Most robots are programmed to do a particular task and teaching it new tasks often requires a map application or more. Peer Robotics' robots can be given force-feedback to change its direction and make them perform tasks on demand
Tanya Raghuvanshi and her IIT-Delhi junior Rishabh Agarwal started Peer Robotics in 2019 with the aim of making industrial robots that were much more collaborative. This was triggered by their observation that most industrial robots they saw in the market did monotonous tasks—like going from point A to B—and changes had to be programmed into them.
“There was no level of interaction between them and the humans in their environment,” Raghuvanshi explains. Teaching the robots would involve laying down a magnetic tape or using a map application and so on. “With our platform, someone can grab the robot, provide a force-feedback, which the robot understands, and change its direction,” Agarwal says.
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(This story appears in the 24 February, 2023 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)