BANGALORE: An Engineering students in India now get a practical exposure, that matches with the International standards to their curriculum, as iCarnegie, powered by Carnegie Mellon University USA, globally leading institute in robotics, computer science and artificial intelligence, has tied up with Technophilia Systems Pvt Ltd, that deals in robotic education, to launch the first of its kind Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems Excellence (CRESE) for Indian engineering Universities and Colleges.Identifying a core need to offer practical trials that supplement with theoretical approach, CRESE was launched with the objective to offer live experiments, real time projects, extensive research and training that have not been done by Indian campuses before; thereby giving students a glimpse of real life challenges an engineer faces in industry when an idea is implemented to an application.It is set up as a training and research lab across Indian universities, students will get an exposure on taking up unique projects based on latest robotic applications rarely seen in India.Some of the projects students will develop that could benefit Indian core sectors are, Rubik’s cube solving robot —a robotic system which can solve a Rubik’s cube in less than two minutes. Similarly a Sudoku solving robot which can solve a Sudoku puzzle, Exo-Skeleton robot —a robotic suit which can be worn by a human for lifting extremely heavy weights which cannot be usually lifted by a human, Haptic Science based robots —a robot which follows human body movements and satellite—GPS controlled robot —a robot which can be controlled from anywhere in the world using GPS or satellite.Similarly robots that can be controlled by speech commands, walking robots, flying robots (Unmanned aerial systems), robotic platform which can fly up to 50 meters in height, robotic Snake which can also survive under water, robots which can write, draw and sketch like humans do and many others.As part of the phase I of launch, 25 engineering institutes across India have signed up for CRESE amongst which the three of them are from Bangalore and Mangalore.The event saw the MOU signing taken place with various dignitaries from reputed colleges like Dr R P Reddy, Principal, Reva Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore, Dr K Udaya Kumar, Principal, B N M Institute of Technology, Bangalore and Dr Rio D’Souza, Dean - Academics, St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore.The association aims to target another seventy - five institutes to complete the target of reaching hundred CRESE partner colleges by July 2012 and the students looks pretty excited.Ron Shell, VP, iCarnegie Inc. during the conference said, “At iCarnegie we are very familiar with the educational system in India through our various collaborations with local universities.The Indian students we have taught over the years have been some of the most motivated and driven we have seen; they are particularly adaptable at using technology and have been raised by their parents to employ education as a way to personally develop and succeed.”“Technophilia Systems in India proved to us that they have course materials that could help train students in both Embedded Systems and Robotics,” said Fedorek, Director, iCarnegiInc.
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