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These IITians made a world-class ventilator at warp speed to fight pandemic

Created in 90 days flat, the start-up's device now offers a formula to hasten the journey from lab to market

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Harshit Rathore and Nikhil Kurele (above); and a doctor with with Nocca V310

Amrita Singh New Delhi
As the economy ground to a halt in March last year, Nikhil Kurele and Harshit Rathore were about to start a new business. T

They had responded to an email from IIT Kanpur, their alma mater, inviting proposals from start-ups to make ventilators to fight the pandemic.
 
Neither had seen a ventilator before, but as they figured out how to keep their two-year-old, Pune-based start-up, Noccarc Robotics, afloat, they reasoned ventilators were the need of the hour.
 
“If had we not taken that chance, we wouldn't have survived,” says Kurele with cheery confidence exactly a year into the journey.

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