Current Status: (as of February 2015)

l April, 2013: 16 colleges under Mumbai

University have set up their robotics labs

l April, 2014: 35 colleges from the following
regions have set up labs:
Delhi / Chandigarh, Punjab (13)
Ichalkaraji, Maharashtra (11)
Pune, Maharashtra (5)
Shimoga, Karnataka (6)
l December 2014/ January 2015: 56 colleges from
the following regions have set up labs:
Chennai, Tamil Nadu (11)
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (10)
Kolkata (5)
Noida, Uttar Pradesh (8)
Salem, Tamil Nadu (14)
Trichy, Tamil Nadu (8)

Robotics labs established in

107 colleges across India.

e-Yantra Competitions:
For Students:
e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC):
engages students using Project Based Learning
(PBL) to implement a solution to a real world
problem. Robots, accessories, training material, and
rulebook are given to
teams selected for
participation, free of cost.

e-Yantra Robotics Competition Plus

(eYRC+): designed to impart advanced topics
such as image processing through a theme for teams
selected for participation. Runs parallel with eYRC.

For Teachers:
e-Yantra Robotics Teacher Competition
(eYRTC): engages teachers through a hands-on

e-Yantra

Lab Setup Initiative

(eLSI)

project implementation exercise with exciting

prizes and certificates.

For Students and Teachers:

e-Yantra Ideas Competition (eYIC):

Established Labs
Upcoming regions

solicits ideas from teams from eLSI family of

colleges to encourage innovative projects and
sustained use of the Robotics labs set up through
eLSI.

e-Yantra team

A project sponsored by MHRD through

National Mission on Education through ICT

(NMEICT)

Contact details:
Are you interested in setting up a
Robotics Lab under eLSI ?
Please contact: support@e-yantra.org

Web-site: www.e-yantra.org
e-mail: support@e-yantra.org
Phone: 022-2576-4986; 022-2572-0184
Facebook: www.facebook.com/eyantra

Department of Computer
Science and Engineering
IIT Bombay

3. Providing support and advice to set up a Robotics

lab so that by the time the teachers are trained, the
lab is ready at the college for the teachers to get their
students involved through projects.

Benefits to the college

Training students through hands-on projects is
imperative in producing successful innovators and
entrepreneurs. Creating the infrastructure with labs
and trained teachers provides competitive
advantage to colleges in attracting talented
students. e-Yantra facilitates the infrastructure
creation by sharing its experience and expertise.

e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI)

e-Yantra is a project by IIT Bombay to spread
education in Embedded systems and Robotics. This
project has been sponsored by Ministry of Human
Resource Development (MHRD) through the
National Mission on Education through ICT
(NMEICT).
One of our initiatives, e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative
(eLSI) supports infrastructure creation at colleges
by providing a platform for training teachers both in
theory and applications of Robotics, in addition to
providing guidance in setting up a Robotics lab at a
college.
eLSI aims to enable colleges to teach Robotics and
Embedded systems in an effective manner by:
1. Training teams of 4 teachers from colleges in a
region, in the basics of Embedded systems theory
and Micro-controller programming through a 2day workshop.
2. Engaging the teams through the regional eYantra Robotics Teacher Competition (eYRTC)
where teachers implement a Robotics project over a
period of three months. Each college team is given a
Robotic kit complete with tutorials and accessories
and is taken through the steps of project
implementation life cycle by the e-Yantra team.

Benefits include:
l Better BE projects with help from e-Yantra open
source community
l Increased enthusiasm amongst students;
Robotics club for students
l Better performance at competitions such as the
e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC)
l Better trained and motivated faculty
l Better prospects for engaging with other
NMEICT projects such as 10K teacher training,
Spoken Tutorials, e-Kalpa, FOSSEE
l Better visibility for college nationally
l Continued engagement with e-Yantra through
courses on advanced modules, Ideas
competition, etc.

Participation procedure
It is necessary for a college to invest in creating
infrastructure, a Robotics lab, where students have
an opportunity to explore interdisciplinary skills.
A college needs to commit the following to
participate in this initiative:
1. Funds to equip a basic Robotics lab (in addition to
space and other infrastructure)
2. A team of 4 teachers to be trained through the
initiative.
e-Yantra Provides:
1. Training to 4 teachers nominated by the college
2. Three robotic kits to the college
3. Exciting prizes and certificates to teachers
participating successfully