Arsh Shah Dilbagi

Arsh Shah Dilbagi
Arsh Shah Dilbagi at TEDxGateway 2014, Mumbai
Born	(1998-03-26) March 26, 1998 Panipat, Haryana, India
Other names	Robo
Citizenship	Indian
Education	DAV Public School, Thermal Colony, Panipat (2001-2015)
Occupation	Founder and CEO, Arido | Founder, Saroid
Years active	2011-present
Known for	TALK: An Assistive Device that converts Breath into Speech
Height	6'
Website	robo.im

Arsh Shah Dilbagi (born March 26, 1998) is an Indian entrepreneur, roboticist and inventor. He is popularly known as Robo.^[1] He is the Founder and CEO of Arido^[2] and the Founder of Saroid, about which very little has been made public. Though honored two times by consecutive Presidents of India,^[3] he was globally recognised at the age of 16 after his invention 'TALK' won the Voter's Choice Award at Google Science Fair 2014 at Mountain View, California, USA.^[4] He also won four awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2015 held at Pittsburgh, USA.^[5]

Career

In April 2015, Dilbagi was appointed as the Brand Ambassador of India STEM Foundation,^[6] an NGO that promotes STEM education through robotics and hosts competitions like World Robot Olympiad and FIRST LEGO League in India.

In August 2015, Dilbagi established an exhibit housing a quadruped robot dog, which he calls CLUMSY, at the Science and Innovation Museum at President's Estate, New Delhi. The exhibit is named 'A Day in the Life of a Robot Dog - CLUMSY'.^[7] It attracts thousands of visitors every week and inspires them to pursue robotics. The museum was inaugurated by the President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee on August 5, 2015.^[8]

In a September 11, 2015 interview^[9] Dilbagi said that he had always believed in innovation for a cause and solving problems which had hindered humanity. He believes technology is the essence of life. According to Dilbagi, personal robots will render personal computers redundant in the future.^[10]

Notable inventions and projects

TALK

TALK: An Assistive Device to convert Breath into Speech

An Assistive Device to convert breath into speech.^[11][12][13] It is a patent-pending innovative technology which uses the variations in person's breath help him either dictate letters which are further combined and synthesised as sentences or speak-out specific commands/phrases depending on the mode selected.^[14][15]

CLUMSY

A quadruped robot with 16 Servo Motors and an IMU Unit.^[16][17] It is a research project with an aim to develop an Artificially Intelligent Neural Network to induce self-learning of walking in a quadruped robot. CLUMSY is installed at the Science and Innovation Museum - ‘Navachara’ at President's Estate, New Delhi, India.^[7][14][18]

Bitruder

A Non-Motorized Dual Extruder for Rep-Rap 3D Printers to enable such printers to simultaneously print with two cartridges.^[19] It uses only the basic components of a Prusa i3 Rep-Rap 3D Printer without the need of any additional hardware.^[14][20]

VIKI

Offline voice controlled home automation system. VIKI stands for Virtual Interactive Kinect Intelligence.^[21] It understands speech commands and control the appliances connected to it.^[14][22]

WP-Thumbnail

Realtime screenshot generating plugin for WordPress. It is a simple WordPress Plugin that allows the user to use a short-code to generate dynamic screenshot of webpages and save a link of the same in posts as well as take a real-time snapshot of the served webpage.^[13][14]

Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)

A working prototype of a semi-autonomous heavy duty robotic vehicle capable of operating over a wide variety of terrains.^[23] The cognitive process for maneuvering the vehicle was managed through sensory inputs such as wireless web-camera. It could be loaded with an array of sensors capable of performing need based tasks.^[14][24]

BIPED

Static locomotion bipedal robot with an aim of developing a walking platform capable of locomotion with 6 independent servos.^[14][25]

Awards and honors

2011

• FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Food Factor Challenge: Best Robot Run Trophy in FLL 2011, Food Factor Challenge held at Chandigarh, India.^[26]
• Indian Robot Olympiad (IRO): First Award in North Zone, India in Primary School Category at IRO 2011 held at Noida, India.^[27]
• INSPIRE Award: Honored by President of India Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil on winning the 1st Position in North Zone, India for project ‘Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)’ in INSPIRE National Science Competition held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.^[28]

Arsh Shah Dilbagi at Google Science Fair, Mountain View, California

2014

• Google Science Fair (GSF): Google Science Fair Voter’s Choice Award, conferred by Google Inc. at GSF 2014, held at Google HQ., Mountain View, California, USA.^{[29][30][31][32][33][34]}
• Intel Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science (IRIS) Fair: Grand Award with a Gold Medal at Intel IRIS Fair 2014 held at Science City, Ahmedabad, India, organized by Intel India and Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. Selected for Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2015.^[35][36][37]
• Amul Outstanding Award: The Outstanding Award in Special Awards Category at Intel IRIS Fair 2014 held at Science City, Ahmedabad, India.^[35][36][37]
• Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST) Award: The Merit Award, conferred by GUJCOST in Special Awards Category at Intel IRIS Fair 2014 held at Science City, Ahmedabad, India.^[35][36][37]
• Manthan Award: Special Mention Award in the E-Inclusion & Accessibility category at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India.^[38][39]
• i3 – India Innovation Initiative: Second Award at i3 - Indian Innovation Initiative 2014 held at Noida Expo Mart, Noida, India, organized by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India; Confederation of Indian Industries (CII); All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and i4c - Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovations Centre.^[40][41][42]

2015

• Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF): Third Grand Award in the Embedded Systems Category, conferred by Intel and Society for Science at Intel ISEF 2015 held at Pittsburgh, USA.^{[5][43][44][45][46]}
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA): First Award in Special Awards Category at Intel ISEF 2015 held at Pittsburgh, USA.^[47][48]
• Patent and Trademark Office Society (PTOS): First Award in Special Awards Category at Intel ISEF 2015 held at Pittsburgh, USA.^[48][49]
• American Psychological Association (APA): Third Award in Special Awards Category at Intel ISEF 2015 held at Pittsburgh, USA.^[48][50]
• India STEM Foundation: Appointed as Brand Ambassador of Indian STEM Foundation, an NGO that promotes STEM education in India through robotics and hosts competitions including World Robot Olympiad and FIRST LEGO League in India.^[6]
• Louis Philippe Innovation Ad Campaign: Featured in Louis Philippe Gateway of Excellence Innovation Advertisement Campaign shot at TEDxGateway 2014, Mumbai, India.^[51]

References

External links

• Official Website
• Official Blog
• Arido
• Saroid