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In a step towards modernising India's mining industry, the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad have launched a state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence (CoE) aimed at ushering in automation, cyber-physical systems, and digital technologies into mining operations.

According to a press release, the FTBI-TEXMiN Mining Cyber-Physical Systems Centre, jointly inaugurated on Friday at the NIT Rourkela campus, is supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DoST).

The initiative is a collaboration between NIT-R's Foundation for Technology and Business Incubation (FTBI) and TEXMiN, a not-for-profit tech ...