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AI tools and learning · INDIA

Raul John Aju

Built AI tools and spoke at a UN-organised AI and children’s safety discussion.

16 in the 28 February 2026 interview

Kerala · India

Raul John Aju at a computer, in the UN News interview
Raul John Aju at a computer, in the UN News interview
Image source ↗ · © Raul John Aju, via UN News
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BEHIND THE RESULT

The documented story

A UN News interview, reproduced by Global Issues in February 2026, introduced Raul John Aju as a 16-year-old from Kochi. It traced his interest from video editing to artificial intelligence and described MeBot, a robot he built as a school project at 12.

Building comes with questions

The interview also discussed his AI venture and participation in a UN-organised panel about AI and children’s safety during the India AI Summit in New Delhi. An interview records what was reported and said; it is not an independent audit of a tool’s reliability. We do not infer product effectiveness, government endorsement or verified user reach from it.

A spark to explore

An AI project needs more than an impressive demonstration. What information does it use? When could it be wrong? Who checks its answer? These are useful questions for a beginner as well as an experienced builder. They are our reading prompts, not quotations or promises from Raul.

Source-based story · the activities are prompts for readers.

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The achievement, in context.

Built AI tools and spoke at a UN-organised AI and children’s safety discussion.

Built AI tools and spoke at a UN-organised AI and children’s safety discussion.

2026-02-28 · Supporting source ↗

Sources you can explore.

UN News via Global Issues · 28 February 2026 ↗UN News interview, syndicated copy

Original source ↗

Another spark to discover.

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Pranet Khetan on the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow stage with his winner's trophy and certificateAI & assistive technology

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Pranet Khetan

Built Paraspeak, an AI device that converts dysarthric speech into clear speech, including Hindi, creating a custom Hindi dysarthric-speech dataset; one of four national winners of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2025 and first prize at the YUVAi Global Youth Challenge 2026.

16 when reported in November 2025

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Arnav Anupriya Maharshi receiving the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar citation from President Droupadi MurmuAI rehabilitation technology

Maharashtra · India

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Aurangabad innovator, 17, who after a 2022 road accident left him paralysed on his right side and two years of physiotherapy, built a patented wrist-worn gross-motor rehabilitation device and FAIR Chance, an AI hand/finger-rehab app for phones and laptops aimed at rural and low-income patients; PMRBP 2025, Science and Technology. Techfest IIT Bombay 2024 and Harvard Venture TECH Summer 2025 details are single-report and attributed.

Aged 17 at the award (December 2025)

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