Rashmi Robot

Rashmi is the world's first Hindi speaking and India's first realistic lip-syncing humanoid robot[1] which can speak four languages – English, Hindi, Bhojpuri and Marathi – developed by Ranjit Shrivastava, a 38-year-old programmer from Ranchi, India. Rashmi uses linguistic interpretation system, artificial intelligence and visual data to interact with people [2][3]. This Indian robot, Rashmi was build in two years of time and has earned positive remarks from many experts such as Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyaya, Associate Professor of IIT-Indian School of Mines.[2] The robot has many features besides the lip-syncing. Rashmi gives facial, lips, eyes and eyebrow expressions. She can move her neck.[4][5] Russia Today reports that the robot believes in god and has a spiritual side.[6].

Rashmi Robot


History

This robot was launched on 1 August 2018, 2 years after the start of its development. Its development started as a hobby when Shrivastava's son challenged him after seeing Rajnikant's Robot Movie to make something like that. Ranjit started to work on it after son's challenge without having any technical team or research lab.[7] After its launch, most of the media covered its news nationally as well as globally.

Events

In India's Got Talent

This robot appeared in India's Got Talent season 8 where she said Rajnikant is her ideal hero with whom she would like to work in films when asked by IGT judge Karan Johar.[8] [9]

As Red FM RJ

Rashmi was said to have obtained the title of being the first RJ robot. It started to work as Radio Jokey for Red FM from December 3, 2018. The robot hosted an “Ask Rashmi” segment where it replied to many listener’s queries on radio. Robot Rashmi also hosted a show with RJ Raunac aka Baua in the morning from 10 AM to 11 AM and 'Dilli ke kadak launde' RJ Kisna and Ashish in the evening 5 PM to 6 PM [10][11][12][13]

Later 93.5 RED FM got Mi Awards for Programming Innovation, Gold for the show- "Ask Rashmi". The show was hosted by RED FM’s Morning No.1 RJ Raunac and Robot Rashmi, the world’s first-ever Hindi speaking humanoid robot. The robot interacted with the callers and responded to their questions on topics like politics, environment, road safety etc.[14]

ISRO approached her for Mars Mission

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) approached Ranchi-based engineer Ranjeet Srivastava, who developed the world’s first multilingual social humanoid, Rashmi, to use it for India’s first manned mission in space, called Gaganyaan, in 2022. Two ISRO scientists, had met Srivastava and Rashmi in Ranchi with a list of questions and asked Srivastava to develop the existing robot with certain simulated features resembling human physiology[15][16]

As guest in engineering colleges

Rashmi was invited to IIT, Delhi in December, 2018.[17] Later Rashmi was invited in many engineering colleges as the guest of honour or chief guest including Government Engineering College, Amravati,[18] College of Engineering, Pune,[19] Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute Mumbai,[20] IIITDM Kanchieeuram and Don Bosco College of Engineering, Mumbai

Features

Robot has many features other than the lip-syncing. It gives facial, eye, lips, and eyebrow expressions and it can also move its neck[21] with its 6-axis neck movement. It can show 83 facial expressions.[22]. Rashmi can speak four languages - English, Hindi, Marathi and Bhojpuri.[2]

Rashmi works on four layers including Linguistic Interpretation, APIs and AI through which It interprets emotions of conversation also.[7][22] It has a camera built in her eyes with facial recognition, 3D Mapping and OCR through which she can work in kitchen one day.[7] She has also a functional hand with finger movement. Rashmi does not have legs at present.

Rashmi vs. Sophia

It was claimed that Rashmi is more advanced in functionality than the Sophia, humanoid robot from Hanson Robotics as Rashmi can talk in four languages while Sophia interacts in English only [22]. Rashmi is said to be an autonomous robot answering based on four layers including artificial intelligence[7] while Sophia is based on computer program ELIZA[22] which is a script-based platform. Rashmi was made by a single person while Sophia is a team project. As well, Dainik Jagran reports that Rashmi understands human emotions like anger and happiness.[22]

References
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  6. "World's first Hindi humanoid showcases spiritual side (VIDEO)". RT International. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw342EeTMOg
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  22. "सऊदी अरब की सोफिया और दिल्‍ली की रश्‍मि के बीच दिलचस्‍प है यह मुकाबला". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 2019-11-25.
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