AI and Robotics Technology Park is a Bengaluru-based non-profit foundation, promoted and supported by IISc. AI Foundry.
Dr. Vijay Chandru, Commissioner, The Lancet Commission To redefine India’s health system, he said the country needs a paradigm shift in technology and Health care To reach the goal of achieving universal healthcare by 2030. “AI can play an important role in cancer prevention and early detection. At the same time, technological advances will take health care to people’s homes. There will be no need for primary health centers or large labs with hand-held devices and miniatures, ”said Dr Chandru.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, executive chairperson of Biocon, said AI could overcome the challenge of shortage of people who can interpret pathologists and radiological data. “It will be AI’s path-breaking application for interpreting radiological data, which will give us a definite output from which we can derive certain treatments,” she said, adding that the challenge would be to integrate the data.
Pranab Saxena, chief technology and product officer at Flipkart Healthtech, said the problem with the data is that it is not digitized. “We need to make our mobiles smarter from a health perspective and capture more data that is moderately important. Electronic medical also needs to be tracked, “he said.
AI and Robotics Next Wave: Mini
IT, BT and Higher Education Minister CN Ashwath Narayan inaugurated the ARTPARK Innovation Lab (at IISc) during the summit, which will be used by ARTPARK to develop critical technologies in the fields of health, education and defense.
He said the crucial question now is how to use the potential of AI and robotics technology to create the next wave of jobs after IT and BPO. “We support the creation of ARTPARK and through them this initiative will not only help the youth of the country reach the next generation of digital work, but also acquire the skills required for future development in AI-powered,” he said.
