ground Station Solar Roof; full anechoic chamber (SAMEER or partner) for Deployable Helix,Ground Array |
| 3.5 | Qualify a flight satellite on campus and send a quantum key from orbit | Astra, Forge, Lattice, Spectra | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: metal additive, 5-axis machining or the autoclave — at the Heavy Fab Lab on the main campus for Composite Deck,Printed Bus Frame; optics needing VC-C: if the slab fails, a ground-floor room for Single-Photon Ground Receiver |
| 3.6 | Find the methane leaks a state cannot see | Astra, Spectra, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: large TVAC, shaker or a 5 m crane hook for flight qualification (URSC or Dhruva) for Inter-Satellite Link; full anechoic chamber (SAMEER or partner) for Rooftop Tracking Array |
| 3.7 | Pay a farmer for cyclone loss within days | Astra, Frontline, Habitat | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-power siren and PA tests (terrace, campus perimeter) for School Shelter Beacon |
| 3.8 | Fly a payload at the edge of space before it flies in orbit | Astra, Forge, Spectra, Wafer | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for High-Altitude Balloon Bus; metal additive, 5-axis machining or the autoclave — at the Heavy Fab Lab on the main campus for Printed Propellant Tank,Cyclone-Proof Ground Shelter; large TVAC, shaker or a 5 m crane hook for flight qualification (URSC or Dhruva) for High-Altitude Balloon Bus,Deployable Radiator |
| 4.1 | Enter a collapsed building before a responder does | Frontline, Spectra, Vahana, Yantra | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for Roof Scout,Payload Drop Drone; full anechoic chamber (SAMEER or partner) for Through-Wall Radar |
| 4.2 | Carry passengers across campus in the monsoon | Freight, Traction, Vahana, Yantra | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: the vehicle garage at the Heavy Fab Lab, a dynamometer or a pack-level abuse test at a partner for Skateboard Shuttle,By-Wire Redundant Steer |
| 4.3 | Train a robot in simulation on Monday and walk it on rubble on Friday | Vahana, Wafer, Yantra | Years 1–3 on these floors |
| 4.4 | Measure a damaged structure before people enter | Frontline, Habitat, Yantra | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: the structural test frame at the Heavy Fab Lab, or a shake table at a partner lab for Bridge Watch,Shoring Robot; full-power siren and PA tests (terrace, campus perimeter) for Mesh Beacon Set |
| 4.5 | Attest a fleet's safety daily and keep it honest | Freight, Traction, Vahana | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: the vehicle garage at the Heavy Fab Lab, a dynamometer or a pack-level abuse test at a partner for Proved Brake Logic,Vehicle Nervous System |
| 4.6 | Run an Indian warehouse with robots trained on Indian shelves | Freight, Vahana, Yantra | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: 6 m racking or a working distribution centre (partner warehouse) for Aisle Picker |
| 4.7 | Clear the road and fly the blood: an emergency corridor for a district | Traction, Vahana | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for Medical Drone Corridor |
| 4.8 | Fight a fire and print a shelter with machines | Freight, Frontline, Habitat, Vahana, Yantra | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for Tethered Light Tower; the structural test frame at the Heavy Fab Lab, or a shake table at a partner lab for Rapid Shelter Printer |
| 5.1 | Run a smallholder's season on a model that knows the district | Dynamo, Harvest, Ledger | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: field plots and farm robots at scale (campus farm, ANGRAU) for Crop Foundation Model,Water-Aware Scheduler; PV field or solar simulator (roof and terraces) for Solar Pump Kit |
| 5.2 | Catch a pest outbreak before it crosses the district | Aquifer, Harvest, Vahana | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: full-scale flight or DGCA test flights (terrace, play area or partner field) for Field Scout Wing,Scout-and-Spray Pair; field plots and farm robots at scale (campus farm, ANGRAU) for Pest Trap Camera |
| 5.3 | Warn a basin of flood and drought from a digital twin | Aquifer, Astra, Dynamo, Tide | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: deep water tank or flume (partner range or annex) for Coastal Buoy; PV field or solar simulator (roof and terraces) for Village Microgrid Controller |
| 5.4 | Move a village's mangoes to a city kitchen overnight | Freight, Harvest, Helix, Ledger | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: field plots and farm robots at scale (campus farm, ANGRAU) for Cold Trolley,Village Cold Cube |
| 5.5 | Give a village safe water and prove every tanker | Aquifer, Frontline | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: pilot-scale treatment or deep tank (annex) for Village Water Pod,Grey-Water Loop |
| 5.6 | Turn straw into gas, fertiliser and a carbon credit the village can prove | Aquifer, Dynamo, Harvest, Helix | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: pilot-scale treatment or deep tank (annex) for Crop Waste Digester,Biofertiliser Brewer; PV field or solar simulator (roof and terraces) for Agrivoltaic Frame |
| 5.7 | Warn a district of drought and give it a plan | Astra, Dynamo, Frontline, Harvest | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: field plots and farm robots at scale (campus farm, ANGRAU) for Fertigation Mixer,Leaf Clinic Camera; PV field or solar simulator (roof and terraces) for Pump Load Scheduler |
| 5.8 | Make a coastal village drink, eat and earn from what it has | Aquifer, Dynamo, Harvest, Helix, Tide | Years 1–2 on these floors; the Year-3 gate needs: deep water tank or flume (partner range or annex) for Shrimp Count Camera; pilot-scale treatment or deep tank (annex) for Solar Still Array,Algae Carbon Pond; fermentation above 15 L (BioNEST partner) for Millet Fermenter,Algae Carbon Pond; PV field or solar simulator (roof and terraces) for Solar Cold Storage Container |
Benchmarks: how the best floors are organised, and how ours compares
From the September 2026 facility study (accessed 17 September 2026). Flags: V official page; S secondary; U unverified. Schematics below are abstractions of each facility's published zoning logic, not reproductions of their drawings.
Academic makerspaces and product-engineering floors
| Facility | Area and floors | Zoning and operating model | Heavy equipment | Lesson for our layout | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case Western Reserve — Sears think[box]Cleveland | ≈4,645 m² (50,000 sq ft), 7 floors | One function per floor: community → ideation → digital prototyping → fabrication → project teams → entrepreneurship → incubation; about 81,000 visits a year by 5,500 people | Fabrication mid-stack; heavy projects on floor 5 | Stage the workflow across the two floors | case.edu/thinkboxV |
| Tsinghua University — iCenterBeijing | ≈16,000 m² (reported) | Specialist bays under one roof: metal AM, laser, welding, biology, crash testing | Dedicated bays | Cluster like-hazard Studios into shared bays | medium.com (journalist-reported)S |
| Stanford — Product Realization LabStanford | ≈1,394 m² (15,000 sq ft), multi-site | One shop per process: machining, welding, wood, foundry, plastics, rapid prototyping; over 1,000 students a year; mandatory safety gating | Machining and welding at grade | Split dirty machining from clean prototyping | productrealization.stanford.eduV |
| Georgia Tech — Flowers Invention StudioAtlanta | ≈650 m² (7,000 sq ft), one floor | Open shop zoned by tool group; student-run by 50–70 volunteer instructors; 24-hour; about 150,000 user-hours a year | Small tools on an upper floor | Student instructors are a viable staffing model | inventionstudio.gatech.eduV |
| UC Berkeley — Jacobs InstituteBerkeley | ≈2,230 m² (24,000 sq ft), 4 floors plus basement | Metal shop in the basement; all-purpose makerspace on floor 1; advanced prototyping on floor 3; 14 ft ceilings | Heaviest and noisiest lowest | Put metal and structures lowest, clean prototyping highest | jacobsinstitute.berkeley.eduV |
| Purdue — Bechtel Innovation Design CenterWest Lafayette | ≈2,880 m² (31,000 sq ft), 2 floors plus basement | Two-way RC slab at the main level sized for machines; high-bay vehicle lab with overhead crane; 3,070 students trained by 2019; public floor plans | Crane and heavy machining at grade | The closest structural analogue: size the deep-bay slab for machines | purdue.edu/bidcV |
| Aalto University — Design FactoryEspoo | Not published; multi-level | ElectroShop, MachineShop and PrintShop over two prototyping levels interleaved with stage, hot desks and café | Shops on lower levels | Interleave social and design space with shops | designfactory.aalto.fiV |
| TU Delft — D:DREAM HallDelft | Not published; one hall | One dedicated office and workshop bay per student team (13 teams: solar car, hydrogen boat, exoskeleton, formula car) | Vehicle builds at grade | Per-team bays are the seventeen-Studio model | tudelft.nl/dreamhallV |
| IIT Madras — Centre for InnovationChennai | New Sudha and Shankar Innovation Hub; area not published | Student-run, 24×7, per-club and per-team bays; about 1,000 students across 26 teams at Open House 2025; alumni-funded | Purpose-built hub | Copy the student-run, alumni-funded, 24×7 operating model | cfi.iitm.ac.in; PIBV |
| IIT Bombay — Tinkerers' LaboratoryMumbai | Not published; relocated January 2026 | 24×7 student-run with technicians; CNC, printers, lathe and mill with electronics; a separate ChemE Tinkerers' Lab | Heavy machines with technicians | Technicians hold the hazardous zones | tech-iitb.orgV |
| Maker Bhavan Foundation — Tinkerers' Lab networkIIT Hyderabad, Gandhinagar, Indore | ≈150 m² per unit (IIT Hyderabad 1,600 sq ft) | A replicable per-institute unit with shared curriculum and industry sponsors (Bosch, MathWorks, Ansys) | Light | A 150 m² unit is the floor for a Studio core | makerbhavanfoundation.orgS |
| Georgia Tech — Maker Space and Machine Shop Safety ProgramAtlanta | — | 0.9 m machine aisles, 3 ft panel clearances, training gates, lockout-tagout | — | Adopt the written safety programme | ehs.gatech.eduV |
Industry and innovation centres
| Facility | Scale | Zoning | Lesson | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bosch — Spark.NXT campusBengaluru | 76 acres; 10,000 associates; opened 2022 | Former manufacturing site repurposed for R&D; 85% in-house green power; 9-million-litre rainwater tanks | Campus-scale; former factory land | boschbuildingtechnologies.comV |
| Dyson — St James Power StationSingapore | ≈13,006 m² (140,000 sq ft), 4 storeys | Offices, labs and social spaces per level; R&D in the enclosed former switchgear block to keep secrets | Give IP-sensitive Studios an enclosed secure bay | dyson.com.sgV |
| imec — 300 mm cleanroom and pilot lineLeuven | 12,000 m² cleanroom | R&D fab, prototyping fab and biolabs hard-separated with dedicated air handling | Separate cleanroom and bio with their own AHUs | imec-int.comV |
| T-Hub 2.0Hyderabad | ≈54,133 m² (5.83 lakh sq ft), G+10 | Per-floor tenant and function zoning; 32,000 sq ft floor plates; 1,000+ startup seats | A floor plate about the size of two deep bays; zone whole bays by function | it.telangana.gov.inV |
| T-WorksHyderabad | ≈7,246 m² (78,000 sq ft) Phase 1 | A dedicated hardware-prototyping shed complementing the incubator | The T-Hub and T-Works split mirrors Studio and Fab Lab | WikipediaS |
| Mahindra Research ValleyChennai | 125 acres; about 5,000 engineers | Design, simulation and test co-located; crash and heavy test at grade | Heavy test at grade | mahindra.comV |
| University of New Mexico — Formula SAE facilityAlbuquerque | ≈650 m² (7,000 sq ft), ground floor | A drive-in garage for one vehicle team | A per-vehicle-team footprint; drive-in bays need grade | news.unm.eduV |
| NASA JPL — Spacecraft Assembly FacilityPasadena | High Bay 1 ≈ 24 × 36 m, 14 m tall | ISO 7 high bay, ESD, 13.6 t crane; at grade | AIT needs grade, height and a crane | jpl.nasa.govV |
Design rules the fit was checked against
| Rule | Value | Bearing on this design | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slab live loads (IS 875 Part 2; NBC 2016 Part 6) | Light lab 4 kN/m²; heavy lab and workshop 5 kN/m²; heavy machines and storage 10–25 kN/m²; concentrated check about 4.5 kN over 300 × 300 mm | Deep bays must be verified for 5 kN/m² generally and 10 kN/m² locally under mid-size machines, the TVAC and the water benches; the strips over the gymnasium and play area carry only light, dry, quiet work | S |
| Area per user and clearances | About 5.6 m² per user at makerspace density; 0.9 m machine aisles; 3 ft in front of panels; main aisles 2.4–3.6 m | One deep bay ≈ 160 concurrent users at makerspace density; the 2 m corridor is at the low end for two-way trolley traffic — widen nodes at lift lobbies to 2.4 m | V/S |
| Netted indoor drone arena | FPV racing needs about 9 m clear height; education and micro arenas work at 3.6 m net over 9 × 12 m | At 4.2 m clear the arena is micro-scale; full flights go to the Kabaddi terrace and the play area at booked hours | S/V |
| Vibration on upper floors | VC-A 50 µm/s down to VC-E 3.1 µm/s; upper-floor labs are the hard case; passive air tables amplify 1–3 Hz; active isolation or floating slabs for sub-5 Hz | Lattice, Wafer lithography and metrology need VC-C or active isolation; never over the gymnasium | S |
| ISO 7/8 cleanroom-lite in an existing building | ISO 7 ≈ 60–90 air changes an hour, ISO 8 ≈ 20–30 (vendor rules of thumb; ISO 14644-1 fixes particle counts only); gowning one class higher; dedicated AHU; 22 ± 3 °C, 55 ± 10% RH | Feasible as modular rooms in Lab 8 with dedicated AHUs from the wing-end AHU rooms | S/U |
| BSL-1/2 fermentation lab | Self-closing lockable inward-opening door, restricted access, biosafety cabinet, sealed surfaces, autoclave accessible, eyewash | Helix becomes a self-contained suite in Lab 4 near the AHU and a drain, away from dust | V |
| Battery abuse testing | UL 9540A cell and module tests; vented containment, suppression, gas detection, separation | Traction keeps cell-level cycling and a vented cabinet with an external duct; pack-level abuse goes to a partner facility | V/S |
| Indoor water tanks | Water 9.81 kN/m³: every metre of depth adds about 10 kN/m²; university tanks and flumes sit at grade or in basements | Shallow tanks only (≤0.6 m) in Lab 4; the flume is deferred | V/S |
| Small-satellite AIT room (ISRO/URSC) | Working area 8 × 6 m suitable, airlock 9 × 5 m, 5 m at the crane hook, door 3.5 × 4 m, ISO 8, ESD floor | Lab 8 gives ISO 8, ESD and 8 × 6 m; the 5 m crane hook is not available at 4.2 m — a 1 t hoist at 3.5 m serves bench-scale AIT and flight qualification goes to URSC or Dhruva | V |
Side by side
| Facility | Area | Floors | Users | Zoning logic | Heavy placement | Lesson |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sears think[box] | 4,645 m² | 7 | 5,500 people, 81,000 visits | One function per floor | Mid-stack | Stage the workflow across the two floors |
| Purdue Bechtel | 2,880 m² | 2 + basement | 3,070 students | High-bay flex with crane; slab sized for machines | At grade | Size the deep-bay slab for machines |
| UC Berkeley Jacobs | 2,230 m² | 4 + basement | Course-based | Metal in basement, digital high | Basement | Heaviest lowest, cleanest highest |
| Georgia Tech Flowers | 650 m² | 1 | 150,000 user-hours | Open shop by tool group | Small tools upstairs | Student instructors |
| TU Delft D:DREAM | — | 1 hall | 13 teams | One bay per team | At grade | Per-team bays |
| IIT Madras CFI | — | Multi | 1,000+ students | Per-club bays, 24×7 | New hub | Student-run, alumni-funded |
| T-Hub 2.0 | 54,133 m² | G+10 | 1,000+ seats | Whole floors by function | — | Zone whole bays by function |
| Dyson St James | 13,006 m² | 4 | Corporate | Secure enclosed R&D block | Enclosed block | A secure bay for IP-sensitive Studios |
| NASA JPL SAF | HB1 24 × 36 m, 14 m tall | High bay | — | ISO 7, ESD, crane | At grade | AIT needs grade, height and a crane |
| KLU sports complex (this design) | 5,430 m² gross, 4,534 m² usable | 2 floors, 8 bays | seats and visits from the item schedules in Part F (about 810 at once by area is a planning check) | Hazard-tiered bays: heavy and wet in deep bays, light and dry on the strips, clean and precision in Lab 8, commons in Lab 7 | Deep bays only, slab-verified; heavy plant deferred to a ground-floor annex | — |
Before the first wall
- Structure (weeks 0–6): obtain the as-built slab live-load ratings of all eight bays and measure the vibration of the two strips over the gymnasium under a rhythmic crowd load; confirm the clear height under services. Targets: 5 kN/m² generally, 10 kN/m² locally under the machines, the TVAC and the water benches; VC-C or better where the optics go.
