Indian-origin Scientists Invent 'Robo Brain' To Help Robots Gain Knowledge

Commanding a robot to do a defined task is nothing new, but letting a robot learn things on its own suprises most of us. Two Indian-origin researchers at Cornell University in New York have created a large computational system known as 'Robo Brain'. With the help of this giant robot brain, millions of machines across the globe can gain knowledge on human behaviour, language and mannerism.
‘Robo Brain’ extracts information available on the Internet with the help of computational system extracts. It can interpret natural language text, images and videos. This is how robots gain knowledge.

According to lead researcher Ashutosh Saxena, an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University in New York, "Our laptops and cell phones have access to all the information we want. If a robot encounters a situation it has not seen before, it can query Robo Brain in the cloud."

With the help of 'Robo Brain', a robot can connect images with videos and texts in order to identify objects that it is dealing with. This helps the wonder machine perform different action through out the day. For instance, if a robot sees a coffee mug then his 'Robo Brain' will run the image, connect it with the object in front of its eyes, inform it of what it is and how it is used.

Aditya Jami, a visiting researcher at Cornell, who designed the large-scale database for the brain, said that 'Robo Brain' will look like a gigantic, branching graph with abilities for multi-dimensional queries.
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