Northeast India’s First AI Teacher: Assam Student’s Curiosity Uplifted After Interaction with Iris

Notheast India’s First AI Teacher: Lack of Educators (Teachers) has turned into a worldwide issue in education. The Unified Countries Education, Scientific and Social Association (UNESCO), investigating a critical venture to resolve the issue, recognized that “the issue stays a serious concern”. In August 2016, the US Division of education distributed a list of educator deficiency regions (TSAs) across America, which highlighted a complete summary of TSA posting from 1990/1991 to 2016/2017.

Lack of Teachers has been a topic of conversation for quite a while and has been highlighted as a basic subject tended to in the “educator deficiency series” of the US education Commission. The circumstance is more significant as the report noticed the disinterest of secondary school leavers in seeking after-teacher education projects and waning enrolment in educator preparation programs.

Much headway has been made in the acknowledgment of AI robots that can carry out a few roles recently thought unimaginable in day to day human lives. Subsequently, over the most recent couple of years, robots have been highlighted as colleagues with people in factories in Japan, China, and different spots; they have been accounted for in homerooms as allies to students, in medical services as help for the physically disabled, fundamentally sick, and older. Hence, Building various classroom – based robots , particularly those that can take on educator jobs, is, nonetheless, challeging. However, some positive factors have been analyzed of AI Robots in the educational field such as – Teaching.

With the purpose to provide advanced education to the students, Assam has introduced it’s first AI Teacher to the students. Adorned and Draped in a traditional saree ‘Mekhela Chodor‘ with jewellery. Assam’s first AI (Artificial Intelligence) instructor ‘Iris’ expeditiously responded to all kinds of questions from understudies of the private school. The humanoid paid attention to the Questions like – what is haemoglobin? – and answered as well illustrated to the understudies by covering all the aspects of the asked question.

In the Royal Global School, ‘Iris’ Successfully imprinted a positive impression and answered all the questions of the students either the questions which were asked related to the syllabus or not. Due to this, students engaged with the robot in different kind of activities enthusiastically.

The Kids additionally partook in the robot’s capacity to perform motions like handshakes, which made the educational experience both enjoyable and interactive. ‘Iris’ holds a voice-controlled assistance which assists it with answering understudy questions and gives point by point clarifications. The kids are extremely energized in light of the fact that the AI educator replied their all questions in detail.

As per the reports, The robot has been created by a team with Makerlabs Edu-tech under the Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) project started by NITI Aayog. ‘Iris’ denotes a huge progression in the integration of artificial intelligence along with education. The presentation of ‘Iris’ denotes a huge achievement in upgrading the opportunity for growth and taking care of the various educational methods of understudies. The Private school anticipates influence capacities of the robot to customize learning and make training more interactive for understudies in the northeast region, Guwahati, Assam, India.