- Services (weeks 4–10): dedicated AHUs from the wing-end AHU rooms for the cleanroom, the AIT room and the BSL-1/2 suite; the battery cabinet's duct to outside air; drains and a sealed floor in Lab 4; ESD floors in Labs 2, 3 and 8; a 2.4 m node at each lift lobby for trolleys to turn; power busways at the benches sized to the kilowatts in each specification.
- Operations (weeks 8–16): technicians hold the machine rooms, the cleanroom and the biosafety suite; student instructors run the benches on the Georgia Tech and IIT Madras model; a booking calendar shares the Kabaddi and Kho-Kho terraces and the play area between the sports programme and the Studios; two daily shifts are timetabled from day one.
- Phase 2: a ground-floor annex of about 2,500 m² — machine hall, vehicle garage, water hall, and an AIT hall with a 5 m crane hook — restores every deferred element; it is the difference between a Studio programme that starts here and one that finishes here.
Caveats
- Clear height (4.2 m) and slab ratings are assumptions until the structural drawings are read; every "verify" in the tables is a real condition on the design.
- The Kabaddi and Kho-Kho terraces and the play area belong to the sports programme; their use as test grounds is by booking and needs the sports department's agreement and netting where drones fly.
- Area per user at 5.6 m² is a makerspace planning figure; heavy-plant cells hold fewer people and bench cells more.
- Benchmark areas marked S or U are reported rather than published; the design rules for cleanroom air changes are vendor rules of thumb, and the ground-floor rule for water tanks is an engineering inference from the water load and the benchmarks, not a code clause.
Part G · Safety, permissions and responsible deployment
A hazard register by activity group linked to Studios and tasks, an activity-specific permissions and standards matrix, and the deployment approvals that no adviser's attendance can substitute for
The Missions span hazards that need different controls: radio emissions, drones, high voltage, batteries, pressure, lasers, biological work, field water, passenger mobility and emergency response. A single general permission to innovate covers none of them. The register below links each activity group to the Studios and the tasks that carry it; the matrix names the authority, the owner and the status of each permission; every status is "to obtain" until an evidence file says otherwise.
Hazard register by activity group
| Activity group | Studios | Tasks | Control set to add before release |
|---|---|---|---|
| RF, sensing and security | Spectra, Wafer, Ledger, Lattice, Astra | 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.7 | Lawful operating scope; spectrum permissions where applicable; data minimisation; restricted testing; authorised users; sensitive demonstrations only in approved environments |
| Robotics, vehicles and aerial systems | Vahana, Yantra, Freight, Traction, Harvest | 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, 1.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 | Simulation, tethered and closed-course tests first with inert loads; hazard analysis; independent emergency stop; exclusion zones; trained operators; approvals before public or passenger operation |
| Wet, food and biological processes | Helix, Aquifer, Tide, Harvest | 2.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 | Organism, material and activity classification; containment; autoclave validation; waste route; trained supervision; a BSL label is not an operating protocol |
| Water, food and community pilots | Aquifer, Helix, Harvest, Frontline | 2.5, 3.2, 3.7, 4.1, 4.4, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 | Safety and performance validated with accountable partners before health or potability claims; consent, complaints, incident response and withdrawal routes |
| Battery, laser and high-energy tests | Traction, Dynamo, Lattice, Forge, Wafer | 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.7, 5.1, 5.3, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 | Equipment-specific risk assessments; containment; interlocks; emergency response; competent sign-off; no universal classification by power alone |
| Space and structural systems | Astra, Habitat, Forge | 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 2.2, 2.3, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.4, 4.8, 5.3, 5.7 | Teaching tests, qualification tests and accredited certification distinguished; calibration, configuration and acceptance traced to the intended use |
Permissions and standards matrix
Statutory cycles are longer than a semester. A student deliverable is therefore the dossier, the test log and the bounded demonstration the permission allows meanwhile — never the certificate itself, which follows the agency's cycle.
| Activity | Authority, permission or standard | Applies to | Owner | Status and lead time | What the student delivers meanwhile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectrum use for transmitting products | DoT WPC experimental licence or licence-exempt band declaration | Spectra, Vahana, Frontline, Astra | Studio lead with the Registrar | To obtain2–4 months | Cabled fixtures, the anechoic box and licence-exempt bands (865–867 MHz) while the experimental licence is processed |
| Drone operation | DGCA Digital Sky registration, RPC for pilots, type certification for products, geo-fence compliance | Vahana, Harvest, Habitat | Vahana lead | To obtain4–9 months for type certification | The type-certification dossier and test log, tethered and indoor flights; the certificate follows the agency's cycle and is not an academic gate |
| Biosafety | Institutional Biosafety Committee registration with RCGM; BSL-1/2 procedures | Helix, Aquifer | IBSC chair | To constitute3–6 months to constitute | No organism or fermentation work before the IBSC exists; dry process design and analytics meanwhile |
| Pollution control | AP Pollution Control Board consent to operate; hazardous-waste authorisation | Wafer, Aquifer, Forge, Helix | EHS lead | To obtain3–6 months | Consent before the cleanroom, wet and bio cells run |
| Electrical safety | CEA regulations; earthing and protection sign-off; BIS marking on equipment | All | Lab managers | To obtainBefore commissioning | Sign-off per bay |
| Battery testing | Cell and module abuse tests in vented containment; thermal-runaway propagation on the UL 9540A model applies to storage systems, vehicle packs follow AIS-156 and IS 17855; fire NOC | Traction, Dynamo | EHS lead | To obtainBefore the cabinet is used | Cell-level tests in the vented cabinet; pack abuse at a partner |
| Laser safety | ANSI Z136.1-2022 practice; laser safety officer | Lattice, Forge, Spectra | EHS lead | To appoint1–2 months | Class 3B and 4 lasers only with the officer appointed |
| Payment and financial pilots | RBI and NPCI sandbox terms; PCI-DSS and EMV scope | Ledger | Ledger lead | To obtain3–9 months | Synthetic transactions and sandbox terms; no live money |
| Vehicle and passenger operation | Closed-course only until ARAI or ICAT testing and campus safety approval | Traction, Vahana | Mission systems owner | Closed course only6–12 months for ARAI or ICAT homologation | Closed-course, geofenced, low-speed campus tracks with inert ballast; the homologation dossier, not road-legal carriage |
| Fire and egress | Fire NOC for the retrofit; escape capacity; hazardous stores | All labs | Facilities | To obtainBefore occupation | NOC per floor |
| Ethics and data | Institutional Ethics Committee; consent for community pilots; data protection | All community pilots | IEC chair | To constitute2–4 months to constitute | No community pilot before the IEC exists |
Deployment approval, incidents and stop-work authority
- Independent deployment approval by the EHS lead and the Mission systems owner before any public, passenger, potable, clinical or emergency use
- Incident reporting within 24 hours; a register reviewed monthly
- Insurance review of every field pilot
- Stop-work authority for any technician, instructor or student on a safety concern, without penalty
This part does not determine which statutory permissions have been obtained; those records are institutional and current applicability is checked before the activity. A BSL label is not an operating protocol; a borrowed standard title is not a classification; certification needs a named scheme, a scope and independent evidence.
Part H · Funding, consolidated and Mission-wise
Government and private sources for establishment and after products exist, with 2026–27 windows and eligibility for a private deemed university
Eligibility verdicts for a private deemed university
The source catalogue
Flags: V verified on a primary source; S secondary, confirm on primary; T window inferred from the prior-year cycle. Accessed 16 September 2026.
F-A1 · DST-FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure)
F-A2 · DST-PURSE (Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence)
F-A3 · ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG)
F-A4 · ANRF-PAIR (Partnerships for Accelerated Innovation and Research)
F-A5 · AICTE IDEA Lab
F-A6 · AICTE MODROBS
F-A7 · AICTE RPS and AURA
F-A8 · DRDO DIA-CoE (Industry–Academia Centre of Excellence)
F-A9 · MeitY Chips to Startup (C2S)
F-A10 · IN-SPACe Seed Fund and Technology Adoption Fund (TAF)
F-A11 · ISRO RESPOND and Space Technology Cells
F-A12 · NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hubs and spokes
F-A13 · National Quantum Mission — undergraduate teaching laboratories and T-Hub consortia
F-A14 · IndiaAI Mission — compute
F-A15 · DBT-BIRAC BioNEST (bio-incubator)
F-A16 · AP Innovation and Startup Policy 4.0 (2024–29)
F-A17 · AP Drone Policy 4.0 (G.O.Ms. 18, 19 November 2024; 2024–29; ₹500 Cr)
F-A18 · AP Space Policy 4.0 (2025–30, APIIC)
F-A19 · AP Semiconductor and Display Fab Policy 4.0 (G.O.Ms. 7, 14 November 2024; 2024–29)
F-A20 · Private CSR and industry in-kind (establishment)
F-B1 · iDEX — DISC / Open Challenge (₹1.5 Cr SPARK), iDEX Prime (₹10 Cr), ADITI (₹25 Cr deep-tech)
F-B2 · DRDO Technology Development Fund (TDF)
F-B3 · IndiaAI Mission — innovation calls and foundation-model compute
F-B4 · ANRF project grants and SERB-successor calls (ARG, MATRICS)
F-B5 · IN-SPACe Seed Fund, TAF, SBaaS and Antariksh VC (₹1,000 Cr)
F-B6 · DBT-BIRAC BIG (₹50 lakh, 18 months) and SBIRI
F-B7 · ICAR, NABARD, RKVY-RAFTAAR, SMAM and Namo Drone Didi (agri demand side)
F-B8 · Ministry of Power RDSS pilots and DISCOM pilots
F-B9 · NDMA and NDRF technology adoption
F-B10 · Startup India Seed Fund, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS and EIR, AP state seed fund
F-B11 · Challenge prizes: Smart India Hackathon, DRDO Dare to Dream, IN-SPACe CANSAT India, ISRO Robotics Challenge, XPRIZE
F-B12 · GCC sponsored research and engineer-in-residence
F-B13 · International bilateral calls: DST-JSPS, IGSTC 2+2, CEFIPRA (incl. CEFIPRA-BPI biotech), AISRF, I4F, UKRI-India, IUSSTF, Horizon Europe co-funding
F-B14 · Philanthropic and CSR follow-on
Consolidated table
| Code | Source | Ceiling | KLEF eligible | 2026–27 window | Studios |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-A1 | DST-FIST | ₹1.5–20 Cr (75:25) | YES | Next cycle April–May 2027 (T) | All 17 |
| F-A2 | DST-PURSE | Up to about ₹21 Cr | YES (ten-year cap) | Periodic (T) | Forge, Wafer, Yantra, Helix, Lattice, Astra, Spectra |
| F-A3 | ANRF ARG | ₹5 Cr over five years | YES | 2026 closed; next by June 2027 (T) | Research-heavy Studios |
| F-A4 | ANRF-PAIR | ₹100 Cr per network | NO (Phase-I) | Phase-II to be announced | None now |
| F-A5 | AICTE IDEA Lab | About ₹1.1 Cr (50:50) | YES (conditional) | Annual (T) | Harvest, Traction, Vahana, Freight, Habitat, Frontline |
| F-A6 | AICTE MODROBS | ₹20 lakh (80/20) | YES (conditional) | Annual (T) | Traction, Freight, Forge |
| F-A7 | AICTE RPS and AURA | RPS project; AURA ₹2 lakh | YES (accredited) | Annual / rolling | All |
| F-A8 | DRDO DIA-CoE | Grant-in-aid | CONDITIONAL | By nomination | Vahana, Habitat, Yantra, Spectra |
| F-A9 | MeitY C2S | ₹250 Cr umbrella; about ₹15 lakh per project (S) | YES | Rolling (T) | Traction, Wafer, Ledger |
| F-A10 | IN-SPACe Seed and TAF | ₹1 Cr / ₹25 Cr | Via startup | Rolling | Astra |
| F-A11 | ISRO RESPOND and STC | Project plus fellowships | YES | Annual basket (T) | Harvest, Tide, Vahana, Astra |
| F-A12 | NM-ICPS TIH and spoke | Hub ₹100+ Cr | NO / CONDITIONAL | Rolling EoI | Habitat, Yantra, Freight (spike only) |
| F-A13 | NQM teaching labs and T-Hub | Per lab / consortium | YES | Reissue to be announced (T) | Spectra, Lattice |
| F-A14 | IndiaAI compute | ₹65 an hour; 40% subsidy | YES | Rolling | Harvest, Traction, Vahana, Freight, Habitat, Yantra, Wafer, Ledger, Frontline |
| F-A15 | DBT-BIRAC BioNEST | Capital plus 3–5 years | YES (host) | Periodic (T) | Harvest, Tide, Aquifer, Helix |
| F-A16 | AP Startup Policy 4.0 | ₹2–30 lakh | YES (incubator) | Rolling (60-day decision) | All via startups |
| F-A17 | AP Drone Policy 4.0 | ₹20 lakh academic (S); ₹5 lakh proof of concept | YES | To 2029 | Vahana |
| F-A18 | AP Space Policy 4.0 | Enterprise and startup | CONDITIONAL | To 2030 | Astra |
| F-A19 | AP Semiconductor Policy 4.0 | 30% state plus 50% ISM | CONDITIONAL | To 2029 | Wafer |
| F-A20 | CSR and in-kind | Varies | YES | Negotiated, rolling | All |
| F-B1 | iDEX DISC, Prime, ADITI | ₹1.5 / 10 / 25 Cr | Via startup or academia | New editions 2026 (T) | Tide, Traction, Vahana, Freight, Habitat, Forge, Yantra, Wafer, Spectra, Ledger, Frontline, Astra, Lattice |
| F-B2 | DRDO TDF | Up to ₹50 Cr | Consortium (S) | Rolling EoI | Tide, Traction, Vahana, Forge, Yantra, Spectra |
| F-B3 | IndiaAI calls | Varies | YES | Rolling | Traction, Vahana, Habitat, Wafer, Frontline |
| F-B4 | ANRF and MATRICS | ₹5 Cr | YES | 2026 closed; next by June 2027 (T) | Research Studios |
| F-B5 | IN-SPACe funds and VC | Up to ₹25 Cr; ₹1,000 Cr VC | Via startup | Rolling | Astra |
| F-B6 | BIRAC BIG and SBIRI | ₹50 lakh | Via startup | 1 January and 1 July | Harvest, Aquifer, Helix |
| F-B7 | ICAR, NABARD, RKVY, SMAM, Namo Drone Didi | Demand plus R-ABI | R-ABI host (S) | Rolling | Harvest, Vahana, Aquifer |
| F-B8 | RDSS and DISCOM pilots | Pilot-based | Demand side | Rolling (S) | Traction, Habitat, Dynamo |
| F-B9 | NDMA and NDRF adoption | Procurement | Demand side | Rolling (S) | Vahana, Habitat, Frontline |
| F-B10 | Startup India, AIM, NIDHI-PRAYAS, AP seed | ₹10–50 lakh | Via startup | Rolling | All via startups |
| F-B11 | Challenge prizes | Prize | Students | Annual | Vahana, Yantra, Frontline, Astra, Lattice |
| F-B12 | GCC sponsored research and EIR | Negotiated | YES | Rolling (S) | Traction, Habitat, Wafer, Ledger, Frontline |
| F-B13 | Bilateral calls | Varies | YES (with partner) | Periodic | All |
| F-B14 | Philanthropic and CSR follow-on | Varies | YES | Rolling | All |
Mission-wise funding plans
Cognitive Spectrum Dominance
Studios: Wafer, Spectra, Ledger, Lattice; AI backbone from IndiaAI
Establishment: F-A9 C2S, F-A19 AP Semiconductor and F-A1 FIST (fab lab) for Wafer; F-A8 DIA-CoE (SDR, RF) and F-A1 for Spectra; F-A13 NQM teaching labs and T-Hub and F-A1 for Lattice; F-A14 IndiaAI compute across all; in-kind EDA, RF and quantum tools
After products: Central DLI, F-B1 iDEX and ADITI (secure silicon, military communications, quantum), F-B2 TDF (RF and radar), NQM startup call; F-B13 bilateral (Indo-US and UKRI quantum and communications)
Private: Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, Arm, AMD, Intel, TI, Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, IBM Quantum; CSR from Qualcomm and NVIDIA
| 36-month calendar | Windows and actions |
|---|---|
| Months 0–6 (from October 2026) | C2S proposal; IndiaAI onboarding; NQM T-Hub MoU; FIST-2027 preparation |
| Months 6–12 | FIST-2027 (April–May 2027) and ARG 2027 (June 2027); DIA-CoE pitch; in-kind tool agreements |
| Months 12–24 | First tape-outs; DLI; iDEX and ADITI editions |
| Months 24–36 | ADITI deep-tech (quantum); bilateral calls |
Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute
Studios: Wafer, Yantra, Forge as fab supply chain; IndiaAI
Establishment: F-A9 C2S; F-A2 PURSE (additive and precision, Forge); F-A1 FIST Level-III; F-A14 IndiaAI; F-A19 AP Semiconductor; in-kind EDA and NVIDIA hardware
After products: Central DLI; F-B1 iDEX; F-B10 Startup India and AP seed; F-B12 GCC sponsored research; F-B3 IndiaAI calls
Private: NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Micron, Samsung, Cadence and Synopsys; Wadhwani semiconductor-technologies vertical
| 36-month calendar | Windows and actions |
|---|---|
