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Meet the 6th-graders from Bengaluru who've built a virtual voice assistant

Mrinal Jain and Shreyas Katuri recently participated in a hackathon organised by Indonesia's GO-JEK

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Shreyas Katuri (left) and Mrinal Jain

Nikita Puri
In Mrinal Jain’s room, his mother holds up what looks like an open electrical circuit on wheels. “This was a Bluetooth-enabled car I programmed in a way that you could control it using a cell phone,” says Jain as he gazes at the piece lovingly. Now dysfunctional, wires sprout out from it in all directions. 

“I am going to modify it in such a way that it’ll move on a black line drawn on the floor,” he says. Jain’s interest in robotics is only parallel to his new-found love for coding, a passion he shares with his friend and classmate,