Tapping into his expertise, he set out on the task of independently designing what would be India’s ‘first self-driving’ car. “The idea was irresistible,” says Roshy, now Global Head, Robotics and Cognitive Systems, Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi. One spoke in the wheel was automatic transmission, a technology that was not available then. Infinite scenariosThe challenges lay in ‘teaching’ the robot, how to drive. “A driver-less car is a large mobile robot that has to work in a highly dynamic and complex environment constituting humans.

Source: The Hindu February 05, 2019 11:37 UTC