Mihir Garimella: FlyBot
FlyBot — fruit-fly-inspired obstacle-dodging drone.
A kitchen full of fruit flies evading swats gave Garimella his model: very low-resolution but very fast vision. His palm-sized drone reacts to a looming obstacle by moving sideways then up, avoiding collisions without heavy computing, for search-and-rescue spaces people cannot enter. He won the 13–14 category and the first Computer Science Award at the Google Science Fair 2014.
IP note
No public IP record for the drone; now CEO of Actively AI.
Recognition
Google Science Fair 2014 category winner and Computer Science Award.
What this means for a student inventor in India
[Editor: 120–200 words connecting this story to the Indian route — Section 6 (any true inventor may apply), provisional vs complete specification, disclosure at fairs (Section 31), renewals, and who owns what when a school is involved. Link to the relevant MYCrave guide.]
Related young innovators
- Harshwardhan Zala — Drone that detects and maps buried landmines (Aerobotics7, EAGLE A7)
- Chinmayi Goyal — MyoAssist: User-Driven AI Exoskeleton Control
- Akash Ragam and Tanay Chitlur — IntelliCane: An AI Navigation Cane for Visual Impairment
Sources
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