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Airbus sets up innovation lab in Blore and is currently accepting applications

Applications are currently open for this accelerator program with Nov 20 being the last date for applying

Water drops are pictured on an umbrella with Airbus logo during a protest in front of the Airbus facility in the northern German town of Varel

Water drops are pictured on an umbrella with Airbus logo during a protest in front of the Airbus facility in the northern German town of Varel

Sumit Chakraberty
Bengaluru is home to the National Aeronautical Laboratory, the Indian Space Research Organisation, and the country’s premier Indian Institute of Science. There’s high-end aerospace talent at these places, but they don’t constitute the primary reason why Airbus has set up an innovation lab in Bangalore.

The Airbus BizLab is an accelerator for start-ups. "Not necessarily aerospace product innovators, but enablers in a variety of areas. For example, Airbus would want to work with fintech start-ups to improve its financial operations," explains Siddharth Balachandran, who heads the BizLab centre in Bengaluru.

Applications are currently open for this accelerator program, which starts January 3. The last date for applying is November 20.

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Five Indian start-ups have already worked with Airbus in the accelerator’s first batch, four of them in Bengaluru and the fifth one at the BizLab centre in Hamburg. Here’s a look at what they do and how these relate to Airbus.

  • BlueMorfo provides a health score to people based on various parameters to assess their risk of developing lifestyle-related diseases. The score is then used to put users in personalised behaviour modification programs. 

  • Shoonya uses 3D gaming and VR for training and marketing. It created a training demo using visualisation of the interior of an A380 aircraft. That was also converted to a VR training module on Oculus Rift.

  • Open Turf has a suite of products around digital content. One of these is in-flight entertainment using a WiFi hotspot. So a passenger can access movies on a laptop without connecting to the internet, by accessing the WiFi hotspot inside the plane.

  • Qualitas is the fourth one in the Bengaluru BizLab. It is using machine vision for automation of manufacturing processes and quality control. 


This is an excerpt from Tech in Asia. You can read the full article here

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First Published: Nov 07 2016 | 3:25 PM IST

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