Context

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has set up an Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technologies Park (ARTPARK).

About

What is ARTPARK?

• ARTPARK, is a unique not-for-profit foundation established by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru with support from AI Foundry in a public-private model.
• With seed funding of Rs. 170 Cr ($22mn) from Department of Science & Technology(DST), Govt. of India, under the National Mission on Inter-disciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), it will bring about collaborative consortium of partners from industry, academia and government bodies.
• This will lead to cutting edge innovations in terms of new technologies, standards, products, services and intellectual properties.

What ARTPARK will do?

• ARTPARK will develop AI & Robotics facilities to support technology innovations as well as capacity building through advanced skills training of students and professionals in these areas.
• Some of these facilities will be key enablers for whole new sets of technologies, products and services.
• DataSetu: It will develop DataSetu - that will enable confidentiality and privacy-preserving framework to share data and run analytics spurring the data-sharing ecosystem and create a data marketplace, boosting AI applications and solutions.
• BhashaSetu: One such service will be BhashaSetu - that will enable real-time Indic language translation, both of speech to speech and speech to text.
  • This will further unlock the economic potential of the country, and enable all Indian citizens to equitably participate in the economic progress, regardless of their language.

Significance of the development

• Promoting innovation: ARTPARK will promote technology innovations in AI (Artificial Intelligence) & Robotics
• Positive societal impact: The development will lead to societal impact by executing ambitious mission mode R&D projects in healthcare, education, mobility, infrastructure, agriculture, retail and cyber-security focusing on problems unique to India.
• Advanced kill development: This premier research translation park will help students and professionals in capacity building through advanced skills training.