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Inclusive AI and Robotics for billions
Artificial Intelligence will completely redefine our society & businesses, adding $15.7 trillion in new economic value globally by 2035 (PWC Research). However, gains from this major revolution in AI might be unequally distributed to a chosen few - if the current path of AI technology evolution continues. The developing world, where more than 6 billion of the global population lives, might miss the impact of this major revolution.
ARTPARK (AI & Robotics Technology Park) is committed to leveraging AI & Robotics in a mission-driven model to bring a better quality of life & access to resources for these billions. Through open collaboration and inclusive development, we believe we can make a huge difference to our collective trajectory.
Our vision is to create a better world with inclusive and equitable access to AI & Robotics via Open Tools, Databanks, Standards, IP, Technologies, and path-breaking companies.
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 for 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.
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 emotive robotic nurses such as "Asha" to transport healthcare professionals' skills 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.
Akashmarg
Drone Skyways, roads in the skies for autonomous drones, just like we have roads on the ground.We are building the open standards for such drone-skyways.
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 currently incubated at the 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 by AI foundry in a 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 the role of a nodal department for organizing, 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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Our thoughts and musings
November 18, 2020What is your #Asha4ARTPARK ? It’s 2020 - the year that will be known as year of COVID19. While there have been incredible advances in Artificial intelligence in terms of human level performance in vision and speech, they have been largely confined to the digital world. But to bring AI &...Collaboration is the future of competition
We are creating an "idea to impact innovation engine" globally to help solve societal problems with AI & Robotics, especially looking at the developing world. These are tough and massive problems and for them, we need to bring together global universities, Industry players, startups, AI research parks and labs, Global VCs, Investors and AI ecosystem to come together. We are open and collaborative, please reach out to us.
We are hiring the best
It takes inspired people to create the future that we are dreaming of. We are hiring exceptional talent in AI & Robotics from around the globe. We are looking for AI & Robotics researchers, engineers, students, practitioners, entrepreneurs and evangelists - who share the vision of contributing to this inflexion point of the AI & Robotics revolution.
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