Fab Lab 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 by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), Government of India and the Department of Electronics and IT (DE&IT), Government of Odisha.
Fab Lab 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.
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 Fab Lab Program for establishing a Fabrication Laboratory in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.