Research Collaboration
Ankit Vashisht, Founder of Blue Heart Robotics and PhD Scholar at IIT Delhi, is conducting active research in collaboration with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi — to develop a robotics-based system for early cognitive assessment and developmental evaluation in children.
Building a Robot That Can
Understand the Mind of a Child.
Cognitive assessment in children — evaluating memory, attention, reasoning, and developmental progress — is a critical but challenging process. Traditional methods are time-consuming, often stressful for young patients, and highly dependent on the skill and availability of trained clinicians.
Ankit Vashisht, Founder of Blue Heart Robotics and PhD Scholar at IIT Delhi, is conducting this research in active collaboration with AIIMS Delhi — one of India's most prestigious medical institutions. As part of his doctoral research, he is developing a socially assistive robot capable of conducting structured, clinically validated cognitive assessments with children in a clinical environment.
The robot creates a calm, engaging, and non-threatening experience — enabling children to respond naturally, and giving clinicians more reliable, consistent data about how a child thinks and develops than traditional methods allow.
Three Pillars of the
Assessment System
Cognitive
Assessment
The robot administers structured, clinically validated tasks — puzzles, questions, and interactive challenges — to evaluate a child's cognitive abilities, memory, attention, and reasoning. Results are standardised and ready for clinical review.
Child-Friendly
Interaction
Children respond to our robot the way they respond to a friendly peer — not an authority figure. Its warm tone and patient pacing reduce anxiety, encouraging honest, natural responses that improve the reliability of every assessment.
App-Based
Clinician Control
Clinicians retain full oversight through a dedicated mobile application — launching sessions, monitoring in real time, adjusting robot behaviour, and reviewing reports. The robot extends the clinician's reach; it never replaces their judgement.
"Every child who struggles in silence deserves a system that can see them clearly — and see them early enough for it to matter. That is why I built this."