HUMANOID ROBOT “SHALU”

If I say a humanoid robot like Sophia robot can be developed at home in free time as a hobby, Yes this is unbelievable but ture; amazing fact that a low budget homemade humanoid robot developed by Mr. Dinesh Patel, a Computer Science Teacher in Kendriya Vidyalaya, IIT Powai, Mumbai, India.

Yes; "Shalu" is a homemade humanoid robot with readily available materials available in a local market such as plastic, aluminum, cardboard, wood, etc. and titled as "First social humanoid Robot of the world able to speak 9 Indian and 38 foreign languages", comparable with the costly robots coming from big Robotics laboratories from world-wide. It took 03 years for Mr. Patel developed such a robot at home in his free scratch time.

Robot "Shalu" (अपनी RoboShalu) is an example of the inspiration of the Honourable Prime-Minister of India's dream mission "Digital India Mission", "Skill India Mission" and "Make in India Mission" based on passion, dedication, and hard work.

Shalu is capable of speaking 9 Indian languages (Hindi, Bhojpuri, Marathi, Bangla, Gujrati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Nepali) in addition to English along with 38 foreign languages.

Shalu has diverse set of capabilities to perform multiple tasks such as -

Face recognition, remembering person after meeting - She can remember a person after meeting and can recognize in the next meeting just like a human.

Identifying multiple common objects – She is capable of identifying many objects available around us such as a computer, laptop, TV, mobile, bottle, book, bus, etc.

Reading Current News- She can read out current daily news from different newspapers.

Reading Horoscope- Shalu can ready a daily horoscope based on the date of birth of the individual.

Weather Report – She can forecast the weather report for the next 10 days place-wise date-wise.

Math Problem solution – She is capable of understanding simple math questions as well as equations and answers such as Time-Speed-Distance, Simple/Compound Interest, equation calculation, LCM/GCF, Factors, Prime numbers, Armstrong numbers, etc.

Interesting facts of any number or date – She can tell some interesting facts about a number or a date.

Jokes – She can tell jokes on demand.

Guess the word – She can guess words by providing a few letters of the world.

Synonyms/Opposite – She is capable of telling synonyms and the opposite of an English word.

Answering the educational questions – She is capable of answering educational questions based on Physics, Chemistry, Maths, History, Geography, GK, etc. which usually students ask during their study in the classroom.

Lecture - She is capable of giving lectures and presentations in classrooms or seminars.

Social Talk – She can have a social casual talk on predefined contents like “Sophia” Robot. She can talk using Artificial Intelligence by understanding the meaning of the conversation.

Human behavior and gesture – She can demonstrate human behavior and gesture viz. Shaking hands, laughing, anger, and irritation.

How Shalu can be use in real life -

Robo Shalu is more capable to work as a teacher in the school as a "Robot Teacher" to answer the queries of students in the classroom as well as she can give a presentation on the specified topic. Where students must like to study from Robot and will be motivated towards the study by seeing that robot is answring to their question.

She can work as a Receptionist at different places for example airports, Schools, and many offices to answer the different queries based on their organization not only verbal even through email too. She is also capable of sending SMS.

She can be the companion of old age persons as well as young growing children.

Shalu as a motivational personality for young upcoming future scientist -

Robot Shalu may be an example for so many young, energetic, and passionate brains who can do better in the field of Robotics but are lagging with support and facilities in all manner. it becomes an example that Robotics Research can be done at home as a hobby in absence of sophisticated Robotics Laboratories.