Singularity and Ferrum Incubators win India’s youth robotics titles
Singularity and Ferrum Incubators won the junior and senior categories of India’s Robotics for Good youth challenge in New Delhi. The teams will represent India at the Geneva global final in June 2027. Students designed autonomous robots for public-health emergency tasks, including medical-kit delivery and quarantine-zone construction, in a competition bringing together participants from fourteen states.
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Two champions qualify for Geneva
Singularity won the junior title and Ferrum Incubators the senior title in India’s Robotics for Good Youth Challenge, a competition in which students build autonomous robots for practical missions. The contest took place during India Mobile Congress in New Delhi, India’s capital. Both teams will represent India at the global final in Geneva, Switzerland, during the AI for Good Global Summit in June 2027. The qualification follows separate contests for the two age categories.[1], [2]
Robots carry out public-health emergency tasks
Participants designed, built and programmed their robots around a public-health emergency response mission. Tasks included extracting and delivering samples, constructing a quarantine zone, distributing medical kits and performing medical triage. The mission was linked to the United Nations sustainable development goal for good health and well-being. Students therefore worked on several stages of the same health emergency, from moving samples to assigning medical priority. Autonomous operation was part of the robot challenge, with the teams responsible for both construction and programming.[1], [2]
The organisers sought to encourage teamwork, project planning, problem-solving under pressure and completion within deadlines. Responsible and sustainable robot design also formed part of the challenge. Free software and hardware were encouraged to broaden access to the activity. These were the educational aims of the competition in which the two winning teams earned their places at the next international stage.[1], [2]
Fifty-seven teams entered the national challenge
The International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations agency for telecommunications, and India’s Department of Telecommunications organised the challenge with support from the I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics. Fifty-seven teams from fourteen Indian states participated: twenty-eight in the junior category and twenty-nine in the senior category. Approximately three hundred students and mentors attended; students were aged ten to eighteen. India first hosted this challenge in 2024 during the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly. Further editions followed at India Mobile Congress in 2025 and this year, leading to the newly named category champions.[1], [2]
Atul Sinha, head of the National Communications Academy-Technology within India’s telecommunications department, opened the event. The officials also acknowledged the contribution of schools, coaches, mentors and families to the students’ participation.[1]
