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India's first Robotics lab for Engineering Students to be setup at Hyderabad

A first of its kind of initiative in India by any Engineering College for hands-on education on Robots for Engineering College students

Hyderabad: Students always look for a break from the rigid discipline of campus life and study schedules. And they look forward to something that is beyond their curriculum yet it is useful in their studies and career building. To add that excitement in science and mathematics, Hyderabad based VIF College of Engineering & Technology and VIF Institute of Computer Sciences has embarked on a new kind of initiative to set up a ‘Robotics Lab’, a first of its kind of an initiative in India by any Engineering College (barring IITs). The lab will be set up at its environment friendly college premises at Gandipet. The lab will have remote control robots, programmable robots, automatic guided vehicles and high tension generators.

The objective of this unique centre is to provide an opportunity for Engineering students and novices; to introduce more fun based elements in education, besides introducing certain high technology concepts such as sensors, motors and programming; to build on the innate interest in many students to build robots; to introduce them to basic skills in engineering and electronics and to introduce a programmable modular robotics system as a design conceptualisation and rapid prototyping tool for the design, fashion and engineering communities.

The lab will be set up in collaboration with Hyderabad Science Society, a Hyderabad based pioneering voluntary organisation with R&D activities backed by laboratory facilities which has introduced robots, Walrobo-I for the first time in the country 20 years ago. The remote controlled robot was developed indigenously for the first time during 1979-80 by Hyderabad Science Society. The first two phases of the lab to be completed by the end of this year, the lab will be readied in three phases under aegis of Mr. Sanjar Ali Khan, a scientist who is also the director of Hyderabad Science Society and who was instrumental in establishing International interest in Science and Technology through ‘Hyderabad Science Society’ and Ecole Technique Sainte - Croix (Switzerland) for joint development of Robotics and Factory Automation. He earlier served Regional Research Laboratory and CSIR.

Mr. Sanjar Ali Khan has great reputation for significantly contributing to sensor technology as an Editor of ‘Sensing Devices’, a newsletter sponsored by the Government of India, Department of Science & Technology, Electronic Guide Stick for blind persons, Automatic Guided Wheel Chair for the first time in India. He is a visiting scientist to many institutes in India and abroad and notable among them is Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

According to Mr. Sanjar Ali Khan, the Robotics Lab will be set up in three phases. In first phase the basic lab and infrastructure will be readied. In second phase students must be in a position to take up small projects. In third stage they will be able to design and fabricate actual robots. The total lab will be ready by the end of March 2003. Hyderabad Science Society will set up the lab, maintain and train the staff of the college.

The benefits Engineering students accrue, according to Dr. L. Hanumantha Rao, Principal of VIF Group of Educational Institutions, are enormous, with a potential for changing the basic mode of education in all spheres from language arts to science. It will give students a chance to create technologies and run activities. According to him the basic idea is to use the excitement of robotics to induce engineering students to better performance levels in their engineering studies. This is a major initiative for reaching robotics concepts to VIF Engineering students in particular and students from other colleges in twin cities in general.

Robotics are used for mass production throughout the world by nations such as USA, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and others. Unfortunately there aren’t many robots in India. Barring Maruti and couple of other, there are hardly any industries that use robots in India. The early exposure of engineering students to such wonderful devices will immensely help in development of career of an engineering graduate.

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