Mumbai-based Salaam Bombay Foundation is introducing robotics to underprivileged children across India

Many of us are fascinated by science fiction pop-culture. Be it movies like Star Wars and Star Trek or Marvel and DC characters, we all have grown up watching them. And in the process, we loved the futuristic plot lines that were riddled with subjects like artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, quantum physics, and many more, that explained the existence of the universe. While many are fortunate to pursue such technical subjects in real life, it remains a distant dream for children from lower economic backgrounds. Fourteen-year-old Ravi Patel from Pune is one of them, whose father couldn't support his dreams to get him a better education, as he earns a meagre Rs 15,000 salary to take care of his entire family.