| Months 0–6 (from October 2026) | C2S; PURSE nomination; IndiaAI; FIST-2027 preparation |
| Months 6–18 | DLI and tool ramp |
| Months 18–36 | Startup spin-offs; GCC research |
Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence
Studios: Astra, Tide (earth observation), Vahana (PNT)
Establishment: F-A11 RESPOND and STC (core); F-A1 FIST (space lab); F-A18 AP Space Policy (Lepakshi R&D tenancy); F-A10 IN-SPACe MoU
After products: F-B5 IN-SPACe Seed, TAF, SBaaS and Antariksh VC via a KLEF space startup; F-B1 iDEX and DefSpace; F-B11 CANSAT and ISRO challenges; F-B13 bilateral
Private: L&T, Adani, satcom CSR; Dassault and Ansys design tools
| 36-month calendar | Windows and actions |
|---|---|
| Months 0–6 (from October 2026) | RESPOND basket mapping; STC pitch; FIST-2027 preparation |
| Months 6–12 | IN-SPACe MoU; spin-off registration |
| Months 12–24 | IN-SPACe Seed then TAF |
| Months 24–36 | VC; bilateral earth observation |
Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response
Studios: Traction, Vahana, Freight, Yantra, Habitat, Frontline
Establishment: F-A1 FIST; F-A5 IDEA Lab; F-A17 AP Drone Policy (Vahana); F-A8 DIA-CoE (robotics, UAV); F-A14 IndiaAI; F-A12 NM-ICPS spike partnerships (IHFC, AI4ICPS)
After products: F-B1 iDEX DISC, Prime and ADITI (drones, anti-drone, autonomous, teleoperation); F-B2 TDF (up to ₹50 Cr); F-B7 Namo Drone Didi and SMAM; F-B9 NDMA and NDRF adoption; F-B8 RDSS (V2G); F-B11 challenges
Private: Bosch, Hyundai, Mahindra, Amara Raja, NVIDIA, L&T, Adani
| 36-month calendar | Windows and actions |
|---|---|
| Months 0–6 (from October 2026) | IDEA Lab; AP Drone R&D grant; FIST-2027 preparation |
| Months 6–12 | DIA-CoE pitch; startup registration |
| Months 12–24 | iDEX and ADITI editions; TDF EoI |
| Months 24–36 | NDMA and SMAM demand; scale-up |
Food, Water and Climate Security
Studios: Harvest, Aquifer, Dynamo, Helix, Tide
Establishment: F-A15 BioNEST (Helix, Harvest, Aquifer); F-A1 FIST; F-A3 ARG; MNRE and NISE (Dynamo); MoES and Jal Shakti (Aquifer, Tide); F-A16 AP Startup Policy
After products: F-B6 BIRAC BIG and SBIRI and the biofoundry network via startups; F-B7 NABARD, RKVY and SMAM (R-ABI host uncertain); F-B8 RDSS and DISCOM (Dynamo); F-B13 bilateral (CEFIPRA, AISRF, UKRI); Gates Foundation follow-on
Private: Reliance Foundation, Godrej Agrovet, Mahindra, Dr Reddy's, Aurobindo, Divis, Schneider, Tata Power, Adani
| 36-month calendar | Windows and actions |
|---|---|
| Months 0–6 (from October 2026) | BioNEST call; FIST-2027 and ARG-2027 preparation |
| Months 6–12 | MNRE and MoES academic projects; startup registration |
| Months 12–24 | BIG and SBIRI; RDSS pilots |
| Months 24–36 | NABARD and bilateral scale-up |
Stage-0 prerequisites checklist
| Prerequisite | What | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. UGC 12(B) confirmation | KLEF is UGC-recognised under 12(B) per institutional records; obtain the inclusion letter or notification copy | 1–4 weeks | Foundational for FIST, PURSE and UGC schemes — first priority |
| 2. DST e-PMS and ANRF e-PMS registration | Institutional and PI registration on onlinedst.gov.in and anrfonline.in | 1–2 weeks | Prerequisite for FIST, PURSE, ARG, NQM |
| 3. DSIR-SIRO recognition | Strengthens ANRF and ARG eligibility; enables customs and GST concessions on research equipment | 2–4 months | Apply on the DSIR e-portal |
| 4. Section-8 incubator company | The gateway to iDEX, BIRAC BIG, Startup India Seed, NIDHI-PRAYAS, AP Startup Policy and IN-SPACe | 1–3 months | Second priority — unlocks every post-establishment startup route |
| 5. NITI Aayog DARPAN registration | NGO and Section-8 recognition for central schemes | 2–4 weeks | After the Section-8 |
| 6. CSR-1 registration (MCA) | Mandatory to receive corporate CSR funds | 2–4 weeks | Requires prior 12A and 80G |
| 7. 80G and 12A registration (Income Tax) | Tax-exempt status enabling philanthropic and CSR inflows | 1–3 months | Before CSR-1 |
| 8. Ethics and biosafety committees | Institutional Ethics Committee and Institutional Biosafety Committee (RCGM/DBT registration) | 2–4 months | Mandatory for Helix, BioNEST, BIRAC and human-subjects work |
The full scheme register (67 regional, national and international schemes)
From the funding map: body, what it funds, size, eligibility for a private deemed university, co-funding, route, window, decision timeline, status and Mission fit.
S-A1 · AP Innovation & Startup Policy 4.0 (2024–29) access
AP Innovation Society (APIS), ITE&C Department. Startup prototype and scale-up grants; incubation; a ₹20-crore state seed fund programme announced in 2026; ten planned Centres of Excellence (AI, blockchain, IoT, biotech). Size: Prototype grant up to ₹2 lakh; scale-up up to ₹15 lakh (₹20 lakh women-led); RTIH incubation up to ₹30 lakh. Eligibility: DPIIT-recognised startups registered in AP (turnover under ₹100 crore, under 10 years). The university is not the beneficiary; KLEF accesses via student and faculty spin-outs, or as a recognised incubator or CoE host. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: apit.ap.gov.in / apdti.in. Window: Rolling. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified; CoE-for-university terms to verify. Fit: All Missions via spin-outs; CoE hosting for Studios.
S-A2 · AP Semiconductor & Display Fab Policy 2024–29 grant
Government of AP / APEDB. Capital subsidy for fab, OSAT and ATMP units; R&D and CoE provisions. Size: 30% state capital subsidy on top of ISM's 50% (total 80%). Eligibility: Manufacturers approved under ISM, and non-ISM projects meeting GoAP criteria. Manufacturer-oriented; relevant to KLEF only via an industry partner or a fab-lite spin-out. Co-funding: Investor capital. Route: APEDB. Window: Effective 14 November 2024, ongoing. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified; university-facing CoE provisions to verify. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute (via partner).
S-A3 · AP Electronics Manufacturing Policy 4.0 (2024–29) grant
Government of AP. Manufacturing incentives complementing the semiconductor policy; Sri City and Tirupati ESDM clusters. Size: As per policy schedule. Eligibility: Manufacturers; university-facing provisions not verified. Co-funding: Investor capital. Route: APEDB. Window: Ongoing. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: verify university-facing provisions. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Forge.
S-A4 · AP Drone Policy 4.0 (2024–29), G.O.Ms.18 dated 19-11-2024 investment
AP Drone Corporation / APDTI. Land-conversion exemption; capital and export incentives; 50 drone-technology Centres of Excellence with APSSDC; trainee stipends; Drone City at Orvakal, Kurnool (300 acres). Size: 100% exemption on land-conversion charges; trainee stipend ₹2,000; Drone City investors: 100% SGST refund and 20% capital-investment reimbursement. Eligibility: Drone manufacturers and startups. KLEF's Vahana and Harvest Studios can partner as a CoE host or training provider. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: apdti.in. Window: Ongoing. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: Food, Water & Climate Security; Physical AI & Disaster Response (Vahana).
S-A5 · AP Space Policy 4.0 (2025–30) investment
AP Space City Corporation (SPV). Investment subsidies; Space Cities at Lepakshi (500 acres, design and R&D) and Tirupati (manufacturing and logistics); technology-transfer subsidy. Size: Investment subsidy 25–45% (up to ₹75 crore for large enterprises); technology-transfer subsidy 50% up to ₹1 crore from a ₹100 crore corpus. Eligibility: Space enterprises and startups. The Chief Minister directed involving educational institutions with plug-and-play common infrastructure; advisor is former ISRO Chairman S. Somanath. KLEF's Astra Studio can seek R&D co-location at Lepakshi. Co-funding: Investor capital. Route: apiic.in (space policy). Window: Ongoing. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified headline figures; university-specific window to confirm. Fit: Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence.
S-A6 · AP EV, Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen incentives grant
Government of AP. EV-manufacturing and renewable-energy incentives. Size: Per policy. Eligibility: Manufacturers; specific R&D windows for universities not verified. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: APEDB. Window: Ongoing. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: confirm university R&D provisions with APEDB. Fit: Physical AI & Disaster Response; Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute (Dynamo).
S-A7 · AP State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) grant
APSSDC. Co-delivers the 50 drone CoEs and sector skilling. Size: Not stated. Eligibility: Training providers under MoU. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: APSSDC. Window: Ongoing. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verify grant terms. Fit: Training modules across Studios. Plausible co-funding partner for Studio training via MoU
S-A8 · APIIC land and infrastructure grant
Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation. Industrial land allotment and plug-and-play infrastructure. Size: Per allotment. Eligibility: Industrial and institutional users; institutional-R&D eligibility to verify. Co-funding: Land cost. Route: apiic.in. Window: Ongoing. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verify institutional-R&D eligibility. Fit: Off-campus Foundry or incubator.
S-A9 · Regional national-lab and PSU partners (facilities, not open grants) partnership
DRDO Hyderabad (DLRL, RCI, DRDL); ISRO/NRSC Hyderabad; Sri City / Tirupati ESDM; ICAR institutes and ANGRAU; CSIR labs Hyderabad (e.g. IICT); T-Hub / AP RTIH. Facilities, mentoring and collaboration; funding flows through DIA-CoE, TDF, ER&IPR, RESPOND, SMAM and ICAR routes. Size: Via the national routes. Eligibility: By MoU and collaboration. Co-funding: Not applicable. Route: Direct institutional MoU. Window: Ongoing. Decision: Not applicable. Status: Verified as partners. Fit: DLRL for Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; NRSC for Space; ANGRAU/ICAR for Agriculture. DLRL is the national electronic-warfare laboratory and the natural DIA-CoE and TDF mentor
S-A10 · Regional CSR partnership
Large AP and Hyderabad employers with education and technology CSR mandates. CSR contributions to technology facilities. Size: Case by case. Eligibility: CSR is Schedule VII-eligible only when routed to a central-government-approved technology incubator within an academic institution, or to a public-funded university. KLEF must channel CSR through its approved incubator, not the university directly. Co-funding: None. Route: Company CSR committees; CSR-1 registration. Window: Company financial years. Decision: Company boards. Status: Verified. Fit: All Missions via incubator.
S-B1a · ANRF — Partnerships for Accelerated Innovation and Research (PAIR) access
Anusandhan National Research Foundation. Hub-and-spoke research networks. Size: ₹1,500 crore over 5 years; maximum ₹100 crore per network (30% hub, 70% spokes). Eligibility: 124 institutions selected April 2025 (18 hubs, 106 spokes). Hubs: NIRF top-25 (or INI top-50). Spokes: central and state public universities in NIRF top-200. Private universities (VIT Vellore, MAHE Manipal) were selected as hubs and contribute 25% of their allocated budget; KLEF does not meet the top-25 hub gate and is excluded from spoke status. Co-funding: Private hubs contribute 25%. Route: anrfonline.in. Window: Phase 1 closed; revisit if a later phase widens eligibility. Decision: Announced April 2025. Status: Verified. Fit: Not accessible now. Benchmark that changes the plan: KLEF entering NIRF top-25, or a private-university PAIR phase
S-B1b · ANRF — Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PM-ECRG) grant
ANRF. Individual early-career faculty research. Size: ₹60 lakh plus overheads over 3 years; up to 700 grants a year. Eligibility: Individual faculty: Indian citizen, PhD, regular position, joined on or after 1 February 2023, age ≤42, at a recognised institution. KLEF faculty are eligible; KLEF has advertised it. Co-funding: None. Route: anrfonline.in. Window: Prior window 14 October–19 November 2024; expect a similar annual autumn window. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: Every Mission, faculty-led.
S-B1c · ANRF — MAHA Drones: Components and Sub-Assemblies R&D (with ICMR and MoES) grant
ANRF, Missions for Advancement in High-impact Areas. Consortium R&D on drone components: motors, ESCs, GNSS, secure radios, EO/IR, SAR, LiDAR. Size: Reported up to ₹50 crore per consortium (to verify). Eligibility: Up to 6 PIs; must include an industry or startup partner; PI must hold a regular position at an academic institution, national lab or DSIR-SIRO-recognised organisation. KLEF eligible once DSIR-SIRO recognised. Co-funding: Industry partner contribution. Route: anrfonline.in (MAHA Drones). Window: Pre-proposal about 27 April–26 May 2026; expect an annual cycle. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified window; ceiling inferred. Fit: Vahana; Harvest; Food, Water & Climate Security; Cognitive Spectrum Dominance.
S-B1d · ANRF — MAHA Water (with Ministry of Jal Shakti) grant
ANRF. Water technology R&D. Size: ₹200 crore over 5 years. Eligibility: Startups, MSMEs, research institutions, industry. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: anrfonline.in. Window: Launched 1 June 2026; pre-proposal 1 June–10 July 2026. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: Aquifer.
S-B1e · ANRF — EV-Mission Inclusive Research Grant (MAHA EV) grant
ANRF. Electric-vehicle research. Size: To confirm. Eligibility: Recognised institutions. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: anrfonline.in. Window: To confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: confirm ceiling and window. Fit: Traction; Vahana; Physical AI & Disaster Response.
S-B1f · ANRF — Catalytic Partnership Program; ANRF-ATRI; Ramanujan Fellowship access
ANRF. Partnership programmes and fellowships. Size: Programme-specific. Eligibility: Recognised institutions; Ramanujan for exceptional scientists and engineers of Indian origin. Co-funding: Programme-specific. Route: anrfonline.in. Window: Catalytic Partnership about 1 April–1 May 2026; ANRF-ATRI about 15 January–24 February 2026; Ramanujan nominations throughout the year. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified dates. Fit: All Missions.
S-B1g · ANRF — Advanced Research Grant (ARG, ARG-MATRICS), Critical Raw Materials, MedTech CFP investment
ANRF. Investigator-led research; materials; medical technology. Size: To confirm. Eligibility: Recognised institutions. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: anrfonline.in. Window: ARG pre-proposals 15 May–10 June 2026; others to confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: confirm ceilings and 2026-27 windows. Fit: All Missions.
S-B2a · MeitY / ISM — Chips to Startup (C2S) access
Ministry of Electronics and IT; India Semiconductor Mission; C-DAC (nodal). Chip-design projects; free industry-grade EDA (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, Ansys, Keysight, AMD-Xilinx); ChipIN Centre access; SCL-Mohali shared wafer and MPW runs. Size: Up to ₹15 lakh per approved project, plus tools and fabrication access. Eligibility: Academia, R&D organisations, startups and MSMEs, including private colleges. KLEF's Wafer Studio eligible; the primary silicon route and the fastest way to obtain all major EDA toolchains. Co-funding: None stated. Route: c2s.gov.in. Window: Rolling. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence avionics; Physical AI & Disaster Response edge silicon. Programme targets 85,000 VLSI and embedded engineers over 5 years; 175 ASICs, 20 SoC prototypes, 30 FPGA designs, 30 IP cores. About 1 lakh individuals across some 400 organisations (300 academic, 95 startups) have used the shared EDA infrastructure; 6 SCL-Mohali wafer runs enabled 122 chip submissions from 46 institutions and 56 fabricated student chips
S-B2b · MeitY / ISM — Design Linked Incentive (DLI) grant
MeitY; C-DAC (nodal). Product-design-linked and deployment-linked incentives for chip-design startups and MSMEs. Size: Product design incentive up to 50% of eligible expenditure (ceiling ₹15 crore per application); deployment-linked 6% to 4% of net sales (ceiling ₹30 crore). Eligibility: Startups and MSMEs — via a KLEF spin-out, not the university. Co-funding: Company contribution. Route: C-DAC DLI portal. Window: Rolling. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified; confirm current ceilings. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute (spin-out).
