By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Dec. 24: ‘Yantrika’, the human-shaped and advanced robot that serves the visitor coming to meet it, has been put on the international online robot exhibition from Nepal.
The Robot was developed by a team led by Engineer Roshan Pandey, faculty of technology of Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST).
The exhibition, titled Smart Maker Festival 2020, is being jointly organised by Smart Society of Canada, Business Upside, USA and IEM America Corporation from December 5.
We have developed the highly-advanced Robot, which is one of its kind in Nepal and it looks like a lady,” said Roshan Pandey, Engineer and programme chief of Satellite Ground Station Centre at NAST.
The best innovative technologies from America, Canada, Germany, India, UK, among other countries, are being displayed in the exhibition.
The exhibition will continue till December end, he said.
The robot, based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with deep machine learning method, a part of AI, can identify the mask wearing people from the ones who aren’t wearing.
In addition to giving the latter masks and sanitisers, it measures their body-temperature.
Engineer Pandey said that the main objective of that technology was to disseminate information regarding wearing mask, using sanitizer, among other things, to the general public.