ITU Robotics Expo today

LAHORE:Information Technology University (ITU), Punjab, is organising its 7th edition of the flagship "Robotics Expo, Machines of The future: Robots" today (Saturday), from 10.30am to 4pm at Arfa Software Technology Park.

The founding Vice-Chancellor of ITU, PITB Chairman, Adviser to CM Dr Umar Saif will inaugurate the Expo. Prominent celebrities who are supposed to attend the event include, Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Sethi, Pakistan National Team Chief Selector Inzamam-ul-Haq, and Mushtaq Ahmed to encourage the work of ITU students.

In this exhilarating event, sophomore students of ITU will showcase robot prototypes built to address locally relevant problems of Pakistan. The prototypes include Acoustic Tractor beam, wall climbing bot, fighting robots among the list of 15 innovative ideas.

In addition to students' work, the research assistants to Talha Rehmani, will be presenting their work which includes a Roboceptionist, ITU’s very own robot receptionist that assists the visitors, as well as provide valuable data to understand the field of human-robot interaction, and Rekhta, this brings Urdu word prediction and transliteration to finger-tips of people.