ADUSTECH develops robot to support staff domestic work

The Vice-Chancellor of Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Kano, Professor Musa Yakasai has said that the institution has created a robotic material to support staff domestic work such as cleaning, sweeping and knighting in the institution.

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According to him, the Department of Computer Science, of the University, created the robotic material in an effort to assist the staff of the institution

He asserted on Thursday, while speaking with the press in Wudil saying the robotic material would assist the staff in discharging their duties optimally.

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He said the robot machine had already been tested and was perfectly working according to its original design, adding that “as time goes on, we will create as many as possible this kind of machine that will help reduce the workload of the Institution.”

The vice-chancellor further disclosed that the management of the institution had greatly improved the Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology of the University to allow students to fully access technology and be part of the global IT transformation.

However, while commenting on the university’s library, Professor Yakasai, hinted that the newly-renovated library had the capacity of over five hundred students and was fully connected to the internet and other IT materials.

According to him, in spite of the fact that they had created an E-library which was fully functional, they still encouraged students to continue with the normal library system for improved reading culture.

“We have created a Technical Service Department, which is unusual as a department responsible for the general procession of library materials with information resources/automatic development unit, cataloguing and classification unit than the E-library itself,”

In the same library, he said, the university created a serial department, adding that it was responsible for the general procession and discharging of serial materials that includes newspapers, journals and reports.”

Yakasai noted that in his first year, he was able to expand the library into a ultra-modern library designed to accommodate all sections of circulation, serial, reference, postgraduate, technical electronic and administration units.

“This department is also responsible for the postgraduate unit, periodical unit, bindery unit, multimedia unit, bindery we are using the place to correct any book destroyed by the students and even their assignments they can use the unit to bind whatever they have.

“Today the library is now in possession of over 300 fully connected network computers, facilities and departmental libraries created specifically to facilitate the teaching, learning, researchers and community services activities of the University.”