Context:

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has set up an Artifi cial Intelligence and Robotics Technologies Park (ARTPARK).

ARTPARK

• ARTPARK aims to develop AI & Robotics facilities to support technology innovations as well as capacity building through advanced skills training of students and professionals in these areas.
• Some of these facilities will be key enablers for whole new sets of technologies, products and services.
• DataSetu: It will develop DataSetu – that will enable confi dentiality and privacy-preserving framework to share data and run analytics spurring the data-sharing ecosystem and create a data marketplace, boosting AI applications and solutions.
• BhashaSetu: One such service will be BhashaSetu – that will enable real-time Indic language translation, both of speech to speech and speech to text.
  • This will further unlock the economic potential of the country, and enable all Indian citizens to equitably participate in the economic progress, regardless of their language.

Signifi cance of the development

• Promoting innovation
• Positive societal impact
• Advanced skill development

ARTPARK, is a unique not-for-profi t foundation established by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru with support from AI Foundry in a public-private model.