Students got down to assembling and programming the Robot kit on the opening day of ‘Robohunk -15’, the national workshop on robotics here at Pt Ravi Shankar Shukla University. The workshop is being jointly organised by Pt Ravi Shankar Shukla University, IIT Kharagpur and Roboedutech India. Chief Executive Officer of Chhattisgarh State Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) SK Shukla was the chief guest while Vice-Chancellor of Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University Dr SK Pandey presided over the inaugural ceremony.
Addressing the participants on the occasion, Shukla said that robots are being used in diverse fields including agriculture, dairy farming and industries across the world. Although, the robots are performing works, the control remains in the hands of humans. In his presidential address, Dr Pandey gave an account of golden opportunities in the field of Robotics and advised the participants for skill development in this field.
Research Head of Roboedutech Avinash Kumar gave detailed information about history, needs and use of robots and demonstrated assembling and program of Robot kit. The participants observed the demonstration given by Kumar and raised queries also. The participants were provided Robot kit and they successfully assembled and programmed the kit. The students enjoyed the first day and were keen to learn more about assembling and programming of robots. Earlier coordinator of workshop, Dr Sanjay Tiwari gave an introduction and objective of the workshop.