Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- December 12, 2025
- Duration
- 22m
- Channel
- Best Place To Build
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Welcome to The Best Place to Build: Student Edition! A podcast about the students, brought to you by the students of IIT Madras. This series captures stories of curiosity, creativity, and courage from the campus that’s home to India’s brightest minds. Here, every idea has a place to grow— from dorm-room discussions to prototypes that could redefine the future of mobility. —- In this episode, join Vidhi as she takes you inside Avishkar Hyperloop, IIT Madras’ pioneering student team building the future of ultra-high-speed transportation. These students aren’t just exploring a bold idea. They are engineers, researchers, and innovators working on India’s most ambitious Hyperloop systems—technology that could one day enable travel at 1200 km/h inside near-vacuum tubes. From magnetic levitation and pod design to vacuum systems, infrastructure models, and safety engineering, every part of their Hyperloop research is driven by student innovation and built on campus. A true testament to how far imagination, teamwork, and engineering excellence can go when students take the lead. ✨ Topics Covered:
- How Hyperloop works (and why it could reach 1200 km/h)
- Inside IIT Madras’ Akar Hyperloop labs & test setups
- Engineering challenges of building a Hyperloop system
- Near-vacuum tubes, levitation, and pod safety explained
- India’s role in the global Hyperloop landscape
- Student-led DeepTech innovation at IIT Madras
Chapters: 00:20 Welcome to The Best Place to Build: Student Edition 02:10 Introducing Avishkar Hyperloop, IIT Madras 05:15 What competitions does Team Avishkar Hyperloop participate in? 08:30 Challenging the sceptical views towards Hyperloop 11:30 Current focus areas/developments in Hyperloop India? 15:00 Akar’s approach to scalable Hyperloop prototypes 18:45 Updates on the Hyperloop infrastructure 21:00 Closing thoughts & reflections on the future of Hyperloop in India
SPEAKERS
Vidhi
host
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Best Place To Build, featuring Vidhi, Can India lead the Hyperloop race? | BP2B: Student Edition! Ep.04 explores iIT Madras students push Hyperloop prototypes toward scalable Indian reality Avishkar Hyperloop (IIT Madras) presents itself as both a research and competition team, evolving from SpaceX-era Hyperloop contests to strong showings at European Hyperloop Week and an India-based Global Hyperloop Competition they helped initiate.
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