New Delhi, July 6 -- Bengaluru: Every morning, Jyotsna Patel sets out in Kachigam, a quiet coastal village in Daman, with her mobile phone, a wooden ruler and a cloth sheet. For 13 years she's worked as an ASHA worker, India's all-purpose rural health army, crossing dusty lanes to check on new mothers, track malaria outbreaks or ferry babies for vaccinations.

These days, her routine includes something newer and stranger: recording videos of newborn babies.

"Earlier we had to carry weighing scales and tapes, which was difficult. Now, we just carry the phone and it shows us the baby's weight. Even in small villages, we can do proper measurement easily," she says.

Patel is referring to Shishu Mapan, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool tr...