Bengaluru startup Invento Robotics, whose earlier focus was in banks and hotels, has pivoted to create robots that collect patient details, check temperatures, set up video calls with doctors and disinfect rooms
Balaji Vishwanathan, CEO of Invento Robotics, with Mitra, its flagship robot
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The Covid-19 outbreak has brought untold miseries to many businesses, but the healthtech landscape has grown through it, devising ingenious mechanisms and technologies to fight the public health crisis. According to DataLabs by Inc42+’s ‘India’s Healthtech Landscape In A Post-Covid-19 World Report 2020’, the size of the healthtech market in India is likely to touch $21 billion by 2025.
While the lockdowns restricted the availability of raw materials, broke the supply chain, and made labour scarce, a number of healthtech startups augmented or revamped their existing resources to fight Covid-19. Take for instance, Pune-based Marut Dronetech’s drones that were re-engineered to help with disinfection and surveillance across 19 districts in Telangana, or Bengaluru-based Invento Robotics that launched two robots and also raised ₹2 crore in the process.
(This story appears in the 11 September, 2020 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)