What are we building now?
We believe in moving forward the key technology milestones in AI & Robotics in a "Mission Mode" model. We look for the intersection of societal scale impact, economic sustainability and technology challenges in choosing our problems.
Avtaar Robotics
Avtaar robotics allows robotic nurses such as "Asha" to transport healthcare professionals' skills along with emotions across the globe. Connecting avatar robots to remote human workflows with 5G & Wifi 6 can create jobs in the developing world.
Bhasha Setu
Bhasha Setu will allow privacy-preserving collection, sharing and analytics of language data to drive AI/ML research for usage of Indic languages (including Kannada) in natural human interactions in AI, robotics, autonomous systems and their various applications in healthcare, retail, governance, education, mobility, agriculture, smart cities and others.
Drone skyways
Akashmarg- Just like we have roads on the ground, we need roads in the skies for autonomous operation of drones. We are building the open standards for such drone-skyways.
Remote learning labs
Project Eklavya- Millions of school kids in India don't have access to good schools and labs. Remote labs enabled by robotics can create equal access to learning for millions of young learners in the developing world.
Our Charter
Creating an inclusive AI & Robotics future could be a long and uncertain journey.
Our charter guides us in this quest and is our true "North Star".
1. Lower Cost of Living with AI & Robotics
Leapfrog solutions to create impact for billion+ people for the quality of life
We believe that leapfrog solutions will emerge by focusing on reducing the cost of living radically for billions.
Enabling a lower cost of living will make possible a welfare state which provides a safety net that can truly scale to all its citizens. For example, if we can reduce the cost of basic living to a fraction, say less than $ 100/m, universal basic income is a real possibility. We already see a path to reduce the cost of diagnostics by 1/10th with leapfrog diagnostic solutions leveraging AI & Robotics in healthcare. Such breakthroughs could also open up new markets, worth up to $6tn in developing nations. At ARTPARK, we are aggressively working on turning ideas like these into sustainable change agents via open IP, standards, foundations, for-profit companies and unique policy formulation.
2. Better quality of life for everyone
Creating opportunities of growth for everyone
We believe that the path to an equal man-machine society is possible by enabling AI & Robotics tools and technologies that can bring growth to the developing world.
This means creating new and better pathways to fulfilling work and enabling a large section of society to participate in it. Better growth for everyone could be foundational for creating inclusive and sustainable development.
3. Access to AI awareness, education and enablement
Inclusive growth and access to tools in AI & Robotics for everyone
By connecting AI rich clusters in the US, Canada, UK & EU with India, Middle East, Southeast Asia & Africa, it is possible to make AI & Robotics more accessible to larger populations.
India has a rich diversity of problem data, from healthcare to financial services to education to agriculture. AI & Robotics solutions built in India and tested with the largest pool of edge cases can create robust solutions. These solutions can be taken globally, including the developing world. It will go a long way in lowering the odds that the world will get dominated by an AI monopoly, which may or may not care about the future of humanity. It could also bring in a more diverse technology-driven world.
Our Team
We like to roll up our sleeves and help our research teams and entrepreneurs in building AI & Robotics technology, products, strategy, raising money, business development & anything else on their minds
Bharadwaj Amrutur
Research Head & Director
Dr. Bharadwaj Amrutur (Professor, IISc), Head of Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber physical systems (Stanford, IITB)
Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
ARTPARK Fellow Professor
(Professor, IISc), Convenor of Machine Learning lab, Bioinformatics.(UC Berkeley, IISc)
Dr. Debasish Ghose
ARTPARK Fellow Professor
(Professor, IISc), Guidance and control of autonomous systems (IISc)
Dr. Shalabh Bhatnagar
ARTPARK Fellow Professor
(Professor, IISc), Reinforcement Learning, autonomous systems, communication and wireless networks (IISc)
Dr. Suresh Sundaram
ARTPARK Fellow Professor
(Associate Professor, IISc), Intelligent flight control system
Autonomous System
Computer Vision and Robotics (IISc)
Subhashis Banerjee
Chief Investment Officer & Member Hub Governing Board
(Co-founder, COO, AI Foundry, Ex. Stan Chart PE, Sequoia Capital, Tishman speyer , IIMC, IITK)
Umakant Soni
Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder AI foundry, Advisor & Founding Partner pi Ventures, a $35m early stage fund for AI (India’s first & only AI focused fund). Sr. AI Advisor, Sweden India Business Council. India's nominated expert on GPAI (Global Partnership on AI ) for Innovation and commercialisation
Core values of ARTPARK
1. Inclusive in thinking
2. Collaborative in action
3. Strive for diversity
4. Empathy for both man and machine
5. Ethical in our approach
6. Dignity for everyone
Founding Partners
ARTPARK is an autonomous section-8, not-for-profit company, a joint initiative of IISc and AIfoundry, seed-funded by DST (Department of Science and Technology ) and GoK (Government of Karnataka). It is getting incubated at Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical
Systems at IISc.
Indian Institute of Science
Founded in 1909, IISc is the oldest research university in India. QS World University rankings ranked IISc second in the world in terms of citations per faculty. With more 2000+ PhD students, it has one of the largest AI & Robotics research clusters in India.
AI foundry
AI foundry is a venture studio building "idea to impact" AI innovation ecosystem for creating leapfrog companies for next 6bn people out of India. ARTPARK is initiated and supported Founded by AI foundry in Public-private partnership with IISc.
Department of Science and Technology
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India. It plays play the role of a nodal department for organising, coordinating and promoting Scientific and Technological activities in the country.
Government of Karnataka
Govt. of Karnataka is supporting ARTPARK with a seed grant as part of its initiative to grow a leading AI & Robotics cluster in Karnataka with a vision of Karnataka being the first "Data Swarna state".
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