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@RajivMessage Food for thought Rajiv, thank you!

https://t.co/zDuaQL4FjI

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Thank you for the constructive input Rajiv.

The second one is easier to implement. For any company we're in touch with directly, we could ask them what TRL they're at and share the same in our post.

The first one is a more complex question/answer. Many "Indian" components are sourced from Indian vendors who have imported the component, without any alteration, from an international vendor. So the receipt says the component is Indian, even though the actual origin isn't Indian. This is how you can have a 100% BOM indigenous product that is actually not indigenous. The startup bought everything from Indian vendors, but those vendors didn't make the components in India.

Even if a component was fabricated in India though, the materials it was made from may not originate in India. The further back you go in the supply chain, the less likely it is that the founder of the company RuntimeBRT is featuring actually knows the origin of their product (at a raw material level).

All of this to say, "Indian vs. imported" is not a black and white thing. The team and I will discuss this though and see if we can come up with some kind of scoring system or criteria. Perhaps if we implement such a system, it will indirectly incentivise companies to work on localising their supply chain.

-Caleb

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Thank you for the constructive input Rajiv.

The second one is easier to implement. For any company we're in touch with directly, we could ask them what TRL they're at and share the same in our post.

The first one is a more complex question/answer. Many "Indian" components are sourced from Indian vendors who have imported the component, without any alteration, from an international vendor. So the receipt says the component is Indian, even though the actual origin isn't Indian. This is how you can have a 100% BOM indigenous product that is actually not indigenous. The startup bought everything from Indian vendors, but those vendors didn't make the components in India.

Even if a component was fabricated in India though, the materials it was made from may not originate in India. The further back you go in the supply chain, the less likely it is that the founder of the company RuntimeBRT is featuring actually knows the origin of their product (at a raw material level).

All of this to say, "Indian vs. imported" is not a black and white thing. The team and I will discuss this though and see if we can come up with some kind of scoring system or criteria. Perhaps if we implement such a system, it will indirectly incentivise companies to work on localising their supply chain.

-Caleb

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I like @RuntimeBRT posting Indian tech developments. But 2 details must be added for each announcement:
1. What % of the tech is Indian vs imported.
2. Where is it in the development pipeline - from lab prototype and demo all the way successfully competing at global standards. This is a huge distance.
Without these specifics, many announcements are misleading.
But thanks anyway.

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🚨 Bengaluru-based @xTerraRobotics has launched a wheeled quadruped, DHAV-Hy. It is fully indigenous, being designed, engineered and built in India.

It has a max speed of 5 m/s, and a payload capacity 10 kg for all terrains. This wheeled variant has been in R&D for three months, and xTerra is actively piloting DHAV-Hy in industries for inspection.

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🚨 Bengaluru-based Dheya Engineering Technologies has just raised ₹43 crore rupees in a funding round led by Avaana Capital.

They have developed 200N and 500N micro turbojet engines, with flight trials planned for Q4 of 2026 and confirmed OEM orders from India and overseas.

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🚨 Lingampalli Himaja, a 20-year-old student from Andhra Pradesh, has just won India’s 2026 James Dyson Award for RUDHRA, a voice-controlled Braille printer.

It uses Alexa to convert speech into text, and a Raspberry Pi translates that into Braille and embosses it onto paper.

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🚨 Coimbatore-based GOAT Robotics (@goat_robotics) has just unveiled GT-XP, an autonomous pallet-handling robot capable of moving payloads of up to 5 tonnes.

It uses SLAM navigation, LiDAR, an IMU, wheel encoders and a depth camera to autonomously pick, move and place pallets

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🚨 Hyderabad-based Beijan has just raised ₹1.7 crore rupees in their pre-seed round from AJVC.

They’re building BANM, a sub-200g module that can attach to any drone and keep it navigating when GPS is jammed or spoofed, using onboard visual odometry instead of satellite signals.

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This is India's most advanced electric tactical vehicle, VEER.

The company behind it, Pravaig Dynamics (@pravaigdynamics), has come a long way. They began R&D in 2011 and rose to prominence in 2020 when they unveiled a concept car, Extinction MK1.

