Event organised by IIT-M start-up, IIM-A and U.S. based firm
An on-going five-day skill-a-thon is offering a platform for college students to train in emerging technologies and prepare themselves for new-age jobs in post-COVID-19 scenario.
The robotic process automation (RPA) contest which began on May 31 and will end on June 4 has over 40,000 participants, who must use artificial intelligence for high-volume repeatable tasks.
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The contest has been organised by GUVI, a start-up incubated by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and UiPath, a US-based software company that develops platform for RPA.
Students from over 220 colleges from across the country are participating in the event, which has no registration fee.
When participants enrol for the free course at www.guvi.io/rpa they can download the academic alliance version of UiPath too.
Source: The Hindu