S-B2c · MeitY Grand Challenges; ISM academic partnership calls partnership
MeitY. Episodic challenges. Size: Varies. Eligibility: Varies. Co-funding: Varies. Route: meity.gov.in. Window: Episodic. Decision: Varies. Status: Flag. Fit: Silicon; Lattice.
S-B2d · IndiaAI Mission — compute capacity, AIKosh datasets and foundation-model calls access
MeitY; IndiaAI (Digital India Corporation). Subsidised access to a national GPU pool, curated datasets, and calls for Indian foundation models and AI applications. Size: Programme-level; GPU hours at subsidised rates; foundation-model calls funded per selected proposal (verify current terms). Eligibility: Academic institutions, startups and research bodies; the Campus Supercluster and the Mission foundation models (spectrum, earth, crop) are the natural applicants. Co-funding: Institution share on compute; per-call terms. Route: indiaai.gov.in. Window: Rolling compute access; episodic calls. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: verify current compute pricing and open calls. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; every Mission foundation model. The IndiaAI compute pool is the bridge between the campus cluster and national-scale training runs
S-B2e · C-DAC PARAM and AIRAWAT access; NSM (National Supercomputing Mission) access
C-DAC; DST and MeitY. Supercomputing time on PARAM systems and the AIRAWAT AI supercomputer; training and hackathons. Size: Allocation-based. Eligibility: Academic institutions by proposal; the Compute Mission uses it for runs the campus cluster cannot host. Co-funding: None stated. Route: nsmindia.in; C-DAC. Window: Rolling. Decision: Allocation committee. Status: Verified route; allocation terms to confirm. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Physical AI simulation.
S-B9 · NDMA and NDRF technology adoption; MHA disaster-management innovation grant
National Disaster Management Authority; NDRF. Trials and adoption of response technology; no standing grant portal identified. Size: Case by case. Eligibility: By MoU and demonstration; the Rubble Team Kit and the flood-warning chain are the entry points. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: ndma.gov.in; NDRF battalions. Window: By demonstration. Decision: Authority. Status: Flag: no open grant window identified; partnership route. Fit: Physical AI & Disaster Response; Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence. The customer for two Missions; approach as a trial partner before a funder
S-B3a · iDEX — DISC-14 and ADITI 4.0 grant
Ministry of Defence; Defence Innovation Organisation. Prototype development against Service problem statements; DISC-14 carries 82 statements including EW, SDR, PNT, communications and secure hardware; ADITI 25 deep-tech statements. Size: SPARK grants up to ₹1.5 crore; iDEX Prime up to ₹10 crore; ADITI up to ₹25 crore (₹750 crore corpus FY24–26). Eligibility: Industries, MSMEs, startups, individual innovators, R&D institutes and academia; grants require a majority-Indian-owned entity and most SPARK funding needs a company vehicle with matching contribution. Apply via a Section-8 or spin-out, or under the academia category. Co-funding: Matching contribution for SPARK. Route: idex.gov.in. Window: DISC-14 and ADITI 4.0 launched at the National Defence Industries Conclave 2026 (107 problem statements). Decision: Challenge cycles. Status: Verified. Fit: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Physical AI & Disaster Response.
S-B3b · DRDO Technology Development Fund (TDF) grant
DRDO. Development of components and subsystems the Services need indigenously; deep-tech vertical. Size: Enhanced to up to ₹50 crore per project (from ₹10 crore), facilitating up to 90% of total project cost; additional ₹500 crore deep-tech vertical. Eligibility: Entity owned and controlled by resident Indians (foreign investment ≤49%). Academia collaboration capped at 40% of effort: KLEF participates as the ≤40% academic partner to an industry lead. Co-funding: ≥10% by the applicant. Route: tdf.drdo.gov.in. Window: Rolling against DRDO-identified technologies. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance; Physical AI & Disaster Response.
S-B3c · DRDO Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE) access
DRDO. 100% DRDO funding for directed-research verticals at the host institution. Size: Programme-level; per-vertical project grants. Eligibility: Premier and capable academic institutes and universities; 15 established so far including IITs, University of Hyderabad, Mizoram University and Bharathiar University, so not IITs only. Route: MoU with DRDO after demonstrated capability. Co-funding: Host institution facilities. Route: DRDO Directorate of Futuristic Technology Management. Window: By invitation and proposal. Decision: MoU. Status: Verified existence; private-deemed precedent to confirm. Fit: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance (with DLRL Hyderabad). KLEF's flagship establishment target for Cognitive Spectrum Dominance
S-B3d · DRDO ER&IPR extramural grants; Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme (DTIS) grant
DRDO; Department of Defence Production. Extramural research; test infrastructure via an SPV. Size: DTIS up to ₹75 crore for test facilities. Eligibility: Academia (ER&IPR); SPV with industry (DTIS). Co-funding: DTIS: SPV share. Route: DRDO; DDP. Window: To confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verify current windows. Fit: Instrumented RF range; test infrastructure.
S-B4a · IN-SPACe — University space laboratories (2026 plan) grant
IN-SPACe, Department of Space. Space laboratories at universities and colleges for satellite systems, rocketry, payload design and mission planning. Size: Seven laboratories in the first phase. Eligibility: Universities and colleges; selection route not yet public. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: inspace.gov.in. Window: 2026 plan; track. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: selection route and eligibility. Fit: Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence (Astra).
S-B4b · IN-SPACe — Seed Fund Scheme; Technology Adoption Fund; Venture Capital Fund investment
IN-SPACe. Ideation and prototype seed support; technology adoption; growth-stage venture capital. Size: Seed fund up to ₹1 crore per NGE in at least three milestone instalments; Technology Adoption Fund ₹500 crore; VC Fund ₹1,000 crore with SIDBI. Eligibility: Indian non-government entities (companies). KLEF accesses via a Section-8 or spin-out NGE. Co-funding: Milestone-based. Route: inspace.gov.in. Window: Use-case cycle: 15 grantees selected from 92 proposals on 15 June 2026; first 3 Technology Adoption Fund NGEs selected June 2026. Decision: Panel evaluation. Status: Verified. Fit: Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence; earth-observation use cases for agriculture and water.
S-B4c · IN-SPACe — NGE authorisation for a student satellite grant
IN-SPACe. Mandatory single-window authorisation before a satellite build and launch. Size: Not a grant. Eligibility: Non-government entities; 17 student satellites authorised, 11 launched, including Amity University Maharashtra (a private-university precedent). Co-funding: Not applicable. Route: inspace.gov.in. Window: Rolling. Decision: Authorisation. Status: Verified. Fit: Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence. A gate, not a grant: no satellite build without it
S-B4d · ISRO RESPOND; Student Satellite Programme (URSC) and STICs access
ISRO; NRSC Hyderabad. Financial and technical support to universities for space R&D; mentoring, integration and PSLV/SSLV launch for student satellites. Size: About ₹10 crore a year earmarked for student outreach under RESPOND. Eligibility: Indian universities and academic institutions; KLEF eligible. Co-funding: None stated. Route: nrsc.gov.in / ISRO RESPOND. Window: Rolling intake. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence.
S-B5a · Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM) — drones and machinery grant
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Drone and machinery subsidies; demonstrations. Size: Institutions (ICAR, KVK, SAU): 100% financial support up to ₹10 lakh per drone for demonstrations; FPOs and CHCs 40–75%; agri-graduates 50%. Eligibility: ICAR institutes, KVKs and State Agricultural Universities for the 100% demonstration route; KLEF's Harvest Studio accesses via ANGRAU or KVK partnership. Co-funding: None for institutional demonstration. Route: agrimachinery.nic.in. Window: Ongoing. Decision: State agriculture departments. Status: Verified. Fit: Food, Water & Climate Security. Between 2023-24 and 2025-26 ICAR conducted 40,928 Kisan Drone demonstrations over 40,918 hectares with ₹52.5 crore support; ₹141.39 crore released in total for Kisan Drone promotion
S-B5b · Namo Drone Didi grant
Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, in convergence with DAY-NRLM. Drone packages for women self-help groups providing spraying services to farmers. Size: 80% central financial assistance up to ₹8 lakh per SHG drone package (100% in some women-SHG cases), plus free DGCA pilot training; ₹1,261 crore outlay; 15,000 SHGs. Eligibility: Only DGCA-type-certified Indian drones listed on Digital Sky qualify. This is the demand-side buyer for KLEF-built drones once type-certified. Co-funding: AIF loan with 3% interest subvention for the balance. Route: namodronedidi.da.gov.in. Window: 2024-25 to 2025-26 and continuing. Decision: State and cluster federations. Status: Verified. Fit: Food, Water & Climate Security (Vahana, Harvest).
S-B5c · Digital Agriculture Mission and AgriStack; Agriculture Infrastructure Fund; ICAR extramural access
Ministry of Agriculture; ICAR. Digital public infrastructure pilots; infrastructure loans; extramural research. Size: Programme-specific. Eligibility: Collaboration and pilot routes; academic windows to confirm. Co-funding: Programme-specific. Route: Programme portals. Window: To confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag. Fit: Food, Water & Climate Security; Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute (irrigation scheduling).
S-B6a · Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) — smart prepaid metering access
Ministry of Power. National smart prepaid-meter rollout. Size: Programme-level. Eligibility: Distribution utilities; no direct academic window. A demand and deployment channel for the Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute Mission via DISCOM pilots (APEPDCL, APSPDCL). Co-funding: Not applicable. Route: Utility pilots. Window: Ongoing. Decision: Utility. Status: Flag pilot route. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute.
S-B6b · PM-KUSUM; National Green Hydrogen Mission R&D; MNRE R&D; BEE; CEA R&D access
MNRE; Ministry of Power. Solar pumps and feeder solarisation (demand side); R&D programmes. Size: Programme-specific. Eligibility: Varies; specific 2026 academic call dates not verified. Co-funding: Varies. Route: Programme portals. Window: To confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute (Dynamo); Food, Water & Climate Security.
S-B7 · PM E-DRIVE; Bharat NCAP; ARAI and ICAT; MoRTH road-safety funds; NITI Aayog mobility access
Ministry of Heavy Industries; MoRTH; ARAI; ICAT. EV incentives (demand side); vehicle safety rating; testing and homologation; road-safety innovation. Size: Programme-specific. Eligibility: ARAI and ICAT are the homologation route for the autonomous shuttle's functional-safety evidence; academic-collaboration windows not verified. Co-funding: Varies. Route: Agency portals. Window: To confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag. Fit: Physical AI & Disaster Response.
S-B8a · DST FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure) grant
Department of Science and Technology. Departmental and institutional S&T infrastructure. Size: Level-A (PG colleges) ₹1.5 Cr; Level-B (departments) ₹3 Cr; Level-III (state-of-the-art) up to ₹20 Cr over five years, per the FIST-2025 call; confirm against the FIST-2027 call. Eligibility: Universities and higher-education institutions including private and self-financed; needs roughly 5–8 PhD core faculty and alignment with National Missions and NEP. KLEF eligible: the workhorse establishment grant. Co-funding: Self-financed private institutions: DST 75%, institute 25%. Route: onlinedst.gov.in. Window: Annual cycle; Q4 2026 expected. Decision: Expert committee. Status: Verified; cost-share to confirm. Fit: Every Mission (shared Studio infrastructure).
S-B8b · DST PURSE grant
DST. Performance-based university research support tied to publications. Size: Tiered. Eligibility: Verify private-university eligibility. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: dst.gov.in. Window: To confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag. Fit: Research base.
S-B8c · National Quantum Mission (NQM) partnership
DST. Four thematic hubs (IISc; IITM with C-DoT; IIT Bombay; IIT Delhi); academic quantum teaching labs; secondary R&D partnerships. Size: ₹6,003 crore mission; 23 academic quantum-teaching-lab approvals with 100+ under evaluation. Eligibility: Secondary R&D-partnership and teaching-lab calls; KLEF's Lattice Studio can seek a hub-linked partnership or a teaching-lab grant; eligibility to verify. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: DST NQM. Window: Secondary calls open. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verify KLEF eligibility. Fit: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance (quantum sensing); Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence (quantum downlink).
S-B8d · AICTE — IDEA Lab, MODROBS, RPS grant
All India Council for Technical Education. Innovation labs; laboratory modernisation; research promotion. Size: IDEA Lab about ₹1.1 crore at roughly 50:50 with the institute; MODROBS and RPS per scheme. Eligibility: Deemed universities generally eligible. Co-funding: IDEA Lab about 50%. Route: aicte-india.org. Window: Annual calls. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verify current ceilings and windows. Fit: Every Mission (establishment co-funding).
S-B8e · Atal Innovation Mission; DST NIDHI; Startup India Seed Fund; BIRAC; MSME innovation; PMRF access
NITI Aayog; DST; DPIIT; DBT; MSME; MoE. Incubation centres; pre-incubation and seed support; startup seed funds; biotech ignition grants; PhD fellowships. Size: Atal Incubation Centre up to ₹10 crore; Startup India Seed Fund up to ₹5 crore to an incubator; BIRAC BIG up to ₹50 lakh. Eligibility: Most need an incubator or Section-8 host; BIRAC for the Helix Studio; PMRF for PhD students. Co-funding: Programme-specific. Route: Programme portals. Window: Cycles. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified headline figures. Fit: All Missions via incubator; Helix.
S-B8f · Ministry of Education — SPARC partnership
MoE; National Coordinating Institute IIT Kharagpur. International joint research with partner institutions. Size: Up to ₹1 crore per project. Eligibility: Indian institutions in NIRF top-100 (overall or category) including private institutions recognised under UGC 12(B). KLEF meets the NIRF gate; must hold 12(B). Co-funding: Partner institution. Route: sparc-bharat.net. Window: Verify 2026 window. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified rule; window to confirm. Fit: All Missions.
S-B8g · Ministry of Education — STARS grant
MoE; managed by IISc. Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences. Size: ₹50 lakh single-PI; ₹100 lakh multi-PI, 3 years. Eligibility: Includes non-MoE institutions with NAAC ≥3.26 or NIRF top-100; KLEF's NAAC 3.57 clearly qualifies. Co-funding: None stated. Route: IISc STARS portal. Window: Verify post-2023-24 continuation and open call. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: continuation. Fit: All Missions.
S-B8h · CSR under Schedule VII, Companies Act 2013 access
Corporate CSR committees. Contributions to technology incubators and R&D. Size: Case by case. Eligibility: Qualifies when made to government-funded incubators or R&D, public-funded universities, or technology incubators within academic institutions approved by the central government. A private university is not itself a Schedule VII recipient; KLEF must route CSR through a central-government-approved incubator located within KLEF. Co-funding: None. Route: CSR-1 registration; company boards. Window: Company financial years. Decision: Company boards. Status: Verified. Fit: All Missions via incubator.
S-C1 · Indo-US: IUSSTF programmes; USISTEF; iCET access
Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. Virtual Network Centres; endowment fund for commercialisable concepts. Size: Virtual Network Centres up to ₹50 lakh over 2 years; USISTEF up to about ₹2.5 crore (about USD 400,000, needs a commercial concept). Eligibility: Private universities eligible as academic partners. iCET has no standing open grant portal; government-to-government and IIT/IISc-centric to date. Co-funding: Partner contributions. Route: iusstf.org; usistef.online. Window: Periodic calls. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: All Missions.
S-C2 · Indo-French: CEFIPRA / IFCPAR partnership
Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research. Collaborative scientific research projects (CSRP). Size: Up to €220,000 over 3 years. Eligibility: Private-deemed eligibility not explicit on the official page; verify with contact.ifcpar@cefipra.org. Co-funding: French partner. Route: cefipraonline.in. Window: 2026 submission to about 28 February 2026; expect annual. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: eligibility. Fit: All Missions.
S-C3 · Indo-UK: UKRI-India; Royal Academy of Engineering; British Council (UKIERI) partnership
UKRI; RAEng; British Council with DST and DBT. Joint calls; Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (commercialisation). Size: UK-side money to UK partners; Indian side via DST or DBT. Eligibility: Joint-call rules. Co-funding: Indian side via DST/DBT. Route: ukri.org; raeng.org.uk; britishcouncil.in. Window: To confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag: windows and sizes. Fit: All Missions.
