Established by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), ARTPARK is a not for profit in Bengaluru. It is also supported by AI Foundry in a public-private model. With seed funding of $22mn from the Department of Science under the National Mission on Inter-disciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), ARTPARK will bring about collaborative consortium of partners from industry, academia and government bodies. This will lead to cutting-edge innovations in terms of new technologies, standards, products, services and intellectual properties, said the DST. "Some of these facilities will be key enablers for whole new sets of technologies, products and services.”

It will develop DataSetu which will enable confidentiality and privacy-preserving framework to share data and run analytics spurring the data-sharing ecosystem and create a data marketplace, boosting AI applications and solutions, the DST said. One such service will be BhashaSetu which will enable real-time Indic language translation, both of speech to speech and speech to text. This will further unlock the economic potential of the country, and enable all Indian citizens to equitably parti...

The NM-ICPS with its 25 hubs has a unique architecture that envisages a strong collaboration and co-ownership among the triple helix of industry, academia and government with full flexibility. Generous additional support of the Karnataka government to the ARTPARK hub brings extraordinary value in increasing its effectiveness, reach and use, the DST added. "It also sets a template of centre-state partnership in the frontier areas of technology-- a theme which will receive focus in the soon to b... released Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2020," Professor Ashutosh Sharma, DST secretary, said at the recent launch of ARTPARK. Indian academia has been carrying out cutting edge technology research in various domains.

Indian academia has been carrying out cutting edge technology research in various domains. "However, we have had systemic issues in moving the results of this research from university laboratories into the outside world. ARTPARK would go a long way in establishing a template for addressing this need," IISc director Govindan Rangarajan noted.

ARTPARK will also develop AI & Robotics facilities to support technology innovations.