MIPT: Modular platform for creating AI application systems

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• Robots (robotics)
• Speech Recognition (Technology, Market)
• Speech technology: On the path from recognition to understanding
• Autopilot (self-driving car)

2024: Based on a robot assistant for communicating with clients

The experimental operation of its own modular platform for creating industrial solutions was successfully completed by the specialists of the Research Center for Applied Systems AI MIPT. Based on the platform, an anthropomorphic robot storekeeper was developed and tested for. e-kommers The tests took place at the current warehouse of one of the Russian grocery stores. retailers The university announced this on December 12, 2024.

An anthropomorphic robot created on the basis of the modular platform of IC applied systems of AI MIPT functions as an employee of the point of issue of orders, issuing and issuing parcels of online markets. He interacts and communicates with the visitor, scans barcodes the order and brings it from the warehouse. 

The basis for the robot was the universal modular platform created at MIPT, which allows the development of conversational assistants, robotic systems and unmanned vehicles with text, voice, photo and video services in a short time. This software will allow you to create completely new products for a specific customer based on existing solutions. 

The modularity of the platform allows you to reduce development time, and testing and refinement at the digital polygon speeds up the time of commissioning new solutions for the industry. The platform contains ready-to-use modules and components for the following products: conversational AI for personal assistants, conversational voice assistant, anthropomorphic robotic complex, unmanned vehicle control system. By using these out-of-the-box modules and combining their components, you can quickly create industry solutions for industrial company orders. 

As an example of using the developed platform, we can consider the option when a conditional warehouse complex orders the development of a conversational assistant for managing robotic complexes and unmanned vehicles. To implement such a project, the necessary modules are selected, as well as the components of these modules, and on their basis a product is created that the customer needs. Next, the finished product is adapted to the customer's requirements and the final software is debugged at the digital test site. This approach will minimize the customer's costs in obtaining a finished and complete solution, as well as plan the executor's resources more efficiently, "explained Roman Gorbachev, director of the IC of MIPT AI applied systems.

Examples of products assembled on the basis of the platform: a conversational assistant for controlling robotic complexes and unmanned vehicles, an anthropomorphic robot storekeeper equipped with a voice assistant, an AI assistant creation service, a control system with a voice assistant for an unmanned loader, a voice 3D assistant exhibition stand, a road video analytics system, a game anthropomorphic robot. 

According to the developers, the directions of application of the modular platform can be network trading enterprises, warehouse and logistics complexes, universities and various organizations: owners of robofutball teams, operators for monitoring the road situation, participants in exhibitions and conferences, as well as developers of chat bots and conversational assistants.