India is a land of improvements and in a latest improvement, a Computer Science teacher from Kendriya Vidyalaya on the Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay has developed a robotic that can converse 9 native languages and thirty-eight foreign languages.
Dinesh Patel is a teacher at Kendriya Vidyalaya at IIT Bombay and has developed a humanoid named “Shalu”. Shalu can converse regional languages which embody Hindi, Marathi, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam. Shalu resembles a girl and might converse like one. She is ready to converse thirty-eight foreign languages.
Dinesh Patel bought impressed by Rajanikanth’s Robot film and developed a humanoid robotic. It is just like Sophia which is developed by Hanson Robotics of Hong Kong. She can’t solely carry out many human gestures resembling shaking fingers but additionally smile and show human feelings like anger.
Dinesh Patel advised IANS, “Shalu has been developed utilizing waste supplies like plastic, cardboard, wooden, aluminium and so forth. It took three years to develop it and the expenditure was round Rs 50,000.” He added by saying that it’s a prototype and it might recognise somebody, memorise issues, reply questions associated to General Knowledge and Maths, and so forth
“Shalu can greet people, display emotions, read the newspaper, recite recipes and perform many other activities. This can be used as a teacher in schools and as a receptionist in offices too,” Patel added. Shalu has been made utilizing Plaster of Paris and could be made more nice with the assistance of a masks. The developer thinks that Shalu generally is a excellent companion for workplace work and every day family chores. “With more research and development in this area, humanoids can revolutionise our lifestyle forever”, says Patel.
Supratik Chakravarty, Professor within the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has appreciated the efforts from Dinesh Patel. He wrote a letter to him that stated “it’s actually nice improvement. Such a robotic can be utilized within the subject of schooling, leisure and a number of other different fields too. Shalu could be an inspiration for the next-gen scientists.”