S-C4 · Indo-German: IGSTC 2+2 projects; DAAD; DFG-DST access
Indo-German Science and Technology Centre; DAAD; DFG. Industry-academia 2+2 projects; workshops; mobility. Size: Programme-specific. Eligibility: Indian academic and industry partners paired with German counterparts. Co-funding: Industry partners. Route: igstc.org. Window: WISER about 31 March; 2+2 about 31 May; workshops about 31 July (annual). Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified dates. Fit: Forge; Physical AI & Disaster Response; Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute.
S-C5 · Indo-Israel: I4F (Israel-India Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund) partnership
DST and Israel Innovation Authority. Industrial R&D with Israeli partners. Size: India side USD 0.25–1.25 million, or 50% of the Indian cost. Eligibility: A company must lead; academia up to 30% as subcontractor — KLEF joins an Indian company. 2026 Strategic call theme: Smart Mobility. Co-funding: 50% company. Route: i4fund.com. Window: Strategic call deadline about 1 June 2026; expect annual. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: Physical AI & Disaster Response (Vahana, Traction).
S-C6 · Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) partnership
Australian DISR with DBT and BIRAC. Collaborative research projects. Size: AUD 0.5–1 million; Round 15 priorities include AI/ML and renewable energy. Eligibility: Indian side via DBT/BIRAC; private-deemed eligibility to confirm. Co-funding: Partner. Route: industry.gov.au; dbtindia.gov.in. Window: Round cycles. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified figures; eligibility to confirm. Fit: Dynamo; Vahana.
S-C7 · Indo-Japan: DST-JSPS (IJCSP); JICA grant
DST; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Joint research with mobility focus. Size: Up to ₹10 lakh India side, 2 years. Eligibility: Explicitly names Deemed Universities as eligible; KLEF eligible. Co-funding: JSPS funds the Japanese side. Route: dst.gov.in. Window: FY2027 bilateral call live. Decision: Not stated. Status: Verified. Fit: All Missions.
S-C8 · Indo-Korea; Indo-Netherlands; Indo-Canada (IC-IMPACTS successor) access
DST bilateral. Joint research. Size: Programme-specific. Eligibility: Varies. Co-funding: Varies. Route: dst.gov.in. Window: To confirm. Decision: Not stated. Status: Flag. Fit: All Missions.
S-C9 · European Union: Horizon Europe partnership
European Commission; DST, DBT and MoES co-funding mechanism. Collaborative research. Size: No direct EU money to Indian entities. Eligibility: India is a non-associated third country: Indian entities may participate but generally self-fund or use the India Co-Funding Mechanism via DST, DBT or MoES; a minimum of 3 EU-side partners in collaborative projects. Co-funding: Indian side self-funded or CFM. Route: ec.europa.eu/funding-tenders; DST CFM. Window: Work-programme calls. Decision: EC evaluation. Status: Verified. Fit: All Missions.
S-C10 · Multilateral and development finance: World Bank, ADB, UNDP, FAO, ITU, EIB access
Multilateral agencies. Skills and higher-education projects routed through Andhra Pradesh; programmatic partnerships. Size: Project-level. Eligibility: Via GoAP, not direct. Co-funding: State. Route: GoAP line departments. Window: Project cycles. Decision: Government. Status: Verified route. Fit: Training infrastructure; Food, Water & Climate Security (FAO).
S-C11 · Wadhwani Foundation — WIN / NIN and AICTE Innovation Centres access
Wadhwani Foundation. Centres of excellence; innovation network tiers reaching 100+ HEIs. Size: COEs up to USD 1 million a year (IIT/IISc tier so far); NIN/AICTE/Ignite tiers smaller. Eligibility: HEIs; KLEF a strong NIN/AICTE-route candidate. Co-funding: Institution. Route: wadhwanifoundation.org. Window: Rolling. Decision: Foundation. Status: Verified. Fit: All Missions (product and commercialisation). Strongest philanthropic fit for a product studio
S-C12 · Gates Foundation partnership
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Agriculture and digital public infrastructure. Size: Partnership-based. Eligibility: Formal GoAP partnership since 2024 (AP AI farm advisory); partnership and RFP-based; requires FCRA; no open engineering-programme window. Co-funding: Not stated. Route: gatesfoundation.org. Window: RFP-based. Decision: Foundation. Status: Verified. Fit: Food, Water & Climate Security.
S-C13 · Infosys Foundation; Rockefeller; Wellcome Leap; Schmidt Sciences; Simons; Bloomberg; Tata Trusts; Azim Premji; Nudge access
Foundations. Thematic, health, social and invite-based programmes. Size: Varies. Eligibility: Mostly relationship or invite-driven; low fit for an engineering-product programme. Co-funding: Varies. Route: Foundation websites. Window: Varies. Decision: Foundation. Status: Flag: low fit. Fit: Low.
S-C14 · Arm Academic Access access
Arm. Full commercial Arm IP and tape-out of up to 1,000 units. Size: USD 0 (in-kind). Eligibility: Academic institutions; KLEF eligible. Co-funding: None. Route: arm.com (Academic Access). Window: Rolling. Decision: Arm. Status: Verified. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence avionics.
S-C15 · AMD / Xilinx University Program access
AMD. Free FPGA, RFSoC and Versal hardware and IP. Size: In-kind. Eligibility: Academic institutions. Co-funding: None. Route: amd.com (university program). Window: Rolling. Decision: AMD. Status: Verified. Fit: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance (RF); Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute; Space avionics.
S-C16 · NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant and Jetson programmes access
NVIDIA. GPUs and Jetson kits. Size: In-kind, about USD 5,000–25,000 value. Eligibility: Academic institutions; new-application window currently paused. Co-funding: None. Route: academicgrants.nvidia.com. Window: Track reopening. Decision: NVIDIA. Status: Verified; reopening date to confirm. Fit: Physical AI & Disaster Response; Vahana; Yantra.
S-C17 · Texas Instruments University Program; Analog Devices University Program access
TI; ADI. Analog and embedded kits and labs. Size: In-kind. Eligibility: Academic institutions. Co-funding: None. Route: ti.com/university; analog.com. Window: Rolling. Decision: Vendor. Status: TI verified; ADI specifics unverified. Fit: Dynamo; Ledger; Wafer.
S-C18 · Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens EDA academic networks access
EDA vendors. Academic tool licences. Size: In-kind. Eligibility: Academic institutions; fastest route in India is via C2S. Co-funding: None. Route: Vendor academic programmes / C2S. Window: Rolling. Decision: Vendor. Status: Verified. Fit: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute.
S-C19 · Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India grant
Qualcomm. PhD fellowships. Size: Fellowship. Eligibility: Restricted to named IITs, IISc and IIITs — KLEF not eligible. Co-funding: None. Route: qualcomm.com. Window: Annual. Decision: Qualcomm. Status: Verified: not eligible. Fit: None.
S-C20 · AWS, Azure and Google Cloud research credits; MathWorks campus licences access
Cloud and software vendors. Cloud credits; software. Size: In-kind; AWS faculty awards uncapped. Eligibility: Academic institutions; verify Google Cloud India country eligibility. Co-funding: None. Route: Vendor academic portals. Window: Rolling. Decision: Vendor. Status: Verified; Google Cloud India to confirm. Fit: All Missions.
S-C21 · Bosch, Siemens, Tata Elxsi, L&T, Mahindra, defence and space primes access
Corporates. Sponsored projects; CSR via incubator. Size: Case by case. Eligibility: By agreement. Co-funding: Varies. Route: Corporate R&D and CSR. Window: Rolling. Decision: Corporate. Status: Route verified. Fit: All Missions.
S-C22 · Competitions and challenges: XPRIZE, Gates Grand Challenges, ESA/NASA student programmes, IEEE/ACM contest funds access
Various. Prizes and small grants. Size: Episodic, modest. Eligibility: Some open to Indian teams via ISRO or agency routes. Co-funding: None. Route: Programme sites. Window: Episodic. Decision: Various. Status: Flag specifics. Fit: Visibility across Missions.
Kinds: grant (cash to the university or a startup), investment (equity), prize, subsidised access (compute, tools, facilities) and partnership (in-kind, bilateral, CSR). A register entry is a route, not cash; a scheme is counted once even where several agencies administer it. Dashboard fields the institution fills per scheme: authoritative call · applicant entity · eligibility evidence · deadline · requested and matching amounts · permitted costs · application owner · status (prospect, applied, sanctioned) · cash date · conditions · fallback.
Ranked by fit and probability
| # | Scheme | Layer | Fits | Size | Eligible | Probability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DST FIST (Level C) | Establishment | All | ≤₹10 crore | Yes (75:25 or 50:50) | High |
| 2 | C2S + free EDA | Establishment / Project | AI Silicon | ₹15 lakh + tools | Yes | High |
| 3 | DRDO TDF | Project | Spectrum, Physical AI | ≤₹50 crore (≤90%) | As ≤40% academic partner | Medium-High |
| 4 | DRDO DIA-CoE | Establishment | Spectrum | 100% DRDO | Likely (verify) | Medium |
| 5 | iDEX / ADITI (via spin-out) | Project | Spectrum, Physical AI | ₹1.5–25 crore | Via company | Medium |
| 6 | IN-SPACe Seed + RESPOND | Project | Constellation | ≤₹1 crore + RESPOND | Yes / via NGE | Medium-High |
| 7 | SMAM 100% demonstration | Demand | Food & Water | ≤₹10 lakh per drone | Via KVK / ANGRAU | High |
| 8 | Namo Drone Didi | Demand | Food & Water | 80% / ₹8 lakh | Buyer of KLEF drones | High |
| 9 | ANRF MAHA Drones / EV / Water | Project | Vahana, Traction, Aquifer | ≤₹50 crore | Yes if DSIR-SIRO | Medium |
| 17 | IndiaAI compute pool + NSM/AIRAWAT | Establishment / Project | AI Silicon, every foundation model | Subsidised GPU hours | Yes (verify) | Medium-High |
| 10 | AICTE IDEA Lab / MODROBS | Establishment | All | ≤₹1.1 crore | Yes | High |
| 11 | Arm / AMD / TI / NVIDIA in-kind | Establishment | Silicon, RF, AI | In-kind | Yes | High |
| 12 | NQM teaching lab / partnership | Project | Lattice | Varies | Verify | Medium |
| 13 | DST-JSPS / CEFIPRA / SPARC / STARS | Project | All | ₹10 lakh – ₹1 crore | Yes (JSPS, STARS, SPARC) | Medium |
| 14 | Wadhwani NIN / AICTE | Establishment | All | Varies | Likely | Medium |
| 15 | AP Space / Drone CoE + APIIC | Establishment | Space, Drone | Land / infrastructure | Via CoE / spin-out | Medium |
| 16 | I4F (Smart Mobility) | Project | Vahana | ≤USD 1.25 million | Via company (≤30%) | Low-Medium |
The five-quarter calendar of windows
Q4 2026 · October – December 2026
- PM-ECRG annual window (expect October–November)
- FIST-2027 preparation (the 2026 call closed in May 2026)
- AICTE calls
- C2S rolling enrolment
- Begin DSIR-SIRO and incubator prerequisites
Decision timelines: FIST 8–10 weeks; ECRG 4 weeks
Q1 2027 · January – March 2027
- ANRF-ATRI (about 15 January – 24 February)
- CEFIPRA (about 28 February)
- IGSTC WISER (about 31 March)
- STARS and SPARC (verify)
Decision timelines: Bilateral consortia 10–12 weeks, including partner-finding
Q2 2027 · April – June 2027
- ANRF Catalytic Partnership (about 1 April – 1 May)
- ANRF MAHA Drones cycle (about April – May)
- IGSTC 2+2 (about 31 May)
- I4F Strategic call (about 1 June)
- IN-SPACe seed and use-case cycles
Decision timelines: MAHA consortia 8–10 weeks
Q3 2027 · July – September 2027
- IGSTC workshops (about 31 July)
- AISRF Indian-side round
- RESPOND intake (rolling)
Decision timelines: Rolling; 6 weeks
Following year · October 2027 – September 2028
- Repeat every annual cycle above
- Sequence establishment bids (FIST Level C, DIA-CoE) after the first project grants land as evidence
- DGCA type certification milestone for drones; RDSS pilot with a DISCOM
Decision timelines: Establishment bids 12 weeks
Stages of the funding roadmap
Stage 0 · Prerequisites
Months 0–6
Stage 1 · Fast, high-probability
Months 3–12
Stage 2 · Mission-anchor establishment
Months 6–24
Stage 3 · Scale and demand
Months 18–36
Risks and how the plan handles them
- Scheme changes — Windows, ceilings and eligibility shift year to year
- Private-institution eligibility limits — PAIR spokes, some ANRF grants and Qualcomm fellowships are closed to KLEF
- Matching-fund requirements — FIST, IDEA Lab, iDEX SPARK and TDF all require institutional or partner contribution
- Timeline slippage — Prerequisites (SIRO, incubator, 12(B)) can take two to three quarters
- Company-vehicle dependency — iDEX, DLI, IN-SPACe seed and I4F require a company
What to confirm with each agency
- ANRF ARG, ARG-MATRICS, Critical Raw Materials and MedTech: exact ceilings and 2026-27 windows
- ANRF MAHA Drones and EV per-consortium ceiling (₹50 crore is inferred)
- DIA-CoE eligibility precedent for a private deemed university, and establishment grant size
- DST FIST current cost-share for KLEF's category (75:25 versus 50:50 conflict in guidelines)
- AICTE IDEA Lab, MODROBS and RPS current ceilings and deemed-university eligibility
- IN-SPACe university space-laboratory (seven-lab first phase) selection route and eligibility
- NQM academic teaching-lab call eligibility for KLEF
- SPARC 2026 window (₹1 crore ceiling reported by secondary sources); STARS post-2023-24 continuation
- CEFIPRA and AISRF explicit private-deemed-university eligibility
- Energy (NGHM, MNRE, BEE) and mobility (MoRTH, NITI Aayog) academic call windows
- AP EV, renewable and green-hydrogen university-R&D provisions; APIIC institutional-R&D land terms; AP Innovation, Space and Drone CoE grant terms for universities
- Analog Devices, MathWorks and Cadence-India academic-programme specifics; NVIDIA grant reopening date; Google Cloud India country eligibility
- KLEF's current UGC 12(B) status (assumed; must be confirmed before SPARC)
Recommendations from the funding study
- Stage 1 (0–6 months) — build the rails and hit the annual deadlines: confirm UGC 12(B) and complete e-PMS registration now (they gate FIST-2027, expected April–May 2027, and ARG-2027, expected by June 2027; the 2026 windows have closed); file one DST-FIST Level-III proposal for the shared Fab Lab and the two most equipment-hungry Studios (Wafer, Forge), budgeting the 25% institutional share; incorporate the Section-8 incubator and register DARPAN, CSR-1, 12A and 80G in parallel; onboard the IndiaAI compute portal now.
- Stage 2 (6–18 months) — win the sovereign-tech establishment grants: submit C2S (Wafer, Ledger), the NQM teaching-lab call and a T-Hub consortium (Lattice, Spectra), ISRO RESPOND against the annual basket (Astra, Tide, Vahana) and a BioNEST host proposal (Helix); pitch a DRDO DIA-CoE vertical after a DRDO-lab MoU; lock in industry in-kind agreements, which are effectively free capital.
- Stage 3 (18–36 months) — commercialise through startups: spin each mature product into a DPIIT-recognised startup inside the incubator, then pursue iDEX DISC, Prime and ADITI (up to ₹25 Cr), DRDO TDF (up to ₹50 Cr as academic consortium partner), IN-SPACe Seed then TAF (Astra), BIRAC BIG and SBIRI (Helix, Harvest, Aquifer) and AP Startup Policy grants; layer bilateral calls (IGSTC, CEFIPRA, UKRI-India, IUSSTF).
- Benchmarks that change the plan: PAIR Phase-II with private eligibility means pursue spoke or hub status immediately (monitor anrfonline.in quarterly); a prior PURSE sanction under ten years old bars a fresh PURSE, so pivot that capital to FIST Level-III and CSR; admission to a DIA-CoE re-weights Spectra, Vahana and Yantra toward defence verticals; explicit academic capital lines in the AP Drone, Space or Semiconductor guidelines should be front-loaded, since state money moves faster than central.
