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Meet Maira, Hyderabad’s very own ‘talking robot’ waiter

The robot at the restaurant Chitti in Town was developed by a city-based startup

Hyderabad: The robot says hello, takes you to your table and will chat with you about anything under the sun while you figure out what to eat. If you are a lady, it turns its voice into a woman and it modulates its voice to a child if a kid is speaking to it.

The interactive robot named Maira (Multi-Sensing Intelligent Robotic Assistant) was manufactured in by a city-based company Vistan NextGen. Unlike Robo Kitchen in Jubilee Hills that boasts only line robots that deliver the order at the table moving on magnetic strips, patrons at Chitti in Town can talk to the robot which uses six voice modulations in its interactions. The robot is programmed to see, feel and hear its surroundings so it can rapidly adapt to whatever environment it is placed in.

“The robot can shake hands, move its head and entertain the customers as they wait for their order to arrive. It uses facial recognition to do this. So if a customer stands in front of the robot and says hello, it will reply and start a conversation with them. This is the first-of-its-kind robot in India. Apart from this, we have also provided the restaurant with two autonomous robots that perform actions based on their perception of the environment,” explains Rama Raju Singam, founder, Vistan NextGen.

“The robot can shake hands, move its head and entertain the customers as they wait for their order to arrive. It uses facial recognition to do this. So if a customer stands in front of the robot and says hello, it will reply and start a conversation with them. This is the first-of-its-kind robot in India. Apart from this, we have also provided the restaurant with two autonomous robots that perform actions based on their perception of the environment,” explains Rama Raju Singam, founder, Vistan NextGen.

According to him, the robot Maira is also programmed to respond to any name chosen for them and will respond to the commands. The company has received orders for more robots for similar concept restaurants that will be opened in Warangal, Khammam and Karimnagar in the near future.

The multicuisine restaurant, Chitti in Town is owned by Ganesh Reddy, Teja Kiran Srikanth and Padmaja Goud. “The planning for the conceptual restaurant took over eight months. The pandemic showed us the advantages of launching a restaurant with interactive robots. Apart from the novelty of the robots, they also promise minimal human contact to diners,” says Teja Kiran, one of the partners at the restaurant.

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Vistan NextGen Brings the New Wave of Automation Through Flunkey Robots

 As the new wave of automation kick started and with COVID accelerating the digital adoption and automation, Vistan has stepped into a new phase of designing, customising, manufacturing and supply of robots to boost social, service and industrial production. Vistan NextGen, started by Rama Raju Singam, a UK returned entrepreneur cum roboticist and technology expert, is on a mission to create a working atmosphere wherein robots and humans can cowork and coexist under the same roof. The company, which is the brain child of Singam, is on a verge to introduce a series of robots in the next one year, custom designed not only for varied social, service and industrial work, but also for numerous consumer interface tasks. Amongst the first set of robot the company has introduced Flunkey as a service robot for business and consumer interface. Flunkey Robots – Fully autonomous service bots revolutionizing the service sector. Vistan NextGen invented Flunkey with an idea to reduce human intervention in tedious and hectic tasks, ultimately helping the service sector drive in a smarter and safest way possible. 

