India’s schoolkids built emergency-response robots — now two teams roll on to Geneva

Fifty-seven teams of students aged 10 to 18, from 14 Indian states, spent Saturday at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi building robots for public-health emergencies — machines that could deliver samples, set up quarantine zones, hand out medical kits and triage patients. Team Singularity (juniors) and Ferrum Incubators (seniors) took the national titles and will represent India at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva next June. The contest, run by the UN’s telecom agency with India’s Department of Telecommunications, turns one big idea — technology in service of health — into a school-level sport.