iHub Anubhuti-IIITD Foundation (Technology Innovation Hub of IIIT-Delhi) and iHub Foundation for Cobotics (IHFC, Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Delhi) have inaugurated their joint medical facility, ‘MCC-Medical Cobotics Centre’ on the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi campus on Friday.
Dr. Akhilesh Gupta, Secretary, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and Sr. Advisor, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, was the chief guest on this occasion.
DST has funded this joint facility under the NMICPS mission. (National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems).
The Medical Cobotics Centre is aimed at being a technology-enabled medical simulation and training facility for doctors, paramedics, technicians, engineers, biomedical researchers, and entrepreneurs.
The Centre is also equipped to offer hands-on simulation training to the medical fraternity across the country.
The training programs, ranging from basics to advanced, will be designed in consultation with leading doctors and experts, mainly drawn from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
The Centre is also aimed at having cutting-edge technologies that will enable advanced medical research and development in the areas of healthcare robotics and digital healthcare.
The Centre will also act as a test bed for many young start-ups in the medical field that are developing innovations in medical technology in digital medical healthcare and healthcare using AR/VR, AI, cobotics, robotoics, cognitive sciences, and such.
The MCC has launched its first Call for Proposal for young start-ups, with funding up to Rs 1 crore available in digital healthcare and medical healthcare using the above application areas.
Government officials, top medical practitioners, and industry partners from TCS, AIIMS, Apollo, Max Healthcare and many more illustrious people related to the medical fraternity graced the opening ceremony and explored the various offerings of this one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art facility.
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