Caveats on funding figures
- Self-reported KLEF figures (about ₹7 Cr PURSE, about ₹1.07 Cr FIST) come from KLEF's website; obtain DST sanction-order numbers before citing externally and to check the PURSE ten-year re-application bar. VIT Vellore's ₹21,39,36,000 PURSE (SR/PURSE/2020/34, 2020) is the cleanest externally documented private or deemed-university precedent.
- Via-startup instruments (iDEX, BIRAC BIG, IN-SPACe funds, Startup India, NIDHI-PRAYAS) do not fund the university as grantee; they are post-establishment routes contingent on the Section-8 incubator.
- DRDO TDF academia ambiguity: the TDF FAQ lists only companies and LLPs and says non-profits are not eligible, while MoD and DRDO confirm academia in consortium at up to 40%; resolve in writing before relying on TDF as a KLEF-led route.
- RKVY-RAFTAAR R-ABI host eligibility reads public-funded and likely excludes a private deemed university as host; KLEF startups can still incubate at an existing R-ABI.
- The AP Space and Semiconductor policies contain no clearly earmarked academic capital line in the primary orders; the AP Drone Policy's ₹20 lakh per academic project is from secondary reporting — confirm in GO section 5.
- Windows marked T are inferred from prior-year cycles (FIST, IDEA Lab, MODROBS, RESPOND, NQM, BioNEST); verify the exact 2026-27 advertisement dates before diarising.
- Demand-side channels (RDSS and DISCOM pilots, NDMA and NDRF adoption, RBI and NPCI sandboxes) are procurement and adoption pathways, not grants.
- MoES-NIOT and INCOIS, MNRE-NISE and MeitY CoE academic-call specifics were not separately verified. Core figures confirmed on primary sources: VIT PURSE, TDF ₹50 Cr enhancement (PIB, 8 June 2022), IN-SPACe TAF (₹25 Cr cap, 60% and 40%, launched 19 February 2025), NQM outlay (₹6,003.65 Cr, Cabinet 19 April 2023), IndiaAI compute (38,000+ GPUs, about ₹65 an hour, 40% subsidy), KLEF NIRF-2025 #26.
Part I · Mission handholders and governance
Senior figures who could carry a Mission for two to three years, the advisory structure, and the operating rules
Roster as of 16 September 2026. Four national roles are in transition and are flagged: DRDO Chairman (acting charge to the Defence Secretary from 31 May 2026), ISRO Chairman (term to about 14 January 2027), ISM CEO (rotation-prone serving-officer post) and ICAR Director General (three-year term from April 2025).
Cognitive Spectrum Dominance
| Handholder | Role and why | Source | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajesh Kumar Singh | Defence Secretary (since 1 November 2024); additional charge as Chairman DRDO and Secretary DDR&D from 31 May 2026 per the ACC order of 29 May 2026, until a regular appointment is made | mod.gov.in | V — ROLE IN TRANSITION: no regular DRDO Chairman had been appointed as of 17 September 2026; Rajesh Kumar Singh continues in additional charge (Dr Samir V. Kamat completed his tenure on 31 May 2026) |
| Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay | CEO and Chairman, C-DOT — 6G, secure and quantum-resistant communications | rkupadhyay.in | V |
| Sunil Gupta | CEO, QNu Labs — quantum-secured links | qnulabs.com | V |
| Ankit Mehta | CEO, ideaForge — UAS and airborne survivability | weforum.org | V/S |
| Director, DRDO CAIR (incumbent to be confirmed) | AI and robotics for defence; office-level seat until the current director is confirmed on a DRDO page | drdo.gov.in | U — audit: unverifiable |
Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute
| Handholder | Role and why | Source | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amitesh Kumar Sinha | CEO, India Semiconductor Mission and Additional Secretary, MeitY; 1996-batch IRAS officer, reappointed April 2025 succeeding Sushil Pal | ism.gov.in; theprint.in | V — ROLE IN TRANSITION (serving-officer post subject to rotation) |
| E. Magesh | Director General, C-DAC — HPC, RISC-V, microprocessors | cdac.in | V |
| Prof. V. Kamakoti | Director, IIT Madras — SHAKTI RISC-V | incoresemi.com | V/S |
| G. S. Madhusudan | CEO, InCore Semiconductors — commercial RISC-V IP | forbesindia.com | S |
| Dr Vivek Raghavan and Dr Pratyush Kumar | Co-founders, Sarvam AI — India's sovereign LLM under the IndiaAI Mission | sarvam.ai/about-us | V/S |
| Vinod Dham | Semiconductor veteran; NITI Aayog roadmap contributor | niti.gov.in | S |
Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence
| Handholder | Role and why | Source | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr V. Narayanan | Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space; appointed by ACC order of 7 January 2025 for two years from 14 January 2025 | isro.gov.in; sac.gov.in | V — ROLE IN TRANSITION (term ends about 14 January 2027) |
| Awais Ahmed | Founder and CEO, Pixxel — hyperspectral EO and AI in orbit | linkedin.com/in/awaisahmedna | S |
| Sanjay Nekkanti | Founder and CEO, Dhruva Space — full-stack small satellites | dhruvaspace.com | V/S |
| Pawan Kumar Chandana | CEO, Skyroot Aerospace — launch | globalindian.com | V/S |
| Dr T. M. Balakrishnan Nair | Director, INCOIS — earth and ocean intelligence; ground-segment analogue | incois.gov.in | V |
Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response
| Handholder | Role and why | Source | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saurabh Chandra | Founder and CEO, Ati Robotics — industrial autonomy at scale (Sherpa Tug 500,000+ km, 50+ factories) | yourstory.com | V/S |
| Ankit Mehta | CEO, ideaForge — UAS and disaster response | weforum.org | V/S |
| Jaisimha Rao | CEO, Niqo Robotics — field robotics | niqorobotics.com | V/S |
| Prof. Balaraman Ravindran | Head, RBCDSAI and Centre for Responsible AI, IIT Madras — learning control and safety assurance | rbcdsai.iitm.ac.in | V |
| Director, DRDO CAIR (incumbent to be confirmed) | AI and robotics for defence | drdo.gov.in | U — audit: unverifiable |
Food, Water and Climate Security
| Handholder | Role and why | Source | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr M. L. Jat | Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR | pib.gov.in; icar.org.in | V — ROLE IN TRANSITION (three-year term from April 2025) |
| Dr T. M. Balakrishnan Nair | Director, INCOIS | incois.gov.in | V |
| Prof. Balaji Ramakrishnan | Director, NIOT | amsob.in | S |
| Jaisimha Rao | CEO, Niqo Robotics — precision agriculture | niqorobotics.com | V/S |
| Awais Ahmed | CEO, Pixxel — crop, water and methane EO | linkedin.com/in/awaisahmedna | S |
| Dr P. V. Satyanarayana | Vice-Chancellor, ANGRAU, Lam, Guntur — since 23 April 2026 (Director of Research June 2024 to April 2026); regional handholder | angrau.ac.in/ANGRU/Vice_Chancellor.aspx | V — audit confirmed 17 September 2026 |
Phased roadmap with gates and accountable officers
| Stage | Months | Milestones and gates | Accountable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 0 · Statutory rails and safety proofs | 0–6 (Oct 2026 – Mar 2027) |
| Registrar; Dean R&D; Chief Engineer; Dean of Academics |
| Stage 1 · Fab Labs and academic rollout | 6–18 (Apr 2027 – Mar 2028) |
| Dean of Academics; lab managers; EHS lead |
| Stage 2 · Mission integration and the annex | 18–36 (Apr 2028 – Sep 2029) |
| Mission systems owners; incubator lead; industry liaisons |
Three conditions attach to any capital release: the EHS lead holds independent stop-work authority over every high-hazard cell; the Dean of Academics has formalised the two-session timetable that guarantees bench access; and DSIR-PFRI registration is in hand before foreign letters of credit are issued.
Decision rights that an adviser's attendance cannot substitute for
| Role | Decides |
|---|---|
| Academic owner | approves learning outcomes and assessment |
| Product owner | accepts scope and the acceptance test |
| Lab manager | approves equipment use |
| EHS lead | approves hazardous operations |
| Finance owner | authorises spend |
| Mission systems owner | accepts interfaces, configuration, integration tests and change |
| External customer | confirms outcomes at the gate |
Studio Advisory Boards of 8–12 across seventeen Studios and Mission Steering Committees of 5–7 across five Missions imply about 161–239 adviser places before overlap; every named person in this document is a prospect until agreed. Every handholder and adviser named in this document is a prospect until an agreement is recorded; a name is not a commitment.
How to constitute the advisory structure
| Precedent | Composition, term, cadence or rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The Apollo University (AP Private Universities Act 2016) | Board of Studies on a three-year term: HoD chair plus at least two external experts from academia, industry and national labs; meets twice an academic year; 50% quorum | apollouniversity.edu.in board-of-studiesV |
| AICTE Board of Undergraduate Studies | The regulator's template: IIT academics plus industry and user representatives plus a member secretary | aicte-india.orgV |
| Vasavi College of Engineering (autonomous) | Nominated-member term of two years; meets at least annually; quorum a third | vce.ac.in board-of-studiesV |
| GCET and P. B. Siddhartha (AP autonomous) | HoD chair, two outside subject experts, one industry representative, one alumnus; three-year term; meets at least twice a year | gcetece.org; pbsiddhartha.ac.inV/S |
| SKCET Board of Studies constitution 2024-25 | A worked constitution naming university nominee, academic experts, industry expert and alumni per department | skcet.ac.in BOS-Constitution-2024-25.pdfV |
| IIT Madras Research Park | Board chaired by the IIT Madras Director with senior industry figures and state secretaries — a template for a Section-8 governing board | respark.iitm.ac.in/our-leadership-teamV |
| ANRF (erstwhile SERB) conflict-of-interest policy | Written COI statement; recusal and leaving the room for the conflicted item; recorded in minutes; a member may not seek funding from a committee they sit on; triggers include same department, employer–employee within five years, joint publications within five years, PhD-supervisor relationship | serb.gov.in ANRF-Conflict-of-Interest-Policy.pdfV |
| UGC honorarium memorandum | Official versus non-official and industry experts distinguished (serving ex-officio government nominees get no honorarium); historical benchmark ₹3,000 per meeting-day up to ₹5,000 — 2015-16 vintage, confirm the current figure. TEQIP-III / NIT Raipur guidelines confirm honoraria for BoS, Academic Council and industry-consultation meetings separate from TA/DA | ugc.gov.in 6080851_Honorarium.pdf; nitrr.ac.inV |
| Columbia University Mechanical Engineering External Advisory Board | Three-year term, maximum two consecutive terms, staggered rollover; meets autumn (campus) and spring | me.columbia.edu/external-advisory-board/charterV |
| Washington State University MME External Advisory Board | Private-sector, government and academic members; up to three-year renewable terms; twice yearly | mme.wsu.eduV |
| University of Washington ECE External Advisory Board | 12–18 members across academia, industry and government; three-year renewable; twice annually | advisoryboard.ece.uw.edu/charterV |
| Arizona State Polytechnic Industry Advisory Board | Industry-led; two-year renewable terms; twice yearly; sub-divided by programme area — a per-Studio sub-board model | poly.engineering.asu.eduV |
| MIT Industrial Liaison Program | Established 1948; 200+ corporate members; overseen by the Faculty Policy Committee — a corporate-membership tier feeding the Studios | policies.mit.edu 14.8V |
Recommendations from the advisor study
- Lock the four transition-sensitive handholders (DRDO Chairman, ISRO Chairman, ISM CEO, ICAR DG) and set a quarterly re-verification calendar; if any vacates or rotates, substitute the durable founder anchor already listed for that Mission. The DRDO seat is the most volatile (acting charge to the Defence Secretary from 31 May 2026) and the ISRO seat rolls over about 14 January 2027.
- Adopt the three-year term, two-term cap and twice-yearly cadence for Studio Advisory Boards and two-to-three-year terms for Mission Steering Committees; adopt the ANRF conflict-of-interest recusal template verbatim; set honoraria against the current UGC memorandum after verifying the live figure.
- Populate the seven thin or empty Studios first — Traction, Habitat, Aquifer, Dynamo, Forge, Helix, Frontline — the binding constraint; target the named candidate leads (ARCI and CMTI for Forge, NEERI and the IIT Madras water centre for Aquifer, NISE and IISc DESE for Dynamo, String Bio and Sea6 for Helix, NDMA and SDMA for Frontline).
- Prioritise AP and Telangana anchors already verified (INCOIS, Dhruva, Skyroot, Pixxel's Hyderabad and Bengaluru presence) as founding co-chairs, then layer national and global members.
- Run one more verification sprint (about six searches per thin Studio) to convert S and U flags to V and reach 8–12 per Studio; require an official-page or public-profile URL and access date for every entry before publication.
Caveats on the advisor roster
- This pass was truncated by the research budget: it delivers a verified core of about 35 named individuals, not the full 8–12-per-Studio directory; Studios marked shortfall or none verified are incomplete, not evidence that no advisors exist.
- Several entries rest on secondary sources (company or press pages) rather than the person's own official profile; treat as provisional. Entries marked U (for example the current Director of DRDO CAIR) must be confirmed on an official page before use.
- Officeholder data is time-sensitive: DRDO, ISRO, ISM and ICAR leadership is as of 17 September 2026, and three of the four are acting or term-limited; the ANGRAU Vice-Chancellor (Dr P. V. Satyanarayana, since 23 April 2026) was confirmed in the September 2026 audit; the DRDO CAIR director was not.
- The UGC honorarium figure is from a 2015-16 memorandum and may be superseded; do not publish it as current without re-checking.
- No personal phone numbers, emails or home addresses are included; some search results surfaced such data and it was deliberately excluded.
Recommendations from the benchmark study
- Partner, don't rebuild: bid into or affiliate with C2S/ChipIN (Wafer), an NQM T-Hub spoke (Lattice), IN-SPACe authorisation (Astra), a DRDO DIA-CoE (Vahana, Forge) and the BioE3 National Biofoundry Network (Helix). Output benchmarks: at least one MPW tape-out a year (Wafer); at least one CANSAT or CubeSat a year (Astra).
- Adopt Maker Bhavan's 24/7 student-managed governance as the base model for all 17 Studios, layered with fixed annual external deadlines (competitions, launches) to force output cadence; the TU Delft Dream Team eight-to-ten-month product cycle is the template.
- Secure one anchor industry sponsor per Studio on the Stanford CIFE dues-and-advisory model, escalating to a co-located enterprise lab (Fraunhofer IML) or a single-OEM steering committee (Hyundai CoE) where a sponsor commits engineers and capital.
- Fill the thin domains by recruiting institutional customers as sponsors: RBI, NPCI and IDRBT for Ledger; NDMA and C-DOT for Frontline; NIOT and INCOIS for Tide. India has no undergraduate product-studio counterpart in these fields, so the customer relationship is the benchmark.
- Threshold that changes the plan: if a national scheme (C2S, NQM, IN-SPACe, DIA-CoE) declines partnership, pivot that Studio to the global open-ecosystem route — Efabless and Google–SkyWater MPW shuttles for chips, university CubeSat kits for space, open RISC-V for silicon.
Recommendations from the physical-establishment study
- Adopt tiered space norms now: general Studios at 6,000–9,000 sq ft each (the Georgia Tech to Stanford band), 55–75 sq ft per concurrent user, with specialised overlays budgeted separately. If concurrency per Studio exceeds about 100, add a second shift or expand floor rather than densify below 50 sq ft per user.
- Standardise the operating model on student instructors plus a thin professional core: one technician or manager per facility and volunteer-for-access student instructors; at least one trained instructor per 15–20 active users in open hours, else restrict high-hazard tools to supervised sessions.
- Build safety in from day one to named standards — NFPA 45 and ANSI Z9.5, ANSI/ESD S20.20, ISO 14644, ANSI Z136.1, cryogenic 6 ACH with O₂ monitoring, HV Class 0 gloves and LOTO, UL 9540A and NFPA 855 battery enclosures — with induction, quiz and tiered certification gating access, and every hood and cleanroom commissioned.
- Sequence capital by cost density: general Studio floor and Fab Labs first, then cleanrooms, the GPU hall, the anechoic chamber, TVAC and the battery and HV cells. If a specialised Studio's year-one utilisation is projected below about 30%, run it as a Fab Lab service rather than duplicate it.
- Close the sourcing gaps with direct data requests to ARTPARK, NISE, C-DAC ChipIN, IISc CeNSE and IIT Delhi CART, and confirm the Indian code equivalents (NBC 2016, BIS, Factories Act, CPCB waste rules, AERB, DGCA) before design freeze.
Recommendations from the skills-to-pay study
- Sequence every Studio to end Year 3 on the single artefact its target descriptions name (tape-out, flight log, AIT and TVAC record, assurance case, deployed model, field-season dataset, sea trial, scaled batch); if a Year-3 cohort cannot produce it, treat that as a red flag and re-scope the Studio.
