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Robotics In The Years Ahead – The India Story - CXOtoday.com
With recent developments in AI, we are seeing the advent of intelligent robots that can perform tasks similar to that of a human being. The acceptance, however, will be a gradual process before robots address real-life issues, alongside with human beings. Though India is not yet self-sufficient to develop or manufacture complex and sophisticated robotic system, however, due to the availability of 3D printers and opens source development platforms like ROS, it has brought-in significant changes to the ability of Indian researchers to come-up with robotic solution for specific problems in the day to day life. It is absolutely true that technology like robotics will revolutionise the human employment.
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Xerox Tech Adds Analytics to Video Capture -- THE Journal
TutorSpace, as it has been named by multimedia analytics scientists at Xerox Research Centre India, is intended to turn instructional videos into "next-generation" textbooks. As Om Deshmuk, a Xerox senior research scientist in multimedia analytics, explained in a video of the project, right now, the amount of instructional content available in video form online can be overwhelming to students. Through machine learning TutorSpace also makes it possible to find content tailored to a student's learning patterns. Now Xerox has licensed TutorSpace to education technology company Impartus for use in its e-learning products.
The man who manages your customer in the mobile world
As a leading technologist, Abinash has a vision that Indians can build great product companies provided the government and telecom operators figure out a way to offer free internet for students. AT: It pains me that we have technology focused on selling retail products to consumers. That said, India has the engineering skills to build technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence. If the product is driven at large corporate then the founder must have great marketing skills.
DBS' mobile-only bank: Open account in a cafe, talk to Virtual Assistant
While most banks are offering banking facilities through mobile, DBS has said digibank has some unique features. Wherever they are, whatever their need, digibank customers can converse with digibank's AI-powered virtual assistant to get their queries answered or banking transactions performed. Because the virtual assistant understands natural language and has learning ability, it is able to respond in real-time. Most bank customers receive One-Time Passwords (OTPs) via SMS, and then typing codes into pages to authorise their mobile banking transactions.
A Perspective on AI Research in India
India is a multilingual and multicultural country that came together less than a century ago. The artificial intelligence community, which gained in strength in the eighties, has had a major focus on research directed towards societal goals of bridging the linguistic and educational divide, and delivers the fruits of information technology to all people. In this article we look at a brief history followed by two examples of research aimed at crossing the language barriers.