FabLab Bhubaneswar has been established by the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in its new state of the art building STPI Elite at Gothapatna, Bhubaneswar. The total outlay for the FabLab is Rs.300 lakhs with equal contribution of funds by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), Government of India and the Department of Electronics and IT (DE&IT), Government of Odisha. The lab occupies a dedicated space of about 1,500 sft. in the 1st floor of the building.

FabLab is a technical prototyping platform for learning, innovation and invention: a place to play, to create, to learn, to mentor and to invent for local entrepreneurs. It could be described as a sophisticated medium scale workshop for digital fabrication empowering users to design and build smart devices tailored to specific local or personal needs.

The FabLab is connected to a network of more than 100 similar labs of different sizes and capacities spread across 30 countries and 24 different time zones across the globe. Therefore, it connects the local entrepreneurs and makers to a global community of learners, educators, technologists, researchers and innovators thereby seamlessly sharing knowledge, skill and best practices. Since all FabLabs share common tools and processes, the global network is indeed a distributed laboratory for research and invention.

STPI signed an agreement in June 2018 with Fab Foundation, a US non-profit organization that emerged (in 2009) from MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms FabLab Program for establishing a Fabrication Laboratory in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.