NEW YORK , APRIL 16th 2025: – The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced the regional ventures for the 2025 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW), the prestigious international accelerator of hardware-led social innovation. Seven social ventures from throughout India will pitch their innovative solutions and participate in an extensive design and engineering review with judges beginning Thursday, April 24, at T-Hub, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. These seven ventures will vie for three spots in the 2025 ISHOW cohort offering a share of $30,000 in grant awards and technical support to help bring their impactful innovations to market. All ventures will display their product prototypes at a showcase on Friday, April 25, at 5 p.m. local time and the three ventures advancing to the cohort will be announced at an awards ceremony beginning at 6 p.m local time.
The ISHOW India ventures’ innovations provide affordable, sustainable hardware technology solutions to agricultural, energy, healthcare, and transportation challenges.
They are:
· Caruna Mobility (Puducherry, India) for its “Complete Mobility Solution” – a wheelchair and vehicle swivel seat mechanism that assists with vehicle and home transfers for persons with limited mobility issues, from those with simple fractures to quadriplegic patients
· DARTML (Kerala, India) for its “DARTML” morphable quadcopter – a drone with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) mobility modes, AI-powered navigation, real-time camera and radar-based person detection to enhance search and rescue applications
· FastSense Innovations (Pune, Maharashtra, India) for its “Sep-Scan” tool – an AI-powered diagnostic solution designed for rapid, precise, and comprehensive early sepsis detection and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) screening, accessible even in resource-limited settings, ultimately reducing diagnostic delays, and helping to lower mortality rates, shorten hospital stays, and cut treatment costs
· Kisan Rover (Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India) for its Solar-Powered Agricultural Robotic Bull – a solar-powered and electric hybrid multitasking agricultural machine that can enhance productivity, reduce costs, and improve the livelihoods of farmers with less than five acres of land
· Neenva Innovations Pvt. Ltd. (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India) for its “ViiSar” venture – assistive technology delivering STEM education for visually impaired individuals by combining tactile hardware with interactive software, enabling inclusive and accessible learning, bridging the educational gap in math and science
· Newrup Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India) for its “Chuliv” innovation – a clean cooking solution that seamlessly upgrades conventional mud stoves into advanced cooking appliances, cutting harmful smoke emissions by up to 50%, decreasing indoor air pollution and its negative impact on the health and mortality of women and children
· RE4BILLION.AI Pvt. Ltd. (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) for its “Smart Remote Monitoring System” – an advanced IoT-based solution designed to track solar power generation, grid consumption, and battery health in off-grid or unreliable grid locations including rural sites, micro-enterprises, schools, and health centers, delivering user alerts and insights through a web platform.
The 2025 ISHOW cohort will be invited to participate in the annual ISHOW Bootcamp in the winter to receive an extensive and customized design and engineering review by experts curated to guide them as they scale to market. They will also receive design services to support their product development. They become part of the ISHOW alumni network, an international community of hardware innovators and stakeholders with exclusive access to experts and resources.
The ASME ISHOW Africa virtual event will be held June 10-12. Applications are due May 15 from social entrepreneurs in the Americas seeking consideration for ISHOW Americas, a virtual event scheduled for July 29-31. Three ventures selected at each event will join the ISHOW 2025 cohort.
ASME is grateful to its implementation partners around the globe, including The Lemelson Foundation for its continued support of the ISHOW and a multi-year strategic investment in ASME to support the hardware impact innovation system. Learn more about ISHOW’s global impact in this dynamic dashboard.
Perspectives on ASME ISHOW India:
“Through the vision and creativity of these talented entrepreneurs and the guidance of expert mentors, ASME ISHOW is transforming groundbreaking ideas into market-ready products that improve lives. This program is a key component of ASME’s support for the future of energy and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.”
By – Tom Costabile, ASME Executive Director/CEO
“Hard-tech innovators addressing urgent social and environmental challenges must be better equipped to overcome significant obstacles. We are dedicated to building on a decade of experience to ensure that social ventures realize their vision for a better world, for everyone.”
By – Iana Aranda, ASME Managing Director of Sustainability
“Telangana, known as the startup state of India, is at the forefront of creating and executing policies that promote innovation for the benefit of the people. Telangana has three specific and unique policies aimed at promoting innovation, social innovation and grassroots innovation.
The visions of the Telangana state and the ASME ISHOW align perfectly.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)’s mission is to advance innovation for the benefit of humanity, and the ASME ISHOW is a global accelerator of hardware-led social innovation. ISHOW supports entrepreneurs and ventures that have a positive social and environmental impact.
The ASME Foundation India’s work is grounded in grassroots innovation. The ASME Foundation India works to promote and create awareness about core engineering fields as well as to implement engineering innovations to improve the quality of life in rural India.”
By – Sri Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Special Chief Secretary
Department of Information Technology, Electronics & Communications (ITE&C) and Department of Industries & Commerce,Telangana Government
