PayPal has announced the launch of its newest Innovation Labs at the Chennai and Bangalore Tech centres. The lab is the first by PayPal in India and its third after the USA and Singapore. The lab will serve as a platform to promote innovation which is a core value for PayPal globally.
These Innovation Labs will support innovation across diverse fields including machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, data science, IoT, penetration testing, software defined radios and wireless communication, VR/AR, computer vision and basic robotics. The facility will also house a diverse range of hardware and gadgets for PayPal employees to experience and tinker. The equipment includes Raspberry Pi with full sensor kit, AlphaBot kit, IoT kit, Amazon Echo, AIY kit, Leap motion, 3D printer as well as Proxmark 3 Kit, HackRF One and Ubertooth One for computer security enthusiasts.
With a focus on three core areas – Productivity, Innovation, and Education, these facilities will serve as spaces to build and refine new and advanced technologies and will create a forum for employees to engage and ideate across a spectrum of themes.
These labs will also be integrated with some of PayPal’s on-going initiatives such as the PayPal Incubator, launched in 2013, with the objective of developing and nurturing the next generation of fintech startups.
