Hubballi students’ ‘Maya’ ready to assist you at banks

‘Maya’, a first-of-its-kind humanoid robot designed by the students of KLE Technological University, Hubballi, will soon be ‘employed’ by a nationalised bank in Mumbai. It can interact with customers and help them in completing banking transactions without supervision from the bank officials.

Speaking to media persons here on Friday, Pruthvi Deshpande, Abhijith Sampathkrishna, and Alwin N, final year students of the Automation & Robotic Department of KLE Tech University said, Maya has been programmed in such a way that it can interact with any kind of customer in any of the major languages of India.

The first prototype will be sent to Mumbai in next 15 days, where Maya is expected to help customers, both financially literate and illiterate, to complete banking transactions including transfer of money,