Team Singularity and Ferrum Incubators win Robotics for Good Youth Challenge

Team Singularity and Ferrum Incubators have emerged as the Junior and Senior Champions respectively at the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge India 2026–2027. The event was hosted by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on the sidelines of the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2026 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi.

The Challenge is a flagship initiative under ITU’s AI for Good programme. It brought together 57 teams featuring around 300 students and mentors from 14 States across India. Students aged 10 to 18 designed, built and programmed autonomous robots to address public health emergency response tasks linked to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3, including sample extraction and delivery, quarantine zone construction, medical-kit distribution, and medical triage.

The competition was inaugurated by Mr. Atul Sinha, Director General, National Communications Academy-Technology (NCA-T), DoT, with a welcome address by Dr Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director and Chief, Study Groups and Policy Department, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU. Other speakers included Ashutosh Dutt Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, IHFC, TIH of IIT Delhi, Rama Krishna K, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, and Atman Jadon, Co-founder and CEO, Superceuticals Private Limited.

The journey began with registrations from 10–25 August 2026, followed by orientation programmes and design document submissions from 7–16 September 2026. After a Practice Day on 9 October 2026, the India Nationals took place on 10 October 2026, featuring qualifying rounds, a knockout round, and the final.

In the Senior Category, Team Ferrum Incubators from Cambridge School, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, took the win. Team Mech Minds from Lions Calcutta Greater Vidya Mandir, West Bengal, was the first runner-up, and Team Botics Alpha from Vidya Pratishthan’s Magarpatta City Public School, Maharashtra, placed second runner-up. In the Junior Category, Team Singularity from Gopalan International School, Karnataka, won first place, followed by Team Veda Velocity from MSB Education Institute, Pune, as first runner-up, and Team Vajra from IgnAlte Robotics LLP, Uttar Pradesh, as second runner-up.

The winning teams of the Junior and Senior categories will represent India at the Global Grand Finale in Geneva, Switzerland, during the AI for Good Global Summit in June 2027. The Challenge first began in India in 2024 during the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-24) and has continued through editions at IMC 2025 and IMC 2026.