May 20, 2024

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Located in a corner of the Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) verdant campus in Bengaluru is the Foundation for Science Innovation and Development (FSID). It is an incubator that aims to commercialise innovations with the potential to directly impact society. Inside, Padmini Sampath, wearing an orange and blue linen sari, is tinkering with a gadget, as big as a large smartphone.


Sampath is co-founder and chief executive officer of a little-known company, Green Collar Agritech Solutions. But it has developed an artificial intelligence-based crop grading solution that can determine key component ingredient percentages in commodity samples and provide the quality in

First Published: Apr 25 2024 | 9:15 PM IST