- Attach the credential to the skill in Year 1 — DGCA RPC (Vahana, about ₹50,000), ISO 26262 and AUTOSAR training (Traction), cloud and EDA certificates (platform, Wafer), NABL-aligned lab practice (Aquifer, Helix) — so the résumé shows capability and evidence together.
- Target the seven high-pay clusters for the flagship Studios (Wafer, platform, Traction, Yantra, Astra, Ledger, Lattice) and route students to GCCs and product companies (NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Bosch, Razorpay, Pixxel, Dhruva) rather than service majors, and give every student the pay frame (fresher or experienced, base or total, aggregator or official) so the choice is theirs, weighed against family needs, geography and goals.
- Build employer pipelines now with the named recruiters per Studio, prioritising those with Andhra, Telangana and Bengaluru centres for reach from Vaddeswaram.
- Publish a Studio placement report separating product-company, GCC and deep-tech offers from service offers, with median and top package per Studio; target more than 40% of Studio graduates in product, GCC or deep-tech roles within three cohorts.
- For thin-evidence Studios (Habitat, Frontline, Dynamo, Helix, Lattice) commission targeted employer MoUs and student-founder mentorship, since the named-precedent base is weakest there.
Caveats on pay and precedent data
- Salary aggregators (AmbitionBox, Glassdoor, Payscale, 6figr, ERI) blend company types and self-report, skewing low (blended) or high (senior-weighted); Levels.fyi and company-disclosed data are preferred and skews are flagged. Content-marketing career sites cite the same aggregators and are corroborative, not primary.
- KLEF placement figures are self-reported; treat headline numbers with appropriate caution and rest accreditation-linked claims on auditable outputs.
- Several founder cases involved postgraduate or industry-veteran founders (Agnikul, Skyroot, Mindgrove, InCore, Kritsnam, QpiAI) and are flagged; the cleanest undergraduate-built cases are Pixxel, Digantara, GalaxEye, Genrobotics, Sastra, Coratia, ideaForge, BotLab, UrbanMatrix, Ather and the StudSat, Swayam and Pratham CubeSat teams.
- Where a Studio-specific fresher band or undergraduate case could not be verified, the nearest verified proxy (embedded, robotics or power-electronics bands) is used and said so; the thinnest sourcing is Habitat, Frontline, Dynamo and Lattice.
- The C2S tape-out count is rising through 2026 (325 per the September update against 254 in August); cite with an as-of date. Global USD figures are role-level market ranges, not offers to Indian graduates; reachability depends on visas and India centres.
Recommendations from the vendor and procurement study
- Register KLEF under DSIR-PFRI before placing import orders: on the planning register about ₹10 crore of lines are imported, and the concession (5% duty in place of the full basic customs duty and IGST uplift) is worth about ₹1.3 crore on that base — and more if the deferred imported plant is bought; the benefit is computed by eligible item and applicable tax treatment, not as a blanket percentage.
- Apply to MeitY C2S for the Wafer and silicon Studios for free Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens EDA plus subsidised 180 nm SCL Mohali tape-out, saving crores against commercial EDA and foreign shuttle slots (Europractice charges India the full non-EU rate).
- Default to Indian OEMs where capability is equal: Netweb/Tyrone (GPU and HPC), Jyoti, BFW and Ace (CNC), Wipro 3D and Intech (metal AM), Addverb and Systemantics (robotics), Dhruva Space (CubeSats), Dynomerk and SAJ (EV dynos), LionCircuits and PCB Power (PCB), Neware via Wee Scientifics (entry cyclers) — no import duty, local AMC and commissioning.
- Reserve imports for single-source high-end tooling: Keysight and R&S (RF), Zeiss, Hexagon and Mitutoyo (CMM), dSPACE, OPAL-RT and Typhoon (HIL), Arbin and BioLogic (research cyclers), Vector (CAN and V2X), ISISPACE (CubeSat subsystems), ID Quantique (quantum); use PAC and single-tender justification with documented price reasonableness.
- Maximise free and subsidised software — standardise teaching on the free stacks and buy MATLAB campus and Ansys, COMSOL and SolidWorks academic only where the curriculum demands; software should be under 5% of the capital envelope if C2S and the free stacks are used.
- Negotiate three-to-five-year AMC and education discounts at purchase; budget 5–12% a year AMC and annual NABL calibration for all test and metrology assets. Thresholds: GeM opening to deemed universities shifts commodity buys to GeM; DSIR denial re-budgets imports at full duty (about +20%); a C2S lapse means EDA at commercial academic rates; a foreign OEM opening direct India support (as OPAL-RT, Vector and BioLogic have) is preferred over agent-routed supply.
Caveats on vendors and prices
- Most equipment prices are budgetary, not quotations; vendors quote per configuration and rarely publish list prices; the one firm India price found was the Neware CT-4000 cycler at about ₹2.5 lakh (Wee Scientifics). Confirm by direct quote.
- GeM buyer eligibility for a private deemed university is the key open question — verified as restricted to government bodies.
- GFR 2017 binds central bodies and grant-funded procurement; a private deemed university is otherwise governed by its own statutes; Rule 166 governs single-tender enquiry in the current text and older references cite Rule 154 — confirm the applicable official text.
- State-level C2S participation figures are not published; the confirmed national figure is 332 institutions.
- Verified means confirmed against a named primary source this session; partially verified means a single or secondary source. Vendor India-office and distributor facts are strongest; all prices are the weakest data class.
Recommendations from the outcomes study
- Stage 1 (year one): a shared IP cell files provisional specifications (Form 2 with Form 1) at the educational-institution fee, claimed on Form 28, and requests expedited examination (Form 18A) only where the applicant qualifies under Rule 24C as then in force; target 6–10 filings and 8–12 papers per Studio, mostly in IEEE Access, IEEE Sensors Journal and domain OA venues; enter every Studio in Smart India Hackathon plus one domain competition (Formula Bharat, IN-SPACe CAN-7USAT, IRoC-U, VLSID Design Contest, iGEM, Solar Decathlon India, National Water Awards).
- Stage 2 (years two and three): convert filings to grants (3–8 cumulative per Studio); stand up NABL-accredited or pre-compliance test services (water, EMC, battery, metrology, antenna); bill consultancy through a codified revenue share (illustrative institute 30, faculty 40, team 30); target ₹15–75 lakh per Studio a year.
- Stage 3 (year three onward): push flagship teams to domain TRL 6–7 (a DGCA type-certification dossier and test log for Vahana, the certificate following the agency’s four-to-nine-month cycle; packaged tested silicon for Wafer; on-orbit demonstration for Astra, with high-altitude flights counted only as subsystem evidence; NABL-certified field water results for Aquifer) and publish 2–4 Q1 papers per Studio on those results.
- Benchmarks that change the plan: a Studio consistently missing its own domain target (set from the ratios in the target register, not a common floor) reviews its team count and resources; grant conversion below about 30% of filings triggers an audit of the expedited-examination workflow; consultancy above ₹75 lakh per Studio formalises a cost centre and expands NABL scope.
Caveats on outcome metrics
- Several impact factors reflect the JCR 2025 release (June 2026) now live in aggregators; where a clean 2024 value could not be isolated it is flagged P or U. Confirm APCs on live publisher pages before budgeting — Nature Food, Additive Manufacturing, Ocean Engineering and several IEEE optional-OA APCs are unverified.
- Indian patent grant numbers in most domains were not publicly retrievable; the best fully numbered examples are KLEF granted patent 565178 (AI skin cancer, outside the Missions) and VIT Bargarh Indian Patent 430666 (biogas). IIT Kharagpur's agri-robot and KLEF's implantable-antenna patents are confirmed granted but unnumbered — verify on InPASS.
- Published per-test consultancy fee schedules for Indian university labs were largely not found; figures are modelled from IIT-scale precedent scaled to undergraduate Studios. The National Test House UAS type-certification fee (about ₹1.5 lakh) is the one published rate located.
- Dedicated Indian student competitions and conference student tracks could not be confirmed for Tide, Aquifer (water-specific), Forge, Helix and Lattice; NQM and BIRAC challenges are plausible but unverified for student eligibility.
- NTRAF is a draft under consultation (to 31 January 2026), not a binding standard; ISRO, DRDO and BIRAC scales remain the operative references.
- Accreditation-linked targets must rest on independently auditable outputs.
Recommendations from the organisation map
- Sign three anchor MoUs first (0–3 months): TiHAN / IIT Hyderabad (Vahana, Traction, Freight), IDRBT (Ledger, Spectra security) and ANGRAU with ICAR-CRIDA (Harvest, Helix, Aquifer). All three have live, published academic-collaboration routes and are in reach.
- Attach every silicon, EW, space and quantum Studio to a national scheme (0–6 months): enrol Wafer and Spectra in C2S for free EDA and SCL fabrication (332 institutions nationally; state-level counts are not published); register Astra with IN-SPACe and RESPOND; join the National Quantum Mission and Amaravati Quantum Valley partner network for Lattice.
- Convert proximity into placements (3–9 months): formal internship pipelines with the Hyderabad chip-design GCCs (Qualcomm, AMD, Micron) and space startups (Skyroot, Dhruva), and with the Sri City and Amara Raja manufacturing belt for Forge, Traction and Dynamo.
- Close the thin Studios deliberately (6–12 months): NIOT and CIBA plus Eruvaka and AquaExchange for Tide; Svaya Robotics as the local humanoid anchor for Yantra; Ati Motors for Freight pending a closer option.
- Benchmarks that change the plan: an in-reach GCC opening in Visakhapatnam in a target domain re-prioritises over Bengaluru; confirmed C2S or NQM eligibility shifts Wafer and Lattice budget from commercial licences to scheme-subsidised access; a P-flagged route unconfirmed within a term is replaced by the nearest V-flagged government lab.
Caveats on the organisation map
- Entries flagged P and G are leads whose exact public URL or route must be confirmed on the organisation's own site before outreach; corporate university-programme URLs (Arm, NVIDIA, TI, Keysight, Cadence, Synopsys, IBM Quantum) are established but were not re-verified this session.
- Company status changes: Log9 Materials reportedly faced financial distress in 2025. Headcounts, valuations and dates (Qualcomm 18,000+ toward 20,000 by 2027; Micron 3,500 toward 4,000; Skyroot $1.1B, $160M raised) are 2025–26 secondary reporting and approximate.
- The Amaravati Quantum Valley qubit specification is unsettled (156-qubit Heron in IBM's May 2025 announcement versus 133 in February 2026 launch coverage; commissioning targeted September 2026); confirm the deployed configuration before citing.
- Accreditation framing: confirm KLEF's current UGC Category-I standing when framing MoUs, since some partners reference accreditation.
- In-reach is a driving-distance heuristic from Vaddeswaram; C-DOT Delhi, NISE Gurugram, CMFRI Kochi and IIRS Dehradun are national rather than local. C-DOT's paid internship targets top-30 NIRF institutes, so pursue its CoE and MoU route. NIOT and NISE lack a clearly isolated internship page — apply through their HRD channels; CMFRI's nearest AP presence is its Visakhapatnam centre.
Caveats on space and cost figures
- Cleanroom, GPU and battery cost figures are 2026 vendor and design-firm planning ranges, not audited quotes; Indian civil costs are often lower, imported HVAC and equipment comparable.
- Total areas were not published for TU Delft Dream Hall, IIT Madras CFI, IIT Bombay TL, IIT Delhi CART and several Indian analogues; they are used for model and zone benchmarking, not precise m².
- The 2,000-concurrent and ~90-per-facility figures derive from the brief; validate against the actual timetable and shift structure before finalising areas.
- Standards cited are predominantly US and international; cross-map to NBC 2016, BIS, the Factories Act, CPCB, AERB and DGCA, which were only partially retrieved.
- GB200 NVL72 rack-power figures reflect current NVIDIA hardware; a student 250 kW cluster may use more, lower-density racks for failure isolation — fix the design intent before slab and cooling are specified.
Part J · Impact and SDG analytics
Where the forty tasks land on the Sustainable Development Goals and the four IBE impact families, and what each Mission could reach
SDG × Mission heat map (sum of target weights)
| Mission | SDG 1 | SDG 2 | SDG 3 | SDG 4 | SDG 6 | SDG 7 | SDG 8 | SDG 9 | SDG 10 | SDG 11 | SDG 12 | SDG 13 | SDG 14 | SDG 16 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Spectrum Dominance | · | · | · | 2 | · | · | · | 21 | · | 7 | · | · | · | 9 | 39 |
| Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute | · | · | · | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 2 | · | 8 | 1 | · | · | 48 |
| Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 8 | 2 | 1 | 6 | · | · | · | 9 | · | 7 | 3 | 11 | 3 | · | 50 |
| Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response | · | · | 5 | 3 | · | · | 3 | 11 | · | 20 | · | 1 | · | 1 | 44 |
| Food, Water and Climate Security | · | 14 | 1 | · | 15 | 2 | 1 | · | · | 2 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 55 |
| All Missions | 8 | 16 | 7 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 62 | 2 | 36 | 18 | 24 | 4 | 11 | 236 |
SDG 1 No poverty · SDG 2 Zero hunger · SDG 3 Good health · SDG 4 Quality education · SDG 6 Clean water · SDG 7 Clean energy · SDG 8 Decent work · SDG 9 Industry and innovation · SDG 10 Reduced inequalities · SDG 11 Sustainable cities · SDG 12 Responsible consumption · SDG 13 Climate action · SDG 14 Life below water · SDG 16 Strong institutions
SDG totals across all Missions
| SDG | Tasks touching it | Sum of target weight | Share of all weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDG 9 · Industry and innovation | 26 | 62 | 26% |
| SDG 11 · Sustainable cities | 16 | 36 | 15% |
| SDG 13 · Climate action | 10 | 24 | 10% |
| SDG 4 · Quality education | 9 | 21 | 9% |
| SDG 12 · Responsible consumption | 8 | 18 | 8% |
| SDG 2 · Zero hunger | 7 | 16 | 7% |
| SDG 6 · Clean water | 7 | 16 | 7% |
| SDG 16 · Strong institutions | 8 | 11 | 5% |
| SDG 1 · No poverty | 4 | 8 | 3% |
| SDG 3 · Good health | 4 | 7 | 3% |
| SDG 8 · Decent work | 4 | 6 | 3% |
| SDG 7 · Clean energy | 2 | 5 | 2% |
| SDG 14 · Life below water | 2 | 4 | 2% |
| SDG 10 · Reduced inequalities | 1 | 2 | 1% |
Impact families by Mission (sum of 0–3 scores over eight tasks; maximum 24)
| Mission | Technical / Economic | Societal / Human | Environmental / Sustainability | Knowledge / Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Spectrum Dominance | 24 | 15 | 2 | 21 |
| Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute | 20 | 10 | 13 | 21 |
| Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | 20 | 17 | 13 | 20 |
| Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response | 24 | 18 | 6 | 19 |
| Food, Water and Climate Security | 17 | 24 | 22 | 15 |
Potential reach by unit and Mission (ceilings, not beneficiaries)
| Reach unit | Cognitive Spectrum Dominance | Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute | Sovereign Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence | Physical AI for Mobility and Disaster Response | Food, Water and Climate Security | All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| devices | 0 | 120,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 120,000 |
| kilowatts | 0 | 250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 250 |
| people covered by a service | 10,100,000 | 0 | 23,000,000 | 2,020,000 | 7,020,000 | 42,140,000 |
| people directly served | 50,000 | 500,000 | 900,000 | 10,000 | 370,000 | 1,830,000 |
| people directly trained or protected | 10,500 | 8,300 | 700 | 8,300 | 0 | 27,800 |
| tonnes of material | 0 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 200 |
| vehicles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 500 | 0 | 500 |
Units are never added together. "People covered by a service" is a population under a warning, a monitoring or a secured network, not a count of people who received a measured benefit; "people directly served" and "people directly trained or protected" are the counts a pilot can measure. Within a unit, figures are potential, undeduplicated and annual, so they are ceilings.
Chain of evidence
Delivered artefact → measured performance → partner adoption → observed outcome → justified contribution to impact. Each stage records who measured it and when. The SDG weights above are an orientation map: adding ordinal weights does not measure net social impact, and a course does not inherit an outcome because it feeds a task.
How to read this against the IBE engine
The Studio tasks are the consequential problems the IBE orientation index looks for: each task names a customer, a place and a measurable outcome, so a course that feeds a task inherits a defensible orientation score. Realised impact enters the engine only at the customer gate, when a partner such as NDMA, ANGRAU, DLRL or a DISCOM confirms the outcome; until then every figure in this part is potential and is labelled so.
