Round 1
Spotlight
Ideas from Round 1 that made the organisers sit up. Well done to every team on this page, and to every team that took part.
2 ideas
Robotics & Automation
Resonance Renegades
BeatBuddy is a low-cost desk robot that runs focus timers and quizzes students from their own syllabus, answered by moving its servo ears.
Tech Army
BoxBuddy uses a weighing sensor under a packing tray to flag wrong, extra or missing items, and honestly marks cases it cannot tell apart.
2 ideas
Applied STEM
DiscoverX
A portable, battery-powered bottle-style device that cools a coil below the dew point to turn air humidity into water, with a clear test plan.
iCurion
A model off-grid home that combines passive roof cooling with a single-axis solar tracker, proven by a fair side-by-side energy test of tracked versus fixed panels.
2 ideas
Industry 6.0
Power Line Prodigies
One current sensor on a shared power bus learns each machine's normal pattern, finds the faulty one, and estimates when replacing an old machine pays off.
SPDX
LoadLock watches several machines with one current sensor by giving each a unique signal tag, then pinpoints and classifies faults with a self-learning model.
6 ideas
Open Innovation
Agrobot
A low-cost six-wheel rover that drives crop rows, logs soil and air readings, and sends them to a phone dashboard to help small farms water wisely.
CyberKnights
An offline phone app that checks suspicious messages, links and UPI requests for scams and explains the risk in plain language.
Kutty Coders
A low-cost pole-mounted flood depth alarm that shows water depth with traffic-light colours and a buzzer, plus a live online dashboard for residents.
PranaSpandan - Pulse Of Life
An emergency priority layer for traffic junctions that authenticates ambulances, safely clears conflicting traffic and restores normal signals, tested on a model junction.
Tech Spartans
A voice-controlled lamp that projects text, outlines and diagrams onto paper so students can trace, practise handwriting and draw, built from affordable parts and Python.
Trinova
A retrofit cooling system for AI data centres that recovers waste heat as electricity and uses treated wastewater to cut fresh-water use sharply.
These ideas were chosen by the organisers from the Round 1 submissions. Every shortlisted team did well to get here: see them all in the Round 1 results gallery. Questions? Write to risehackathon.support@thepupil.in.