College students of Nationwide Vidyalaya Senior Secondary College interacting with ‘Vidya’, a robotic instructing assistant in Kumbakonam.
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Retired laptop science instructor Eswari Jayaraman, 63, based mostly in Kumbakonam, has designed “Vidya”, an academic robotic powered by synthetic intelligence (AI) that she hopes will rework the classroom expertise for lecturers and college students within the coming years.
P. Vaidyanathan, managing trustee, Kanchi Jagadguru Instructional Belief (KJET), unveiled the robotic assistant within the presence of Chandrasekhara Moopanar, chairman, on the Nationwide Vidyalaya Senior Secondary College in Kumbakonam on Friday.
“Vidya” was created with technical help by DataCorp Engineering and Enterprise Options beneath the auspices of IIT-M Pravartak, the analysis and innovation hub of the Indian Institute of Know-how – Madras, and monetary assist from Built-in Enterprises.
“I used to be a schoolteacher for over 30 years and spent most of my profession studying new laptop languages. I’m obsessive about expertise and all the time needed to make use of it to make schooling extra attention-grabbing,” Ms. Jayaraman informed The Hindu.
Utilizing Giant Language Mannequin (LLM), Voice to Textual content, and Textual content to Voice AI expertise, “Vidya”, made at a price of roughly ₹6 lakh, is provided to cope with a minimum of 60 ‘use instances’ or duties, for lecturers and college students, stated Ms. Jayaraman.
“It’s going to help lecturers in conducting courses and might work together with college students based mostly on the directions given to it. Vidya may also streamline administrative jobs,” she stated.
Ms. Jayaraman has been engaged on two prototypes (‘Vidya’ and ‘Vidya Mini’) since 2020 and was helped by IIT-M within the robotics part. Each robots are outfitted to perform with all the college boards in India, she stated. “For a similar query, ‘Vidya’, with the assistance of AI, can customise its solutions in line with the age of the scholar,” she stated.
Ms. Jayaraman is planning to launch a Tamil model of ‘Vidya’ quickly, and hopes to make it extra inexpensive for presidency faculties.
