IIT alumni's companion robot-making startup raises $2 mn
Mumbai-based companion robot-making startup Emotix has raised $2 million from IDG Ventures India and YourNest. Emotix makes an "emotionally intelligent" companion robot called 'Miko' which can chat with children, answer questions and is also loaded with games and quizzes. Emotix was founded in 2014 by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay alumni Prashant Iyengar, Sneh Vaswani, and Chintan Raikar.