MIT Pune and IBM unveil Chintu, robo-companion for the elderly
Final-year engineering students at the Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) in Pune have developed Chintu, a prototype cognitive assistant, using application programming interfaces (APIs) from IBM’s Watson and Bluemix Cloud platform. The MIT project is part of IBM’s global Shared University Research grant programme, and saw Chintu put together over the course of six weeks. Among the robot's skills are the ability to read text from a sheet of paper and use a tone analyser API to sense the mood of people it interacts with.

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