MySangham, an online vocational education portal developed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s research center AMMACHI Labs, was amongst the winners of Facebook’s Internet.org Innovation Challenge in India. The challenge selects top innovators and change-makers whodesign impactful apps or web-services relevant to women, students, farmers and migrant workers in India.
Dr. Roshy John, Head of TCS Robotics and Cognitive Systems Group, Kochi, Project Manager Rajaram and Reeja George, the Academic Relationship Manager for TCS Kerala visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham to interact with AMMACHI Labs’ MTech students and Amrita faculty.
Amrita Multimodal Applications and Computer Human Interaction (AMMACHI) Labs, established in 2009, is a multidisciplinary research center of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham with a focus in technological innovation for social impact in the fields of computer-human interaction, haptics, multimedia and virtual reality.
September 23rd & 24th 2015, marked the third annual International Conference on Sustainable Development held at Columbia University in New York City. The conference’s theme, Implementing the SDGs: Getting Started had riveting discussions concerning the United Nation’s latest endeavour to launch the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The Amrita ABB Robotics Lab, the first of its kind by an Indian university, was inaugurated at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham(Amritapuri Campus) on February 25th by Shri. P. K. Kunhalikutty, Minister of Industries and IT, Government of Kerala. The state of the art lab is expected to herald a new era for robotics research and academics in India. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AMMACHI Labs has collaborated with ABB Robotics for setting up the Robotics Research Lab with two ROS-Industrial robots.
Live-in-Labs, an experiential learning program launched by the Amrita Center for International Programs (ACIP), recently had four students from the ISTOM College of International Agricultural Development, France for an internship in Pala; a village situated in the Kottayam district of Kerala. The duration of theinternship was two-weeks from July 14-27, 2014.
The United Nations Democracy Fund recently featured the success of AMMACH Labs’ Women Empowerment Project in their August 2014 newsletter called “UNDEF Update”.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AMMACHI Labs, in association with NMEICT (National Mission for Education using Information and Communication Technology), conducted a workshop called, “Partners for Development of e-Content for Skill Development”on. . .
Amrita Multi Modal Applications and Human Computer Interaction (Ammachi Labs) organized a four-day workshop on Basic Counseling from May 27-31, 2014 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amritapuri Campus for Ammachi Labs Deployment. . .
The second day was held at Amritapuri Ashram, and included a continuation of the Product Exhibition and Photo Exhibit, as well as a grand stage event with speeches by chief. . .