Arduino has launched an open-source Edge AI Invention Lab at IIT Delhi, expanding its Physical AI for All initiative to strengthen hands-on AI education and develop India’s next generation of AI talent.
Arduino has expanded its open-source Edge AI and Physical AI ecosystem in India by launching the Arduino Edge AI Invention Lab at the Student Innovation Lab (SIL), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi. The new facility extends the company’s Physical AI for All initiative, aimed at making Edge AI and Physical AI education more accessible through hands-on innovation.
The lab will support project-based learning in real-world AI applications through interdisciplinary research, hackathons, innovation challenges and industry collaborations. It combines Arduino’s open-source hardware with educator enablement, student workshops, digital learning platforms, academic collaborations and industry-aligned curricula to bridge classroom learning with practical AI development.
As part of the initiative, Arduino will establish 10 Edge AI Centres of Excellence across leading State Technical Universities and has developed a 120-hour credit-based Edge AI curriculum with laboratory manuals, teaching materials, project kits and faculty enablement resources in collaboration with STEMLORE Innovators.
Within six months, the Physical AI for All initiative has reached more than 23,000 students, developers, educators and innovators through over 100 workshops and innovation programmes. It has also trained more than 1,000 educators and built academic partnerships with over 300 universities and higher education institutions.
“Arduino has spent more than two decades making technology accessible through open-source innovation. With our Physical AI initiative, we are extending that mission by helping universities create hands-on learning environments where students can build the next generation of intelligent systems,” said Guneet Bedi, Senior Director, Sales, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Prof. Amartansh Dubey of IIT Delhi added, “This collaboration has the potential to spark a new wave of next-generation innovation in Physical AI applications by enabling students to translate ideas into impactful real-world solutions.”