As the frontline workers in every business and in particular those working in hospital and clinics, come in direct contact with customers are being exposed to major risk, Flunkey takes the higher responsibility of not only dealing with customers in a seamlessly but also guiding them the best possible way in the given working environment. Flunkey becomes the need of the hour in the current COVID scenario, as the purpose arises to nullify human interaction and social distancing becomes a norm, especially in the service sector. Variants of Flunkey Robots: • Healthcare Industry Sushruth Robot & Nightingale Robots – designed to primarily assist the patients stepping into the hospitals and clinics, Sushruth Robot helps in booking appointments, collecting consultation fees, sanitising customer’s hands and disinfecting body. All of these tasks performed in a couple of minutes while the appointment receipt is printed on the other hand, with zero intervention of receptionist at the hospital lobby. Nightingale Robot comes in the avatar of AI-enabled interactive solution with highly integrated contactless technology to track early symptoms of COVID-19. The robot guides the patients to the respective areas in the hospital for consultation and also helps in performing some of the preliminary tasks such as testing body temperature, heartbeat, respiratory rate, blood oxygen level etc. Healthcare Industry (COVID-19) Specials. • Flunkey Autopure: The robot constantly sanitizing the living areas and helps in keeping the surroundings safe and clean. Using autonomous UV based disinfection facility where difficult for human’s to reach. • Flunkey Covid-19 Steward: In order to mitigate the pathogen spread and protect healthcare workers and also to reduce the burden for patients, Flunkey Covid-19 Steward comes as a rescuer by undertaking the crucial tasks like supplying medicines and delivering food to the patients. Hotel & Restaurant Industry • Flunkey Bearer assists the customers end-to-end – from selecting the best dishes from the menu to displaying the special offers run by the restaurant, from closing the financial transaction to recording the customer feedback through an application seamlessly. Flunkey Steward is specially programmed to undertake the task of delivering pre-ordered food to the customers at the right table. Banking Industry • Flunkey Banking Assistant: The robot acts as a multi-task agent and helps the customers in filling the application forms from the digital menu, gives out information specific to exclusive offers, acts as a ekyc facilitator and also make special announcements from time to time during the banking hours. Educational Robots for Teaching Industry • Flunkey Vajra Acharya: The robot takes the learning experience to the next level with augmented reality, that helps students learn better as they see, visualize and experience things virtually. Announcing the launch of Vistan NextGen, Rama Raju Singam, Founder – Vistan NextGen said, “We are very excited to be part of the new phase of automation in India with the introduction of Flunkey robots. With Make in India philosophy, we have decided to conceptualise, design and manufacture robots within India and in the process of building the entire ecosystem, we are training our vendors to design specialised circuit boards and also upskilling our workforce through learning platforms.” “Our robots are equipped to perform more complex and sensitive jobs seamlessly and can also outperform humans in terms of time, accuracy and efforts,” he further added. Combining the best of cognitive technologies to make the idea better, Vistan NextGen team builds the prototype robot and then it is tested and experimented with various use cases on a day-to-day basis. The research team, comprising of members from global offices, constantly engage in R&D operations to custom design products suited for various industries. Currently, Vistan NextGen has its production base in Hyderabad to cater to the domestic market and has strong plans to export the robots to other countries in the coming few months. About Vistan NextGen Vistan NextGen, a Hyderabad based start-up, has forayed into developing India’s first indigenously manufactured robots. The company, which is the brain child of Rama Raju Singam, a UK returned entrepreneur cum roboticist and technology expert, is on a verge to introduce a series of robots in the next one year, custom designed not only for varied social, service and industrial work, but also for numerous consumer interface tasks. For more information, log on to www.vistannextgen.com To View the Image Click on the Link Below: Mr. Rama Raju Singam, Founder, Vistan NextGen PWR PWR

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Vistan NextGen: Building self-reliance in robot manufacturing

Inspired by Aatmanirbhar Bharat, Vistan NextGen aims to bring advanced tech to Indian market while training local talent

Hyderabad-based Vistan NextGen aims to make robots a familiar thing in services, industrial and social settings. The company, founded and set up by Rama Raju Singam and his wife Manjula Singam, was inspired by the nationalism going on in the country— to be self-sufficient. “We had a strong background in technology in the UK and European regions and so when initiatives like Digital India, Aatmanirbhar Bharat came up, it inspired us to come back to India with the experience we had gained,” says Rama Singam.

Today, Vistan makes a robot called Flunkey for service sectors, a social humanoid called VIHR and industrial autonomous robots called Tavio which is a family of robotic arms and autonomous ground vehicles for transport in industrial scenarios. “Today we can proudly say we have great capabilities in AI/ML, embedded systems and robotics. We are also localising the production of all components – hardware and software,” he says.

The chips, which are usually imported along with sensors from China, Germany and the United States, in this case, come from a local vendor. “As we scale, we have plans for advanced applications. In such a situation, we cannot be dependent on one supplier. For that reason, we are planning to make the chips ourselves with minimal import of components which can’t be made here,” he says.

The company has delivered solutions for facial recognition systems which can be integrated with payrolls in organisations. “Service sector today is keen on making last-mile services automated. The pandemic has accelerated the demand for contactless services as well,” he says.

On the industrial front, since more companies and warehouses have come up, there is a demand to meet their needs locally, says Rama Singam. Having ventured into making social humanoids, he believes that the prime usage for consumers will come from making robots intelligent to help humans improve their productivity and care by getting into the nuances of the user commands. In order to do this, the company has in house teams in deep learning,AI/ML, sensor and hardware technology. “ We also train local talent and help in up-skilling existing talent,” shares Rama Singam.Vistan has also collaborated with National Productivity Council and believes that its a social responsibility to train non technical talent locally.

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