Today, six years later, the company's order book is extensive. Defence customers are very keen to add Pravaig's indigenously developed and manufactured flagship EV to their fleets.

The Pravaig VEER features:

- Infrared driving lights with thermal imaging
- 95.6 kWh in-house-manufactured battery
- A flex-fuel generator for hybrid driving
- Low acoustic and thermal signature
- Detachable doors and windscreens
- 600 mm water-wading capacity
- 260 mm ground clearance
- Regenerative braking
- 120 km/h top speed
- 0–100 km/h in 6.1s
- 500+ km of range
- 620 Nm of torque
- Stealth mode
- Airlift hooks

We visited Pravaig's manufacturing facility in Bengaluru to test the VEER out and see how they're building it right here in India.

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🚨 IIT Bombay’s AUV team has won the Wildcard Challenge at RoboSub 2026 in California, competing against 58 teams from 9 countries.

The team deployed two autonomous underwater vehicles, Matsya 7 and Mini Matsya, operating in parallel to complete underwater tasks.

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Most large businesses in India use a mix of filters and chemicals to treat wastewater. Billions of litres undergo treatment every day before being discharged back into India's rivers and groundwater.

A Maharashtra-based company, Indra (@IndraWaterIndia), has patented an alternative solution that allows industries to recycle water instead of dumping it. Their line of electrochemical reactors, called ElectroX, use non-contact micro-electrolysis to purify and recycle water so that it can be reused for things like flushing toilets, irrigation and gardening, cleaning, cooling towers, HVAC, boilers, and industrial processes across textiles, metals, and pharma.

Indra's ElectroX reactors are now being used across India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, and they plan to continue their global expansion in the coming months and years.

Here's how they're making it all possible from their factory in Thane.

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🚨 Kanpur-based Lenek Technologies (@LenekTech) has built a 3.5 kg battery-powered X-ray generator for point-of-care imaging in areas with unreliable power.

A licensed radiographer can operate it, while AI reads chest X-rays, generates reports and sends them to doctors remotely.

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@indian_klopp @xTerraRobotics https://t.co/euTXZXHu4i

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@Pe4seve9ra5ceup @xTerraRobotics They are now in Bengaluru as their principal place of business.

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🚨 Bengaluru-based xTerra Robotics (@xTerraRobotics) has just unveiled DHAV, an industrial quadruped built for inspection, security & surveillance across rough terrains.

The robot uses 12 in-house QDD actuators, produces up to ~80 Nm joint torque and can carry a 10 kg payload.

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@Pe4seve9ra5ceup @xTerraRobotics They are now in Bengaluru as their principal place of business.

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🚨 Bengaluru-based Pranos Fusion (@PranosFusion) has unveiled PRAGYA, India's first privately developed compact tokamak reactor.

Here is the first up-close look at PRAGYA, courtesy of Pranos co-founder and CEO Shaurya Kaushal.

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🚨 Bengaluru-based Ethereal Exploration Guild (@theguildworld) just unveiled FSCC, a new feed cycle for Pegasus, the reusable upper-stage engine of Razor Crest Mk-1.

FSCC uses re-entry heat to raise propellant enthalpy, transferring that energy to oxygen to drive the turbine.

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🚨 Bengaluru-based Alteon (@AlteonAerospace) has raised $2.5M pre-seed from Lachy Groom and Together Fund.

Their aircraft recently flew autonomously less than 1 metre above the ocean, a key step toward using dynamic soaring to harvest wind energy and stay airborne for months.

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🚨 Kolkata-based B100M Computer (@b100mcomputer) has built the B100M Mobile Device, an AR headset prototype developed from scratch in India.

It runs the startup’s own B26 operating system, which supports hand and voice controls and is designed to run AI models locally.

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🚨 Bengaluru-based Control One has turned a regular forklift into an autonomous forklift using just cameras and Vision AI.

Their autonomous forklifts are already operational at 3 facilities in India.

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🚨 Hyderabad-based Harvested Robotics (@HarvestedLabs) is testing Rakshak, their prototype AI-powered laser-weeder, mounted on a 36 HP Mahindra OJA 3140 tractor.

Rakshak uses computer vision to identify weeds in real time and can accommodate up to four laser modules.