[KinicsBonee]

In this week's edition of Young Turks, Sheeen Bhan of CNBC-TV18 speaks to Anirban Chowdhury who has begun to usher in the future by bringing robots into the course of everyday life. Through his company Yogiki, which was founded in 2009, the engineering graduate offers robotic solutions for educational and agricultural sectors.

The idea occurred to Anirban Chowdhury during his days as a mechanical engineering student in Chennai. The incredible response Anirban and his classmates received to their workshops on robotics confirmed the idea was a business proposition worth pursuing.
So, between projects and exams they devised a program to make robotics easier to understand and the trio launched Yogiki in 2009.
"We saw an opportunity but realised that it would be fruitful only if we provided training as students in India are not able to invest much money on robots.
We also provide a year's service. The names of students who have trained with us are entered into our database and periodically intimate them about products and solutions on offer.
We even give discounts to students whose names are already in our database, "
Apart from conducting workshops, Yogiki also creates prototypes for industrial use. Having launched online store, My RoboBazaar, in 2010, Yogiki has already turned in revenues of Rs 50 lakh by sale of components and circuits.
Bhan: The target is to now cross the Rs 1 crore mark this fiscal. So, what's driving revenues?
Chowdhury: Our primary source of revenue comes from conducting workshops and training programmes. The second source is from sale of robotic components, circuits, batteries, motors and other accessories.
We have a strong R&D section which works on new technologies and products. There are few products in the pipeline like the robotic vacuum cleaner and a robot to work on strawberry farms.
With a foot print across 50 cities, Yogiki has guided over 30,000 students and tied up with over a 100 educational institutions like the IITs and ISRO.
With over 10 lakh students graduating from engineering colleges every year, Anirban sees a huge potential for his robotic venture.
Bhan: What are your plans going ahead?
Chowdhury: Going ahead, I would like to focus on consumer electronics and robotics. Personal robotics is yet to reach the high growth level as in the West. Our workshop and training arm has driven around 60%-70% of growth constantly for the last three years.
If the demand for personal robotics opens up, we plan to increase our growth targets at 100%-200%. Our plans will be to increase training and workshops.We have initiated a franchise system also have already around two-to-three franchise outlets.
The interest evinced by a few schools to set up robotics labs has opened another area of growth.

[Pynctyncroast]

The article with this heading with out its source (link to the original article) is once again sending the wrong message, misleading people into believing that robotic solutions can replace the need for humans.

“Engineering grad offers robotic solutions for agri sector”

With India nearing a population of 1.2 billion and a great portion of people struggling for an existence the entrance robotics would mean we would have only skeletons at the end of the 21st century.

If the present day entrepreneurs concentrate on inventing robotics to replace child labor, politicians and corruption in India they will be doing a great service.

China used its human resources to the maximum to become a capitalist nation when the real capitalist nations of the yester years have no clue how China did it.

Just copying anything from the Internet and pasting on Chennai forums does not in anyway enhance the intelligence of this forum. If there were ten members just copying and pasting ten articles a day the Chennai forum would look like a place infested with Plagiarists.

Not knowing English is worse because one won’t understand what he is posting. No wonder what is illegal in any other country becomes legal in India. What is wrong can never become right anywhere in the world. One can only exhibit his intelligence by writing his own stuff rather than posting some else's intellectual property.
Rajpriya

[ligaliaCods]

​Thanks for the comments. You may be great in all fields. Better try to use polite words in your anxiety to be great, as it sends wrong signals.
The basic purpose is to keep forum active sharing info., not to throw mud. Your English may not match even your neighbor or a British or USA. For that matter Tamil also differ from place to place in Tamil Nadu itself.

[ddxbovMQ]

Well! I don't intend carrying on a tit for tat argument with you on Plagiarism. If you look into other forums no one ever posts complete articles copied from elsewhere.
They discuss any news item giving only the link.

Another senior member and I have every now and then stressed the importance of avoiding such copying and pasting articles and politely too. If you dig into some past posts you will read them.

I am not trying to be great but only telling you how to be great. I leave it to you take it or leave it.

Rajpriya

[Xavier_Spinner_Wheels]

Comments, corrections, clarifications are ok. One need not expect every body to be from Oxford, Harward, and Cambridge to understand a single persons English. Intentions may be good. Expressions also must be welcoming and words must be very selective when one feels that he alone is from Heaven.

Govindan