Our Story

I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics (IHFC), the Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Delhi, was set up in June 2020 under the Department of Science & Technology’s NM-ICPS mission. Bringing together academia, government, and industry.

IHFC focuses on four key sectors :

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Medical

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Industry X.0

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Agriculture

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Defence

Driving R&D, fostering startups, advancing skills and education, and enabling global collaborations.

In recent years, India and the world have witnessed rapid advances in sensing, computing, and algorithm development, accelerating robotics research and its real-world adoption.

From farmers planting crops, wholesalers managing supply chains, and doctors performing complex surgeries, to teachers enhancing classroom learning, robots are becoming integral to everyday life. Drones are revolutionizing agriculture, defense, and industry, while collaborative surgical robots are improving precision and outcomes.

It is clear that in the coming years, robots will play a vital role across sectors—expanding human capabilities, reducing risks, enhancing safety, and boosting productivity.

The need of the hour is to develop technologies that enable people to work seamlessly with robots. This synergy between humans and machines—known as Cobotics—holds the promise of improving lives and shaping a safer, more productive future.

Vision

Vision

To become the most coveted initiative in India which empowers to develop and nurture ideas offering world class solutions.

IHFC will help ascertain the right kind of training, guidance, and necessary resources required by these bright individuals to create a seamless collaboration between industry, research, and academia, ensuring fast-track development and turning ideas into reality.

Mission

Mission

To empower growth through collaboration and build a community of innovation leaders.

To create and offer an ecosystem for all, by coordinating and integrating, knowledge generation, academia support, technology and product development, innovation and commercialization to support projects for a quick turnaround in the field of Cobotics.

Our Reach

Impacting India innovating through technology

Our Key Focus

Creating an ecosystem for growth & innovation​

Inspire Innovation

Inspire Innovation

Innovative thinking and Intelligent sensing of the capabilities and environment and providing support to think out of the box to innovate and offer solutions.

Harness Collaboration

Harness Collaboration​

Harbour a community bringing together the intelligence of Academia and industry and create a marketable product.

Fuel Growth

Fuel Growth​

Facilitate growth and acceleration of young minds and start-ups/ companies through financial, academic and industry support.

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Commercialization​

Commercialization of the end product and making it market friendly offering a simple solution to any task which is strenuous or hazardous to human and simplifying and reducing the task load.