Part K · Shared technology platforms and CSE-allied participation
The horizontal layer every Mission product draws on: nine Craft Chapters, eleven platform products built once and consumed everywhere, and what that does for the programmes with the largest student strength
A Mission product is a physical thing that behaves intelligently. The physical part is built in a Studio; the intelligence — the runtime it boots, the model it runs, the backend it reports to, the ledger that proves its record, the simulator it was tested in, the update that keeps it safe — is the same engineering problem in every Studio. Built once as a platform it makes every product more capable and creates a large, legitimate place for the programmes with the largest intake. The rule holds: no Studio is justified by an app, a dashboard or a cloud platform alone; the platforms exist because 315 physical products need them.
The nine Craft Chapters
AI & Data 91 products
Machine learning, computer vision, signal intelligence, GenAI and agentic systems, data engineering; used where learning or inference creates measurable value. Staffed by: B.Tech AI&DS, B.Tech CSE, BCA / MCA. Examples: Spectrum Foundation Model; Cognitive Radio Core; Interference Cartographer; Whisper Radar; Passive Bistatic Net; Bird-Strike Radar; Spectrum Inference Chip; Beam-Steering Engine.
Embedded & Edge 167 products
Microcontrollers, RTOS, embedded Linux, drivers, TinyML, firmware and real-time integration. Staffed by: B.Tech CSE, B.Tech ECE, B.Tech CS&IT. Examples: Cognitive Radio Core; Passive Bistatic Net; Spectrum Inference Chip; Beam-Steering Engine; Federated Spectrum Node; Wideband Digitiser; Low-Noise Bias Chip; Time-to-Digital Chip.
Cloud & Advanced Computing 57 products
Cloud, DevOps, APIs, GPU/CUDA, HPC, fleet and backend systems, large-scale simulation and digital twins. Staffed by: B.Tech CSE, B.Tech CS&IT, BCA / MCA. Examples: Passive Bistatic Net; Federated Spectrum Node; Rydberg Receiver; Atomic Clock Module; Mesh That Heals; Crypto Inventory Scanner; Anti-Jam Satcom Modem; Attested Radio Controller.
Robotics 58 products
Mechanisms, actuation, locomotion, manipulation and embodied interaction on the ROS 2 stack. Staffed by: B.Tech ME, B.Tech CSE, B.Tech AI&DS. Examples: Spectrum Foundation Model; Interference Cartographer; Bird-Strike Radar; Decoy Swarm Pod; Quiet Hawk; Tether Mast; Distributed Aperture Swarm; Relay Chain.
Cyber & Trust 44 products
Secure-by-design, hardware and embedded security, identity, privacy, cryptography, distributed ledgers and resilient operations. Staffed by: B.Tech CS&IT, B.Tech CSE, BCA / MCA. Examples: Federated Spectrum Node; Low-Noise Bias Chip; Rydberg Receiver; Spoof Sentinel; Key Vault Radio; Agile Gateway; Photon Key Link; Quantum Random Beacon.
Control, Estimation & Autonomy 51 products
Feedback, observers, sensor fusion, optimisation, trajectory generation, MPC and fault detection across physical systems. Staffed by: B.Tech ECE, B.Tech EEE, B.Tech CSE. Examples: Beam-Steering Engine; Low-Noise Bias Chip; Reconfigurable Metasurface; Reconfigurable Signal Engine; Dead-Reckon Core; Anti-Jam Satcom Modem; Attested Radio Controller; Spiking Neuromorphic Core.
Systems Engineering & Safety Assurance 44 products
Requirements, MBSE, interfaces, configuration, FMEA, safety cases, reliability, verification and validation. Staffed by: B.Tech ME, B.Tech ECE, B.Tech CSE. Examples: Passive Bistatic Net; Rydberg Receiver; Threat Whisperer; Tamper Witness; Campus Spectrum Range; Range-in-a-Box; Red-Team Emitter Rack; Waveform Foundry.
Design & Human Factors 42 products
Industrial design, ergonomics, usability, accessibility, HMI and product architecture. Staffed by: BBA / MBA / B.Com, B.Tech CS&IT, BCA / MCA. Examples: Interference Cartographer; EW Planning Agent; Missile-Approach Warner; Orbital Relay Terminal; Pocket Satcom Messenger; Power Amplifier Tile; Transformer Tile; Sovereign Core 'Shakti-K'.
Materials & Process Engineering 41 products
Material selection, composites, coatings, corrosion, thermal systems, biocompatibility, process and failure analysis. Staffed by: B.Tech ME, B.Tech Civil, B.Tech BioTech. Examples: Terrain Map Antenna; Tether Mast; Frequency-Selective Radome; Featherweight Wing; Absorber Paint; Salt-Fog Armour; Anti-Icing RF Coating; Energy-Harvest PMIC.
The eleven platform products
Edge Runtime 'Sutra' Embedded & Edge60 seats a year
A hardened embedded-Linux and RTOS runtime with drivers, TinyML inference, secure boot and a telemetry agent, ported to every board the Studios use.
Perception Model Zoo AI & Data80 seats a year
Trained, versioned models for Indian conditions: crops and pests, roads and mixed traffic, RF emitters, satellite imagery, produce grades; with the labelling and evaluation tooling behind them.
Fleet & Device Backbone Cloud & Advanced Computing70 seats a year
The cloud backend every deployed device talks to: registration, telemetry, command, dashboards, APIs and alerts; one backbone for meters, drones, shuttles, satellites and field sensors.
Evidence & Trust Ledger Cyber & Trust50 seats a year
Tamper-evident records for readings, audits, subsidies, attestations and test evidence; identity and key management; the distributed-ledger service behind wallets and audit trails.
Digital Twin & Simulation Service Cloud & Advanced Computing50 seats a year
Simulators and digital twins on the GPU cluster: road scenarios, feeder and microgrid models, orbit and link models, farm and field models, RF propagation; used before any range or field gate.
OTA, Attestation & DevSecOps Cyber & Trust40 seats a year
Signed builds, over-the-air update, remote attestation and rollback for every device class; the CI/CD and SBOM pipeline the Studios ship through.
GPU Compute & Data Commons Cloud & Advanced Computing40 seats a year
The shared GPU cluster, storage and data catalogue: training runs, simulation jobs, the Indian Road Dataset, the crop and spectrum datasets, with access control and cost accounting.
Robot & Autonomy Stack Robotics60 seats a year
The ROS 2 stack with navigation, manipulation, sensor drivers and the safety monitor pattern, maintained as one codebase across field robots, shuttles, drones and warehouse platforms.
Field Apps & Interfaces Design & Human Factors60 seats a year
The multilingual mobile and kiosk applications, lineman and farmer handhelds, dashboards and voice interfaces every citizen-facing product needs.
Foundation Model Factory AI & Data60 seats a year
The pre-training and fine-tuning pipeline for the Mission foundation models — spectrum, earth, crop — with data governance, evaluation suites and model cards, run on the Campus Supercluster and burst to the IndiaAI pool.
Agent Framework & Copilot Kit AI & Data60 seats a year
The agentic layer every product uses to plan and act under a human gate: tool use, memory, multilingual voice, explanations and an audit trail; the EW planner, pass planner, fleet controller, irrigation scheduler and village advisor are all built on it.
What the layer does for CSE and allied programmes
| Programme | Studio-only | With the layer | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| B.Tech CSE | 171 | 296 | +125 |
| B.Tech ECE | 258 | 285 | +27 |
| B.Tech ME | 187 | 214 | +27 |
| B.Tech EEE | 183 | 200 | +17 |
| B.Tech AI&DS | 137 | 171 | +34 |
| B.Tech CS&IT | 77 | 235 | +158 |
| B.Tech Civil | 78 | 102 | +24 |
| B.Tech BioTech | 21 | 55 | +34 |
| B.Sc (Hons) Agriculture | 46 | 46 | +0 |
| B.Sc Food Technology | 22 | 22 | +0 |
| B.Pharm | 6 | 6 | +0 |
| BCA / MCA | 26 | 178 | +152 |
| BBA / MBA / B.Com | 27 | 56 | +29 |
Platform operating controls
| Control | Acceptance evidence |
|---|---|
| Interfaces and ownership | Versioned APIs, device and data schemas, stable identifiers, compatibility rules, a dependency graph and a named integration owner; each platform has at least one real consuming product and an integration test |
| Cybersecurity | Threat model, least-privilege access, separate laboratory and production networks, secrets management, secure updates, a dependency inventory, patch ownership and vulnerability reporting |
| Data and AI assurance | Dataset rights and provenance, consent where needed, retention and deletion, representative evaluation sets, leakage checks, bias and error analysis, model and version records and drift monitoring; the NIST AI Risk Management Framework as a structure, not a certification |
| Reliability and lifecycle | Backup and restore demonstration, service-level objectives, observability, incident response, handover and decommissioning; cloud use, hardware replacement and security work budgeted after graduation |
| Safety-relevant AI | Confidence and failure conditions reported in the actual environment; a human decision path and a fallback appropriate to each use |
| Sovereignty boundary | The dependency boundary stated for datasets, model weights, tools, foundry process, cloud, hardware, libraries and export-controlled components; open source is not automatically supported, secure or independent of foreign supply |
A platform has a service owner and a support model, not only a student team. The four platform engineers in the staffing model own the platforms in pairs: engineer 1 identity, data and consent; engineer 2 deployment, device management and updates; engineer 3 digital twins, simulation and evaluation; engineer 4 model tooling, security and observability. Each Mission engineer is that Mission's systems owner for interfaces, integration tests and change approval.
Platform squad rules
- Every platform publishes an API contract and a test suite; a consuming product integrates against the contract, never a fork.
- A platform release is gated by the Review Guild; the squad that built it never signs its own security verdict.
- Consumers file issues and feature requests; the platform roadmap is set by the Missions.
- GPU time, storage and cloud credit are metered per Mission through the Compute and Data Commons.
- Each platform has a named faculty owner and an industry reviewer from the GCC map.
Part L · Skill clusters, recruiters and pay
Eighteen skill clusters mapped to Studios and Missions, twenty-five named recruiters with 2025–26 pay, flagged by evidence
PSU and defence figures (BEL, DRDO, ISRO) are official 7th CPC or notification figures and are reliable. Product-company figures come largely from unofficial aggregators — self-reported, often small-sample, and prone to skewing high or blending experience levels; several fresher averages are contaminated by senior data. Individual LeetCode offers are single data points, not distributions. Re-verify product-company numbers against the company's own placement or offer disclosures before publication.
1. RF and wireless systems, SDR, antenna design, radar AGG
Studios: Spectra. Missions: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence, Physical AI & Disaster Response.
2. VLSI and ASIC design, analogue and mixed-signal, verification, physical design, FPGA AGG
Studios: Wafer. Missions: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute, Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence, Physical AI & Disaster Response.
3. Embedded systems and firmware, secure embedded, hardware security AGG
Studios: Wafer, Ledger, Traction. Missions: All five.
4. Robotics, autonomy, perception, SLAM, motion planning, ROS AGG
Studios: Yantra, Vahana. Missions: Physical AI & Disaster Response, Food, Water & Climate Security.
5. Drones and unmanned aircraft systems EST
Studios: Vahana, Harvest. Missions: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Food, Water & Climate Security.
6. Automotive electronics, ADAS, ISO 26262, EV powertrain and battery AGG
Studios: Traction, Vahana. Missions: Physical AI & Disaster Response.
7. Space systems, satellite engineering, avionics OFFICIAL/AGG
Studios: Astra. Missions: Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence.
8. Power electronics, smart grid, metering, renewable energy AGG
Studios: Dynamo, Wafer. Missions: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute, Food, Water & Climate Security.
9. AI and machine learning, computer vision, edge AI AGG
Studios: Vahana, Wafer, all Studios. Missions: All five.
10. Agri-tech and precision agriculture AGG
Studios: Harvest, Vahana. Missions: Food, Water & Climate Security, Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute.
11. Manufacturing, composites, additive manufacturing, metrology EST
Studios: Forge. Missions: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence.
12. Photonics and quantum technologies EST
Studios: Lattice. Missions: Cognitive Spectrum Dominance, Space Constellation & Earth Intelligence.
13. Fintech, secure transactions, payments hardware AGG/VER
Studios: Ledger. Missions: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute.
14. Product design and management, techno-commercial roles (BBA, MBA, B.Com) EST
Studios: Ledger, Freight, Frontline, all Studios. Missions: All five.
15. Bio-manufacturing and food technology (BioTech, Food Technology, B.Pharm) EST
Studios: Helix, Harvest. Missions: Food, Water & Climate Security.
16. Physical AI, robot learning and sim-to-real EST
Studios: Yantra, Vahana, Freight. Missions: Physical AI & Disaster Response, Food, Water & Climate Security.
17. HPC, GPU programming and AI infrastructure AGG
Studios: Wafer, Habitat. Missions: Sovereign AI Silicon & Compute, All five.
18. GenAI, agentic systems and applied LLMs AGG
Studios: all Studios. Missions: All five.
Named recruiters and what they pay
| Recruiter | Pay and evidence | Source and flag |
|---|---|---|
| Qualcomm India | ₹20.7 LPA average fresher; median ₹19.4 L; top 10% above ₹27.6 L (63 profiles); base often ₹10–12 LPA plus bonus and RSU | 6figr 2026 · AGG |
| Nvidia India | About ₹24 LPA average fresher; 70% of salaries ₹21–48 L (38 profiles); SWE IC1 median about ₹26.4 L | 6figr 2026; Levels.fyi September 2026 · AGG |
| Texas Instruments India | A single self-reported M.Tech campus offer (Bengaluru, July 2024): base ₹20.75 L plus variable ₹4.15 L plus stock ($10k over 4 years), first-year total about ₹35.5 L — one offer, not an aggregate about ₹35.5 L | LeetCode · VER |
| Analog Devices India | ₹9–14 LPA | Weekday; Levels.fyi 2026 · AGG |
| NXP India | ₹12–18.8 LPA | Levels.fyi 2026 · AGG |
| Intel India | ₹15–19 LPA | Levels.fyi 2026 · AGG |
| AMD India | ₹18–24 LPA for premium design roles only; the crowd-sourced fresher average is about ₹9.4 LPA (Weekday, 2026) — audit: the higher band is overstated as an average | Levels.fyi; Weekday 2026 · AGG |
| Samsung R&D India (SRIB) | ₹11–18 LPA; ₹14.5 L verified offer | Levels.fyi; LeetCode · AGG/VER |
| MediaTek India | ₹12–24 LPA | Levels.fyi 2025–26 · AGG |
| Cadence / Synopsys India | ₹10–20 LPA | No clean fresher-specific published figure · EST |
| L&T Technology Services | ₹4.01 LPA CTC Graduate / Associate Engineer Trainee; ₹25,000 a month stipend during training | 2026 recruitment posting · Semi-official |
| Tata Elxsi | ₹3.5–6 LPA | Glassdoor; Quora · AGG |
| Tata Electronics (Dholera fab) | No official salary published; Tata-group hardware-engineer entry about ₹11 LPA | Levels.fyi generic · Data gap |
| Bharat Electronics (BEL) | Trainee Engineer-I ₹30,000–40,000 a month; Probationary Engineer (E-II) about ₹13 LPA CTC | PSU notification 2025–26 · OFFICIAL |
| DRDO Scientist-B | ₹56,100 basic (Level-10, 7th CPC); gross about ₹1.0–1.15 lakh a month, about ₹11.4 LPA | DRDO notification · OFFICIAL |
| ISRO Scientist/Engineer-SC | ₹56,100 basic (Level-10, 7th CPC; scale ₹56,100–1,77,500); take-home about ₹60,000–75,000 a month | ISRO ICRB notification · OFFICIAL |
| Pixxel | About ₹22–24 LPA software engineer | Levels.fyi 2026 · AGG |
| Skyroot, Agnikul, Dhruva Space, GalaxEye | ₹8–15 LPA plus equity (specific fresher figures not disclosed) | Frontlines Media 2026 · Data gap |
| Razorpay | Entry SWE about ₹23.5 L | Levels.fyi 2026 · AGG |
| Paytm | Entry about ₹12.7 L | Levels.fyi · AGG |
| Pine Labs | About ₹22.5 L from a single self-reported 2022 entry offer (₹15 L base plus bonuses); more recent posts cite ₹15–18 L | LeetCode · VER |
| John Deere India | Entry ₹7–18 LPA | Levels.fyi; 6figr 2026 · AGG |
| Bosch India | Fresher about ₹8.57 LPA average | Weekday 2026 · AGG |
| HAL Design / Management Trainee | Exact 2025 CTC not verified | — · Data gap |
| DeHaat, Ninjacart, Mahindra Agri | Engineer fresher pay not publicly disclosed | — · Data gap |